What's next for Elektron?

[Gral_Kerkila]

Any nauts going to superbooth this year?

[DavidL]

I mean, they could still bring along discontinued gear. Nothing there states ONLY non-discontinued gear

[JohnnyEgo]

they’re burying their 25years from the past….an reveal at super booth that they are now a part of InMusic and the Digitakt will be available as plugin for the MPC 🙆

[JohnnyEgo]

but Uli is waiting this time for Elektron to come up with new generations of machines I assume

linndrum etc. had a long time cooking in the background

[Tchu]

Discontinuing the DT now, empty the shelves and reveal a new product in Spring 2025.

[dzyndzel]

@Gral_Kerkila

Any nauts going to superbooth this year?

Meetup: Superbooth 24, @earlybirds: Let's get ready and prepare for the event!

Hi Elektronauts, friends of modular, sound explorers and more, You might remember our get-together on Superbooth 2019? It would be great so have some sort of Elektronauts Meetup on the upcoming Superbooth 24 in Berlin. I guess there is a lot to catch up – new instruments, new styles of music – plenty of new faces, artists, interesting soundscapes, gear and much more. I guess early bird tickets are starting to become available from Dec. 2023, and I am curious to know who else is planning to go,…

Superbooth doesn’t have to be about hardware reveals though. IIRC Syntakt had a debut at 22’ but AH+FX was revealed a month after 23’. Reveals are likely more about ready when it’s ready.

[Leonsarmiento]

Yes.

Please put an end to this.

Your move, Elektron.

[bastianazud]

yes

[FigittyFau]

My partner will be @ SuperBooth representing Intech Studio, I hope he will rush the Elektron stand as soon as he gets there. I would teleport there if I hadn’t forgotten how

[Mumdad]

@dzyndzel

Superbooth doesn’t have to be about hardware reveals though. IIRC Syntakt had a debut at 22’ but AH+FX was revealed a month after 23’. Reveals are likely more about ready when it’s ready.

And about not getting lost amongst a load of other reveals happening at the same time. Even when companies are revealing stuff ‘at’ a show, they’ll sometimes do it beforehand like Korg at NAMM so they get news cycles pretty much to themselves.

It’s like with videogames, E3 used to be a massive deal but now it doesn’t exist anymore because companies started seeing the value of having their own shows which they can control fully and time whenever they feel like it.

[DaveMech]

Nice! I use a few of the grid controllers wonderful stuff !

[dzyndzel]

@Mumdad

It’s like with videogames, E3 used to be a massive deal but now it doesn’t exist anymore because companies started seeing the value of having their own shows which they can control fully and time whenever they feel like it.

Pretty much. Modern dev time also just doesn’t go hand in hand with crunching your developers to meet yearly reveal deadlines ASAP. Let the people rest!

[Tomba]

Oh…they watching…look behind you.

[djst]

@Tchu

Discontinuing the DT now, empty the shelves and reveal a new product in Spring 2025.

That would be a crazy move from a pure business standpoint.

[KnobTwister]

I agree, that makes no sense

[uki1]

OK sooo if the soundbooth comes, and there are NO new units, it kinda SUCKS RIGHT?

I will be like bro I waited so long

and Elektronauts gave me so much hope

[captain8]

been waiting my whole life for a DT2, what’s a little while longer gonna do

[Snitzler]

I feel the same way. It’s time for Elektron to release something new and blow eveyone out of the water.

[Tomba]

It will either be a new sample based machine entirely or an “mk2” in the style of the Rytm mk2. Minor improvements and cosmetic changes.
Willing to bet $0 on it, I’m so sure.

[InternalVoice]

Looking at their cadence for releases in the modern era of elektron (post digitakt) it would be odd for them to release nothing. That is unless you consider the AHFX a major release, which I don’t.

MS/MC may have been a disappointment to some experienced elektronauts, but they were definitely fully-baked new products.