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I am going to this wallet challenging do tomorrow.
Looks like it will be reet do in terms of all things electronic, including a few interesting seminars.
If I survive without plundering my bank account, I'll have done well. I am driving to it, so at least that will prevent me from any beer fuelled impulse purchases...…
Anyone else going?
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ha ha!!
I got away lightly, only bought one thing, and that was still needless: Novation Launchkey Mini MkIII. To replace my MkII, which obviously has nothing wrong with it. ! I convinced myself if I bought a new one, I could give my old one to my daughter.
The event itself - quite good. Venue and facilities are first class. Loads of interesting stands/stalls, covering all the bases from software to vintage hardware. Some amazing (if baffling) modular setups on display too.
GAK had a stand and were doing show deals on (as far as I could tell) all their stock, whether physically there or not. My keyboard wasn't there, but got about 8% off and it posts out today.
Watched a good demo/talk by Teenage Engineering, about the OPZ. Nice bit of kit, expensive though.
Highlight for me was a seminar on the Fairlight CMI. Really interesting. Steve Levine was talking and his stories were just fascinating. That one seminar was worth the ticket price alone (£15).
I've looked at this event before, and not gone, but I'll go next year, enjoyed it. I could have stayed longer than the 2 1/2 hours I put in, I didn't realise there was another floor where people were performing for half hours at a time. Also A Guy Called Gerald was doing a talk at 5pm, but I had had enough before then, and couldn't be arsed to hang around. Actually, truth was, I was hankering to go to the pub.
Saw some lovely old gear though, on a stall by Sound Gas. Yamaha CS, Minimoog, Space Echo, loads of stuff that took me back to being a kid in a band. Even a Roland SH101, which transported me immediately to being a 16 year old, convinced he was in the next big thing of a band. It was great. Plenty of stuff there that had passed through my hands, or through a mate's during the mid 80s. Very nostalgic.
Synth nerds though - wow, they are a mystical bunch. A bit like Morris dancers but armed with patch cables and oscillators.
I'd been to both the previous ones - agree seminars are usually worth the admittance fee - the rest gets a bit samey for me now.
Lots of stalls on modular synths - amazed the demand for this is out there.
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Modular - I've started getting into this, virtually. It's a bit addictive tbh.