love the old stuff, and particularly the old form factor of mk1 and silver boxes
i think ST is also great, and the updated digi boxes are powerhouses
all companies have cycles and evolve over time, for better or worse (i’ll leave that up to your opinion) i think Elektron has massively grown their userbase with the smaller more affordable devices
i look forward to the future, fwiw the leaked prototype tonverk looked different enough from what they have now that i think it will satisfy most of us that want something new from elektron
Aren’t the silver boxes the same size as MK1 A4 and AR? Besides, they made the MK2 versions of these bigger than any of their previous machines and gave each track/voice individual outs. So now we have the choice if we want to own a bigger, more expensive box with a few more controls or smaller ones (digis, models). Isn’t that the best of both worlds?
None of the Elektron boxes feel like market research products to me. Being able to produce more of them cheaper and thus sell more sure must have been on their mind. But I think each and every digi clearly has a vision what a compact and focussed Elektron box with one sound generation technique at its heart might look like. And then they pushed that to the extreme with updates and now the II’s. They might offer a bit too much for their size now, so I think it would be great if they focused on the digis but offered them in a smaller format like the current one and a bigger “pro” version in the A4/AR MK II format.
You’d also have to consider that there’s a lot let space for studios these days and rent has risen increasingly for decades, so many of us are happy to have smaller boxes they can build a versatile home studio with.
If you push me to think about anything more wild that Elektron could do, I’d say they could include more interesting FX like Chase Bliss stuff and give the boxes a few more performance controls like an OT fader to play with that stuff. And allow us to record even more into the sequencer, like this performance stuff (looking at OP XY for inspiration).
I have a feeling they are going to focus on Digi boxes for now as I feel they are the ones selling the most. Their feature set seems to be enough and if you really want extra then you can add Rytm, Octa, A4, etc.
Probably Syntakt 2, receiving 128 steps and extra LFO and something minor for the same price it’s currently selling for.
Major updates for DN2, improving VA capabilities with more waveforms and some more asked updates such as printable ARP.
No idea about DT2, but it just received an major update so it should be good for a while.
I wouldn’t mind the Tonverk leak to be true, but my imagination does not go that far to see what it would be about.
Yeah, i might pull trigger on dn2, not in a rush yet. But i have this in my mind for some time.
There is also something in machinedrum and monomachine aesthetic i really like.
Mainly that red screen
There’s a lot of currency for a mature platform that continues to iterate over time, since it is not just Elektron having to invest so much time and money but also users investing their time and effort to learn it. A new platform IMHO is not so important for me anymore. I’ve started to appreciate a manufacturer that sticks with their product and iterate it, squishing all the bugs and issues over the years. Maybe I treasure stability more now than some fancy new box or trick.
Yeah, did little research and realized that Elektron Overbridge is not class compliant, and that is proprietary driver needing DriverKit in order to be ported to ios if Elektron goes this route, which is highly likely.
