and still for free or will i eventually have to pay for it?
If you donāt use it you donāt pay for it. Plus it gives them revenue on resales. Seems an entirely reasonable commercial decision in my opinion. All peeps have to do is factor this into the final price.
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Still for free
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Interesting that thereās no Analog Keys Mk II announced (yet).
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Will it be continued to be supported / upgraded?
4 inputs?? Itād be great just to be able to use them to mix in other sound sources if they all went through the full signal chain.
Thanks for the quick reply, that sets my mind at rest. I canāt afford to upgrade until my daughter finishes childcare at least, no spare cash until then.
Elektron could really do with something explaining a lot of what is going on here rather than just banging these products out (OB premium?) especially to all the loyal MK1 users (any updates/advantages coming our way from all this new stuff)
Although I guess that may stop the next 500 posts of speculation!
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[PANTING INTENSIFIES]
Amazing style (love the teal āfunctionā button), great UI upgrade (they put the function button in the right place for the AR), worthy sound-engine upgrades, CV INPUTS (!)ā¦
If you were waiting to get into Elektron gear, wait a couple months and get one of these puppies!
Great work, Elektron. Holy sh*t!
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I wouldnāt be surprised if there is no AK Mk2.
I believe that the Mk1 isnāt their best seller.
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IMHO they made the MK2s look like sh1t to appease MK1 owners=D
Seriously though, are synth engine updates etc to AR MK2 going to be available to MK1 also? What level of support will AR MK1 get now? There were lots of hinted upgrades on release, got some with last OS but canāt help think the newer units will be priority.
Still, Elektron doing good business, esp. on OB pro, clever with 2nd hand market strong in this area.
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MKI users will still benefit from future software bug fixes etc.
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oh yeah, finally function button in right place, iām missing it all the time ) and fx button is on the right!
If any peeps in the UK want to offload their Digitakt after this announcement give me a shout! 
Iāve just been let down on my preorder (damaged unit). 
until there is more infoā¦ Iād assume that the one pair still has no ADCā¦? which still means no routing to digital effects, or sound-card functionality on that pairā¦? And the other pair can probably be more liberally mixed/routed etcā¦? But can that pair go to the comp thoā¦? 
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It isnāt but itās a beast if you give it time and love
I like how the Elektrons fit together and look great if you put them next to each other. Even the silver machines have the same size and ādesign languageā as the black ones. I will wait for actual fotos and not judge from the renderings but my first impression of the mk2s is very bad. They also fit exactly in my case that I have for gigs and now they make BIGGER machines? I donĀ“t get it! I really hope that the sampling option will be an update for the āoldā Rytm.
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I hope Iām not the only one whoās massively disappointed by those machine.
I can understand the Octatrack which was old and it need some refinements, which seems to still not having upgrades on the āoverbridge sectionā or in itās DSP. But the AR and the A4?
1- Iāve rarely seen uglier devices, I mean the Mk I where amazingly good looking devices those new one really look awful (and why do the need to make them tilted?)
2- Overbridge Premium? Really Elektron? I mean we are talking about 1500ā¬ devices why put a price tag of 100ā¬ for a software that can be used only with those machines?
3- Extremely appreciated the sampling capabilities of the AR Mk II and cv/modulation inputs are good too but not a āmust haveā.
4-Overbridge Premium? Cāmonā¦
Now lets wait for the Behringer drum machine, you never knowā¦
-Rant ends here-
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Would love to hear the improved engine of the analog four mk2ā¦
āThe analog circuitry of Analog Four MKII has been thoroughly reworked and provides deep, clear and defined bass plus a more prominent analog overdrive/distortion effect.ā
so, there is some dna of the analog heat in it?
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So, soon time for those OS and OB updates? 