This thread
NEEDS
MORE
OUTRAGE
!!!
4 Likes
Just power it with a powerbank!
1 Like
Iām very mad
1 Like
The battery port works perfectly.
1 Like
People just want to gripe, they donāt want their problems to go away, hence trolling.
I reckon they made the pads so hard to account for all the rage drumming from disgruntled owners.
11 Likes
"Unfortunately, we had to recall the BP-1 power handle. Under certain circumstances, the Power Handle BP-1 can cause a short circuit, potentially posing a burn and/or fire hazard to consumers. You can read more about it here: https://bp1-support.elektron.se/ and here: https://www.elektron.se/se/bp1-recall
I canāt recommend powering it with anything else except the original power supply. PSU-4/b.
Best regards,
Christian"
I trust the official Elektron support on that one. It does probably work fine, but I am not sure the insurance of the product will be valid if I use a 3rd party power battery and a 3rd party cable.
If the battery port was defective the entire product would be recalled for safety reasons. There is no wiggle room there, synth manufacturers do not provide warrantied recommendations for any and every alternate power source.
One accessory was not financially viable to redesign. Thatās the extent of it.
There have been no customer complaints from using it so portably in the history of the product (beyond specific cables failing and the initial accessory being recalled ), there is no need to invent new complaints that have not been reported, seen in the design, or that the manufacturer is concerned with.
Thereās more than enough disappointment out there in the world, Iām very happy to bring my M:C with me around the world, taking it to the park and sequencing in the sun with ducks milling around me.
Opinions and experience are one thing, if youāre disappointed thatās fine!
Saying that the device ācanāt be portableā is contrary to the basic lives experience that most heavy users have. I cant think of a better device for a portable gig! Iād be afraid of my Pocket Operators getting smashed, I suppose i could check out a M8 butā¦
Again, disappointment is not something iām here to argue with, and i have a few gripes that i would like to see resolved and will be emailing about one now that iām reminded.
But speaking overbroadly and making declarative statements about how everyone sees this as a un-useable failure, how nobody can use it portably, how itās a stain on Elektronās record, how the ābuild qualityā is poor because a button panel on launch needed to be replaced, thatās unnecessary drama.
4 Likes
It is nice of you to share your experience of portable M:C.
I, for myself, will stick to the official answer and not try my luck with 3rd party solutions. But it is nice to know it can work with āDIYā battery+cable combo.
(I do not believe customers would be in their right to complain about using it portably with a 3rd party battery if Elektron stated that only the Power Handle was officially supported with the instrument anyways.)
1 Like
Sure, I am not telling you how you feel most comfortable. I would suggest you look into what the defect was though, it was not with the port itself!
Prior to the handleās initial release, users had been using batteries with the devices and have still observed no, and while even quality dc-ac cables may fail out (Iāve had to replace one 5v) so long as youāre using the exact voltage required this is not a likely risk of damaging your device.
Manufacturers of embedded computing devices are rarely going to suggest a broader set of power adapters because thereās just so many crapware PSU makers in a time of Amazon, they cannot broadly suggest what they havenāt certified for that reason.
Itās a lot easier to more broadly endorse ā9v center negativeā adapters when you are talking about analog devices that will get noisy at worst.
But again, there is what someone is most comfortable and wants official confirmation for (oneās own discretion) and thereās declaratory statements about failure and speaking for the masses somehow which isnāt reflected here among a subset of Elektron power users or the broad internet. The latter is where things can go off the deep end.
2 Likes
As a recent purchaser of a Model Cycles I agree with this summary.
It feels like a complete device and there isnāt much incentive to do more firmware updates when itās only going to eat into Syntakt or Digitakt sales to do so.
I do think itās reasonably likely and sensible that they might do an updated version with better pads and the power handle ports removed (and perhaps a built in rechargeable) maybe with a slightly better screen etc as a version 2 hardware revision. This would be similar to what they have done with the V2s of the big units as I understand it.
I donāt eat by elektron so I need an update 
I really love the screen, I do not really see why and how it could improve. Even the tiny animations are very well made and add to the charm of it all. It is also discrete enough that you forget about it when you are in the groove which is a huge plus for me. What exactly would you change about it?
1 Like
TBH itās fine, but people often complain itās too small (or thatās what Iāve seen) so making it a little bigger, or higher contrast would probably make sense. I mention it because itās what they did with some other devices as I understand it and screen tech moves on all the time so they could probably move up to something better at minimal cost to the BoM.
Geez. Iāve had one for years and like it just fine. I knew what it was capable of when I bought it. I never buy gear hoping itāll do more in a future update (unless the company has made promises, but even thenā¦).
It is a fun standalone device. It is one of the few pieces of gear I have kept in my now minimal setup. It is great for mangling things live and recording that sample for use elsewhere.
7 Likes
I did try.
Bye.
1 Like
It is unsurprising that there is not just one single reason why people form support groups in communities, sometimes to identify and resolve problems, others just to seethe and feel release in emotional resonation.
I do understand the latter, I just wish we had more of the former sometimes 
2 Likes
Wouldnāt it be cool if this thread was abandonware?
15 Likes
Too soon Finn, Iām still too upset
3 Likes
Indeed. To me they feel very rounded and complete, which I understand as something very different than abondoned and left for death. They might have some lesser points like the handle that didnāt pan out and the hard velocity-responsive buttons, but thatās just some downsides like many products have some, nothing that would warrant the āabandonwareā label.
2 Likes