I grew up making music on the Electribe EMX/ESX/Command Stations/RM1x, and it seems like every modern groovebox regressed back to 4 bars because of the techno music resurgence… Yeah, you barely need more than 2 bars to make most techno music, but for other genres it really makes it a pain in the ass to chain patterns together… Am I crazy? Do any of you non-techno/ableton live, hardware producers miss being able to use 8 bars? are the big names catering to techno music? Almost all hip hop/pop and other genres have moved to DAW only from groovebox, or just use their old MPC…
The old electribes had 4 bars, then we got 8 bars, and now the new trash electribes are back to 4 bars, and have LED’s all over them… It seems the industry things we only want grooveboxes to make techno music, live, in clubs, wearing black shirts, to a bunch of 28 year old guys, not even dancing, just staring at us, nodding their heads, pretending that we are not chaining our 4 bar patterns for 24 minutes til we start DJ’ing again…
Edit: I am not shitting on Elektron, I own and love a digitone, I have owned several other Elektron machines in the past, OT and Machinedrum( I was less into these but not because of the 4 bar problem)