I guess it's my turn to start this month.

Congrats.

Does it have a 'The Bellz' pre-set?

Technically picked it up in March, but close enough. Loving it so far.

I was going to buy a Behringer VC340 this month, but Andertons seemed to have inceased the price by another £57.00, but other Behringer synths they are selling remain the same price

I was waiting for my tax return to arrive as a check, but this came in the mail instead





... should I be afraid of catching the Eurorack virus?

Been a couple years since I had to sell my first one and just thrilled to have it back

Awesome wood!

Took delivery of a Moog Minitaur yesterday. I'm a big aficionado of the Taurus sound (I have owned the OG for 20 years now) so I just, you know, kinda had to have one.

(And I wanted to get one before the tariff effect kicked in as most Moog products are made in Taiwan now.)

I haven't even used the editor yet or messed around with presets, but I was able to dial in that classic Taurus preset sound pretty quickly. Sounds noice! I'm a happy camper. Will dive in deeper this eve. Kinda nice to have square waves and an LFO at my disposal too (both absent on the original.) I'm using my Crumar Mojopedals unit to trigger it.

My only niggles is that I wish it had a power switch (but I've got an inline power-cable-switch-adaptor-thing coming in from Amazon soon) and more knobs would be nice, but doing the Glide-button-shift-knob thing isn't too painful. Probably won't even use the editor that much except to store presets.

Are we expecting prices of used synths to start going up soon due to tariffs? Is the next six months maybe a good time to sell off some stuff?

Bought a Behringer Brains (digital multimode oscillator) because it was cheap and I'm expecting to be broke for the next few months (years?) so I figured something with a bunch of different modes might be nice to have around. My other oscillators are all pretty basic analog ones.

I don't know if all this tariff nonsense will affect Behringer's prices in Canada but I wouldn't be surprised if the next time they stock up it's more expensive. There are a couple more Behringer eurorack things I'll be picking up later this month if I can swing it. Just a set of rack rails and power supply and possibly a 3rd abacus, bode frequency shift clone, and maybe some other random shit.

Suspect it will be very situational. Some will, some won't. Location is everything here.

For example, I think Behringer synths will have to see major price increases. Chinese products have been hit with a huge tariff (54%) and there really isn't any margin there for Behringer to eat since they already price very competitively. They will likely have to pass on the full cost of the tariff to USA customers. As an example, the Behringer XM2 was supposed to sell for $249 USD. After the tariff announcements pre-order prices are $399. That's an over 50% increase in price. Used Behringer synths will likely raise in price as well since new ones will be much more expensive. If you are considering Behringer gear (or any chinese made synths), new or used, I would buy it ASAP.

On the other hand, a company like Korg has to have huge margins on their raspberry pi machines and likely can absorb some of the tariff costs (only 24% since made in Japan). Korg price increases will likely be modest, if at all, and probably won't impact the secondary market much.

TLDR: It depends on the synth and where its being built.

Anecdotally I’ve already seen prices jump in the US at some retailers, some imported things sell out, for example an UDO Gemini I was watching sold immediately after the impact %s were announced and stock is down to a few total in the US at retailers for that synth.

While lower end / cheap stuff might be sold off by people to get some cash the high end or rare items could go up quite a bit especially if things stick around.

It’s hard to predict what will happen in the future but for certain things that are already scarce if you’re on the fence, want something, and importantly have the budget for it now might be a reasonable time to buy, which could mean that it will become more lucrative to sell later this year if things get even more scarce.

I occasionally import things that are rare / hard to come by and I don’t know where to even begin doing the calculus now. Like a lot of people I probably won’t be buying from overseas markets for a while, but I do have something being built for me from Japan and it’s already paid off …now I get to pay hundreds in import costs I was not prepared for, the guy hand builds the electronics he can’t possibly eat the cost.

I disagree that large corporations are going to absorb the costs unless they are absolutely massive and have regular operating margins of a low % like B, I actually expect Korg etc. to raise prices if the tariffs last a while.

