[quote=“” DeltaPhoenix""]
I just heard that they will be shipping to at least one large vendor in the US next week.
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Spoke to a Sweetwater sales rep today, and he said that they are probably not getting any Analog Rytms in for “at least a month to a month and a half”, and that no one knows for sure because “it seems like Elektron is still building them.”
I remember a similar situation with Sweetwater when the A4 was announced for preorder where reps from Sweetwater were exaggerating how soon they would get them. I fell for it last time, and wound up cancelling my Sweetwater preorder and ordering directly from Elektron in the end. At least this time, they offered me a much more realistic estimate so I could make an informed decision.
Honestly, I hope DeltaPhoenix is right, but I have the feeling that we’re just going to have to wait this one out. Hopefully waiting means (as Cenk said at NAMM) that we’ll be getting a more polished/feature complete machine.
In a side note, I imagine that the Analog Keys and Octatrack are backordered precisely because Elektron needs the resources/parts dedicated to a sooner AR release.