If you’re smart, the one with the money in their pocket. Just to be clear: the customer. If you do not realise that, you should not be in business.
The shareholders already gave you their money and they are now expecting more money back than they invested and will be eager to provide you with “good advise” on how to maximise your revenue and minimize your costs…
Putting more devices on the market to attract more customers, but don’t invest too much in innovation as that drives up the costs… Just make it look different, like putting old wine in new bags… I really hope they will announce a truely new instrument at NAMM…
I’ve been PM-ing another elektronaut earlier today about exactly the same thoughts as you have on “the new studio/tilted Trinity”!
I think a completely new device will be introduced, (roughly) the same form factor as the ARmk2 / A4mk2, and indeed tilted, which functions as an FX box / mixer / live sampler. Hence all the individual outs on the ARmk2 and A4mk2.
To be used both in the live & studio product lines (a tilted mixer in the middle of a DT & OTmk2 looks good, as will it in between an ARmk2 and A4mk2).
Since the ARmk2 sampling-wise will probably be the same as the DT, what’s missing from the OT concept is live sample mangling. The “DigiBlend” fills that gap!
What are you talking about?
I just sold my house and all my shares, and bought the remaining A4 mk1’s worldwide.
My wife thinks I’m nuts but she doesn’t write beats.
I’m gunna be rich
That’s only one of many other possible answers. I think it’s pretty unlikely that there’s nobody on the software team that can even touch the OS. It’s not written in hieroglyphics …
There’s a multitude of other potential reasons as to why more digital outputs may not have been added. CPU could be maxed out, there might not be any more IO pins available to drive the DAC, etc. But unless the hardware designers tell us, we can’t know.
Yeah I don’t think 2nd hand prices will go crazy or anything.
But Thomann’s current deal of €899 is killer.
I’d highly recommend any prospective buyers jump on it straight away.
Maybe Thomann know something we don’t ???
Perhaps they have been told that this is the last ever run of MK1s ???