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Re: [analogue-sequencer] cirklon knob colour

2010-02-24 by Josh B

Dave Smith Instruments are using pots because it's an analog synth and the
encoders were crap. Cirklon being a digital sequencer I don't really see
that being an issue... In fact encoders make mote sense to me.
Personally I liked the look of the silver cover in the first boot video
posted, and I usually vote for black gear. Either way it looks great.


On Feb 24, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Miguel Mendoza <miguel@filminteractive.es>
wrote:



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<analogue-sequencer%40yahoogroups.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!!

:)

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Paul
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