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quick thought: if digitakt is replaced not by a mk2 but something quite different, maybe that opens the door for slice/repitch/werp machines on the analog rytm? if it’s technically possible i mean.
in my opinion rytm is already the best drum machine out there but adding these machines would really give it the last 1% to perfection!
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Maybe. But an AR update wouldn’t replace the DT for a lot of people, being much bigger.
Not sure if there’s still enough processing power in the AR for that, on the thread from the latest update someone from Elektron mentioned they experimented with adding a 2nd LFO to the tracks and unfortunately it wasn’t possible 
From the investment side, they’ll want something cheaper that’ll sell higher quantities, & an existing flagship wouldn’t replace a midrange product(as well as us knowing they’re changing development platform & moving to rust)
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i know, but my hope is that the sample machines could work because they don’t need to affect any analog parameters in the machine, unlike an LFO.
edit: i’m not a programmer though and know nothing about this stuff.
well i don’t really care about the investment side 
i just hope that if the digitakt successor for example gets proper timestretching and a few other gimmicks, they would throw in the sampling machines for rytm users because they are no longer the main selling point for the dt successor.
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As much as we don’t care about their investors, guarantee they will as they’ve gotta turn x amount of profit.
Rytm is already maxed out from what they said when the last update dropped
I still think that if it’s a Digitakt mk2, we can expect the mk1 to get mostly the same firmware updates. Otherwise the device will probably be named differently.
I also have a feeling that they discontinued Digitakt not because of an imminent mk2 but rather something else…
Do you believe that? After all, it contains a whole digitakt pre 1.5.
And with new AI programming tools, optimizing code is so much easier.
Is it possible to buy shares in the sense that they are publicly traded?
Yeah, especially as they’re changing programming platform. I can see maybe one more bug fixing update, but imo rytm is wrapped
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That is a plausible assumption. I just didn’t buy the explanation (no more computing power for second LFO, while they implement complexer machines).
They’ve had at least 2 known private equity investments over the last few years, but I don’t think they’ve ever sold shares publicly
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So they were open to single investors/groups but only with a lot of capital and private contracts? Pity.
? Thinking about if it’s possible to make legal body that is one entity for Elektron and where users/owners of E instruments can buy shares (in that entity). Crowdfunding for first investment round. 
Buying the rights and blueprints for MD for making independent reissue would also a worthwhile crowdfunding project 
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It doesn’t. Sampling on the AR has a superficially similar UI in that regard but it is a greatly reduced version of the DT’s functionalities, even pre 1.5. I had one a few years ago and only ever really used the sampling side of it, but got rid as in that use-case it felt like a very much stymied version of a DT at best.
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Really? Have to check. What is different from the pre 1.5 DT? AFAIR everything sample-wise is the same (there is not much) and yes, it doesn’t have the DT‘s digital filters and mixing page etc. That’s where the AR has analog filters.
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i think the digitakt had sample start and length + extra control for reverse instead of just start and end on the rytm.
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