When Gear Manufacturers Collaborate

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What jointly produced gear do you dig, and what collaborations would you like to see?

Judging from demos and a play-around in a shop, I think the Roland - Studio Electronics SE-02 sounds ace with a lot of features, and packed into a portable package. For me it’s the most innovative thing that Roland has come up with in recent years.

And in the realm of fantasy, most of all I’d love to see an-all Swedish collaboration between Elektron and Nord!

My guess is collaborations are tricky with manufacturers not wanting to reveal too much of their processes, know-how, unique features etc.

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I don’t own one but the Polyend/Dreadbox collaboration in the Medusa seems pretty cool

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All the behringer collabs with Roland are wicked

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News to me that Roland collaborate with Behringer,

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Hardware and software collabs are cool.

TE and SonicCharge

Dreadbox and Sinevibes

Korg and Sinevibes

I’d love to see more of those, treating hardware like a computer where developers can “plug-in” their own unique code. Give consumers more options and freedom.

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Nord and Elektron should make a ModularMachine. Elektron Sequencer and Machine types to build Nord Modular style synths :exploding_head:

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I also find the Polyend and Dreadbox collaboration of the Medusa synth very interesting.

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If you read about the history of the synthesizer, drum machine or sampler, there are countless examples of collaborations. For one, MIDI was initiated by Roland founder and Dave Smith from Sequential.

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I would say Elektron collaborating with just about everyone else, because I find a lot of other sequencers to be lacking.

But a more specific collaboration I would like to see would be Elektron and Make Noise. A west coast synth with a stellar sequencer. And then call Sinevibes to drop in some modulatable FX.

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What about a collab between Moog and Sequentix. The Moog Sound with a killer Sequencer. Maybe the availibility of the units will be faster if Moog is in the game.

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An “Inception “ colab :love_you_gesture:

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There are lots of them:

  • AMsynth (Bob Keeble) with Behringer on 2600 and 2500.
  • Axel Hartmann and lots of different companies, for instance and this is a surprise he worked on Playtime Engineering’s BlipBlox. But he also worked with Waldorf a lot, and others.
  • Exodus (Manuel Caballero) and Waldorf on the Kyra.
  • Waldorf and various others.
  • Arturia and Mutable Instruments on the MicroFreak (A. used open source code)
  • Behringer and GliGli on the PRO-800
  • Teenage Engineering and IKEA !

I’m just getting started here.

ADDED: Novation and Aphex Twin on the AFX Station.
ADDED: Sequential and Tom Oberheim, on the OB-6. Right ?
I’m trying to recall exactly but Bob Moog did stuff for others early on. Help me remember exactly.
Leon Theremin did collabs several times too. He was the go to guy.

ADDED: Yeah Bob Moog early on helped Raymond Scott do the Clavivox, using circuitry he lifted (cloned ?) from the Theremin.

ADDED: And i see Tchu above, has another example with Moog.

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My personal favourites would be:
Oberheim / Sequential - OB6
Dreadbox / Sinevibes - Typhon

Dave Smith collaborating with Roland and others to implement Midi has to be the most prolific and important collaboration though.

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Roger Linn and Akai been mentioned yet? Pretty important collaboration as well.

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Yeah MIDI is a great example of many companies collaborating (maybe too many) to create something.

Great examples tomfs !

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Chase Bliss | Old Blood Noise Endeavors

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I would love to see a collaboration between Elektron and Ableton on a new live performance hardware with Ableton integration.

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Pioneer with Dave Smith Instruments on the Toraiz AS-1.

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everyone should collaborate with Sinevibes :smile:

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IMO this was the biggest and the most influential collaboration mentioned so far!

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