Well, I think that the big market already use Ableton Live and soft plugins, of course for many of those people P3 is too complicated as also a painted on black Cirklon will be. I don't see the point as marketing strategy too look more conventional. I really believe that most people who can be interested on a serious hardware sequencer preffer that arcane look as I think that arcane doesn't mean unprofessional (most of the times it means the opposite). If anyone like to have a look to other company as Dave Smith, they are changing their more important synths from an encoder interface to a classic knob layout and the public response has been great. Perhaps this is an interesting topic even to make a poll but of course Collin is who has to decide how his stuff look like and I'll buy the Cirklon even in pink but that's just me... From: Softroom Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 3:18 PM To: analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [analogue-sequencer] cirklon knob colour Miguel Mendoza wrote: > Hello, talking about the design, I'm missing something from the P3. The Circlon looks more like a serial made device, I mean, something from Korg could have that look. I really like more the laboratory look of my P3. Something like an analog sequencer makes more sense to me in that way. Perhaps this is only a prototype and not the final look. You could put it another way. Cirklon looks more like a professional product, not so arcane or, yeah, like something from a lab. The P3 is amazing but was frequently accused of being hard to fathom (maybe folks don't have time to practise so much anymore). Don't forget Colin needs to sell a fair few of these babies to earn his living - so the more professional it looks, the better for all of us. And up close, it looks great. Korg do pretty well selling lots of instruments so let's hope a smaller company with an innovative product can find a place in the market too. Last thought: Logic users sick of its primitive MIDI editors (e.g. me) should be darn interested in Cirklon as should anyone still pining for the tightness of the Atari ST or the freaky power of fun sequencers like Dr T's KCS. Let's be optimistic gang!! :) -- Paul --- http://www.myspace.com/smokyfrog http://www.youtube.com/WilyEPeyote [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: [analogue-sequencer] cirklon knob colour
2010-02-24 by Miguel Mendoza