Judgment Day: 2015-02-20

In the same instant my head hit the pillow when I went to bed at 1 am on February 20:th 2015, a thought came to me from out of the blue: What if I sold everything?

I was so shocked that I lay awake the entire night thinking about letting everything go, the pros and the cons of it all, and what I would possibly keep (I hadn’t given up on making music, just considered a fresh start). When my gf got out of bed in the morning at 7 o’clock, I did the same, went downstairs to the studio and had a long look at my gear, and nodded. Yeah, I could sell almost everything. 

I documented my original plan in an email to the trusted Music Bar mailing list like this:

Hi guys!

I didn’t sleep one single minute last night. When my head hit the pillow some 7 hours ago I for some inexplicable reason decided I would sell pretty much everything in my studio except:

  • Kurzweil PC-88 keyboard (for the kids to practise their stuff)
  • Nord Modular G2 (just can’t let that one go)
  • Waldorf Pulse (so much balls that it simply won’t fit out the door)
  • Oberkorn sequencer
  • Oberheim SEM Patch Bay
  • 9U of empty Doepfer cases

And:

  • Moog Sub 37 (going to buy)
  • Prophet 6 (will probably buy)
  • Korg MS-20, the kit thingy (may buy)
  • alternatively I won’t sell the original MS-20

Then I’ll slowly expand the Euro stuff focusing on sequencing and interesting stuff, and otherwise go soft / iPad. And try to keep it simple.

A strange but somewhat liberating feeling…

Cheers,

Me

A discussion took place. I had something more to say:

Well, I’m actually quite happy with all my stuff, and I am sure I will miss some of it, but there’s definitely some redundancy. Also, as an example, I probably only use 5% of the Andromeda’s capabilities, so a Prophet 6 simply makes more sense to me. I don’t like menus on synths. My current modular is extremely basic, and for all practical purposes the Kurz 2600R is just a preset box. It’s quite the chore to program. I don’t like menus on synths. Also have a couple of other ones which I like but really haven’t used for anything (MEK, Blofeld). The Jomox is also way underused.

The Pro One I think is similar enough to the Prophet 6 (well, it covers similar ground, I guess), the Voyager must have something in common with the Sub 37, and the Odyssey is being resurrected, so I don’t feel I’m losing anything neither completely nor for forever.

This really feels like a new beginning :-)

Sold the MEK and Monotribe today, so it has started. Wish me luck :-)

Funny how things change!

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