Looking like an end of April release if Simon is predicting videos etc by April.
And then the inevitable āwhereās my pre-order?ā
Followed by āknew I should have got it from the other placeā
Then ābollocks, now no-one has any stockā
Fun dabby dosey
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am SOLD already
DT + TX18Z
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I read somewhere that they werenāt pads, they were buttons. So are you guys speculating plastic like buttons, like the ones we saw on the all the other black boxes? Cause i was hoping something similar to rytm, although those pads werenāt the best they were still decent to drum a little bit.
yea plastic. new ones but.
Iād love if they were rubber coated plastic, for a "bit of squidge " 
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i hope they just plastic, this " soft touch " paint peels off after awhile ā¦ I donāt like the back lights ether, but i could live with that.
i think RGB led behind pads can be cool for visual feedback, to show the type of pattern (break, build up, go, go+, fill) etceteraā¦
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back lights rule
i would have preferred some colorful pads like on rytm, without the numbersā¦ that would have raised the cost for sure though.
I hope ya can record the polyphonic midi in real time via playing chords for example, rather than having to add the extra notes per step via p-locks type thing like the days of old.
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Yes, interesting comparison, as long ago, I wondered about the ESX with the tube, etc. One major thing that Iād consider though is that the DT can live sample, the ESX canāt.
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If itās any indication of the design language for products to come, Iām super excited! Those buttons seem nicer than the archaic clunky grey buttons on the AR, A4, OT, etc. Though I admit the current buttons have a bogus mechanical keyboard character. Itās rather charming.
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And most of all they are pretty solid 
Thereās a feeling to it, you just know it will work for ages.
Rytm pads are not perfect, but I would have liked that Elektron keep digging in the same direction for new gear.
Some pads Ć la McMillenās QuNeo would have been great : itās extremely resistant, sensitive, and you can switch from grid mode (each corner does its own thing) to beat mode.
I enjoy using Rytm pads for Mute/Scene/Perf, itās a great UI.
And to hit a beat, well, itās rather decent, you get used to hitting it quite hard, with two fingers. But this is the part they could have done better.
Now picture them larger, with a switch button so that corners replace the standard trigsā¦ With 16 pads you get 64 trigs !
Not sure if its been adressed yet but is Digitakt pronounced like ādigā a hole or like didgeridoo, or is digital pronounced differently in Sweden.
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Like ādigā
Dig it actā¦
All this talk of Digitakt has made me want an Octa even more.
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This conversation is becoming to look like AudioFanzine ones 
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Canāt wait to read the manual of this little beast.
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