Elektron Musical Instruments

"Don't use the wheel" 

That's not really what I want to hear. I got this drum because I
really like it's UI, and that includes the big wheel and the encoders.
Knowing what I know now, I will do my cutoff tweaking with my doepfer
kob box, but i wish that wasn't the case.

If you cannot carefully remove the nine knobs before lifting the
faceplate, you should most definitely have someone do that for you. I
don't think that it really is thst big a deal, but even then I'd have
my friend the electronics tech do it maybe. Or the local synth repair
guy, who is totally worth his $80CDN an hour.

I recently had some encoders replaced by elektron, and while it was
not too expensive, if I could have just bought the part i'd have had
it done in under a week probably. Plus, if I do mess it up repairing
it, it seems to me that's just cash in the bank for the repair/support
department.

What I'd like to see is better knobs. Kick the price up a hundred
bucks and give me some five-year encoders. I'd trade fancy (push in,
continuous rotary, whatever) for "lasts ten years".