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Elektron Quattro confirmed!

http://alturl.com/hfpks

"The Elektron Quattro is a brilliant industrial-strength plotter-cutter of amazing versatility. Designed to be future-proof, the Elektron Quattro has many unique features, carrying on from the tradition of other landmark machines. The Elektron Quattro can carry up to four steered tools so a machine can be configured to suit the specific needs of your work. (..) All machines are fitted with a marker for marking pattern numbers and a laser pointer holder for digitising, alignment and pattern matching. "

ark wrote:
The logo could just be a 6 turned on its side.

... Or a lower-case G. ...Or both!

Very fitting that they're running a back-to-school sale right now... If this is a Mk3 MNM and MD, I will have learned a valuable lesson.

A Rorschach test for synth peeps. The Elektron Inkblot Mk3.

LOL, this thread is cracking me up, you guys sure have some good imaginations.

THE ELEKTRON OMNIDECALOG

Digital synth dedicated to Jesus Christ's teachings.

Those holes to the side are for coin donations.

With full 24bit state of the art digital reverb, emulating church ambience.

Elektron HQ when they see this thread: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_makabpFi8m1qj9337o2_500.jpg

OK, here's my theory.

On one of the pictures that has been posted so far, I see six buttons in a row.

The buttons have the following labels:

1) Osc 1 / Ext in / CV A
2) Osc 2 / (blank) / CV B
3) Filters (?) / Chorus / CV C
4) Amp / Delay / CV D
5) Env / Reverb / Env
6) LFO / LFO / LFO

So: The buttons control three different parts of the device, as do similar buttons on many Elektron devices. The first column is typical for controlling a classic subtractive synth; the second is typical FX; and the third looks like a typical way of controlling an external analog synth.

So let's start with the assumption that this is a device with the aforementioned qualities. In addition it has 16 trig buttons, so presumably it has a typical Elektron sequencer. Moreover, it has six Monomachine-like channel buttons.

The picture is therefore something like a Monomachine, but more classically oriented, and with more control over FX. In addition, it can control four analog CV channels instead of being limited to MIDI.

Also, to the left of the six gray buttons I can see three white buttons. Each one says "Setup" in red under it, and I can make out that under the rightmost two of the buttons it also says Arp and Noise, two more features that we would expect to find in a classic subtractive synth.

From this, I am thinking that the new box is intended to be a companion to the Octatrack, especially for people who don't want to spring for a Machinedrum + Monomachine. If it is in fact a virtual analog synth, then it's different enough from the Monomachine that people will keep buying Monomachines (which must be pretty profitable now that the development and tooling costs have been amortized) and also that people who already have Monomachines might buy one of these devices too, and not feel that their Monomachines have been made obsolete.

A subtractive synth is a good companion for a sampler/looper such as the Octatrack, because it can produce a wide variety of both melodic and percussion sounds, and the Octatrack can fill in what's missing. And as with the Monomachine, the percussive capabilities might well be different enough from the Machinedrum that it wouldn't make the MD redundant either.

Ok i agree w'ark.
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