The Gear I Once Owned.....

Listing is by category and by chronological date of entry in my studio.

I am no longer in possession of the following units: either I sold it back, swapped it against something else or disassembled it to make new things out of them...

All machines have individual ratings ranked by alien ratings:

Very Poor AlienCrappy, Lousy, Utterly Poor
Poor AlienPoor, Deficient, Could be much better
Fair AlienFair, Average, Good Enough
Good AlienReal Good, Fine, Serious
Excellent AlienExtraordinary, Brilliant, High End

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Synth's and Beatbox's

Novation BassStation Rack

 One of the first "new era" analogue mono synth with MIDI and CV interface.
Roland MC-303 An "all in one box" with loads of low quality samples and a good marketing campaign

Waldorf Pulse

Maybe the best modern analog mono-synth with full MIDI and a GREAT sound.
Novation DrumStation A very good digital TR808 and TR909 sound module with a few drawback features.
Roland CR1000 A crappy non programmable sample based drum box with a only few usable sounds.

Oberheim Matrix 1000

 One of the last "pre sample" era Analogue synth. The "old" sounding with MIDI.

Roland Juno-60

A vintage keyboard with a rich sound only out-matched by big brother JUPITER.
Roland R-8M A really great 16 bit box fully editable for a ridiculous second hand price.
Waldorf Microwave The uniqueness of a PPG in an amazing 2U rack expander...
Yamaha A3000 Sampler A great "all in on" sampling box for beginners.
Oberheim Matrix 6R The Matrix 1000 ancestor: fuller, grungier and kind of stereo....
Waldorf Pulse + Remember my great Pulse, well this one is even PLUS....
Clavia Nord Modular Rack The dream for all synthesis fanatics with virtually unlimited features and loads of fun.
VBSystems TTDrums A crappy home-made drum machine assembled with Paia's kits.
Yamaha MR10 A basic preset drum machine with some cool sounds to sample.
Korg MS-20 An old dream, the grand father of my gear....
Yamaha TX-81Z A Plain hard FM module for hardedged bitting sounds.
Kurzweil K2500R The ultimate sampling synth workstation that is way beyond any other piece of gear on the market...for years.....
Casio VZ-8M A harsh and deep hybrid Phase Distortion FMish module.
Creamware Pulsar II (x2) Actually the piece of gear that is slowly phasing out any other piece of gear I own....

Mixing and FX
Inkel MX882 My first crappy ''Studio'' mixer with a DJ style in mind...
Inkel MX621  My second crappy mixer with lots of in's but with that same sound....
Re'Ane 48 A cheap balanced patch-bay to get the right signals where you want.
Yamaha Promix 01 The first affordable Digital Mixing Console designed for Home studios.
Behringer MX802 Mixer Compact but fully featured like it's larger studio sisters...
Lexicon MPX100 The legendary LEX sound in a neat, cheap and cool box.
Boss BF-2 Flanger A great sounding Analog Flange for a couple of bucks
Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer A  cheap quiet and clean compressor
Alesis Microverb II A crappy digital reverb unit that spreads mayhem quite quickly !
Lexicon Vortex The one and only weirdest multiFX out there that can morph into anything...
Yamaha Waveforce XG192 A low cost multimedia soundcard with no pretensions.
Tascam US-428 Control Surface A great all in one solution on a single USB port. But really useable only with Steinberg's Cubase to take full advantage of it's features.
Boss SX-700 Multi FX A cheap but well build and fully laden FX toolbox.
Yamaha 01V The successor of the Promix 01 with top quality 02R technology and many, many more improvements...
Fostex VC8 AD/DA A Cheap ADAT to analogue 8 in/8 Out external converter.
Creamware Pulsar II (x2) Actually the piece of gear that is slowly phasing out any other piece of gear I own....

Midi Control, Sequencing & Recording
Mediatrix Audiotrix Pro Maybe outdated but a real good sounding Soundcard.
Roland MC-303 A really bugger unit reconverted as a low cost hardware sequencer.
Guillemot Home Studio Pro 64 A excellent sounding sound card for it's range but with a TERRIBLE BUG.
SEK'D Prodif 24 A dedicated low cost digital I/O card for PC transfers and recording.
Turtle Beach Fiji w/Digital I/O A high performance Digital acquisition card definitively in the Pro range.
Kenton Pro DCB The cheapest solution to get MIDI control over your beloved Juno or Jupiter synth.
Fatar SL-161 Midi Keyboard A nice feeling basic but fully featured 5 Octave Midi keyboard.
Terratec DMX digital soundcard A promising soundcard with faulty drivers (as usual...)
Paia's MIDI2CV8 Controller A low cost and flexible alternative to get your vintage synths into the MIDI age.
SEK'D Prodif 32 Gold A high performance PCI ADAT interface to turn your PC into a 8 track digital recorder....
Opcode Music Quest 8Port/SE A simple sturdy and flexible 8 in / 8 out MIDI patch bay much more affordable than newer gear over-equipped.
Emagic AMT-8 Just a Newer 8/8 Midi I/O bought for it's Win2k driver support but with real drawbacks over my good old 8Port/SE....
Roland PC160 Midi Keyboard A small, compact and fully featured control keyboard.
Creamware Luna II The small low cost sidekick of it's big brother Pulsar II.
Creamware Pulsar II (x2) Actually the piece of gear that is slowly phasing out any other piece of gear I own....

Computers
486 SLC 25Mhz Laptop My first musically useable computer merely bleeps and squeaks on a 8 bit external sound card......
Pentium 120 Quite a good workhorse for my first sequencer and real soundcard with lovely FM tunes and soundtracker beats. Rock stable...
Pentium 166 The first to really unlock the use of windows based soundtrackers.
Pentium 233MMX First use of multitrack audio and plugins. Great but quickly overwhelmed....
Pentium II 400 Maybe the best performance/stability machine I've ever had. I've done things unbelieveble with that one....
Pentium III 800E Twice more megahertz for just a little more processing power....
Pentium III 1 Ghz Just a improvement of my older machine but not real block busting.
Athlon 1.2Ghz AHHHH ! Raw power for ages ! Never got up with memory or overprocessing problems with this one. Just some overheat cautions and noise.......
Pentium 4 - 1.6GHz An overbugged machine that juste came in and.... out......
AMD Athlon XP1800+ Computer Well just to get some kind of raw power for digital processing and mastering.
AMD Athlon XP2000+ Computer A major upgrade of my former machine to get rid of the VIA chipsets audio issues....