What's next for Elektron? (Part 1)

[Elle.P]

An analog synth box with the same dimensions & workflow as the Digitone / Digitakt

[mfk]

I would call it “syntakt” - And add 8 digital voices to the 4 analog voices. Maybe a master fx-track.

[Gral_Kerkila]

That sounds like an amazing device!

[Elle.P]

True, I was thinking of something soley focussed on analog with greater polyphony etc

[mfk]

That would be great! Maybe the problem with the waste heat needs to be solved first.
Syntakt is already getting very hot.

[Sjozef]

What do you think will be next?

1. DN II: new hardware platform as in DTII, 8 bars, 8 tracks, 16 or 32 voices, 3xLFO, maybe some more effects, kits and plenty of updates in the future, including new algorithm and machines

2. AR III: updated hardware platform, 8 bars, 12 analog tracks/8 analog voices + 4 digital tracks in the style of Syntakt, 3xLFO

[Leonsarmiento]

What year is this, Doc?

[shigginpit]

e25 mechanical watches. looks nice but only 1 LFO.

[Gral_Kerkila]

I would buy this

[androsphere]

A logical step since changing the number of retrigs on hourly clocktower bells was the first plock

[whikidazz]

Will it come with a battery or plug in only?

[shigginpit]

self winding, that’s what the lfo is for.

[Tchu]

@shigginpit

e25 mechanical watches

Yes but is e25 hardware mechanical watch like mechanical watches now?

Are music hardware like mechanical watches now?

Way back when, watches used to be mechanical because there simply didn’t exist a technology that was portable and rugged enough to be carried around. Eventually, with the advent of digital watches and now smartwatches and phones, there is no practical reasons outside of very niche circumstances to use a mechanical watch (and for status reasons). So now watches are split into many markets, the two relevant ones to this discussion being digital and mechanical. And even within the mechanical watch …

[shigginpit]

It’s actually a mechanical smart watch but it’s modeled after the Turing machine so all it can do is crack the enigma code (which I hear is helpful in understanding the Euclidean sequencer on rytm).

[Oberheim]

is this gonna be a running meme now?

[pidgeo]

is it just me or have the frequency of elektrons os updates slowed down in recent years?

not a criticism at all, just an observation. seems like they used to update their machines more often, tho I could be totally wrong
maybe their frequency hasn’t changed, n if it has I’m sure there’s valid reason for it. maybe it’s me… maybe I’ve changed

[shigginpit]

I honestly think it’s because there are less bugs (although some prominent ones force the perspective that there are more). It seemed like the older updates were a lot of bug fixes and a few minor QOL things. The few major updates in recent-ish time have made some major improvements so they probably did take longer, and other than a few choice bugs with dtII there doesn’t seem to be anything crippling any of the other devices. Probably see a focus on dtII fixes for a while, hopefully in time see some other cool stuff trickling down to other boxes when it calms down. Who knows though really.

[pidgeo]

good points indeed SP

[JCinvisible]

A4 firmware update please!

[shigginpit]