In Elektron’s product shots and most videos I’ve seen of the Octatrack MKII, the LEDs appear orange and green, but in a few videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO6wH71bcVY) they are red.
Are there units out there with variation in colors, did it change with OS version, or is it the camera? I’m pretty sure the LEDs are full spectrum RGB.
If you mean like the page buttons they are multi colour, although - and this is somewhat of a gripe - when changing page they are only red with the selected page being ever so slightly brighter red, I’d prefer the active page to be green and the others to be yellow, with the page being editited red, or at least some other more clear distinction between pages.
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I’m referring to the sequencer button LEDs. In the official photos from Elektron, they’re decidedly orange for active trigs in record mode. But in some photos and videos I’ve seen they appear very red.
@darenager I completely agree with you about the page button lights, though. Difficult to distinguish the active page with only slightly brighter LED.
They’re multi colored LEDs.
The red used for trigs, scene buttons , track buttons, parameter pages, and the record buttons is a very bright, but definitely red, red.
It is the same shade of red as the red page scale LEDs.
It just looks more orange in photos and videos (just confirmed with my iPhone camera)
Thanks for clarifying @AdamJay. Different cameras must capture the hue differently.
It would be cool if the OS allowed customization since the LEDs are RGB now.
I think it is because the LEDs are so bright that with the darker black part of the buttons and the grey chassis, it throws off the white point and exposure.
Bright red is a difficult color for digital sensors to translate.
Anyone found a good workaround for figuring out what trig page you’re on? I just can’t tell which page is selected unless I switch through them and hopefully notice which LED becomes that tiny bit brighter… I really wish they’d fix it (+1)
Nope, and it really would be nice if it was easier.
A Contrast enhancement filter. Used in Astronomy. That would certainly seperate the red colours.
Color choice on MK2 is very unfortunate. Given the fact the led’s are rgb, better choice of colors and not limiting colors to green, red, yellow would be more than welcome…
FYI anyone interested I find that holding regular white printer paper over the LEDs really does enhance the contrast (further dims the dimmed LEDs) and I’m considering putting a sticky label on there…
…but I’m also considering selling the OT in the near future so not sure I want to cause any sticky marks