this is possibly the most awesome thing about the new release. A subtle change, and yet incredibly useful.
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The Mki has a single metering LED for SRC3 stuff, so it may well be more useful in that there are two, but it may not necessarily be more than that, Iâm guessing it could be possible ⌠but keep this in mind each track has its own SRC3, so what LEDS should it show ? I wouldnât take it as a given that it will be any more functional than present (besides being both channels rather than summed)
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You hit the nail on the head. Since SRC3 is configurable, you can basically monitor anything with the leds. IMO this, while being a bit more error prone, is ideal, akin to a PFL meter-style checking with a mixer.
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Seems to me itâs both an engineering and a product decision whether to fork the codes, or to detect the hardware and have two in one (like on the A4 and AK). If the internals diverge too far or you are trying to keep code size down, or for various other reasons, engineering could decide to fork. (With the product team usually having veto power over engineering.)
[Some companies could also decide, on a marketing basis to have a Mk I and Mk II software features diverging to drive sales. I am fairly certain Elektron is not that sort of company. I would have loved to have been a âfly on the wallâ listening in on the meetings during the concept design phase of the Mk II. The Overbridge vs No-Overbridge question certainly got some discussion.]
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It should be noted that them saying both boxes have the same firmware/OS doesnât mean that there wonât be updates.
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Exactly 
And btw cond trigs on OT mk2 is not something that has been publicly denied, to my knowledge 
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Yep, the confirmed info so far only says itâs possible to open MkI projects. Nothing has been stated about whether MkII projects will be able to be opened on an OT MkIâŚ
And noone from Elektron has explicitly said that the processor brings the same limitations as the old one. My guess is thereâs headroom for stuff like conditional trigs and theyâre paying attention to see how important it is to people. And the answer is: very! Their decision could influence me to buy my first OT. Should they fork the OS and add conditional trigs to MkII (assuming itâs not possible for MkI)? Yes, definitely. As someone fairly new to Elektron, I say bring it on! Oh, and for the sake of convenience (and my budget), it would be awesome to find out in the next month or two.
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My Octratrack is the only machine I have that it happens to hang from time to time (days), I wonât bother to travel with an extra unit.
âhangâ in the sense of âcrashâ?
Exactly, sounds keep coming thru, but the interface gets frozen till restart.
Frightening!
Have you contacted support?
ok, try rolling back to 1.25E?
that OS version has been perfectly stable for me during the past two years or so.
i gig all the time with it.
and now i remember booting up 1.25F when it came out and getting freezes/crashes, which is why i stayed on 1.25E.
i didnât even try the subsequent updates, as the bugfixes were for problems i never encountered on 1.25E.
weird.
let me know if you would need the .bin file for the E.
Iâm in 1.25D
I have the E, thanks for the tip, I´ll give it a try!
Nope, hangs are too isolated, like the machine can go great for months.
This might have just sold me (as a new OT user) on getting the MKII.
Great explanation of the workflow implications of the added buttons.
Replying to myself in case anyone else cared. Per Elektron, the card reader on the MK2 is different but has the same pins (Iâm a bit confused as to what that means, but whatever). The rep mentioned that they only see a few bent pins on the CF reader per year and that the repair is only 30 minutes of labor and a few dollars worth of parts.
That doesnât exactly line up with the horror stories Iâve read, but if they have it down to a 30 minute quick fix, all the better.
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In the new row of five menu buttons, three out of five buttons make a lot of sense to me and two of those would likely speed up my workflow: AED (in the studio) and PART (in live situations). MIX is completely justified, but old news.
As to the other two new ones: I donât switch to ARR and back that much, although the new button obviously makes that easier, and there certainly are applications for quick switches between normal playback and the arranger mode if you are into pre-sequencing phrases or transitioning between arranged songs.
On the MKI, i feel that the âProjectâ (now PROJ) button was perfectly fine when sub-functioned under the MKI âMixerâ button, as I donât access it all the time.
I think the new buttons will help with the workflow, in a solid, non-confusing way, make the machine more accessible to new users.
Even if the new buttons might seem a bit underwhelming to MKI users, at least that means we can keep our MKIs without pangs of jealousy for now.
If asked, what would I have done differently? Possibly make the five buttons a direct access to the TRIG MODES, instead of having to scroll with the FUNC + Arrow button combo. Or make them track-assignable FX SEND buttons. But those are on-the-fly and very user-specific ideas, of course.
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Someone from Elektron mentioned on here a while back that they had an improved repair procedure for CF problems, so itâs definitely something that have addressed since the horror story(ies) from a few years ago.
Thanks for getting (and posting) the information.
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