…heat was always their most underrated device…no bestseller…
so they still got some leftovers to sell off for a lower pricetag in the meantime…
once that period is over, no need to bet, it’s all fare well to heat mk2…
and as we all know…the official elektron site pricetags has to be hi gain in pricing, since they need the global retailer market to sell whole batches at once…if this would be all just single units buy out one by one business, it would all crash…they’re happy, if u order directly at their own shop…that’s quite some xtra profit, since big retailers pay way less, of course…
Yea that’s logical - although they should label it as such if that’s the case I don’t think it’s cool to be ambiguous about it if that’s the plan, personally - and it should be discounted. But that’s just an opinion I got a lot of those.
There are a lot free CPU in standard analog heat. Also it has ADC/DAC before and after analog circuit, so it may be possible. Digitakt with same CPU makes much more digital work – delay, reverb, compressor, 8 tracks of sample playback, BRR SRR, dual filter, also sequencer, midi, lfos, sample recording, streaming 10 track into OB
I certainly don’t want to condone overpricing as a general measure of policy, and I’m not wealthy enough to spring for it either, but really how much could we expect it to be less than this? given the current product line up pricing, the pricing of competitors, and what’s being offered in this box. It’s not simply a distortion effect or something like that. It’s literally an oscillator shy of being a synth.
If you look at the cost of the Heat and the cost of Dreadbox’s Hypnosis, it seems good to me. The only impediment is that the base effects in the Digitone/A4/etc are already so good.
the base effects in elektron boxes are superb. one could make the argument any dissonance is due to our being spoiled by elektron in that department already. bad children we are. naughty at the least.
not according to the engineer who advised that they needed to bolster the digital side of the board to accommodate this spec
who knows what is theoretically possible (even if a vastly reduced feature ‘bump’ was envisaged), but is there an incentive to disrupt the stability of the ‘end-to-end analog’ iteration or to disrupt development on the new device etc
All I know is you can never say never with Elektron, it would be a surprise, especially as the UI wouldn’t adapt as readily as the revised one does - I’ve no idea, that kinda info wouldn’t ever be divulged in my experience, my hunch is … not likely in the short term, maybe they could bury a compressor somewhere, but equally there may be a few reasons why it could create headaches that we can’t guess
so it may be possible, but it won’t be anything like they’ve just released … but when you think about song mode on the Digital line, who saw that coming or fitting in, but they made it happen
Superb in some ways, but lacking in algorithm. I won’t ask for shimmer reverb, but in the year 2023 I would expect to be able to do things like reverse delay (which I consider basic at this point).
there is insufficient ram to have a fully functional rack effects unit and (insert specific product here) in one box, I don’t know why the designs are how they are, but they utilize every iota of available power so things are spread thin. No doubt it would be a great thing to behold, the perfect machine.
But we live in a time of imperfect machines. I feel lucky for what I have, I’m not complaining.
(as an aside, I would not mind a firmware option to boot up a machine in effects box mode, so that when I’m not using digitone for the synth, I can turn it into something closer to heat +fx but I think that’s just being greedy)
if it’s the DT / AH effects, they’re not good enough… passable as incoporated fx for synth or sampler, but not good enough for a standalone box
that price…. Jeez. The second-hand market is already rough with low prices on AH. So selling this for almost £900, considering the above, seems nuts. More to the point, buying one at that price would be nuts!
I don’t need cute graphics either, but I would like graphical representation of important elements, otherwise it’s just eye candy. See example below of a waveform clearly visible on the Syntakt, and that same parameter in Overbridge represented as a dial that says nothing.
