There was a new FW released late-ish last year that fixes the glaring issues I believe.
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I say go for it. Its only like a 500$ upgrade if you sell the rytm.
Not like youāre gonna lose money reselling the MD if it isnāt your thing and wanna go back
(but you probably wonāt)
They will have to peel the MD from my cold dead hands. I am still discovering crazy over a decade after I first turned it on. And its been on almost everything I have recorded in that time.
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in a fevered lunatic moment, being angry over fucked up midi control, i thought iād swap it for an AR.
not gonna happen.
I wish theyād make a new one. Iād definitely buy it. The old ones are getting hard to come by.
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This type of thread is obsolete.
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my original question was real. maybe not best phrased. what i meant was something i actually mentioned: is it left alone, unsupported, no OS upgrade ever again like Nord Modular?
iām aware nobody can realistically answer this question, but some people have deeper insight here than me.
but i see you wonāt get much data from people stating how they love their gear. what about a cat?
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Itās extremely unlikely that there will ever be an official software update for the MD. It has been a discontinued product for a while now. There are also bugs in the Monomachine OS that most of us have given up hope will ever be fixed.
I think you would probably have received different responses if you had used ādiscontinuedā and/or āunsupportedā rather than āobsoleteā. 
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Sweet!
Here, let me help you :
(Please excuse my tone. I tend to get a bit grumpy when i see new threads asking things that have been discussed many times before and/or are easily found with a search.)
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Iād love to see some (all?) of the synthesis machines in a Digitakt form factor and with the modern Elektron sequencer. I loved the sound of my old MD but I use conditional trigs so much in the way I build patterns and rhythms.
Thereās still a part of me that hankers after a non-UW MD again but I know the relative limitations of the sequencer would frustrate me after a while.
Although it arguably doesnāt sound quite as good, I have more fun with ARā¦
yeah, triggered some trigs here. it was a moment of cry out.
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MD is particularly sacrosanct round these parts. (Edit: justifiably imo)
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thanks.
i know it might be confusing to see multiple threads for the same thing if you wanted to find useful info.
so Iām fine to have this thread deleted. @PeterHanes @LyingDalai ?
You can use conditional trigs on the Machinedrum if you have a Megacommand at hand ^^
Anyone whoās begging for updates or improvements to the MD should definitely look into it
Other than that, this year is 20-year anniversary of the MD, who knows what elektron has in itās sleeveā¦
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On the flip side, Iāve never even tried MD before but I still enjoyed reading the thread 
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Yeah I have taken to controlling the MD from my Octatrack, pairing 2 OT midi channels, one to control the machine trigs the other to control the various machine params I want to P-Lock.
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I have wanted a Megacommand for a while, but since there dont seem to be any commercially, and the group buys are usually European or full super quick, I just move on. and then every 3 months I reminded I want one again.
obsolescence of music technology is an interesting consideration, at a surface level i canāt think of any individual device that can be labelled obsolete.
As long as it powers on and makes/affects a sound, someone somewhere is gonna get some use out of it.
arguably (outside of emulation) this is more relevant for software than hardware.
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