I’m heavily considering pre-ordering the new batch.
Am I correct that you cannot program multiple midi commands per function? It’s one thing at a time/knob? No macros, basically?
The editor looks great!
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for basic controls this is true…
however, you can also add (Lua) scripts, these could perform multiple actions based on a single encoder… and all sort of other mode ‘advanced’ features.
note: these scripts are basically extensions to the controls you place with the editor, so for many, you might just add a very small snippet of a script to do the ‘extras’.
even more advance usage, the firmware is open source, so you can entirely replace the ‘controller’ app - with something entirely ‘custom’ - this is pretty cool, even the hardware itself is very interesting for many ‘applications’ given is controls/touch screen and io capabilities.
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Thank you! Digging into Lua!
I think this thing is right in line with my use cases.
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It’s really nice having a programmatic callback interface with most of the heavy lifting already done.
This for instance is me making my monophonic wind controller have a drone an octave below (g3) the starting note (g4) that last through the full phrase.
I also de-legato’ed the phrase so the notes are all disconnected and retrigged each time.
I’m mostly playing around with it whenever I feel like tinkering a bit or I get an idea I want to try.
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Some noodling using the the Electra One to do some EWI style holds over two MIDI channels on my XPresso to get two different timbres going at once. Still some kinks to work out with the different parts of the chain.
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The E1 graphical interface is going to a new level that will allow preset developers to create custom controls:
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Woah, cool!
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Now released:
The highlights include:
- Added the ability to create custom controls with their own graphics and touch processing. Examples on how to use this feature will be provided shortly.
- Improved USB host functionality. Two devices can now be connected simultaneously using the USB hub. This update has been tested with various USB MIDI devices and hubs. If your device is not recognized or if you encounter any issues, please let us know.
- Enhanced LCD touch sensitivity and smoothness.
- Numerous bug fixes and improvements.
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I think many of these upgrades apply to the Mk I too. Just not the processing ability to run massive presets and other memory benefits …
Electra Mini in the works, and maybe we see a prototype at Superbooth:
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Since I mostly was focusing on the on the fly processing experiments and barely using the GUI, that small one provided it has the same sort of compute as the MKII would have worked well.
I like my MKII when I get the inkling to do some MIDI programming projects but that’s largely limited by how much I feel like doing more coding after work, which hasn’t been too much lately.
A few more details about the Mini on Electra 1/2 - suggestion for a smaller, perhaps updated version - #16 by martin - Ideas / Feature requests - Electra One Community, and this pic:
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I’ve been eyeing off an Electra One Mk2 for a while but haven’t gone deep into its capabilities.
I think I grasp it at its basic level of being able to load and create presets to control other midi devices, but then it is also open and you can go as deep as your capability allows.
Does anyone know a good video that kind of goes through a day one getting started kind of overview? I found stuff on specific uses but nothing more general.
I think my head has been turned a bit by the Digitakt 2’s midi capabilities. From what I understand it could have gone in a pattern 16 different midi synth presets loaded each with access to 16 cc on encoders, midi learn, and the ability to sequence the cc messages.
For someone who at a basic level just wants to have access to synth or fx pedal parameters via midi in a single box, is there anything crucial in the Electra One that I would be missing?
Hello,
FYI, I did a bunch of E1 presets for Elektron’s gears. All with sysex request/response functionalities. Here are the links, so you can get an idea of what I am talking about:
Have a nice day.
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Awesome to see more presets being released 
As for the mini at SB, it was bad luck. A problem with the alimentation on the freshly delivered motherboard. This is close to being ready to launch
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I have undusted my electra one and want to put it to good use, so I started to build an Interface for jamming with the DTII.
Problem: MIDI Learn does not work in the editor. anyone else experiencing this?
Sure I could do all by hand but no thanks.
If you’re on the fence about the Electra One, I recommend watching this superb overview / review:
Part way through he mentions about the 3 buttons on the left not being very useful. Martin (the creator and developer) has confirmed that they’ll soon be customisable.
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After reading about it in SoundOnSound I went and got one. Holy moly what a controller.
ESPECIALLY useful for effects/guitar pedals with MIDI! Plotting out the Hologram Microcosm and Hologram Chroma Console was a cinch - anything with MIDI CC on a printout can be done with this thing.
Really something special.
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