How long does the Cirklon exists now? 2011 I think. Thats 13 years with full waiting lists and people buying them after such a long wait. Most I read or talked to preferred the Cirklon over any other Sequencer they tried. 2nd Hand market is completely empty. If there is an offer, the price is unbelievable high, and they are sold faster than you can think of. Doesn’t look like all those additions to the marked in the last years changed anything about that.
And while you are right, there is much development going on, Cirklon 2 upgraded the CPU a lot and added a “high resolution” display and they even sold v1 to v2 upgrade kits, so they just made sure, their product is able to handle many more years of firmware updates.
There were 2 major releases releases in the last couple of years (Oxi One and Hapax) and from my feeling, it didn’t effect the second hand market at all.
To be fair, I would miss a few features, that other sequencers provide. Be it the generative stuff that the Oxi provides, or those modulation curves over longer patterns, that the Hapax and the Deluge have. On the other side, the flexibility of the aux events in the Cirklon is far from anything that other devices provide. I have no experience how open Colin is to changes and new features, but the new CPU and the higher resolution color display would be able to handle a lot new features.
But I am totally with you on that waiting part. I joked to a friend, that I think even building your own sequencer is faster than reaching the top of the waiting list, without knowing how true this really is
What I can say: The workflow on a grid-based sequencer like the Deluge, Hapax or Oxi, is so fundamentally different to the work on a sequencer like the Cirklon or the SEQ v4+, that people might choose one over the other not just because of features, but just because of this simple difference. I built a prototype for both and decided on the Cirklon/v4+ style.
I think thus proves Mdi is not going away. And the Cirklon has more Midi control than anything else on the market. You could have a studio full of gear and it can control the lot.
It’s actually a bit different these days. Due to global inflation, you can find Cirklon ads listed for great prices. I just got one from Colin but I don’t know if I’d be able to sell it so fast as it seems people need their spare cash to cover more important things.
Hm, the v1 are a little under the v2 price, all the v2s are more expensive than official. But it’s true, it’s not as unrealistic looking as it was a year ago.
All in all, still a device with some of the best resell value.
Thought id post this amazing track with the Cirklon doing a lot of the work. Only to show it doesnt have to be all techno stuff. Its just hasn’t been explored in alternative ways.
Cirklon absolutely excels at this kind of composition. It’s not that far removed from classic chill or trance (higher tempo), just add a kick / percussion / bass.
The accumulators working in tandem with controllers assigned to the accumulator gates / amounts / offsets and octaves, and you have a pretty endless variety of melody and rhythm that can be tweaked interactively on the fly…
So it’s supposedly going to be delivered tomorrow. It’ll get here faster than something shipped from Sweetwater or Perfect Circuit if this is the actual timeline it follows.
I’m in a small city in the middle of the US, actually. I’m shocked how fast it is, and also wondering if I’ll need to pay import duty when I sign for it. I actually hadn’t thought about that until just now.
Editing my post so I don’t keep clogging up the thread. Import duty + fees was $71. Not too bad, honestly.
I never ordered a full Cirklon from them so I can’t speak directly to your experience. shipping was super fast when I bought an upgrade kit though (to Ohio), but it was a bit slow to leave the Sequentix HQ. there were no duties on it, but it’s also only about half of what a full Cirklon costs. if you have to pay anything, it’ll be maybe $1-200.
they may have. US importing is weird. it depends upon how much it costs, where it’s coming from, and what it’s classified under to determine what duties are. it’s not just straight “X% on everything” (well, currently).
