I’m a really vivid dreamer and my dreams tend to be pretty detailed. Last night I had very life-like dream about a new Elektron device called Qtrack. Immediately after waking up I made a drawing and wrote down all details.
Qtrack is a four stereo-in creative sound mangler, performance mixer and master effects box, in Digi-format. The layout is very close to Digitone. In the dream I had just received it and I was just getting to know it. It felt kinda the Elektron version of Cableguys Shaperbox but with an emphasis on being a mastering unit for your live or studio jams.
Here are the details (that I can remember):
4 stereo tracks (2 out + Overbridge)
5 freely assignable effect slots per track
1 master track
Track FX: EQ/Filter Compressor Chorus Flanger Analog Drive Tape Splicer (this really was the name; it was kind of real-time slicer, not far from Time module of Shaperbox) Delay Reverb
Master FX: Master EQ (some kind of multiband EQ) Multiband compressor Tape Analog Drive Delay Reverb Spatializer
I don’t remember it having a looper function, but the more I think about it, it probably should have a looper. Maybe they add it in a firmware update. And I’m sorry to disappoint, but there was no crossfader, sorry Octatrack lovers.
This is not the first time I have a premonition dream, so I take this as a confirmation it’s actually gonna happen.
I’ve had dreams like this before. I also had like a neural connection to the groovebox in my dream and could create the exact music I wanted right as I thought it, and in my brain, I actually was making the music, because I could hear it in great detail within the dream.
I have dreamed music many times, only managed to transcribe/record it a few times thought.
Many great scientists/artists/inventors throughout history has dream epiphanies.
I have musical ideas in my dreams all the time, but never came up with an Elektron product! Sometimes I find myself writing code in my dreams… I write a lot of code while I’m awake, so it probably makes sense, however, in my dreams I code in languages that don’t exist (as far as I know).
That’s a pretty cool concept. I like the name… Reminds me of this sequencer I used to run on Linux: https://qtractor.org/
But one thing you’re missing is the recording buffers! The fact that the OT can concurrently sample multiple sources at multiple points of the sequencer is why I love it so much. Go dream about taking the recording buffers to the next level, please!
Last night I had a dream that Elektron contacted the FBI to take out @Wuola for inftrating their vault using some mystic psychic powers known as “dreams”
Haha yeah! I think there must be recording buffers and loopers hiding in the box, it just wasn’t ready for the first firmware!
I have this pretty often too! Couple of years ago I was somehow conducting a symphony orchestra with my mind and could make them play the most complicated polyrythmic and polytempic things with perfect ease. The experience was so strong that soon after this dream I started experimenting with polytempic composition — and this saturday I played my first polytempic piece for 500 people in a concert!
I just re-read the original post and now see this wasn’t specifically an OT successor. The crossfader comment made me think that… Anyhow, I still want recording buffers on my Qtrack dammit!
I believe this was part their of their marketing dream inception plan all along! The information must have been somehow downloaded in the recent Digitakt update…
Exactly! It was not Octatrack successor but a sort of hybrid multi fx machine, performance mixer and a mastering unit. This is literally my DREAM MUSIC MACHINE!
Octamix and DigiTrak are both cool names! I think Qtrack could be short for Quadratrack. Maybe also reference to Cue so it has to have a cue track too…
I realize that DigiTrak is too close to Digitakt and we wouldn’t know what 2-character name to call it (can’t be DT). So maybe it’s the DigiQuad and we refer to it as the DQ.
But it did have an Analog Drive circuit… maybe not Digi- after all?
I also really like the idea of it having a Tape effect. And just realized the Splicer effect must use some kind of sound buffer that is constantly recording. So there also must be a looper hiding in it!
