What’s most interesting to me - and only to me, I really don’t expect anyone else to find this interesting, so I’m just talking out loud now (again!) - is that this instrument really seems to tick every single goddam box I’ve said I’ve wanted ticked or tickled throughout the years.
Now that it’s potentially here, I just seem to appreciate my single Mother-32 oscillator all the more.
I made this point previously in this thread, but I wonder when we ask for “Aw, if they’d just included that” or “No, they left out that” or “They did what?”, there’s no way we’d be satisfied if all these remaks had been catered for. They’re the projection of something else.
There’s a similar debate going on in the Circuit forum, where this one guy is about to sell his Octatrack and asks for advise - should he or shouldn’t he?
I’m fairly certain these days that our comments on what we’d like or not like in an instrument, regarding features, is just an idea of our frustration how hard it is to make music, and even harder to make good music. We’d like to think that something that nails the workflow just gets that bit out of the way, so that we could focus on the writing. So someone clears the path, “Okay, so it’s out of the way, now get to write”, and you’re sitting there with your shiny new pencil, your blank sheet o’paper, the ink’s all wet, and it’s as hard as it ever was. If not harder.
But this time, you’re out of excuses. And where do you go from there?