I sold my mki in 2009 for $800 and have tried almost every Elektron item since. But (for my personal taste) the AR and Syntakt didn’t fill the void - as much as I wanted them to. Now, almost 15yrs later I got a new mkii (non-uw) in the studio (for $1300 - an OK deal I guess) and I dived back in without a hitch… the sound design on it is like nothing else. I’ve already made 3 dark experimental tracks on it. So happy!
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get that new firmware up and running if you haven’t, it expands the capabilities a ton!
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It has x.04 installed. Worth the upgrade to x.08? I’m sort of afraid of bricking it 
Id say so! the NFX machines are an awesome addition, just follow the steps carefully and dont cut the power during the process and it will be fine.
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Oh yeah, what?! Compression?! Side chaining! Yep gonna update.
the comb filter one is especially powerful, it takes some time to figure it out but it can add a ton of new sound possibilities (flanger, phaser, karplus strong, etc)
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Congrats! Perhaps my most productive machine even though I try to tell myself it’s the Octatrack.
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jealeous!!!
It won’t brick it any more than X.04 is
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Weird, I had such a similar story just this week and share your feelings!
I sold my MD 10 years ago and regretted it so many times. Last week one came up locally for a super competitive price and I snatched it. I’m so happy to have!!!
I did the latest upgrade, no problems. Not that I need the features TBH, OG is plenty.
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Congrats! It’s good to be back!
Ooh, I wanna join the club! A few years ago, I sold my beloved MDUW+ MkII to help fund the purchase of a Model 10. I didn’t regret it, but I did miss that MD. Just last week, I took delivery of @hyperstationjr’s lovely MDUW+ MkII and am thrilled to the gills to have the MD back in my life.
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Now I’m thinking to sell like 5 synths and get a monomachine too 
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welcome to the club 
i did pretty much the same : sold my mono in 2008 and md in 2011 but I could never find something to replace them.
Got the MD back in 2018 and MnM in 2019. Glad i did it before before the hype, prices were pretty low back then.
I will never sell them again, they are the core of my setup and the most inspiring and direct machines i’ve ever had 
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Im lucky enough to didn’t have to sell mine. So I have a Red UWmkII (bought new in 2009 as my first ever Elektron) later upgraded to +Drive and then a MnM mkII +Drive which I bought for €650 in 2012 maybe…
So lucky
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