Guys! I’m new here, glad to see this platform keeps me up-to-date about the freaking great machines.
I would like to know when Electron has scheduled their Overbridge update for the analog series. Stated on the official website, the update was planned for Q4 2014. Anyone who can give me a better estimation?
http://www.elektron.se/news/announcing-overbridge-computer-integration-for-analog
Cheers
public beta soonish after namm, hopefully http://www.elektron.se/news/state-of-overbridge
I think in another post, one of the guys of Elektron sayd something about the end of January or begining of February. He sayd they where working on it and that it has to be delayed, I guess the want to have it well finished 
Looking forward to see what come up at Namm this weekend…
Thanks guys for the info. Really looking forward to this great update.
Funny, check this fb post by elektron:
Sweet looks like this is finally happening.
One thing in the press release of last year i’m curious about:
“Overbridge even allows the analog machines to be used as multi-channel usb audio interfaces”
What to they mean by that? The external input?
and if we use multiple instances… what to do with a daw that can only handle one sound card?
Yeah Itll mean that that the external inputs are available inputs in the daw.
And you need to create an aggregate audio device on mac (I believe, am not a mac user) or use asio4all on pc (which despite some peoples negativity towards it ive had great results using, with a tr-8, a usb line mixer and an audio interface all running at different samplerates).
^^ All assumption mind you!
From what I understand with Overbridge you can get your AR/A4/AK to behave in either two ways, or modes, with your computer.
Mode 1: Like a sound card.
On a PC I expect it’s gonna be ASIO drivers and pretty standard behavior with separate inputs for each channel. Probably the same on a Mac but with whatever those drivers are called.
This mode is cool and all but there’s a drawback on the PC/Win/ASIO platform since you can’t use multiple soundcards at the same time in a DAW. So you have to switch back and forth your regular sound card and your Overbrige Elektron box(es) for recording. (There is this software called ASIO4All that creates a virtual sound card that some use and love but I havn’t myself ever got it to be stable and practical in low latency settings.)
Mode 2: A multi-channel plug-in
So it behaves in your DAW like a instrument plugin with multiple outputs. You use your regular sound card with your DAW and the audio is coming via the plugin into your DAW audio routing just like a regular virtual instrument.
So for us on the PC/Win/ASIO platform the mode 2 is the savior making it possible to use our regular sound card and at the same time get all channels from our AR/A4/AK into our DAW.
Disclaimer: Oh yeah, I’m also making wild assumptions here regarding the details but the two modes is something that is confirmed.
Ahh… The future is so bright I have to use shades… 
exciting news, OB is finally coming. its fascinating u can get rid of all the cables.
however, I dont see yet how it will compare to access total integration (virus TI).
the total recall mode interests me as I hope there will be software patchmanagers for musicians that dont want to use a computer for live gigs or studio work and still benefit from OB.
also interesting if u can run AR vsti and still use ARs midi in as clock source. with expert sleeper usamo it finally becomes cheap to get a tight midi clock out of a computer.
oh yeah…
