^ maybe elektron are just targeting you? 
Itâs not a glitch, The silver box your seeing is just a monomachine. The photo of the street has a monomachine at the bottom. WHen the pic loads before the a4 picture you see otherwise its covered, thats all it is.[/quote]
You are right with that particular picture, that makes sense now, but I had this happen again and itâs definitely the image I saw first time around when I posted and NOT just the monomachine sitting on the street that I saw the second and third time around.
The image is almost entirely top down like the other product images but the machine is lying at maybe a 30 degree angle with its right side higher. It could still be a Monomachine of course but it is not fitting in with the âstreet viewâ image like the other Monomachine image you are referring to. It does still look like a Monomachine to be fair though in both split second viewings something did seem ever so slightly different.
Anyway, donât want to come across as being on the wind up or anything, only writing what Iâve seen! I just hope itâs not a keyboard version let down of an announcement. [/quote]
Yep thatâs one of them, but there has definitely been another. Both appear to be regular Monomachines. But I donât care! Iâd rather stir the conspiracy pot some more.
The advertisement looks like faders to me. I think itâs a mixer of sorts. Top of advert looks like volume-down position. Bottom looks cranked up.
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This is the kind of post which gets through to Elektron marketing departmentâŚ
Mystery is over! Analog Keys.
âBehold! Analog Keys is here! #Elektron [url=âhttps://www.facebook.com/hashtag/analogkeysâ]#AnalogKeysâ from their FB page.
Note quite overâŚ
Jon: âAnalog Keys revealed. But we have been working on another machine as well. It is shown in Berlin - placed inside a cube with frosted glass, meaning no one has seen it in the flesh - and will be released very very soon. It wonât replace any of our current offerings and will be one hell of a machine.â
Iâm dissopointed,
It seems to me elektron have gone out of their way to cater for the " I want polyphony" dinosaurs who donât get the elektron ethic.
Iâm pretty sure the A4 keys is a beautiful machine at the same time I think they have gone off course kinda peer pressure from the poly crowd.
I love Boards of Canada they seem to make music oblivious of trends, I used to think elektron did the same.
The âelektron ethicâ? Honestly, itâs guys like you who give elektron that esoteric ignorant image outside the community.
BOC use loads of vintage analog gear, and some polyphonic instruments are well there in their gear park. And sorry, polyphonic synths is a trend? Uh nope, the market is flooded with two octave monosynths, and polyphonic synths have been around since the late 70s, so whatâs your point?So much hatred, why do you feel betrayed anyway? Do you need a music gear company as a surrogate religion?
The âelektron ethicâ? Honestly, itâs guys like you who give elektron that esoteric ignorant image outside the community.
BOC use loads of vintage analog gear, and some polyphonic instruments are well there in their gear park. And sorry, polyphonic synths is a trend? Uh nope, the market is flooded with two octave monosynths, and polyphonic synths have been around since the late 70s, so whatâs your point?So much hatred, why do you feel betrayed anyway? Do you need a music gear company as a surrogate religion?[/quote]
Everybody is entitled to an opinion on a forum like this, but to use words like âHatredâ I feel your well off the mark. No Hatred from my post just an observation of how I see things.
As for whatâs my point ? Wasnât that obvious in my post ?
As we now know what the next Elektron device is (Analog RYTM), Iâve been wondering about this. It seems unlikely to me that Elektron will continue to make devices that explicitly overlap with their other devices, but with all of their currently available products, there are few things I could see people wishing for, assuming they went all in with Elektron. So with that in mind, where do you see Elektron going from here?
Iâd love something digital like the MnM, with the micro timing and polyrhythm of the None More Black Eketrons, and some probability/generative stuff thrown in for good measure.
Next machine - what could it be? AnalogTrack?
No, no, no! No new machines! Just polish existent machines, please! There are huge amount of ways how to dramatically improve existent gear! E.g. sequencer â add individual time signatures per track and directions of playback, individual tempo per track for every machine, add one-shot and probability trigs, add p-locks for arp settings and transpose via midi⌠Just spent some time once and unify the sequencer for further reuse. Granular synth machine (smth like granulator from Monolake) with simple workflow will be extremely good thing for OT. Actually, I like new gear, but I prefer to see existent gear polished well to new machines with big amount of bugs at the beginning and without good features which were already implemented in other devices (e.g. individual time signature and one-shot trigs in OT and absence of them in A4/AK).
FWIW I wasnât looking for the one I was talking about for years, at least 2-3. With three new machines having come out so quickly (especially the last two), I hope they fund the Elektron Machine for quite some time while they give the existing machines new goodies
Iâd also prefer to see further refinements on existing gear, but as a company in the business of making money, eventually Elektron are going to develop new products, and as they are committed to not overlapping with their other products, Iâm curious about what they could develop that wouldnât make any of their other products redundant.
Judging by the months of heated speculation that took place in this forum, leading up to the notorious "Frosted Box Incedentâ, and assuming Elektron listens to any of it, I would say the next products will be 1) âsuperâ mixer/sequencer 2) FM/Granular/Wavetable synth 3) Kitchen Cabinets
One thing weâve learned is that Elektron is seems willing to introduce new control surfaces (new for them) such as keys and pads.
Perhaps theyâve covered the basics of music making machines, and will now start doing really far out stuff like the OP-1 or modular units.
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seriously the analog rytm is the most boring product I think (and hope) that eleckron will put out. It just really doesnât do it for meâŚI can kind of justify the purchase of an A4, but just barely. I think they should really do a midi/fx machine especially complimentary to the octatrack, which is probably the most open ended and flexible device they will every release.