Elektron-Users

flabby wrote:
How do you get a good 909 kick sound?

With a 909 of course.

This is what the back logo is looking like...

I don't know about Elektron doing analog synthesis. It just doesn't fit their M.O. They've always been firmly in the digital camp--sampling, wavetables, FM--why would they risk such a big leap out of their comfort zone?

Now, a sampling (wavetables), digital, polyphonic synth (perhaps, with several new synthesis methods), with efx and digital and analog sequencing...that's a real possibility.

Only six voices? Well, perhaps not voices, but parts for the external midi/analog sequencer.
That's my bet. Dave Smith has the analog poly market cornered.

Because Thata what people are buying? Maybe I don't know.

glitched wrote:
I don't know about Elektron doing analog synthesis. It just doesn't fit their M.O. They've always been firmly in the digital camp--sampling, wavetables, FM--why would they risk such a big leap out of their comfort zone?

Now, a sampling (wavetables), digital, polyphonic synth (perhaps, with several new synthesis methods), with efx and digital and analog sequencing...that's a real possibility.

Only six voices? Well, perhaps not voices, but parts for the external midi/analog sequencer.
That's my bet. Dave Smith has the analog poly market cornered.

Strongly agree. DSI has analog down. There are a number of boutique makers of step sequencers for the modular world. Although modular seems to be growing, modulars are a tiny niche of the synth market which is itself rather niche. It wouldn't be wise for Elektron to try to conquer the idiosyncratic analog synth world.

No, I think Elektron is going to do something that is both more unique and more popular. The new addition to the Elektron family will be a polyphonic physical modeling synth. Drawing inspiration from the Yamaha VL series and Korg's Z1, this new box will be able to model plucked string instruments ranging from conventional electric basses and guitars to fantastic instruments like the space banjo. The bowed string model will manage the full range of orchestral strings and be an instant hit with graduate students working to reinterpret Morton Feldman's greatest hits. Horns will be well supported as expected, but we will see some novel new parameters that allow us to mix in the timbres of the kazoo, harmonica and nose flute with conventional cylindrical and conical bodes.

"CV" doesn´t mean "analog"...just voltage control of parameters...even in modular world there´s a lot of digital stuff controlled by voltage

in the other hand analog is a strong trend now, so maybe elektron found a way of get into this technology in a simple and "cheap" way...and with the elektron touch of integrated sequencer-sound engine

when I mean chep I mean near the other analog stuff out there...the tempest could be a refference...6-voice analog synth with integrated sequencer (no fx, external input or CV though)

Anyway, I don´t think elektron would make an analog-synth in the tradition of moog or anything vintage, with discrete parts or something like that...my guess is that if this thing is really an analog synth, this reffers to the audio path, and then the envelopes and LFOs are full digital (I spotted 2 EGs and 3LFOs in the panel)...or maybe it´s an hybrid design, with digital oscillators and analog filter and amp after them

How expensive/complicated could be to throw 6 of this analog chips into it? I mean the kind of classic polysynth voice chips...

Anyway, knowing elektron we have a kinda long way of guessing before them show us what it really is


...and I predict an avalanch of cheapo OT´s on ebay...

I was about to buy an OT while the sale is still going on.. now I don't know what I should do.

six track sampling monomachine.... sample engine of the octatrack with the synthesis of the MNM .

that be lush.

ultra minimal.

runs on batteries as well......

As you may know, you can't really just throw "6 analog chips" into a synth. Outside of CEM integrated circuits (which are now all but extinct--but Dave Smith's synths use customized CEM-type chips), analog synthesis usually requires a bunch of sensitive electronic components to work.
The Tempest uses these Curtis chips and it's still $2000. Discrete components would cost even more. Remember the Sunsyn?

Now, digital synthesis with analog filtering is a very real (and affordable) possibility.

cabin vibe wrote:

runs on batteries as well......

Runs on GAS!