I got so frustrated with it!!! MIDI is like a totally foreign territory for me. I’m just a singer/songwriter, guitar player. I am humbled by those like yourself that can actually use technology to help you, rather than completely antagonizing you... Plus, it hummed like mad when using the power supply.

Damn! At least mine was reduced to shards of robot waste in 1991, and not a few weeks ago! ??‍♂️

I got tons of use out of mine both as a drum machine and as a bass line sequencer. I finally sold it as I got tired of the same ol' sounds after two albums.

And at the risk of mass pearl-clutching, I liked my 505 wayyy more than the 606 it replaced. That thing was too ricky-ticky to be of any use.

roland s50, technics sx-ax7, m audio delta 44 and omni io...Im sure loads of other crap

Polysix.. I was young, the synth was opened up trying to repair it and left it behind in the rubbage when I moved..3 months late on rent..

I've almost always found homes for gear I no longer needed, so it's extremely rare that I'd simply throw something away. The one exception that leaps to mind was about four years back: I finally tossed a MIDI interface I had purchased for an original 128KB Mac. That was never going to find a meaningful home outside of a museum!

I did toss my Fostex four-track, but it had lost a channel, a couple of the sliders were toast, and I barely got my last song bounced down using a MIDIverb to fake the stereo before I was done with it. I didn't feel like repairing everything, so into the wheelie bin it went! It was only like two or three years old.

I have donated some useless (to me) gear. I have discarded paraphernalia only when not functioning and not repairable anymore.

But never, ever did I throw away a music instrument. No matter how much I disliked it.
In my book, such things aren't done.

I'm with you. Haters gotta hate.

I suspect most people dumping on the 505 have either never actually used one, or were not broke students in the late 80's for whom the 505 was the only low-cost Roland machine and with a fairly advanced MIDI spec for the time.

How I wished for even one separate output on mine, and sure I missed the classic 16 step LED display on my pal's TR707, and a MIDI thru, but it didn't stop me hooking it up to my CZ101 and being creative with it for years in my youth.

Back on topic...

I will admit to dumping at the recycling centre... a Tascam DA-30, a Marantz CD Player and a MOTU MIDI Timepiece.

Has the 505 battery cover got a 3d print yet?

Foxtex R8 reel to reel - chucked in a skip (dumpster) in 1997ish (whenever I got my first Cubase DAW setup working (been a Cubase MIDI user since it came out) can't remember the exact date now )
I transferred all my tapes over first of course - not that many as I usually asked artists to buy and look after their own tapes and I telephoned round gave them the option to transfer their tape(s) before I did the dirty - only one took me up on the offer!
So any dumpster divers in the late 90s in North London could have discovered a working Foxtex R8!
Kept the cassette four track for a bit - probably until about 2002 - that went in the bin (trash).

We threw away a WASP synth at one point because the plastic keyboard stopped working and we had no idea what to do with it.

I was very young back then.

Roland TB-3.

Thought it stopped working completely so tossed it.

Only when it was already landfill did I realise I had turned local off

It was a ghastly piece anyway, but did make for a good sequencer.

Kurz K2000. Great synth with dreadful build quality. Shame.

Tascam DA20p
SY77 (flood damaged)
Microkorg
Macbook Pro unibody - screen came away from the lid.
G3, G4, G5 :D

Instantly reminded of the June-60

Siel Expander 80. Bought for $25 at a pawn shop years ago. Thrown in the trash because after several years of owning it, I wasn't able to get an interesting sound out of it.

It tells everything about one's personality and mindset when throwing away perfectly functioning gear , might as well give it away .

Gear is very specific though isn't it, most people wouldn't even know what it was for unless it had a keyboard attached. It's not handing down a sweater

What else do you do with stuff you're done with and is now just taking up space? Especially the antiquated. I am sure you have tossed "perfectly functioning" stuff before...

My brother-in-law was given an EPS 16+ at a garage sale for free.
He then gave it to me.
It was heavy and I did not feel the love to fix the board to board harness
plus the aftertouch was ****e.

Rather than bin it, I gave it to a fellow synther for free here in Sarnia, Ontario.

I ditched the Siel after advertising it for several weeks on a local "free stuff" listserv. Some of the free stuff was taken quickly (a mostly busted Arp Omni, my one attempt at owning a guitar) but nobody wanted the Siel even if it was free (I couldn't blame them, the thing sounded awful.)

