2026: A Year in Gear (What You've Bought or Want to Buy in 2026)

[elxsound]

All purchases on the back burner until I finish exploring my greatest bit of GAS ever, the recent good luck I had with a pension fund I’d forgotten about seems to have made it possible to afford my own place for the first time, something I thought I’d lost the chance to do.
And if it all works out.. a lot more space for lovely gear in the future. Still months away but making progress.

Just had my offer accepted on a house. It’s not any bigger in floor space than the one I’m renting now but it is detached so that’s a nice upgrade from a mid terrace which should mean no worried about annoying neighbours with my music or me getting annoyed by theirs.

And now I have been told there’s a bunch of hand sitting ahead as it takes months to get finalised.

Meanwhile I will have dreamy dreams about being able to house a real drum kit and a big old Ampeg bass amp etc.

Early congrats, and looking forward to another congratulations after the hand-sitting period is over!

[Constructed Identity]

All purchases on the back burner until I finish exploring my greatest bit of GAS ever, the recent good luck I had with a pension fund I’d forgotten about seems to have made it possible to afford my own place for the first time, something I thought I’d lost the chance to do.
And if it all works out.. a lot more space for lovely gear in the future. Still months away but making progress.

Just had my offer accepted on a house. It’s not any bigger in floor space than the one I’m renting now but it is detached so that’s a nice upgrade from a mid terrace which should mean no worried about annoying neighbours with my music or me getting annoyed by theirs.

And now I have been told there’s a bunch of hand sitting ahead as it takes months to get finalised.

Meanwhile I will have dreamy dreams about being able to house a real drum kit and a big old Ampeg bass amp etc.

Congratulations
You should have a really loud party after you move in.

[vurt]

and invite all of us.
i promise ill leave when the party is over. pinky promise.

[cryophonik]

Congrats! That sounds like a great move!

[WatchTheGuitar]

Cheers guys. These GASless months have been tough.

[whyterabbyt]

Received a Vhikk X last week.
Had no spare time to do more than test it worked before heading away for 3 or 4 days.
It did but one of my Wasp filters didnt, so I need a new chip for that.
Got back, and thanks to some weirdness I need to spend several days completely reinstalling all software on my allegedly non-audio PC (that I'd also just added latest Protools, Live and a bunch of plugins to.)
Have even less time to do anything.
Maybe I'll get to play with some stuff next month. Or next year.

Also : added my name to the lists for the new Stylophone sampler and sequencer.

[Seafire Mk2]

TD 3 AM arrived

Case feels like a plastic piece of shit, weighs nothing, but knobs are sturdy

Not going to complain at that price, acid heaven

Very quiet compared to modular, will need a proper mixer now...

[justin3am]

TD 3 AM arrived

B making a 3am edition of their 303 clone? They'll be hearing from my lawyer!

[Seafire Mk2]

I know, what a liberty!

Quick question for those in the know, I noticed that the Behringer Four Play module is on Amazon for under £40, could I use that as a mixer?

Putting one or two modular signals in, the Kobol and TD3 in the other 2 inputs, then the mix out into my soundcard?

Seems like a cheap/decent option.

[whyterabbyt]

Quick question for those in the know, I noticed that the Behringer Four Play module is on Amazon for under £40, could I use that as a mixer?

basically, you should be able to... never tried it with external devices though.

Each channel has its own
output, which is mixed with channels to the
right if no output cable is inserted into that
channel output. If only the 4/Mix output
jack is connected the module operates as
a 4 into 1 mixer, which can be operated
manually using the Level controls, or voltage
controlled via the CV inputs

[vurt]

I know, what a liberty!

Quick question for those in the know, I noticed that the Behringer Four Play module is on Amazon for under £40, could I use that as a mixer?

Putting one or two modular signals in, the Kobol and TD3 in the other 2 inputs, then the mix out into my soundcard?

Seems like a cheap/decent option.

yup it's a four channel vca, can also be used as a voltage controlled mixer

[vurt]

or more informative above

[whyterabbyt]

Checked with a stylophone drone synth, and a boardweevil together, first things to hand with live batteries and 3.5mm outs. seems to work fine.

[Seafire Mk2]

Quick question for those in the know, I noticed that the Behringer Four Play module is on Amazon for under £40, could I use that as a mixer?

basically, you should be able to... never tried it with external devices though.

Each channel has its own
output, which is mixed with channels to the
right if no output cable is inserted into that
channel output. If only the 4/Mix output
jack is connected the module operates as
a 4 into 1 mixer, which can be operated
manually using the Level controls, or voltage
controlled via the CV inputs

Thank you.

[Seafire Mk2]

I know, what a liberty!

Quick question for those in the know, I noticed that the Behringer Four Play module is on Amazon for under £40, could I use that as a mixer?

Putting one or two modular signals in, the Kobol and TD3 in the other 2 inputs, then the mix out into my soundcard?

Seems like a cheap/decent option.

yup it's a four channel vca, can also be used as a voltage controlled mixer

Thanks. I suspected it was, but as I'm new to the telephone exchange, I wasn't sure

The boost switch got me interested. Strangley, the Kobol has a hot output, so was quite shocked when the td3 seemed so quiet.