It sucks to see the drain of brilliant employees a company change can create and the after effects of that drain to the products in the future, at the same time from my experience working in tech: this is probably going to be for the better to all of us.
I say that because usually when the brilliant employees of a hot new company leave, they start to create their own paths, with less limitations from the previous employer and can focus on the vision they created over years (and in case of Cenk, a decade) of hands-on experience.
It will probably suck for us that love Elektron as it was, that Elektron is probably going to be a memory, but it’s super exciting to see what Ess, Cenk, Olle and others will create from now on with all the accumulated experience and none of the cruft of having to conform to Elektron’s whims.
Best wishes, Cenk, from someone who only got into music because of instruments you’ve worked on, thanks for helping me discover this whole universe called “making music”