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Did their camper van break down? 
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They just donât want to deal with the possibility of Florian from Bad Gear staging some sort of stunt that they react poorly to
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Any other Tonverk owners here planning to share some friendly feedback with the Elektron folks at superbooth? I got luck with the latest FW update but bunch of folks are losing file data and having all sorts of issues with the SD card
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Surely it would be better to write something detailed in one of the bug report threads here or in an email to Elektron support, rather than deliver a verbal message to a busy booth employee who will talk to hundreds of people over three days�
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its all channels for feedback. Ill say i own the Tonverk and if they ask me how im getting on with it ill say its great but missing ABC features and im looking foward to having them etc
I think this will become very soon a new trend for a lot of companiesâŚ
Another new synth from a Swedish company. ( I am thinking of Auxy as the other. )
The AFOUR from Apaeron ( ApĂŚron ).
It is A4 because of its size.
All we know so far :
⢠44 knobs, with lots of LED rings
⢠instant boot time
⢠27 velocity sensitive keys
⢠4 channels
⢠mod matrix
⢠MIDI
⢠arpeggiator
⢠looper
They are in the Bungalowdorf.
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Shik S32
Thirty two knob MIDI controller with MIDI effects.
The MIDI effects include Harmonizer, Scale Remap , Arpeggiator , Turing Machine , Envelope , Euclidean Sequencer , Looper , Delay , Randomizer, Filters , Mergers , Routers , and more.
Also has optional MIDI-to-CV expansion.
Optionsl CV Expansion
( Thread )
Also in the Bungalowdorf.
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I expanded my techno-adjacent tourism list above and turned it into a Google map. Iâve only briefly checked most of them so caveats apply! If you spot me in any of these locations, come say hallo! Chances are Iâll be the only middle-aged Brit with shoulder length red hair, black jeans and black Converse, so should be easy to spot 
Jim
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Excellent, thanks!
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Youâre welcome Nils
Happy to add to the map if anybody has some top tips!
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Man, if I can ever make a trip to Europe Iâll be sure to accidentally schedule it around a Superbooth visit.
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Checked your location. Europe is indeed far away but at least Japan is pretty awesome for electronic music adjacent activities!
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I canât be at the show, but I tested the app, and it is pretty obvious what is going on:
All existing tubbutec controllers have buttons on the exact same locations, in rows 2 and 3 between faders 2 and 3, and between faders 4 and 5.
That is excactly where you can place buttons in the app, and in that same space you canât place any faders. I would assume the board design allows for knobs instead of faders, because thatâs just a couple of solder joints, but not for buttons, instead of faders or vice versa, because the LEDs are most likely on the board whether you want them or not, itâs just the number and size of the holes in the top plate you can select. That would explain why buttons cost the same, regardless of the number of LEDs you choose in the app.
Still, interesting designs can be done, but you have to work around these limitations.
One idea is a kind of universal controller that uses all possible faders and knobs, and four layers. You can make a front plate design that matches most classic Roland emulations and many other 1 or two oscillator synths, too. You can then program CCs for each specific machine on a different layer.
Since four layers instead of one only adds âŹ9 to the price, thereâs no reason to order less than 4 layers anyway.
It looks like that idea kind of defeats the purpose, but in terms of sustainability, a more universal design has a chance to live longer than a very specific design that for a synth or usecase that one eventually might find a bit boring.
What makes you think that might be a feature? I donât see that mentioned on the web page, and their previous controllers (on which this seems to be based) also donât have that.
The app indicates itâs âjustâ a controller that sends CCs, with slightly more features related to the buttons with multiple LEDs. The one feature that sets it apart MIDI-wise is the ability to send âcustom messagesâ for each control (like sysex, or macros of several CCs).
Because it would be useful, and competitive products do, and there is little downside.
Nice work on the analysis. It prompts other questions for those interested.
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Looks really nice! But isnât a controller like this calling out for those LED ring knobs from the AFOUR (or the ones from APC40 mkII, MIDI Twister, Nord Lead 3, etc. )?
Iâm always surprised more modern synth and MIDI controller designers donât take advantage of those LED ring knobs.
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I was wondering about using the AFOUR and the S32 together.
Theyâre in the same basic location at the show, maybe someone could connect them together and find out. ( Not serious about physically doing this. ) But at least the two used together is something to think about at the show, or even ask about.
Ill just leave this hereâŚ
See you at Superbooth26!
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