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Behringer RD-78 [2025 – ]

The proverbial pikkusormi to the paholainen. The original Roland CR-78 is the sound of my late childhood and early teenagedom, if there is such a word. A really recognisable set of drum sounds from the early synth music I was listening to, much more special to me than the otherwise legendary X0X machines. Ultravox / John Foxx especially is what this always reminds me of. Of course I’ve had samples of it since forever, but it was only 108€ at Thomann, which is really an unbelievable price for an analog drum machine.

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Arturia KeyStep Pro [2025 – ]

Quite a few eurorack demos and tutorials have featured this one, so I thought I’d give it a go. As far as sequencers go, this is quite nice. Full set of features, each step can be edited individually. Can’t really think of anything that’s lacking. Like it a lot so far, let’s see.

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IK Multimedia ARC Studio [2024 – ]

Corrects, or I like to say “standardises”, the frequency response of my monitors. Few things are game changers, this one is. It essentially makes the music sound the way it should. You calibrate it by making it listen to your monitor setup from 21 different spots around where your head is where you are listening, then it produces a corrective EQ curve that is applied to the sound, making it balanced and beautiful. Immensely helpful when mixing. Got it in time before mixing our first track, and I don’t think it would have ended up nearly as good without this thing. Hugely recommended.

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Behringer Kobol Expander [2024 – ]

Another Behringer vintage synth clone, and these are so dirt cheap it boggles the mind. Behringer really delivers, these things pack such a punch for the price it’s amazing, and they are constantly pumping out new ones.

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Behringer B1200D Pro and B208D BK [2024 – ]

We had had a couple of live gigs at the office, and looked like there were going to be more. After one gig, I placed the Genelec subwoofer on a table, and the table surface just flipped around and the sub dropped to the floor and got a small dent. The horror, the horror.

So a pair of these Behringer subs and another pair of the full range speakers + two poles still cost less than that subwoofer I dropped, so getting these is kinda like getting an insurance when you know things are going to break. Not a bad deal.

Still waiting for the next gig, though. That’s generally how insurances work.

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Cre8audio NiftyKEYZ [2023 – ]

Thought this might earn a special mention, although I don’t list Eurorack related items here.

It’s a really nice Eurorack enclosure with a keyboard with support for quadrophonic sound (depending on how you patch, of course) as a bonus. It features an arpeggiator, LFO, keyboard transpose and keyboard split, and is as such a compact and nice way to host a set of playable modules. Brilliant when used as a “focus rack” to learn a small set of modules.

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Behringer Euro Modules

Behringer came out with a number of cheap modules, so here we go. “Roland” and “ARP 2500” in nice TipTop enclosures. The semi-portability makes this perfect for, say, patching in bed.

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Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 [2021 – ]

Oh no I didn’t…? Yep, I did…

Rev 4, to be exact.

There it is, with its pal. I didn’t actually get two; the first one had a broken USB chip, or something, so I returned it and got another one, but not in that order.

Here it is with its other pal.

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Vox Valvetronix AD15VT

This literally showed up at my doorstep. Thanx, you-know-who-you-are! Now I understand why my guitars have been so quiet. This is also a nice way to meet new neighbours.

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Ibanez GSRM20B-WK [2021 – ]

I’ve been meaning to get a bass guitar for ages, just to get that wonderful *twannnnnng* sound. Let’s see where this ends up.

And what is it with these guitar / bass naming conventions? I get it that if you have loads of similar products there has to be something that distinguishes them from each other, but how am I supposed to ever remember exactly what kind of bass or guitar I have?

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