The perceived range of features available in products like the MPC One are going to present a conciderable marketing challenge for Elektron moving forward.
The essential issue for the company is how they’re tackling the DSP issue.
Elektron had a great deal of its IP invested in Motorola DSP programming:
DSP austerity in 2018
Two Coldfire MCF5441’s inside
and it seems obvious now that the power of this architecture has not kept up with more emergent platforms such as ARM which appears to be many orders of magnitude faster: MFlops vs TFlops.
You could argue that Elektron is a niche company and doesn’t need to enter the feature wars and that its workflow is everything, but products like the M:S suggest the company has broader ambitions.
Let’s hope that the transition to ARM is already well underway and that the company has the stomach for change.