You have said that so many times now it is starting to get silly…
For us that has had the chance to get our hand on it, I would say that it’s immediate and fun as hell to play with, and that is what it was designed to be.
Judge it after you have tried it yourself or seen what others can do with it.
Ollie, do you know if it will over time get some more features in updates like the way the other boxes have developed over time?
Thanks for takin the time to get back to us on the forum as much as you do, its appreciated 
I’ve been to Asheville last summer. You can actually watch them through the window sitting at their work bench with piles of capacitors, resistors and PCBs and putting things together part by part right there in the States. I have full understanding for the prices they charge.
Any chance we will be able to see it in action soon? Until you show it in public, all we can judge it by are the specs.
A video of the DT in action showing off some performance features would be very appreciated. Especially curios if it can do different styles, like textural, ambientish music, or polyrhythmic weird stuff. Or if it’s more of a four to the floor type of box.
Cenk is currently working on a video series that will go into details about the unit. It will start in a few weeks and run until the release.
Fair enough 
I’m sure it’ll be a cool box.
Remember that squarepusher sequenced this whole LP on Boss DR660 via MIDI
Oh mahn big loada. My first ever squarepusher record.
He was so good back then too.
wow i cant believe he used a dr660. fuuu
I think the delay, reverb and modulation of the samples totally makes this great for textural/ambient stuff.
Polymetric is really easy as you can set individual track lengths. And for polyrythmical stuff you have the retrig. The sample per step functionality and the conditional trig with modulus helps a lot as well in creating evolving patterns.
Any step sequencer(as well as the DT) should be able to do this with ease.
Ah! A fair point, I didn’t appreciate that. I suspect it’s a similar story for Moog and would explain the premium asking price. I wonder why they haven’t moved towards alternative, cheaper production techniques? Im no expert though so, basically, haven’t a clue what I’m talking ha!
Heritage.
Moog is a partly employee owned company that values local production and lasting relationships with their employees. They’re not striding to make as much profit as possible, they are striding to create instruments, while simutaniously supporting their employees. Working for the people creating value, and not for some investor group.
Outsourcing manufacture would mean less jobs in Asheville.
You can read a bit more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/arts/music/moog-music-gives-employees-more-control.html?_r=0
As a person who think that creativity and economic sustainability can coexist, this is pretty cool.
Cmon broheim - we all know plenty of other machines that are both immediate and fun that don’t cost 700 clams (e.g. monotribe, circuit) so your attempt to stifle people’s opinions (no matter how repetitive) just isn’t cool unless you can back it up with something more than subjective statements about the enjoyment factor.
I’d say that repetitive statements from forum members (who are also mostly Elektron customers) is only a reflection of reasonable expectation at a time when the game is being changed daily by upstart and established companies both.
Elektron was one of those game changing companies that set the bar, so please try to understand when your loyal customers ask WTF it feels like the bar just dropped. Be cool again 
Thanks for that! If i were American, I think it would definitely sway me towards paying the premium. Unfortunately, by the time Moog/DSI stuff lands on UK soil we’re paying over the odds (in my opinion of course!) But really cool that some companies operate on this way.
FWIW there’s some discussion above about Moogs premium pricing and how they are still hand made. I’d like to add as well that they’ve barely been able to stay in business over the years even with their sky high prices and the fact that their founder invented the synth! I believe they are doing better now though and I think are cooperatively owned by the workers but there still not racking in cash…
Edit: My point is that even though their prices are really high, they don’t make money, not that they should change anything…
Sigh… All this guessing and speculating, there is more and more info coming from dear Olle (like little drops from a watertap, thanks for that)… I think, this Digitakt will be deeper then we think. Looks fun and hands on on the outside, but I guess we just underestimate it at this point because we don’t know the damn thing. I even had fun reading this thread sometimes. I understand the fuss of course, because of that I just ordered it at a local retailer 
Cant wait to get my hands dirty on this thing!
I tend to believe Olle, he says he thinks it’s really fun to play and I feel like he is speaking the truth about what he thinks and not just giving some general “I work for Elektron” statement…
Sooooooo much speculation, both positive and negative. Looking forward to the video though that will probably just spark more speculative debate lol
Yes, Moog barely fit the definition of an economically sustainable business, if fashion swings back away from analogue synthesizers they could easily go bust again, just as they did in the 80s (they only really started up again in 2002). I am very glad they exist now of course, they make wonderful things.