I had one last Thursday.

I’ve been slowly rebuilding a lil home studio the last few years and built a respectable rig: Cubase, A Nektar P4 to control it, NI Mascine MK2, Komplete 9, a couple of cheap rompler VST’s (Halion Sonic 2 is dope on that front) and recently added a MOXF6 for a respectable price of eight bills. I was good to go. Had everything running smoothly and spent some time to develop a good workflow with so many moving parts. The downside of that rig with two young children is it takes up space and they want to play with it all the pieces and there’s really no space in the house that doesn’t make things feel cluttered, so it’s out in the garage.

I really, really missed my Korg M3, which I snagged for a ridiculous four bills a couple summers ago but sold off for the P4 and Halion for workflow purposes. I loved the touch screen and some of the sounds so I’ve been scouring sites to add that and complete my rig.

In doing so I came up on a Kronos at a pawn shop in San Diego for 1300. I emailed the shop that night and got a response at 8 am. Some guy and his son had been in to look at it. They didn’t leave a deposit though and they opened at 10.

I fucking BEGGED this man to hold it. I had to put my wife at ease by ensuring her I was selling everything else to pay for it, take money out of savings to front the money, drive three hours on the round trip, take time off work and make that time back up that same day and my off day the following day…. He read that email, had a laugh, held it for me and I got that fucking board. And it’s glorious. So, so glorious.

Since this pretty much replaces my three pieces of hardware and the computer they were all connected to, space is no longer a problem. Shit sits nicely on the back end of my wife’s work desk. I’ve been getting up around 4:30 to learn it. I can spend 10-15 minutes here and there throughout the day without feeling like I’ve bailed on the fam by heading to the garage. It killed like three birds with one stone. Plus the MOXF sold today so my wife is at ease.

So tell us about a dope come up of your own.