Intellijel Metropolix

You guys are forcing my hand here! :wink:

Disclaimer: This is a prototype, but itā€™s been finalized, but you might see some minor differences in the final product. No name or price yet, should be out in Spring.

OK, fun stuff: Made just for Metropolix! It will include an AC adaptor, has a power switch, and adds TRS MIDI (alongside the existing USB MIDI) to the Metropolix! Weā€™ll have a Metropolix Firmware v1.5 update (done, just in testing) that will add support for the TRS MIDI jacks in box and will also output the Gx (expander) gate signals over MIDI as CC values over TRS and USB (since the box does not support the Gx on at the same time). Iā€™ll save the rest of the firmware update info for release. :stuck_out_tongue:

Is this a NAMM announcement?

EDIT/PSā€”itā€™s very fun with the Analog 4.

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Amazing and please tell me us current Metropolix owners can snag one as an enclosure only purchase?!

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Yep! will be sold with and without a Metropolix

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Sweet mama! :heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes:

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Best NAMM announcement yet!

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Absolutely lovely.

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Cheers!

Never had it happen where Iā€™ve been curious about a product only for an announcement to be made within 24 hours. Amazing!

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This is super cool! Metropolix is by far the most fun sequencer iā€™ve ever used, love it so much! @slowwild are there any plans for an updated metropolix expander module that will output trs/usb midi? Or is this going to be exclusive to this case? Curious if thereā€™s any other goodies in that 1.5 firmware as well!

Anything else youā€™re curious about, like, I donā€™t know, an OT MK3?

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we aim to please! kismet really, haha.

Nothing planned for another expander module right now, and yeah there is more to the 1.5 update, but thatā€™s a surprise!

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This looks great, I am really looking forward to it. Thanks or sharing this with us!

Maybe call the combo the Metropolitan Traveler, or Desktopolix.

And the case alone could be called Taxi Cab, or Space Shuttle.

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Thanks for this little gift of an announcement! Itā€™s like being handed a truffle while walking down the street.

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Wow, this looks great! Definitely going to get one of these for the TRS MIDI. I mostly use mine with an Atlantis and MC-202 combo, but itā€™s very fun with Elektron boxes and well, everything really!

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I love my Metropolix, great to see its getting updates even if I donā€™t need the enclosure myself.

One thing I always wished it could do is midi-to-cv as it already does cv-to-midiā€¦

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Im guessing new midi in stuff in the update will work over the current usb? Iā€™m using tubbutec midi bridge as a host for it currently and itā€™s a lot of fun.

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yep, any updates to midi will run over TRS (in the ā€œlittle boxā€) and USB

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When can I get this enclosure?!?!

Iā€™m actually selling one with all the expanders in a 4ms 48x atm in the forum ; 0ā€¦ but this enclosure beat that by a year! I loved mine so so much, Iā€™m just having to sale everything, unfortunately. This is such a fantastic design, guys!

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If that listing includes the case and PSU, it isnā€™t evident from what you wrote. But we probably shouldnā€™t be discussing this outside the Marketplace.

This is so cool. You guys at Intelljel are just fucking amazing. The products, the super-detailed manuals, the supportā€¦everything is inspiring and awesome.

I love how this new case really speaks to the use of Metropolix as a MIDI sequencer (as opposed to using it in a modular case with oscillators). For those who have only explored the 'lix in its modular context, itā€™s super powerful for generating fun sequences that you wouldnā€™t generate otherwise, and then using that to build out a whole song in a DAW.

Metropolix was the seed for this song I recently released; it spat out the syncopated bassline you hear at the beginning, which then inspired everything else: Runaway | seven7hwave

I think Metropolix is my favorite modular device ever. The amount of depth is insane, especially if youā€™re rocking both outputs to play to voices off each other.

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