New OTO sampler?

golddust · February 15, 2020, 3:06pm

well it does have a question mark

HBIII · February 22, 2021, 6:59am

Any update on this? Im excited to see what is next!

circuitghost · February 22, 2021, 7:27am

I had no idea this was going on. I’ve been on the fence with OTO gear but always backed off.

But an OTO sampler … I know I’d give it a go, at least, probably get one without even bothering finding out the details.

Cornish1999 · March 7, 2021, 10:31am

Revisiting my thread as OP, no updates on Facebook page that I’ve seen recently. Obviously the initially touted timelines have gone, Covid etc would have had a big impact on this.

I’m still on advanced order buy on sight mode for this. Keen to hear if anyone else had head any more news .

Currently managing the situation ITB very well practically which does make me giggle hysterically in that I’ll happily spend decent sums of cash on a hardware box that I can’t get 90% of the way there but hey ho …

Cornish1999 · June 5, 2022, 9:21am

Bumping my own thread

Anyone heard anything?

tendingtropic · June 5, 2022, 9:29am

Nope but will subscribe to this thread. I have all the oto pedals and love them

generalkustard · June 5, 2022, 2:13pm

I emailed Denis a couple of months ago and he said “A new product is planned after the summer but won’t be what people expect from OTO !”

Annihilation_Squares · June 5, 2022, 2:21pm

I don’t think ‘people’ would expect a sampler so maybe we’re still on course?

Not that I need another sampler or have any special desire for Oto to make anything specific. I’ve greatly enjoyed everything they’ve done and would just be excited to see what comes next.

Cornish1999 · June 5, 2022, 2:45pm

Thanks for the info . Will be interesting to see what finally comes out , cheers

generalkustard · June 5, 2022, 2:54pm

Whatever it is I’m going to buy it.

mapmap · June 5, 2022, 5:55pm

From September’21

Hi to all,

Sorry for not giving news more often.
Since a year, like many other companies, we are facing an unprecedented electronic components shortage crisis. We’ve spent a lot of time to find components and ensure that the next batches of BIM-BAM-BOUM could be delivered in a reasonable time. Some of the components we use in our products had a lead time of a year or more.

Beside the production issues, it’s also quite difficult these days to develop new products. Sometimes you can’t buy the components for the prototypes, and sometimes you don’t know if all the components will be available in the next months for the production. This is particularly a problem with the MCUs (a microcontroller that is the heart of our products), memory chips, converters,…

I have some interesting projects under the hood but I have to wait the end of the crisis in 2022 (I hope so…) to finish and release them. So I’ve worked on a smaller and simpler device, almost finished, using no MCU, memory chip nor converter. This will be quite different than the previous OTO products, and might surprise some of our customers.
More news this fall/winter, I hope so.

All the best,

Denis

mokomo · June 5, 2022, 6:08pm

Hopefully the current global instability returns its equilibrium to pre 2016 levels.

And I don’t mean merely for us synth fans - there is a lot more at stake, the struggles of small electronic music manufacturers are just an example.

craig · June 5, 2022, 6:49pm

It might not be a sampler btw. I just read a bunch of posts on Lines from 2020 and the prevailing thought was a harmoniser but bigger, better, and in the same form factor as BAM etc

HBIII · June 6, 2022, 3:40pm

OTO is basically the only company where no matter what it is I would get it. I hope it is a sampler though. I talked with him a while ago about which vintage samplers he liked and he has amazing in depth knowledge of all of them and impeccable taste as well.

elxsound · June 6, 2022, 3:55pm

I understand if you can’t answer due to multiple reasons, but if possible… will BAM, BIM & BOUM continue to be produced through next year?

I have BAM, and I’d love to add BIM next followed by BOUM. I’m hoping not to play the up-sell market if possible but again… I get it if you can’t answer along with all that goes into it.

Otherwise wishing you the best of luck. I love BAM. I took a chance picking it up after watching videos and love this box more than I thought I would.

mapmap · June 6, 2022, 4:11pm

I’m not denis. That was a quote from the OTO forum. Sorry.

elxsound · June 6, 2022, 4:14pm

Well, I’m sure you’ve done something great for some one, so let me say thank you all the same!

And I didn’t realize there was an OTO forum… So thank you for that!

HoldMyBeer · June 6, 2022, 4:35pm

This sounds like something denis would say.

aloud · June 6, 2022, 4:46pm

mokomo · June 6, 2022, 5:03pm

I hope it is a sampler with a biscuit built in, and no sampler.