https://www.elektron.se/2016/06/goodbye-machinedrum-and-monomachine/
I just saw that. Oddly wishing I’d not sold mine now hah…
hoping for some news at summer namm on 6/23!
Sad news… I remember being in high school watching countless youtube clips of the machinedrum, I got a minimum wage job, saved for months and finally purchased one, for me this was the machine that introduced me to electronic music and production, beautiful machine… RIP. I no longer have a machinedrum, though will keep the monomachine forever.
Elektron’s policy has always been to minimize overlap between existing products…
The MM+MD are dead, long live the sucessors 
Elektron's policy has always been to minimize overlap between existing products...
What other Elektron products have been retired apart from the SIDStation? If you mean the SFX6 and the Mark 1 MDs and MMs then these were replaced with better versions of the same products.
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Just meant to say that now the “digital” is a free territory that Elektron can allow themselves to occupy with a new line of product !
With all the Analog line evolutions, it should be pretty powerful. Add resampling and I’d be more than happy 
Not that I need anything. I have already enough, even more than enough.
But I’d love to see something as revolutionary as the silver boxes when they arrived…
New tools bringing previously unthought functionalities for musicians to invent new music styles, like Autechre at their time…
Maybe a collaboration with TE…
One can dream
@LyingDalai I totally agree, bring on new Elektron products!
Not sure what my own point was now you are asking haha.... Did you mean that the new products they bring out occupy different niches? And therefore, if they have another digital product in the pipeline, if the MM and MD weren't retired then they would overlap?
i’ve had a preordered monomachine in with a us retailer here for a bit since the price drop went down. i’ve been lead to believe it’ll still pan out but yeah. i’ve wanted one for over a decade and finally got to a place where it’s okay financially to get one so really hoping i haven’t missed the boat. betting prices will skyrocket
If I wasn’t skint I’d be all over a machinedrum.
Not sure what my own point was now you are asking haha.... Did you mean that the new products they bring out occupy different niches? And therefore, if they have another digital product in the pipeline, if the MM and MD weren't retired then they would overlap?
Ahaha I’m not sure to get what you mean once again 
Anyway, yes it’s been frequently said on Elektronauts that Elektron tries to minimize overlapping between their machines. Not officially said, but it feels true.
When the prices drop, I bought the MD even if I didn’t need it. Ot thought I didn’t.
Now I love it, resampling and introduce arrhythmias, global control on every track with shift + knob, and more than everything the compact and groovy sound of it… It’s been really well conceived.
I can only hope for a beast that could match their print on future music production.
I for one am REALLY looking forward to seeing what Elektron have up their sleeves!
I was hoping these would stick around for a while after the price drop and that availability would catch back up to the new demand. They’re really great machines, and at the price-drop points I felt comfortable recommending them to people looking for a first drum machine who were also looking at the AIRA TR-8 type things, or even the Electribes. Or even the OP-1.
The Monomachine has really changed my relationship with the OP-1, and lately I’ve been struggling a bit with our beloved little white box. I love the OP-1’s portability, and the old tape-manipulation-head in me loves its 4 track idea (especially when seeing the new Electribes suffer from voice stealing when arrangements get moderately complex). But the way the Monomachine has its sequencer and sound design so integrated - the ease of building up per-step automation (P-locks) - has really hit home with me. I even tried it out this weekend as an effects box (let me route this reverb into more reverb).
At the $799 price point, I felt the Monomachine was really competitive and unique in that price range.
I would be so damn happy if instead of Nova synths, I could get Monomachine synths in something like the Novation Circuit.
While people are daydreaming about getting MD/MM synthesis combined with the newer sequencing and/or Overbridge features of the Analog series, I’m daydreaming about an MK3 that has maybe some of that but can serve the $500-$1000 USD price range. Basically - keep the MD/MM going but update the components so that manufacturing can continue; but keep them as an affordable entry point to The Elektron Way.
^ I wonder if these 15 year old technologies, thanks to modern tech, chips etc, will get reduced down to something the size of an OP-1?
My MD mk2 is far from dead 
You’ve just triggerd hard gas @spacetravelmadeeasy
I hate it when new exciting gear are coming up. i’m so sick of pasta and it feels every time like I’m going to have to eat some more for another year. Damn it never ends
You've just triggerd hard gas @spacetravelmadeeasy I hate it when new exciting gear are coming up. i'm so sick of pasta and it feels every time like I'm going to have to eat some more for another year. Damn it never ends
^ I wonder if these 15 year old technologies, thanks to modern tech, chips etc, will get reduced down to something the size of an OP-1?
It would be interesting to see if Elektron ever break form. They seem to have found a size and shape that work for them. But I would love if they made something ultra-portable like the OP-1. That held a long-ass charge off of USB and wasn’t another “5 hours on 6 AA batteries” device (something I love about the OP-1).
It seems unlikely but since they have a good range of products right now with their ‘dark trinity’, it might be a good time to break tradition and start a new range. Anyways, such is my day-dream.
You've just triggerd hard gas @spacetravelmadeeasy I hate it when new exciting gear are coming up. i'm so sick of pasta and it feels every time like I'm going to have to eat some more for another year. Damn it never ends
LOL!
^ I wonder if these 15 year old technologies, thanks to modern tech, chips etc, will get reduced down to something the size of an OP-1?It would be interesting to see if Elektron ever break form. They seem to have found a size and shape that work for them. But I would love if they made something ultra-portable like the OP-1. That held a long-ass charge off of USB and wasn’t another “5 hours on 6 AA batteries” device (something I love about the OP-1).
It seems unlikely but since they have a good range of products right now with their ‘dark trinity’, it might be a good time to break tradition and start a new range. Anyways, such is my day-dream.
One thing to remember is that the OP-1 was being designed long before the technologies that went into it were fully formed. Things like OLED screens and high capacity lithium batteries weren’t yet ready. By the time they were, the design had gone through many revisions.
I don’t believe this is the type of design ethos that Elektron employs. Sure, they anticipated scalability with the A4’s hidden hardware features, but true futuristic design, a’la TE or Ray Kurzweil is all too rare in the commercial musical instrument sphere.