What hardware would you like to see, which doesn't exist?

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Was thinking recently, what kinds of things would be useful or desirable to have in the studio or live, but aren't being made?

Could be something general, like a type of synthesizer, or could be something you want to see from a specific company (like an analog keybed synth from Roland).

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I would like an ideal eurorack case that was designed to fit as carryon luggage, wasn’t underpowered, and wasn’t insanely expensive.
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I would also like Roland to put out a new anal log drum machine.
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I'll deviate... I'm going to build my own dream sample sequencer and I really want to recommend: http://www.axoloti.com Image

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a granular synthesis box with step sequencer like the elektron stuff.
also a physical modelling synth also in the elektron type format.
but not from elektron.

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Novation Mega Circuit with a large display, one mono analog synth like their bass station, 2 digital poly synths, 16 sampler tracks with sampling abilities and high end fx.. 8 in 8 out midi & cv in/outs, 16 channel midi sequencing and 2 channel cv sequencing and similar support to the Circuit.

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innovine wrote:a cheap culture vulture
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I would like Sonic Charge Microtonic as a hardware drum machine with 16 step sequencer.

A nice granular and wavetable synth, something like Alchemy and Granulator in a desktop box with a nice big display.

A live master bus box containing a stereo bus compressor, a nice 4 band para EQ (with a 30hz low cut), a limiter and some saturation.
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nomadjames wrote:I would like an ideal eurorack case that was designed to fit as carryon luggage, wasn’t underpowered, and wasn’t insanely expensive.
The Doepfer A100 P6 case fits as carry-on luggage (apart from Ryanair probably). Took in on a plane a couple of times. It's on the verge of being too heavy but that was never a problem. Also never experienced any issues with the power supply.

And then there's this, however sold out right now and not exactly inexpensive:
https://submodularsystems.com/shop/shadow

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a new drum machine that doesn't try to sound like roland or elektron would be nice.
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Mslwte wrote:a new drum machine that doesn't try to sound like roland or elektron would be nice.
Yeah man...I want a core drum machine, something that would be the rhythmic and percussive center of my rig. I'm willing to spend money on it, too. I just don't really like my options very much.
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You know what I would really like to see? A small, portable performance mixer that I could use to replace the Roland MX-1 in my portable rig...Something with more inputs, more sends, performance oriented, portable, and a driver that would let me easily track to a DAW.

That MX-1 is a horrible pain in the ass. Typical Roland implementation.
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Chromaphone 2 (plus Sample Import) as a hardware box would be great. Or Aalto.

Would buy these in a minute.
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The holy grail - a good, cheap, well constructed, polyphonic analogue synthesizer. I am on the fence if I can consider my Minilogue as one. Again it appears that a software editor will come to the rescue to really open it up. For example you can microtune the oscillator via the editor but not the knobs. Hades you should really give editors a chance.

Otherwise, I want a drum machine with extremely good kits, good drum buss style FX, but all of the cool sequencer tricks of the classic machines like the RS7000. I don't want to wait 6 minutes for 64mb of samples to load and 6 minutes more to save, every time I use it.

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The clue about decent hardware is that you don't need editors... .
Every parameter needs to be accessible by as less as possible menu diving.

I have a RS7000 as well; I like it very much as a sequencer but the loading times are so sloooooooow.
In the future I will try a Digitakt together with the RS7000 when the midi bugs are gone.
I don't have the output expansion board for the RS so it's a bit the same (and limited) with only 2 outputs.

To get a bit more on topic; I would like a decent drumcomputer/drumsynth/sampler with build in sequencer and a decent amount of outputs that is easy to operate (as an alternative to the Digitakt). No audio over usb shit please!

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I want an affordable midi controller with a classic full-scale 16/24 channel mixer layout. All the stuff available has like 8-12 channels at most, without the same amount of pots and is really expensive. Compare these two, how does this make any sense?

https://www.thomann.de/de/alto_live_1604.htm
https://www.thomann.de/de/presonus_faderport_8.htm

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WOLF! wrote:The clue about decent hardware is that you don't need editors... .
Every parameter needs to be accessible by as less as possible menu diving.
It sounds good in theory but in a way that's the other holy grail. Either you get something that's like what you describe but has very little overall functionality, or if an advanced interface is totally exposed on the front panel, it winds up way out of most people's budget range.

Editors are great when they complement an already half decent interface. I can get by with the interface of my Andromeda, Supernova 1/2 and Minilogue, but having good editors for all of them really rounds out their ability.

Gear where you can only dig in via an editor like the DX-7 is more frustrating, as is gear with no editor at all (unless the interface is absolutely perfect... I'd like to hear some of the best examples of these..)

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Mslwte wrote:a new drum machine that doesn't try to sound like roland or elektron would be nice.
Have fun with DSI Tempest. I think there are a lot of drum machines out there already which have their own sound (like these Boss things, or Nord Drum).

But Elektron just nailed it with the sequencer which is a crucial part when programming drums.
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dubdub wrote:I want an affordable midi controller with a classic full-scale 16/24 channel mixer layout. All the stuff available has like 8-12 channels at most, without the same amount of pots and is really expensive. Compare these two, how does this make any sense?

https://www.thomann.de/de/alto_live_1604.htm
https://www.thomann.de/de/presonus_faderport_8.htm
Well, the Presonus is overpriced certainly, and the Alto did look cheap for what you're getting.

But putting in motorised faders, rotary encoders, LED rings, displays and multicoloured LEDs is a lot more expensive than potentiometers, cheap faders and op amps and so on for an analogue mixer. Even the DSP effects on the Alto will most likely be a single chip bought from Alesis and dropped into the circuit. No tricky development time required.

Plus the fact that a midi controller will continue to need software updates as bugs are discovered and new features are requested so development and support costs are ongoing. Most analogue mixers, especially cheaper ones, are likely to be based on topologies that are decades old.

Have a look at the midibox projects where people have made the kind of device you're describing, then start to estimate the prices. Quickly you'll see that the costs become huge. For example, find a good quality motorised fader at €60 a piece then multiply by 16.


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