I sold my MDUWMKII+ for AR MKI. The market prices were different AR MKI was more expensive !
I think I will have lot of fun with MD MKI and ST ! The essentials of MD, AR, and DN…
I get that it seems unlikely for Elektron to make Machinedrums again. But they still really don’t have anything in their current product line that takes its place, or Monomachine. I know some people feel that a lot of us just have a connection to that machine, and that the current line up can do the same stuff. But, to me it is still more feature packed than the newer stuff. Some of the features that set it apart for me are:
16 tracks
Huge amount of “machines”
12 bit sampler (on uw versions) that sounds great
fx per track (filters, eq, sample rate reduction, amplitude modulation)
Midi machines available for any track
Flexible routing
Cntrl all
On top of that, I think it just has a unique sound, that is unlike any other Elektron product. Early/mid 2000s IDM/glitch is some of my favorite Electronic music, so maybe I’m biased. The only digital drum machine available now is Syntakt, Which is a cool, and unique box as well, but I just wish more of the machinedrum features were in it. If it at least had sampling, samplerate and bit reduction, and the old style retriggers, I think I would like it a lot more. If they expand Syntakt out of the Digi format into a flagship box, with more of the features that a lot of us want, I think that would be an amazing box. especially, because it could improve on some of the things that machinedrum is lacking. For me some of the things I wish Machinedrum had would be:
Improved jitter
Usb
More sample memory
Slicing in the sampler
Chromatic tuning and scales
Arpegiator
Some more modern machines (like some of the ones in syntakt)
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Didn’t they increase the price after with MKII UW + Drive ?
If someone has the last price before it became discontinued…
The last batch sold for 799 CHF from memory.
Was exchange rate same as today ? (CHF is very close to Euro)
they were discontinued mid 2016. That article was only a few months prior.
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To me model cycles is the modern day machine drum. It’s really good. I would buy a new machine drum in a heart beat though. Missed my chance in 2016
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all possible with MCL + independent track length, probability and loads of stuff not found on any elektron device. including a pseudo machine lock @sezare56 if you use the slot system creatively.
not a fan of being this guy but : MCL does seem to level up any MD to all the feature sets people are craving for.
edit: and you won’t lose the sound that will inevitably be very different if elektron were to invest time and money into a mk3 with an unavoidably different internal architecture.
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It doesn’t make sense, of course it is ! It doesn’t matter to me if a machine has a gazillion LFOs and voices if it does not produce the sound I want or if it makes me jump hoops to do so.
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Thanks for the heads up. I have an MCL, and I’m very impressed with how much it added to the Machinedrum, but in honesty I don’t use it very often, because I’m just more used to using Machindrun on its own, and I like to use swing. I know you ca nudge steps with MCL, but I just like having swing. Either way, I agree that MCL does fix some of the features I mentioned.
switching between extended (swing city) and enhanced (microtiming land) is as simple as pressing the classic/extended button when the sequencer is stopped. i to and fro all the time for the best of both worlds. 
it is a mindbend for longterm MD users to adjust to the differences but worth the pain for the added stuff.
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Thanks for the advice. I’ve been. Meaning to get back into using the MCL.
When it comes to the Legacy Boxes, it seems most people on Elektronauts want them continued. I kind of get the impression that Elektron has been trying to appeal to a lager user base that might not be as interested in more expensive boxes with unconventional features. But, I think for a lot of the base of Elektron users, feature packed unconventional boxes are very desired. To me, the legacy boxes are kind of connected with a lot of music from that era, that was more experimental. But it’s those boxes, and octatrack that really gave Elektron it’s appeal with producers who like weird stuff. And, that isn’t to say that the newer boxes don’t get weird. Of course they do too, but I kind of think they are intended to appeal to a larger user base. And of course that makes sense for a company to do. I just hope Elektron puts more energy into unconventional flagship devices.
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For 899€ I got Thomann’s “Elektron MACHINEDRUM SPS-1 UW+ MkII Bundle” containing Elektron Machinedrum SPS-1 UW+ MKII (User Wave) +Drive including TURBOMIDI TM-1 interface + Thomann Producer Backpack.
That was an insane deal.
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if I recall correctly they were both discounted to €650 before discontinuation.
cheap as chips 
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its crazy that atm they sell for 4 times the price…
Elektron could rerelease then at x2 price and still makes a heck load of money.
You all know why they were selling for £650 though, right?
Because nobody fucking wanted one.
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that’s the thing. it could be that there’s just a really vocal minority (myself included) who would buy an mk3 kinda thing in a heartbeat.
the reality was that sales had started to dwindle. and mnm sales had never been amazing according to (ess i think)
same thing will happen to the octatrack when it’s discontinued. people will go nuts for it.
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Let’s assume it was possible, and Elektron had any interest in going over old ground and they did go and reproduce the MD.
That would be the end of the £2k machine drum.
They’re that price only because they’re scarce.
They’d be down £900 within 10 minutes and people would be bitching that they didn’t have X, Y, and Z that should be standard on a drum machine in this day and age.
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