Source Audio Nemesis.
I was looking for a flexible delay, I figured out all 12 delays all had a sterile digital sound and all sounded very similar.
I sent it back to Thomann the morning after it arrived.

I've had 2 DK-80s and a DK-70 over the years, and trying to keep them
functioning is a frustration.

One good thing on them is the SSM2045 filter which is quite nice.
Between the 3 non-working ones (which right now sit in another city at my brothers) I could probably pull out the filter chips and make a nice filter box.

Other than that, the wiring quality is ABYSMAL!

Yeah I don't think you were using it correctly.

It just sounds ordinary and nothing really special. I also used the editor to understand if it could improve.
After that I got a Timeline (superb but limited editing) and finally a DD500 (superb and fully editable).

Btw is there a "correct" way to use a delay effect?
It sounds good or not.
And well, I use delays since more then 20 years.

Yeah, I owned mine back before I had any idea about different filter types. Supposedly the Expander 80 has a single SSM filter that all the voiced passed through, and maybe it could sound good, but I always thought the sounds were pretty lifeless. Today, I'd probably keep it and try some of the mods out there, but then--1997--that kind of info/knowledge didn't exist is easy to find form.

Man I don't understand some of these, I'm still holding on to a broken Tascam USB1 audio interface that I got free with another purchase.

It is entirely likely that I have a small problem with hoarding though. Point in case: I always would keep that piece of string that came with designer clothes tags. Has come in useful at least twice. And the posh rubber foam that comes in the box to vaporizers, made a door stop cushion out of that!

It was great in chord mode eh? But the velocity response was shocking. I did regret selling that one but in all likelihood it was probably the right move.

I don’t think I’ve ever thrown any gear in the trash... except for a dead Korg KPA 3. I did leave my “financial interest” in a Juno 106 at some point... I don’t think I ever got compensated for that, but I hope the synth itself went on. I have two MOTU 828s... one has a problem. I can’t seem to bring myself to tossing them, but I also never use them and probably never will. I’ll probably bring them to the e-waste center the next time we have to move.

Roland MC-303, but didn't throw it in the trash. I threw it from the very top floor window in a block of flats.
Made a pleasant noise as it hit the ground.

Sorry, but I think it's dangerous to make unfounded assumptions about people's motivations.

I've trashed gear that's no longer useful, that's inherently more or less worthless and that basically nobody would want - usually in flat/house moves where there's an looming/impending deadline, *loads* of stuff to sort out, and a big motivation to clear out stuff quickly.

I would have *loved* to have given some of the stuff away to someone who wanted it, but unfortunately, you can't really find those people at short notice - plus you have all the extra effort and hassle involved in packaging and posting stuff out, on top of an already mountainous to do list.

Stuff that I could sell quickly, and that still had some value so you can sell it cheaper for a quick sale I did, but anything that would take time to find a buyer or really wasn't worth much to anybody - well, there just wasn't usually time to wait.

So yes, I've got rid of stuff, some of which given the choice, I'd have preferred to hang on to, but which didn't have much practical value, wasn't getting used, and taking up too much space, including stuff like my beloved Atari ST + monitors, various old computer stuff, Fostex 4-track (who the hell ten or twenty years ago would have thought 4-track portastudios would be in vogue again?!), bits of hifi stuff I used in my studio like Technics' cassette decks and amps, Sony CD player, various video decks and video cameras, an Hohner Les Paul copy that I picked up at a boot fair but at some point in it's life had a major neck snapping incident and the thing would never again go in tune... and probably more stuff if I went through my photo library.

And I've kept some stuff that's still inherently worthless, but is either immaculate, or not that useful, and certainly would not be worth any money - again, no one wants stuff like DAT machines, 16-bit digital recorders, 90s rack FX, drum modules that can be perfectly replicated in samples in your DAW etc etc, or some stuff that I'm not using now but might need again some day (things like hardware mixers etc).

In those circumstances you don't particularly want to throw that stuff away, but you don't really have much of a choice about it - so I don't think the above comment, and all it implies, is a particularly thoughtful or valid one, applied generally, and I find it a little offensive - particularly given the stress you're under in those times in general...