Don’t jinx it plz

They learned from the Super 6. Still not in stock at Thomann after how many years? Now people can start to save money for it.

Even the evil B appears to be delivering faster than Arturia with their first 2600s appearing this week.

I think France is having particular problems, with their tougher lockdowns than many places - see the problems that Expressive-E have been having too.

Probably the problem is rather the big cargo ship going out of the Chinese factory. Or the received the load and need to spend 5 hours testing per unit as promissed.

Arturia typically announces and drops near instantly like with software, Keystep, and MicroFreak. PolyBrute is extra difficult to do that with because of its extreme complexity. That and all the lockdowns make it harder. Let them take their time. It'll be worth the wait.

As long as Arturia keeps a fiasco like the recent Sequential capacitor issue from happening it’s all good. Take your time and get it right first batch.

They are good that way, but OTOH, having some advanced knowledge does help one plan. I cleared a spot for this baby in September.

Although you can buy a Super 6 from UK retailers, so nice (for a change) that the local shops get some decent levels of stock. The big box-shifters like Thomann hoover up the stock, but don't always offer best prices or service in my experience. Nothing wrong with Thomann, but there's nothing special about them either really.

Sequential have come good with it all now, but I wonder if it will make other manafacturers cautious about releasing before the spring, or before the more difficult stage of the pandemic is over - it seems to have been a problem relating to the distancing measures making it harder for all their team to test out their relevant parts of the synth respectively, in person, before the production process starts, and from what I understand of it expressive-e have had a similar problem.

Sequential have taken a risk, got through the problem and now have their synths out before everyone else's, but I expect they'll all be weighing up the pros and cons carefully.

You probably have never worked in a company doing tech, did you?

The service and quality control department in the place I work is still present and test their units before these go out to any customer, because the products are sold over the whole globe. That has nothing to do with the pandemic, not here and not there. It is easy to keep distance between employees, as inspection can be done by one well trained person and any other, just that they don't have to be present at the same time in the same room.

That wasn't the problem they had, from what I read on the thread - it's that some employees couldn't come into work physically at all, because of lockdowns in different places. France also has some of the harshest lockdowns.

PCBs from fab plants are also checked by robot-eye, and sample-checked by a human, so it's hard to imagine how a major PCB fault could have been overlooked unless it was a design error in the first place. Not sure where Sequential PCBs are made, but likely a fab plant in SF area that also made PCBs on demand for their other synths previously.

I think it's safe to assume the fab was producing the design they were sent. The problem is that no one at Sequential caught the error.

I wasn't following the Prophet 5/10 thread closely, so I'm not sure what the background was on why those capacitors were in the design in the first place.

They told me end of January, I am second on the list.

Just relaying what I had heard that day from an email from Aaron Kinney. I don’t check in very often but I guess if they told me this week and told you January.. then March it is!

I wonder if you can use the ribbon to control arpeggiator octave selection like with a d-beam, that'd be so cool!

Based on the spec it would seem so since the ribbon is a matrix source and pitch a destination. But I’d assume you’d hear the pitches in between even if you quantize the VCOs to a scale.

I’m looking forward to using it as an ondes Martenot!

Best Doty video yet.
https://youtu.be/KvlNbHVJ0FQ

Yep, this one was delightful and cracked me up.

This educational video is the best video I have ever seen about anything. At first he talks half of the video about morphing. When Nord Lead came out, there was morphing, but there was no internet, and because there was no internet, there was no Youtube, and because there was no Youtube, people had to read the manual which would just provide a few sentences how to use morphing and that was it. People were just using it, nothing had to be said about it.

Had hoped there would be more than just a morph between a saw and a square ;D. But even the square wave sounded good, so Arturia must have done something right. Looking forward to the Polybrute with its blueish color and the nice basic sound.

Couldn't this be said about literally anything? I'd also imagine plenty was said, just not publicly distributed for all to see on the internet.

Let's say somebody makes a video about morphing and wants to come to the point:

First sentence: you have to tweak the very ends of the morph knob thinking of two snap shots.

Second sentence: Notice how the Polybrute is designed to favour continuous tweaking instead of switching (from hardsync to no sync instead of hard sync switch, fading from triangle to saw, fading from this sum to the square) in order to allow mophing.

Everything said. In less than 30 seconds. And then you an start to show nice examples of morphing sounds.

That's a different video entirely. You might already know how the morph knob works, but there's just a little more to it than that.

That’s sad. I’m putting all my Christmas eggs in that basket, so it’ll be empty on my side of the tree. OTOH, everyone’s always home all day during the holidays and I rarely get a moment in my studio, so I’m actually sad about nothing.

Sweetwater told me January too.

two new Arturia tutorials up today!

Synth is a beast!

Dear Lord...You can Motion record the Morphee?!

Come ON, January!