„ Beside the production issues, it’s also quite difficult these days to develop new products. Sometimes you can’t buy the components for the prototypes, and sometimes you don’t know if all the components will be available in the next months for the production. This is particularly a problem with the MCUs (a microcontroller that is the heart of our products), memory chips, converters,…
I have some interesting projects under the hood but I have to wait the end of the crisis in 2022 (I hope so…) to finish and release them. So I’ve worked on a smaller and simpler device, almost finished, using no MCU, memory chip nor converter. This will be quite different than the previous OTO products, and might surprise some of our customers.
More news this fall/winter, I hope so.
I think it is safe to assume that there will be at least one item of hardware by the end of 2022, that will show the effects of the conglomerations of 2021. So that includes things from :
Fender / Presonus
Sequential / Novation / Focusrite
Native Instruments / Izotope
Also look for at least one more merger / reshuffle in 2022.
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Related to the money side of electronic instruments, and completely my speculation, we will not see the reintroduction of a new and improved version of the Seaboard Rise Keyboard, from Luminary ( former known as ROLI ) as has been promised. I hope i am wrong about this.
ADDED : Just six weeks later and it looks like i will need to eat my words as ROLI does look like they will do a replacement product for the Seaboard. See my post down-thread.
Re: Sequential, Dave pretty clearly indicated there were two things in the pipeline at some point, one of which was the Take Five. The other one is pretty likely going to be the Ob-Xa reissue, although some of us are hoping they go for something a bit more spectacular than just a re-issue.
I mentioned the Poly-Cinematic upthread as a Eurorack module that could be incorporated as a central part of a synthesizer system. This is another.
The name Vocorder is a combination of the words ‘Vocoder’ and ‘Recorder’. What is recorded is up to 3 minutes of the levels of 8 filters at the input side of a vocoder. The recorded data can be played back, and manipulated in a variety of ways to control the output filters. The data is saved when powered off.
The 16 filters, 8 input and 8 output, are all analog. The data stored is digital.
This is similar to a function that is part of the Waldorf STVC, except in that case it is entirely digital.
I’m thinking again of putting together a small system, probably with a keyboard, that would make a complete synth. This is good at capturing the spectral data of signals other than vocals too. It can also be used as a regular live vocoder.
Can I get a new firmware with few tweaks for the SP-16 as well please?! It’s such a great machine and it just needs a couple of tiny UX tweaks. I just want to be able to press Shift+Pad to change track without triggering the sound and individual track length for polymetric stuff and I’d be a happy camper!
I guess I’d also like to see the Syntakt too. I bought a Digitakt 4 times and I couldn’t gel with it. I also couldn’t get on with the Digitone synth engine (I’m not too smart) so something with a simpler virtual analog engine or drum-focused synth engine would be amazing. I love the form factor.
Genuinely curious why you’re interested in the Knobula? It makes zero sense to me, but I realize everyone’s needs and wants are different.
Virtually no CV inputs, kinda has no business being in a rack in my opinion. I’m all for poly in eurorack, currently using an Instruo Troika, and a Cs-L for poly duties, but there’s not even any way to play the Knobula poly via euro. Just feels like a poly synth stuffed into a module just because they could. Would have made more sense as a small standalone IMO.
I would like for the Polyend Tracker to get a better file transfer app. I would like OP-Z to get an update so someone will buy mine, and finally, I hope Koma Elektronik finally has more Strom Mobile and sensor packs to sell. That is all.