Companies depend on healthy margins to stay operational and there are capital requirements for things like payroll and future billings, plus they need to provide value for shareholders if they’re publicly traded.. I’ve worked for about a half dozen CFOs and absolutely none of them would have eaten a double digit cost like that unless there was a direct ROI path to greater profits which will be a hard pill to swallow.

Instead in the event of a protracted trade war I’d bet retail prices will rise, sales may slow due to that once they do, layoffs may follow to reduce overhead costs etc. It’s going to get pretty messy if this isn’t all very temporary and the used market may go nuts once scarcity sets in.

But this is all hypothetical, predicting the future is impossible and things could change in a couple weeks, or we could look back on this and wonder where all of the “In Stock” items went and be stuck paying inflated prices for used gear again.

Interesting times ahead, enjoy the music making is my advice.

Life is too short for what-if’s, but I am biased saying that with a synth in the mail!

Not to turn this into a software vs hardware debate.....(I love and use both)

But software isn't tariffed (yet) and we've made quite the advancements with software lately so at least we have that going for us

Soniccouture Flowstate

That's actually a great point. I've had Komplete on the back burner for ages, so I might push that up if the prices on hardware get too weird.

I've noticed a lot of used gear is coming down in price, and I wonder if that's because people are selling them now for fear that they won't hold their value. Not gonna lie, the GearSlut in me is rattling its cage trying to get out and go after the low prices. I've got a lot of great gear now, so I think my short-term plan is to round out the edges of the workstations, and hunker down and focus on bills instead. My mortgage went up 20% and my car is starting to show its age. I'm probably going to have to focus on the practical for a while until this thing sorts itself out. I'm sure that I'll still splurge every now and then because I'm fiscally irresponsible, but I think my disposable income is going to just trickle into the modular for a while.

I did not expect to go with this, but there we are:

Goes it feel more substantial than the Wavestate/Opsix/Modwave, in build and keybed?

I really disliked the Opsix I had 'physically', but loved its sound.

Congrats btw

It is very light (3.6 kg) so nice and portable. The keybed is utter shit (feels the same as on MS-20 FS, horrid). Knobs and buttons feel excellent, though. There is no knob stepping at all (same as on OG), they did very well there. Headphone jack on the front panel is an extremely weird choice. I also feel that XLR port for gooseneck microphone would be better on left side (see Novation Ultranova).

Sound-wise it still holds its own, even though you can absolutely get (a solid amount of) aliasing with sync and crossmod and playing not even that high up on the keyboard. Filters sound very good. Synth engine has some very strange omissions, like there's no LFO fade in/delay, there's no auto (legato) portamento mode...

What is it

Prophet X

First impressions here: Sequential Prophet X

Nice!!! I want one of those bad

some finger picks like long nails, a thumb pick
and a cover for an orange brand amp.
no partridge in a pear tree

Does a twin turbo Audi V10 count?

Congrats on the V10

Commiserations on the Audi

It's an Audi v10 not a venturi 400, not worth shouting about. Just a car..

No one is shouting petal keep your knickers on.

It was just a little joke.

No need to get all hot and stuffy.

Oh im full of bad decisions. I own 2 audi's, a mini and a Jag.

Nah.. They're decent cars audis. Share a lot of parts with Volkswagen.
Also decent. Some good reliable cars come out of germany.

Seems I'm still on that VST buying phase?



Korg Collection 5 crossgrade from pluginboutique (bought with credit cuz I'm still a skint SOB hehe)

I always wanted the Korg Prophecy VST.. so getting it, and all the other synths for 110€ was impossible to pass up.

Been a while since I had a 2600 plugin too, last one I had was a "student license" version of Arturia 2600 back in the early 2000s, when I still used "try before buy" licensing.. Should prove interesting, for documenting my B2600 cabling/patches if for nothing else

That's a whole lotta Korg