I would seriously consider buying this. I have no desire to purchase the actual product.
Itās just crazy enough to work 
This is cool.
for me its just a case of seeing the Analog Keys as the modern heir to the lineage i guess, rather than the SFX-6. to me the actual product is a Digitone SFX-6. Isnāt to say its bad, just, I would have prefered a Digitone Keys
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I must say, Iām really, really happy with portamento on the digitone. It wouldāve cool if the new keyboard had 6 tracks and a bit more voices to set that keyboard apart from the smaller but really good digitone. The additional outs are not enough for me to justify an upgrade, because I already have keyboards.
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I feel like maybe they partially chose this design to seem a bit more unpredictable?
Nobody wouldāve predicted they would make a keyboard version in the SFX form factor again.
It is important to make people think you are capable of crazy shit otherwise they get bored with you.
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My first thought: WHY?!
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ā¬A$Ā„ Money
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Of course we can just not buy it. But this is place for voicing your opinion so haha. I donāt know about others, but Iām complaining because I feel Elektron could have done better. Other companies are doing much better.
Take the summit. Itās like they figured what was working with the Peak and added to it.
Take the Minilogue XD desktop. That was asked for a while, and they did it with neat little functionalities.
Iām really baffled by the design AND the price, of the keys. Like is it better than buying TWO DNs? Strange.
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I honestly think the produce pairs of boxes, and decide wich one from the start on will be a possible keyboard version.
monomachine -> keyboard
machinedrumā¦
a4 -> keyboard
rytmā¦
digitone -> keyboard
digitaktā¦
The octatrack falls a bit out of scheme, but who knows, maybe,ā¦
exactly. I donāt want to apologize for calling it ugly Thatās taste, not negativity
āUnlocking walletsā more likeā¦
Fortunately, this ākeysā does not unlock mineā¦
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So it unlocked nightmares for you 
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fortunately gear is not that powerful to unlock nightmares for me, haha.
Iām very happy with my DN. No problem with the existence of the Keys. Iām sure many people will love it
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its ugly like fuck , twice the price and ā¦ well ugly
for the additional 650 bucks more then the digitone you buy a fucking nice keyboard or synth ā¦
i donāt know but the guy who designed it is clearly not a synth playerā¦ this will give you a hell of a neck pain
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i just wonder what glue they used to glue the keyboard to the digitone hhaha
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Iām unlikely to get it, but I see the appeal. If you have room for it - why wouldnāt you want the extra hands-on control? For some musicians those extra knobs (and things like key mapping of patterns) could make quite a big difference. A lot of expressive control there, which really fits with the lineage of their other instruments. It seems like theyāve really tried to āopen upā as many parameters as possible to knob/macro control, which is good.
Ergonomically, it looks weird, but I can see that it might well be more comfortable than having to constantly stretch āoverā the keyboard to reach the controls. My only real concern would be travelling with a long keyboard, but I guess people deal with that all the time.
They used DigiTack
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some very polarized feedback! a real Marmite effect.
I own a digitone from day one, love it, and would have happily upgraded to the key version, but like many ā¦ i really donāt like the design, and donāt really get the price tag.
I use an arturia keystep or an old Juno D when i need more keys, will stick to that.
happy about the firmware update.
personally i love the design, loved the monomachine verison
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