Best way (appart from contacting Elektron support) is to use the Overbridge section of Elektronauts. There’s a lot of questions and answers over there.
You sound like you have some insider info… i hope you are right. I’m very tired of this, but I choose to believe you. Cheers
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No insider info whatsoever. But the way marketing, product presentation, music busisness and almost everything in that nature works today is trough massive PR and online campaigns. They will not miss the oportunity to present their “award wining” and one of a kind software as best they can.
NAMM 2015 - Overbridge demoed for the first time
NAMM 2016 - Major update to Overbridge OS
NAMM 2018 - Overbridge 2.0 - Missed!
Now, they are waiting for the next big event to unveil it and that is Suporbooth…or who knows…NAMM 2019.
But my guess is, its done and waiting on the shelf.
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Though I continue to be hopeful, and your logic is fairly sound, if Elektron is indeed sitting on this that is very disturbing. I see no reason they couldn’t release it now and still make a big deal of it at superbooth. All those who need/want it now are aware of its existence and all those yet to be informed of the existence of OB can learn at Superbooth. I see no gain for them to upset their current customers like this if they didn’t need to
Status update on a status update anybody? Been two months since last one. I don’t think Elektron has much to lose at this point putting forth some kind of timetable nobody expects them to meet.
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The customers are already upset and we don’t really know if it’s finished and on their shelf. So nothing to win either. By waiting a few more weeks until Superbooth they get at least their fine share of headlines there.
And more time for beta testing / fine tuning.
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As an octatrack owner why does a thread about overbridge worry you when it’s not a feature of the octatrack?
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Unless Elektron have been sitting around playing donkey king or lookin at porn or day, this OB project must be sucking their resources and profits dry.
Ridiculously overdue and still no eta?
Pretty scary and you would think they would have to be now questioning the direction they’ve chosen
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I agree. It was a bold departure from their reputation as a “step away from the computer” company. At least that is what I always heard about them.
On top of that, I’ve pondered often how much resources it will take them to keep OB current and functional on both Mac and PC, especially when Mac releasing a new OS almost yearly, not to mention compatibility with different DAWs.
Their only way of making money off of it at this point (unless they welch on the “free” aspect down the road) is selling hardware, and I often wonder how much their actions lately in terms of silence and accusations of false advertising are effecting those sales/returns.
My guess is there’s something that is extremely difficult to make work that they didn’t expect…
And everybody is like “we want it!” and they’re like “sh*t we can’t make it work”… 
Or least they’re like “Ohhhhh, this is going to take a lot longer than we told em…”
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My prediction is that once working and stable, and is a viable product they will bring back the pricing schedule like they originally planned for future products.
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You rabble rouser! 
that was a good move, it’s like playing chess…
You got us in check right now, we’ll have to think about our next move…
They can’t be affecting sales too much, Simon said this morning the digitakt has sold more units in a year than the octatrack has since its release.
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Ahem, you’re missing the potential for in-OB purchases!
Wow, that is kind of sad - No doubt the Digitakt is a nice machine, but it really isn’t in the same league as the mighty Octatrack, and it suggests that most customers want simpler cut down devices than game changing innovative machines. I hope that it doesn’t mean that we will see no more bigger and more powerful machines in favour of these small format simpler machines.
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I am one of those people that only has DT and nothing else. For me is was purely a matter of cost opportunity. If I had the money I would have started with an A4 long ago and probably went down the OT path.
So I’m betting there are probably a lot of other similar cases out there, where it’s not JUST the DT being a simpler machine but also a more affordable one.
At first I was going to say maybe the DT is a less-intimidating gateway drug of sorts to get into other Elektron equipment, and that could be a good thing for the more advanced/innovative stuff, but as I think about it more, the DT might actually be a detriment to the OT in the sense that a lot of people will probably find it hard to justify adding or upgrading to the OT when they can do a lot of things “good enough” on the DT.
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Rewriting a driver from scratch is quite an undertaking.
And I imagine they’d rather it come out fully baked, and not like the original OB, considering the apparently massive size of the DT owner group. Less of a headache, probably, than dealing with a mountain of support inquiries for DT in the event of an OB release only as good as the previous.
We have a saying at work. Make it nice, or do it twice.
This is them doing it twice.
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One could imagine that, thanks to the economies of scale and cumulative profits, selling more (relatively) simpler machines would help fund the development of more advanced products.
Apple does this with iPhones --> iMacs.
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I was in engineering and construction for over 20 years, heavily involved with project management and we had a saying
‘deliver on time and budget or get the fuck out’
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