Digitakt Overbridge

[tnussb]

I still think it would be a good idea to make Overbridge a mini-DAW. All we really need is to get the streaming going and record the tracks, from there we can export audio to whatever DAW of our preference. Keeping OB compatible with all of them is going to be an ongoing nightmare for Elektron.

A “mini-DAW” is much more complicated to realize than a VST and it’s the DAW-side where you get most of the platform problems.

DAW Compatibility: From a technical point of view there is simply no need to be compatible to a special DAW. OB only needs to adhere to the VST specification and it will work automatically in every VST host (need not to be a DAW) out there.

All we really need: Well, there is also the other side of OB (controlling the synth/sound programming) which is quite useful for some people, especially when a song mixes Elektron devices with VST synths. It was announced as full-integration, so reducing OB only to a multitrack recorder will not do it for everyone.

[Adam9]

Great vision
If this is not true would you like to sart a company?

[Pcbforbrains]

We will start a club.

[mokomo]

OB only needs to adhere to the VST specification and it will work automatically in every VST host (need not to be a DAW) out there.

I’d say the elektron dev team are rolling around the floor in tears at that one

[brisket]

You’re right, when I said “all we really need…” I really meant “all I really need…”

I’m pretty sure that VSTs don’t work equally well in all DAWs though.
If they could roll out the feature set piece by piece, as they did with the compressor, that would be fine with me. Give us the streaming audio out, and keep working on the really difficult stuff with the pretty screens…

[macinski]

On the box it says:
“Stream the eight internal tracks, external inputs, and main bus to separate DAW tracks”.

I wonder how FX bus will be recorded.

[Highways]

Hopefully just like AR, A4, and AK. They will need to introduce a “track routing” submenu under the global menu - By setting every track to “Send to FX” and disabling “Route to Main” you can isolate the effects through the main output.

[mokomo]

it’s a good option at least: just render my Overbridge audio to pristine track-stem files please, i want to avoid any crackles due to my CPU/audio card/USB gremlins; streaming is a luxury I don’t really need unless I’m gigging with my DAW involved (which true self-aware elektronophiles would never do, would they?)

[the_duckchild]

Superbooth has been open for more than two hours…

[Jukka]

I made three predictions RE OB yesterday, figuring i could bracket reality. But i missed anyway.

So in reality it’s darker than darkness.

[Ryan]

Overbridge Limbo would make a decent sci-fi novel name

[jb]

Overbridge 2: elektron boogaloo

[Ryan]

Missing Overbridge reminds me of The Notebook when his love interest turns out to be mentally handicapped

[Alume]

patience my friends

[JohnnyEgo]

friday 14:30 pro tip

[Open_Mike]

The Greek word for Amber, a fossilized tree sap, was Elektron… Maybe they’ve fossilized…

(Origins of word: electricity)
The New Latin adjective electricus, originally meaning ‘of amber’, was first used to refer to amber’s attractive properties by William Gilbert in his 1600 text De Magnete. The term came from the classical Latin electrum, amber, from the Greek ἤλεκτρον (elektron), amber. The origin of the Greek word is unknown, but there is speculation that it might have come from a Phoenician word elēkrŏn, meaning ‘shining light’. The letter Q was used for electric charge instead of the letter E because the letter was already used to represent the electron.

The classical names for amber, Latin electrum and Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ēlektron), are connected to a term ἠλέκτωρ (ēlektōr) meaning “beaming Sun”. According to myth, when Phaëton son of Helios (the Sun) was killed, his mourning sisters became poplar trees, and their tears became elektron, amber.

[mono55]

Without kidding, now that the second deadline is passed, now that Superbooth is finished, we deserve an update on Overbridge. The fact that they ignore every single comments on facebook, instagram is understandable; but they are the expression of a deep frustration due to a lack of communication. It’s ok to mess up with deadline in software development but itsn’t to not update your clients.

So please Elektron now that May has started, can we have an update ?
Thanks.

[goony]

Elektron Updates from Superbooth

[mono55]

Thanks, I am happy with his answer

[jimbob]

You’re happy with that answer?
Everyone else is showcasing stuff…exciting stuff.

Elektron have a stand so that they can apologise for the delay in overbridge with still no projection on completion. Very poor.