Oh I need this.
I wonder how much.
It’s being discussed here but having its own thread shouldn’t be an issue
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I wonder how much too much ! 
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I hope it could be also powered by usb-c
It does. It has optional direct power, in case ground loops occur.
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It looks very similar to what you can do with Yaeltex customizable MIDI Controllers.
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This is a really interesting concept. Could definitely see myself getting one of these. Love the form factor.
Looks well built too.
Pretty much looks like that new Novation MIDI controller, which also has DIN MIDI.
Which one?
Don’t know what exactly it’s called, Launch Control MK 3 maybe? You’ll find a thread here. Also has 8 sliders and 24 encoders.
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I think the Drop is slightly different in concept. It is more of an overarching live performance midi tool (although it has studio mode).
I am sure there is some overlap. Now you have me wondering about the amount of overlap.
i’m wondering if it transitions to a new snapshot over time, or if its just ‘swap’ … other controllers can do that with program changes sent to them…
a slow transition over a defined amount of steps could be interesting… a bit like a slow octatrack scene transiiton but with midi. … unfortunately the encoders will all be out of whack but fixing that would likely add another $1000 on motorized dials.
i’m guessing it’ll be $400 upwards… probably 500 or 600 …out of my leage .
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According to the spiel you can:
With Drop, you can now map your MIDI equipment across devices and easily store different controller positions as snapshots. During performance, you can jump back to these snapshots at any time (JUMP mode) and trigger them. All of this can be quantized and with variable fade time, allowing you to use a snapshot for slowly building tension and automatically have multiple controllers move simultaneously.
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Something I never figured out with midi designer pro 2 was how to transition between setups over a tempo syncd amount of time. So this feature sounds good.
My next question is if it can do tables … this would allow , for example , instead of an encoder increasing through the values for delay time , it would only go through the values defined in a table , allowing it to only ever change through tempo syncd values. ( eg on digitakt delay time values it could only ever use tempo syncd values, or I could use them randomly to jump around those values )
I’ll keep an eye on the reports for this device … I hope it’s good.
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Me too. Could be a great partner to Maschine+ to give some nice transition automation without resorting to lock states.
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The retail price will make or break this one. If they get it right, these will sell like hot cakes
I don’t think so, because they’re encoders. The led rings will probably show the change.
I have most of these features home-made into my rig already (with Drambo handling the logic/morphing).
Snapshots/scenes on my setup even work with faders and pots. The way to keep everything WYSIWYG, I press the scene-freeze button, this temporarily disables all the controls. Then move controls as required (no changes heard), then I’ll move the scene x-fader over, and you’ll hear everything morphing into the new position.
Afterwards all the pots/faders are in the correct position again. Works pretty well! Can also set the x-faders slew time so it moves over slowly by itself.
This Drop looks very interesting. I hope it’s built to last and not too expensive!
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Neuzeit Instruments tell us that it’ll be priced at €799 and available in late summer.
I hope it will be able to slide from current values to snapshot over chosen steps/bars length. Also have some curves to choose from for the slide.
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799 is a bit thick for a controller but sounds about what faderfox products cost? So kind of lines up with expectations, if we assume a good build q