Truly, there are a lot of suckers out there.
It’s true, I’m a sucker for well designed inspiring instruments, as are most musicians. Doesn’t mean we are all planning to upgrade in search of the new shiny, but the OT is a great box that I am glad will be around longer and more people will get to experience its power.
If wanting less “tone suck” from the OT inputs makes one a sucker, well, count me as one then too. I also love the rytm which IIRC you hated, so doubly so
Yes, truly there are many opportunities to be a passive-aggressive twat about things.
As regards my own delirious fanboydom regarding the new release, it is as much to do with the timing as anything else.
I had turned my previous Octatrack into a vaguely functional artwork, eventually sold it to Rusty as a test machine for his OT software. It’s a long story.
It took ages to realise but eventually i understood: selling the OT was a super stupid idea. A few days after making the decision to reinvest, the new OT design shows up. Very cool.
But yeah it’s just a hardware tweak update and possibly the most sensible idea right now would be to grab a second hand one slightly cheaper than it would have been before.
Pruning to keep things on topic and within forum guidelines.