Ultimately it’s something that Elektron should really deal with at some point. They presumably have access to the tooling for the button caps, or can buy them from the specific manufacturer they use if that’s the case. There’s no end of plastics factories out there that could produce some proper button caps for these machines, which could be offered as replacements by Elektron to its customers. It’s a bit silly to have such a weakpoint on otherwise very nice and expensive objects.
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Putting the led ‘in’ the button is a dumb move as well in my opinion.
Older Elektrons are much nicer to use. Can hover your fingers on the buttons and not obstruct the LED status.
The older screens are nicer too. And longer lasting.
That melty shit has to go.
Worst items I’ve had for this, are the roland USB MIDI devices.
Also got an Ibanez acoustic guitar, which has a sticky volume knob for the piezos. Yuck!
Might be a good idea to have a poll on this.
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thanks for setting that up
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I’ve had this effect happen with headphones, bluetooth travel speakers, USB hubs, etc. I have pretty sweaty hands (ty Mediterranean genetics) so my Digitone will go this way someday.
It drives me up a wall. I want to start bugging companies to stop using TPE.
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