Brian Eno Selling Gear, Going Digital

Brian Eno is selling the DX-7 he used to create the Microsoft startup sound and other, more amazing, compositions. He’s also auctioning a Prophet VS, Jellinghaus DX-7 Programmer and two Mackie Mixers.

Why is Eno selling his gear? A Sound on Sound article last month had this:

Despite his reservations about computer recording, Eno has now decided to go further into the computer only world and sell his studio…

Brian Eno is Selling Lots of Gear [Music Thing]

(Via Gizmodo)

Hope he’ll do better selling analog equipment than I did. I think the ship has left the harbor already.