Doepfer MAQ16/3

I've finally got around to buying a Doepfer MAQ16/3 sequencer. Despite its age, it seems to be the best digital/ analogue style MIDI/CV sequencer on the market - certainly the only really affordable one. Looking at the manual, I'm sure it's capable of all sorts of timing, transposing and ratcheting tricks given the necessary programming, so I'm planning to use it extensively on my second album - the first one is pretty much composed already, and isn't very improvisational. But once that's finished, it will be wibbly sequences all the way...

Oh, and I also picked up a Yamaha CBK-K1 MIDI controller keyboard for under £40 - I already have a CBX-K1XG which has built-in sounds, but I thought this was too good to miss, particularly as it came with an Emagic MIDI-to-USB convertor...

Doctor Who DVDs

I've made a start on a long-planned project to start buying Doctor Who DVDs ('real' Doctor Who, not gay Doctor Who), and I've picked up around 30 from eBay at prices around £5 each. There seem to be a few which are only available at silly prices, but I can wait. I've watched a few at random, and of course, the extras are always entertaining. I've also picked up some of the Target novelisations for the hell of it - I never read any of them when they were published, so that may be interesting, though I have no intention of trying to get the whole lot.

Doepfer Minicases

There's only one thing better than a Doepfer modular synth system mini-case, and that's three Doepfer modular synth system mini-cases, which I was lucky enough to grab from eBay at reasonable prices. Now I can expand my system a bit without investing money or space in a full-size case - though the spare modules I have at the moment won't amount to anything on their own.