Thx for the guess.
Was there any indication of when info of the new machine would be made available?
very very soon, whatever that meansā¦
Elektron made aāWaldorf concept". When Waldorf had made their āPulse 2ā for Namm show 2012 then they only showed the design but didnāt let anyone hear the unit until 1 year later 
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mmm - in terms of the heat death of the universe, some-when in the next 1.000,000 or so years 
Iām actually hoping in the next month but that would be a - what do call it? errr - a guess. A speculative and stoopid guess. Shit i hope i donāt blow a load of cash on something else in the next week cos iām looking for a controller thing with drum pads 
Is that an educated guess? How big was that gap in the conner of the frosted box?
if I had to bet on it I say a new drummachine I mean sfx6 upgraded to a4 keys
1+1=3 right ?
The left side of this new machine seems to be a colorfull 4x4 matrix. Green, blue, red, yellow, etcā¦
As ever said, there is clearly a 16 step sequencer.
I really hope it will be a controller, something close to QuNeo with 4x midi outs and glitchy/slicing/beat repeat capabilities through audio inputs.
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a new semi-modular FM monster with patchable sequencer and individual 8 tracks length would be fineā¦ Jon pls tell us more, at least when to aspect more news! 
Why is there a chain on the plate ?
For dramatic effect.
Lugging around that box & chain is going to be impractical for portable live use.
Presumably some sort of wifi-midi will be required to communicate with the device inside the box.
Revolutionary concept though, having a giant pulsating cube as part of your rig. I wonder is the box surface touch sensitiveā¦
āā¦if [font=Calibri","sans-serif]anyone here is in [font=Calibri","sans-serif]advertising or marketing, [font=Calibri","sans-serif]kill yourself.ā
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The linking together of boxes.
Yep
So what about the sound from the box? Drums donāt immediately spring to mind, but Iām sure a flexible drum synth with an open-ish architecture could makes those sounds.
The new box blinks like a modular.
Exact! The time of freedom, creativity, small gears & laptops for live acts is now finished. A new era is coming! The era of slavery, heavy gears and hard constraints. The new Elektron world is announced: Blood Sweat & Pain for the masses! Happiness in slavery!
New box Iām all for waiting, especially if it means a new Hector campaign. 
Perhaps Elektron, in response to the quotes out of Teenage engineering that they left Elektron because they wanted to make something new and interesting, something variable and open is possible.
I will also say that all this speculation is an expression of passion for the products- there is nothing wrong with saying:
āI hope they release something like, Xā
or
āIt would make sense for their next product to be Y because their last product was Z and the two shouldnāt overlap or de-value each otherā
or
āI wish product Z was better and included features like this-ā¦ā"
It isnāt narcissistic to discuss these things, but it is narcissistic to think youāre justified ranting and raving an derailing a discussion with obsessive speculation and angry proclamations about the product and company. However, there is also no justification for claiming superior knowledge and then characterizing the people who are here sharing ideas and discussing something they are passionate about as foolish and naive. If the hardcore supporters of your company pretty unanimously want a product, why wouldnāt you consider reasonable ways to bring it to them while also fitting it into and distinguishing it from the others in the product line? Hundreds of people who will most certainly pay for and be thrilled about the end result could be a blank check for the company to at least sit down and have a discussion about it.
Companies operate at a human level as well as a bottom line capitalistic level. Product development doesnāt happen in a vaccum. There isnāt some brain in a jar somewhere in Sweden that prints out small pieces of paper with a 3 word description telling Elektron what to make next. And itās VERY cynical to think we just āget what we getā and are then dissuaded from wanting the product we originally wanted by complex marketing.