What gear would you like to see elektron do next?

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#508

I want elektron to make a battery powered kp3+ w/ trs and midi in/out

#509

An Elektron standard size power supply that powers 3-4 Elektron machines would be very handy.

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#510

As long as its rack mountable Iā€™d be happy.

#511

maybe itā€™s been mentioned already, but a performance orientated mixer would be awesome.

Enough channels to handle multiple elektron machines

  • ~8 Stereo input channels
  • LED band next to slide pots showing dB level.
  • Each with their own 3 band EQ or variable state filter (LPF/HPF/BPF)
  • Quick mutes
  • Slide potentiometers for volume control (preferably with more physical resistance to movement than the OT crossfader, but not necessary.)
  • 2 cue outputs with option to split signals between them
  • Master output has an optional 3 band EQ that you can switch on/off

FX sends

  • enough I/O to utilize OT inputs as well as other FX
  • control for input gain and output volume
  • ability to also send to cue
  • being stereo would be a big plus.
  • built in effects like reverb, stutter/repeat, compression w/ option to sidechain from a channel.

AUDIO OVER USB???

  • For the love of god that would be massive if i could have individual channels from it in my DAW so I can get even crazier with the mix.

  • Even better if it could take in the separate USB audio channels from Overbridge enabled hardware like DN/DT/A4/AH/ETC.

Master/Slave Clock

  • sync hardware/DAW to mixer or mixer to hardware/DAW
  • a sequencer for step sequencing FX

My pants got a little tighter thinking able this.

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#512

A kind of Hexadecatrack? :slight_smile:

#513

You should get your money back, dude. imo :smile:

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#514

This! Please Elektron. A mixer would tie it all together.

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#515

Not sure if itā€™s the right place for feature requests for future Elektron machines (I also sent it to Elektron support ), but anywayā€¦

After my experience with Elektron devices, I found that the most exciting feature for me is scenes on Octatrack. Itā€™s obvious how nice scenes and fading between scenes are for live performance, and today I came to the simple idea:

if you have a joystick there are 4 corner points (letā€™s call them A, B, C, and D ). So we can assign 4 scenes to each point and morph between them with an amazing amount of variability. Of course, more options immediately come to mind, even donā€™t want to waste your time, you can imagine by yourself.

For my personal taste, such a design would be perfect for a digital machine (maybe a combination of Machinedrum and Monomachine inside one box ), but I guess the idea is quite fresh and never was implemented exactly this way inside a groovebox, so any realization could be mind-blowing.

What do you think?

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#516

Maybe adapt this mechanism to a boxmixer where the scenes would be lines

#517

I canā€™t think. This is insane ! :smile:
Yeah thatā€™d be great. Iā€™m seriously thinking about a 2nd OT controlling both crossfader via midi, pretty insane too.

So with the joystick, central position would be ā€œneutralā€ or with track default parameters (not scene locked), and weā€™d morph to the 4 scenes?

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#518

I think we just found ā€œEā€ position - so there should be another point/scene in the center! or? :wink:

Your plan sounds killer too - yes - center is default pattern / track parameters and each corner fades into its own scene.

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#519

ā€¦joystickā€¦ :thinking: :smile_cat:

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#520

They could call it ā€ž4 Quadrant Performance Controllerā€œ or something! :crazy_face:

#521

Or JoyQuad ! :slight_smile:

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#522

At least I would wish from an Octatrack 2 (in order of importance):

  1. better sample rates (96kHz/24bit)
  2. direct recording of multiple streams to sd
  3. more RAM
  4. better/improved effects
  5. more Send/Returns
  6. a second pair of MIDI connectors
  7. OB support

Yep, and that scene morphing joystick :slight_smile:

Update:

ā€¦ and one part per pattern, of course, too.

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#523

But it should have that xfader in addition, the joystick should not replace it. I believe the fader movement is smoother overall. Maybe a control pad would allow smoother control, and will not break so easy.
The idea is still sick and i want it too. Also for midi scenes please this time. Wobbeling LFO with it would be porno.

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#525

Maybe instead of the joystick an additional ā€œyfaderā€ would give a more smooth control ā€¦

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#526

Not sure if this is the most appropriate thing to ask, but iā€™m curious
What wold you guys like to see in the next Elektron machine?
Would you want a new machine? A mk3? A remake of the older machines?
I wanna know your thoughts

#527

Thereā€™s already a thread!

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#528

Iā€™d like to see a return to the synthesis methods of the Monomachine or the Machinedrum ( not a mk3 of either, though thatā€™d be cool, but more of a return to the ideas they used )

Iā€™d still like to sample and slice them just like an Octatrack, but maybe you could put the samples through the machines that the Monomachine had to transform the sound, like using the samples as custom waveforms ( thatā€™d get crazy )

Also, a different colour for the hardware/screen would be nice ( iā€™m biased to a light pink screen, i think that would be nice )

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