Cheers Cosmic for the light relief.
But apart from that…
I’ve been a loyal and well-behaved customer for years. And now, after having politely asked for years, I am now at the end of my tether.
So 1.63 was supposedly the last OS.
Well, what if it isn’t?
What if they release 1.64? Would that be so very onerous? Oh, but Elektron are very very busy implementing a way to connect their devices and the users usb umbilical back into the good old computer.
That is why i am pissed off, and that is why i won’t buy another box of theirs again. Years of asking for this one feature. Nup. Not even one reply.
The Octatrack’s main developer is now gone, working with Teenage Engineering, so that is obvious why the OT will not be updated.
But the Machinedrum? No, there is no good reason whatsoever for that to be locked off. Except for that company policy states that it is so.
Well, I am stating that it is not necessarily so whatsoever.
If Elektron has time to try and implement Overbridge for all the vocal users who wanted to plug straight back into good ol’ computer land, then they have time to implement my request and release )S 1.64 for the Machinedrum.
It’s a nicer number.
There is no abandoning of hope, there is at last, a feeling on my behalf that Elektron totally and utterly snubbed my requests for a brilliantly simple feature by not even answering my requests for this one essential feature over the years. Whether I emailed them personally or posted on the forums in the correct place, nothing, nada, no response, zip.
Yes it is possible to individually go to each track and shift it left or right by using Function-Left or Function-Right as usual.
But this interrupts the flow of composition and performance to a large degree.
Elektron are more than welcome to do or respond to whatever they want to.
What i am saying here is that as a long-time user, promoter and supporter, I feel utterly ignored, an so shall move on.
As regards InTheam’s post, I couldn’t care less what your experience is. Nor do I appreciate your tone … “kowtow” haha fuck off. I am just asking for the basic decency of Elektron to at least once have responded to this one request of mine, either by email or in the forum of Elektron Users. They never did.
Honestly it doesn’t bother me, there’s plenty of other cool hardware producers.
I have certainly promoted Elektron internationally, and have no desire to explain nor detail how this would have been beneficial to Elektron. But they would certainly know what I am talking about.