i recently saw an interview with rolf röhrmann (developer of quantum and iridium). he said that the newer devices, i.e. iridium and quantum, have such a high-capacity chip built in that updates could still be made in 30 years’ time. that wouldn’t work with waldorf m and neither would kyra.
but that’s not the philosophy of a small company, says Röhrmann, because the updates are free. I understand that because you have to sell to survive. these updates are an absolute bonus for customers. so not a matter of course. and at some point, a device has to be completed in order to be able to focus on a new product.
for the waldorf and iridum users, however, it should be said that many more updates will come according to the developer.
now I think it’s the same with elektron. However, I think that the allocation of updates to the individual devices should be kept in balance. because, after all, the large devices cost almost twice as much. one last update, you definitely deserve it.
even if nothing more comes, these devices are absolutely top, probably forever, like many old synthsizers. I personally enjoy the electron boxes the most. especially with the old eventide pedals like space and time factor and a DAW. hopefully elektron will bring out a polyphonic eight-voice analog synthesizer for complex pad stories, preferably with a sem filter + multifilter and resonator + phaser, chorus, flanger, delay, pitch shifter and ring modulator, separately for each channel.
