That awkward moment when you go to unplug something from the front of your 10yo power conditioner and it pulls the socket out of the faceplate 
internally it’s still connected… time for some super glue i guess lol
We were using some power strips almost as old as I am in our house up until like a year ago lol (born 1982)
Elektron Power Handle is out, one less thing to plug for you.
We need a full rewiring here, not sure when my landlord will arrange for that, so currently a few of our sockets are taped over to make sure we don’t use them…
o.O goodness. and sucks about the Hydrrasynth, you were really looking forward to it. It might be you just don’t gel/get along with it. that happens. Or might just need a little more time to work with it and its eccentricities.
I love Elektron but its a fucking tube that holds AA batteries for $70 lol
It costs that much?? They can get fukt lol they are clearly huffing something
Instead of arriving on the Saturday of the long weekend coming up for Murrica my Output Platform is arriving Tuesday since Monday is a holiday -_- le sigh…
I was a bit off, $62 USD before shipping on Elektron’s store. But they can still get fucked and they are clearly huffing old paint lol. $50 at Sweetwater.
I mean…I kinda get that in one regard AAs make more since if you are out somewhere you can’t recharge another power source. But come on…its little an aluminum tube that converts AA power…they might have well just put a battery space inside the box and charged more…
Lol at that Elektron handle. When did they release the M:S? Two years ago now? Two years R&D to deliver a 70 dollar tube that holds batteries? Geez guys. It wouldn’t have been near as bad if they had offered it on release. But to take that long to deliver what is essentially a tube is mind blowing to me. Everyone was clamoring for that battery too on release. It would have been a HUGE selling point. Now it just seems like an opportunity missed.
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they won’t even spot you the first four batteries with some no brands lol. Cheap cheap cheap! XD I would find it spendy at $30 and go “Oh just Elektron being Elektron.” But a $50 battery/stand for a $300 groovebox? No, no no. No no no.
Who says it converts anything? The battery input can take 4-10V, this is just 4 AA in series for 6V being fed into it with a 5.5x2.5mm barrel jack. You can make a battery pack for this for like $5 XD
I don’t want my first post on Elektronauts being the one that gets me banned…
edit People are just gushing over this on Elektronauts…
Yea…I wasn’t sure if it needed converting or not…so that is 100% even more rediculous as you say.
And yea…I can’t believe almost no one is calling bullshit on this…I get its a niche product but the profit margin on these has to be insane.
Hope that Elektron boot tastes good fan boys lol
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Just strap any usb charger to the bottom and a converter cable, costs less and takes up less space. I assumed it also offered a way to recharge batteries but it doesn’t.
It’s a handle though, you know, it does handle stuff…
I spent $50 on a bluetooth 60% keyboard instead. It’s not bad, brown style switches (kinda wish I’d gone red again…), though the LEDs are slightly mismatched in a few of them, as is tradition for cheap things with RGB LEDs… Nothing at all related to music’ing really.
Unrelated to hardware, Bitwig 4 beta just announced. New feature, Operators, gives Elektron conditional trig type things 
Uh oh. It imports Ableton Live projects now (and FL Studio but who cares). The Akais can export to Ableton Live… Another excuse to get a Force…
Hammer head and Rebirth were like the two first things I sampled. You know, other than fart sounds.
I care… : ( lol long time FL user here ;p
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That sentence is incomplete, the Force can export AND IMPORT Als files.
Fruity Loops, Fruity Loops, obviously aimed at teenager, real DAWs have real names, like Live or Logic, even Reason.
Magix Music Maker anyone?
(Said that, I have FL installed, just haven’t used it as I can’t be arsed with a daw, but I’d love to try the Fire controller)
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Good you can switch to Bitwig more easily now 
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Two of seven pieces arrive Saturday. The Output Platform desk is three. So I can still do fuck all until next week. This is a godless world lol…