Nicolas (greenman)
Dust DevicesTimeline of my latest EP 😬
t3hhThe reason I think the new #Elektron expander box #Outbox 8 is great news is because this product is probably #overbridge software running on a tiny #linux #computer. Maybe even ARM computer running custom linux distro. If this is true we will also see Overbridge for linux as a separate product.
Ronnie / Rekkerd.orgThe Sound Gardxn releases DigiVerse for Elektron Digitone II https://rekkerd.org/the-sound-gardxn-releases-digiverse-for-elektron-digitone-ii/
Chang TerhuneBETCHA CAN'T TALK ME OUT OF BUYING AN OCTRACK II WITHIN THE HOUR CAN YA? #elektron #octatrackii
Jakub Steiner ⭐Done using particle sim! This would be fun to revisit using #geonodes. Theoretically it's just proximity and set position noise. Right?
@The UX kind of reminds me of VIM where you have to enter and exit an editing mode before you're able to perform certain functions.
But where it gets gnarly is that there are no less than 5 kinds of modifier keys. Each of these modifiers are used in combination with copy, paste, and clear keys, depending on what mode you're in and what you're trying to copy-paste, so it gets super confusing.
Now, I don't really know if there's any better way to improve the UI, but yeah.
jromero
However, I don't believe this was the thinking among #Elektron at that time. For them this probably felt like a necessary step to protect their previous #flagship #instrument #Octatrack that was released in a previous year and was maybe not #selling according to their expectations. So they decided to handicap the new line of instruments to support the sales of what many customers were saying was the best instrument they have ever made. And sure enough, Octatrack was/is an amazing instrument.
I think the problems started much earlier for #Elektron and were foremost related to general approach to #product #design. When their #Analog series of flagship #synthesizers were first introduced in 2012, a controversial decision was made that these machines would not get an ability to sequence external #MIDI #instruments. That was the moment when alarm bell was ringing for anybody cared to listen. If you handicap your main product out of the gate, how can you expect success on the market?