Tonverk speculations

[Amandino]

@dzyndzel

I don’t agree that Teenage Engineering has instruments in the same class as Elektron. By and large they target either entry level or boutique audiences; or non-instruments altogether. Elektron is spread over what most would consider entry level, mid range, and high end instruments.

Entry level:
Pocket operators: 79/99 euros
Elektron: ???

mid range:
KO II: 349 euros
Model:samples/Cycles: 299/350 euros

high end:
Analog rytm mk2: 1849 euros
OP-1 Field: 1999 euros

@christianlukegates

No, those read as a series of questions that Ess answered very noncommittally, and was clearly being careful not to suggest that anything can or will be added/updated, even if those suggested updates may be deemed desirable.

Im sure a fully formed instrument would have its maker talking about adding features that he deems “needed”… makes perfect sense

@dzyndzel

Teenage Engineering is communicating about unreleased KOII features they are planning to add? Because I don’t see it.

@te-david

@handed

Any possibility of resampling or recording while the sequencer is playing? These are the main reasons I haven’t ordered one so far.

not at the moment. the hardware is obviously not an octa-core snapdragon, but it would be great, agree, time will tell.

@te-david

@SonWu

Any word on resampling?

its by far the biggest feature-request

@te-david

about filter per sample, doable but would be cpu-bound, i.e. would eat voices. ps. the cpu is an ARM M4+ running at 150MHz.

@te-david

@Toshiko

@te-david Do you know if the single FX slot is a hardware limitation ? Would it be possible to add more ?

its cpu bound, no technical limitation. since the UI today has one fx slot, with 4 aux-sends (from the groups), is a bit like having a single pedal outside. so for now it’s a single FX slot.

@te-david

re-sampling is totally doable with the hardware. its on our long-term list, it needs a careful design and we don’t want to rush it. the focus right now is polish and stability based on user-feedback

@te-david

hey, yes, the plan is to support importing “sustain loops” from the .wav header in the ep sample tool

so basically if they’re present, holding down the key would stay in the loop-section until released. no ETA for this but its on many peoples wish-list

@te-david

thanks @djadonis206
resampling will happen, solves many things like baking lpf/hpf filter + fx into a new sample. also looking at some other creative ways to use the resample feature. stay tuned

Talking about sample looping feature:

@te-david

agree that its needed! we’re experimenting where to fit it ui-wise

@te-david

in the transfer tool, we’ve talked about allowing samples to be stored in lower sample/bit-rates. you can always speed-up on your desktop and then slow down in the EP

since you want different play-modes + loop off/on/rev etc. you end up with too many options with our limited knob-space. but a fun ‘hack’ could be to simply let you name the samples [loop-rev] [loop-ping-pong] and it would respect that