What's next for Elektron? (Part 1)

[DavidL]

@djst

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

This is actually a solid point. But i do think it boils down to roughly the same thing, how comfortable are you with what you’ve just purchased? Maybe not so much if you’re that nervous about potentially losing out. Yes i’d be bummed too, but i would still get what i wanted and can be reasonably comfortable with that

[reeloy]

…rumour has it…

might be a way more suitable title for all this…
how gossip shapes all narrative, is as spooky as it’s funny…tribal thinking patterns, never get old.

[Gral_Kerkila]

yeah, maybe [RUMORS & SPECULATION] needs to be added to the title, but leave whats next for elektron, since it’s been like that for a long time.

[reeloy]

…sure…was no real suggestion…no even a speculation…just some random thought about where it’s at, outside the gossip box…

[Vague_versatile]

@djst

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.

Personally, I knew that something new was ongoing from Cuckoo’s leak but I still bought the e25 edition (because I sold the OG few months ago and missed it). The DT has a clear purpose in my setup which is to have a simple sampler/sequencer for drums purposes connected in Ableton with OB. It is really efficient for that and if a mkii would be announced I wouldn’t really care because I like the focus of this machine. Moreover, I think a mkii would mostly have cosmetic changes (white screen for instance) as it was the case for previous Elektron mkii versions.

The new machine I am interested in is more the real new one that was mentioned earlier, so not really a replacement for the DT, that is perfectly efficient for what it has been designed for. That’s why I didn’t buy an OT yet as I think this will be more on that territory

[Billy1992]

As I said it was a joke, even it if would be a dream for a lot of Syntakt’s owners, I think it would make no sense from a business point of view (why selling just one box instead of two ?).

But technically, I don’t think this is totally stupid. I don’t have any ideas of the cpu processing needed to run Syntakt’s digital machines and Digitakt’s sampling machines but maybe it’s not so different and in this case, it wouln’t require more ram and cpu power on the Syntakt because you just swap a synth machine for a sampling machine but you wouldn’t add new voice in fact.

Once again, this is just wild pure speculating but I would be curious to know what requires the most processing power between a Digitakt sample playback machine and a Syntakt digital synth machine.

[alfiedotwtf]

Everyone keeps talking about the Cuckoo leak, but I can’t find a link. Anyone?

[Udoyothing]

What's next for Elektron?

Was being discussed in the unofficial Discord: [image] Since I have no idea what the context is, I would take it with a grain of salt. I didn’t see any discussion here in Elektronauts so figured I would ask if someone else watched this stream and interpreted whatever was said in the same way. Of course @cuckoomusic could also just dispel it here and now.

I WANT TO BELIEVE

[selvi]

I don’t want to argue further about this.

[m13wo]

They are probably now giggling in their office.

[Billy1992]

Thank you, I didn’t know those elements.

[selvi]

It may still be the case that it would be possible from the old hardware. Or not.

[RobertSyrett]

wow, this thread is 100% freak out. I love it.

[Gral_Kerkila]

I’m not sure where I read this, but isn’t the Digitakt a mono core processor and then Digitone and Syntakt use a dual core of the similar kind?
Also I remember that the Syntakt has 1GB of integrated flash (at least it said so in the manual when it was released - could have been a typo), which does not make sense in any other way than the SOC is sold as is and you can not pick and choose parts. But I’m not sure the Digitone also has the 1GB, could not find any source pointing to this.

EDIT: here is the thread which I actually started, lol Syntakt +drive - Elektron Gear / Syntakt - Elektronauts

[Acidizer]

Makes sense for them to fold the OT and DT into one new product.

OT was from a different era. Makes sense to let it rest.

I wonder though if we will get two flavours, one flagship and one more mid budget.

[selvi]

Hey Elektron, surprise us!

[Gral_Kerkila]

Based on all this speculation, If they do discontinue and add Digitakt machines into Syntakt, I won’t be mad at all… and I would still not sell my Digitakt, even though I have both.

It might piss of people who only have the Digitakt and were deciding between that and the Syntakt for sure.

[Udoyothing]

That would probably make me buy a second syntakt tbh

[Speldosa]

@your_lamp

There’s really no benefit for Elektron to comment publicly about their product roadmap, or what might be on the way and what might be discontinued soon. It could only hurt their sales and create unnecessary outside pressure/expectations. If they really are working on something new, their best bet is to keep it a secret and stay focused to get the actual work done — there’s always time for publicity later.

Is this necessarily true? For example, in the movie and gaming business, there’s almost never a project that just appears one day. The hype train for GTA 6 has already begun, and it’s not even releasing this year. And let’s not even talk about Duke Nukem Forever

I’m not saying that it’s necessarily wrong to keep upcoming products a secret, but why is it necessarily right?

[JCinvisible]

For $2000