After Cenc’s leaving note, I started wondering if now was the time to buy an A4mkii. I talked myself out of it… (cost, only 70% into its sound, I have plenty of gear…) This whole thread is opening up that can of worms for me again.
(Stay strong; hold out for the imaginary Digitone mkii in the bigger form factor, practice your existing gear you have much left to learn…)
New box coming?
<cynic> Doubt it. Only Overbridge as a service, and stickers. The new CEO only knows about marketing. </cynic>
Such a bleak outlook.
For sure. I hope I’m wrong.
I would genuinely find a large-format DN hardest of all to resist. I’m finding a lot of excitement in FM sound design at the moment, and I love my ARmkii’s form factor. A box that brought those two threads together would be magic for me. The change-ups in the company are compelling gossip.
Working in eCommerce myself, just because it’s listed as discontinued doesn’t mean it is.
On and older site I worked on, a product will change SKU numbers and the existing product will be “discontinued” and moved to a new SKU. The product could be exactly the same, but may have some part minor changed. Because of how the site worked, the previous SKU would need to be marked as discontinued, and eventually it would be redirected to the “new” product. With newer or more robust platforms that is probably not necessary.
For sure. I only questioned it because 2 different vendors were saying “discontinued”. Still a small data set, though.
The Analogue 8 is on the way.
I was daydreaming about this just yesterday. Individual outs and a quick performance macro mode. Mmm.
Yeah! A DK, without the K.
And song mode 
taste the mark II in sound synthesis and performance for 6 month. try just after that mark I again… i can tell you suddenly you will have to think again.
I was in a similar scenario few month ago. And you realize how much improvements they made. Sure with Overbridge it can be “ok”, but programming on markII is definitely a pleasure way more than mkI (to me) and i even not putting on the table re-sampling for the ARMKII, overdrive + separate outputs for A4MKII…
Those hi-res encoders are a joy to use…
I can understand the cons for the form factor, traveling and live performance though the dark trinity in the bag was very cool indeed
I like it too but given the competition the thing is just way too expensive.
…i can also confirm, all central europe resellers still got them in stock…in latest black reissued versions…
but let’s face it…sooner than later a4 will join the swedish classics cult club to reach out for second hand only availability at price tags start matching pretty much the actual listed stock prices and rising…
elektron music instruments remain one of the rare good investments u can make in music gear… 
Vade retro, Satana
…if u go down to it’s details for real and it’s truu analog sound quality, there is no such thing as competition…
only if u dare to compare it to massproduction digital wannabees…
How on earth do you come to this conclusion. The second hand prices of the mk1 are actually fair because they are low. The mk2s are way overpriced now new. Octatrack AE is coming down too second hand. I got one which I want to use. Why one earth should we start to make investments out of music gear? So the only the rich kids can play with them? If you get an analog four mk1 for a price take that one. It sounds almost the same, the form factor is nicer and its not overpriced.
Op-1 is getting cheaper again too, all the hipsters already got one
Oh come on…
…touche, touche…i did’nt realize u were talking about mk1 vs mk2…
in this case…i’m all with u…
and i never think in good or bad investments…but for some people here, it makes a difference…
I’m assuming you ordered a grey A4. Elektron probably won’t be sending any more of those out other than for repairs/replacements etc. It’s all black from now until it really is discontinued. Odd that the grey OT remained in production tho.