I often hear ‘No’ on behalf of Elektron, but has anyone taken the time to ask Elektron what Elektron wants to say?.. I’ve always found Elektron radically creative and engaging whenever we’ve met up anywhere in my travels, always willing to share great tips and shed light on future endeavors so why don’t we just ask?
Elektron, it’s your friend Captain Vertical Möbius and I have a question, will you be releasing a Digitakt Mk2 in the near future?
elektron: [ small swedish voice ] nej.
Where?
wild guess from my side, elektron knows what they are doing
At last a clever marketing plan from Elektron! Smart and spicy…
Because Elektronauts would crash and Elektron employees won’t be able to have their daily read and laugh.
The dude in the alley also says the Digitakt is discontinued. He’s also not wearing any pants, so I don’t know how reliable of a source he is.
I would totally return it. You can always buy it again if it turns out the speculations were all wrong, but if they’re right, the second hand market will be literally flooded with Digitakts soon.
This is the popular response but let’s be honest, despite how much we love the Digitakt, if there’s a choice between buying it all full price vs at a discount, surely we’d all pick the discount.
From what I’ve seen on here i doubt anything they could say would stop rampant speculation. And they’ve kept their mouths shut in similar situations before. Eventually, when enough wednesdays pass without gear announcements, the speculation calms down.
If memory serves me, the Octa mk1 was discounted for a while, then discontinued, and then they popped a new product.
If they’re dropping a new dt2 they’re not doing it for a while. They’re not going to risk retailers sitting around with large unsold stock of dt1:s
What would you do? Return it and sit on the money longing for dt2 to drop? Could be years
Yeah this is the popular response because there’s zero gamble here. You know the outcome of this one. It’s the exact thing you wanted and bought, and kept for 28 days
… is that they are missing the SuperSaw!! But if I were a betting man, I would say next device or software update would be support granular or wavetables?
But… what I would be mindblown with is an physically modelling acoustic machine!
I think you might be overestimating the reach of Elektronauts and some other niche forums/social media channels. It would be ridiculous if Elektron or Thomann responded to these wild speculations.
Also: some might take that as a confirmation that there’s something to the rumors, pick apart the exact words for weeks to search and eventually find hints at DT MK II and on and on …
From my point of view, the zero gamble option here is to return it and give it a month or two before either recommiting or possibly buying the mk2. Only loss is a month or two without the Digitakt, @Otisbeans decides how long they are willing to wait. In the meantime, the price of the OG Digitakt will hardly go up, more likely it will go down, especially in the used market. And there will always be some remnant stock to purchase the Digitakt new if you really want to. For what we know, maybe it’s just a glitch and the Digitakt will go back in stock again in a few weeks. 
My point with countering the popular opinion to keep the newly bought Digitakt is that there isn’t an obvious right or wrong here. It really depends on who you are. If you’ll spend the next month in threads like this worrying about when your newly bought Digitakt will lose some of its perceived value because an mk2 with stereo sampling support, 12 tracks, an analog FX block, paraphony and granular synthesis for just 200 EUR more than your recent OG Digitakt purchase, then you are unlikely to make much music with it anyway so waiting a month or two before recommitting shouldn’t be a big deal.
If I had personally dropped ~1000 on a brand new instrument, I’d feel quite bummed if an mk2 was announced the month after. If I had bought it used at a great price, it would obviously be a different story.
Just my two cents.
At this point they only need to throttle the forum traffic, to make us nervous, and speculate more, the greatest fear is the unknown.
It probably did, knowing Elektronauts.
There’s no time to make music when there’s fresh new speculation to be had!
I wouldn’t put too much into that one statement that its time for the Digitakt.
Things happened before: Digitakt EOL? - #7 by LaKriz
And that’s why I don’t really understand the DT is “suddenly” sold out, including e25 editions.
Just sell these for a lower price. Or they might think that everyone will return their €800,- DT when the MK2 will be released….
Today? It’s Wednesday right? 
2 days ago I visited Thomann to see Digitakt page and It said that It’s in stock but only Will be available in 4-5 weeks. I think there is something happening with production/restock from part of Elektron. Well, and in official Page of Elektron, Digitakt was unavailable for 4 weeks more less.
