Top down:Filter Factory 2.o
Repeater 2.0
MoFX 2.0
Warp Factory 2.0Title link takes you to more info. You can get OS 2.0 for your existing repeater as
well. You can see the previous Repeater in use here.via brian comnes
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
New Electrix Products Coming 2008
Top down:Filter Factory 2.o
Repeater 2.0
MoFX 2.0
Warp Factory 2.0Title link takes you to more info. You can get OS 2.0 for your existing repeater as
well. You can see the previous Repeater in use here.via brian comnes
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You've gotta be effing kidding me. The Electrix boxes were extremely cool and innovative >>NINE YEARS AGO<< when they were first released. We need to see something new, please.
ReplyDeleteThey're still cool boxes. I'm wondering why it's taking so long for them to get them back into production since they haven't changed anything other than the color of the front panels. I think the pink front panel is a big mistake from a marketing stand point.
ReplyDeleteI am skeptical...what exactly makes these version 2.0? they look like the same electrix boxes, and the descriptions are identical to what has been on the website for some time now. I would like to see electrix do an actual upgrade that make real changes that the previous units really needed.
ReplyDeleteits not pink, its peach.
ReplyDeleteI'll believe it when I see it. Repeater 2.0 has been floating on the edge of our reality for some time. There have been various other failed attempts to pierce the veil and come over to this side...
ReplyDeleteI'll be delighted to order the 2.0 software as soon as I get reports of people getting and installing it successfully.
I'll believe it when I see it is my take on this, too. There's been enough rumors about Electrix making The Big Comeback over the past couple of years, with nothing to show for it. Once these things are on the shelves, that's when I'll start getting curious. Until then, it's just more vapor.
ReplyDeleteIt's a different world from when these were first released...
ReplyDeleteNo real point in re-releasing the vocoder, in my opinion. People won't pay much more than what they go for used. Lots of VAs with built in vocoders, otherwise just go vintage... not to mention tons of plugins.
Take the filter and the multi-effects and combine them. Distortion plus filter of the Filter Factory were good (not great... I'd rather have a Sherman or Mutator or Frostwave). Delay of the Mo-FX was good, add in dotted eighths though. Combine the two and you have a nice product for live use... stereo filter + delay in two rack units. Otherwise, again, who's going to buy this in the current market at anything more than the prices these already go for used? Nobody...
Repeater, if updated with better card and memory specs, better updated converter specs, and with bugs fixed, would likely sell fine.
If they spent all their R&D time and money redesigning the faceplates they will just go broke again with these products, assuming they are ever even released.
you guys can be such negative a-holes. electrix made some great products. i think they should keep making them, even if there the same, however, they should realize that theyre now in competition with the original batch thats being sold 2nd hand on places like evil-bay. so price has to be competitive if the products are essentially the same... or theyre going to go under again. as for the new color of the warp factory, maybe they just left the original ones sitting in the sun for the last few years? :)
ReplyDeleteI may be a negative a-hole, but I'm a realistic negative a-hole. I used the Mo-FX and Filter Factory extensively for about six years so I know their strengths and weaknesses. I've also used the Warp Factory, I personally found it to be pretty pointless for live use, which is really the biggest strength these units have.
ReplyDeleteAs far as sound goes, there are much better and cheaper (assuming that new these will go for 2x the current used prices) alternatives now.
In the studio? Plugins and much nicer low end effects units then were available ten years ago.
Live? Fewer budget musicians use external gear, and this is budget gear. Ableton Live and a laptop rules the scene (not that I am happy about that, or enjoy watching someone behind a laptop for an hour). The latest Kaoss pad revision is pretty damn nice. So was the last revision for that matter.
DJ? Again, Ableton. Those who aren't using Ableton can use mixers with digital effects built in, or Kaoss pads, much easier to use than hooking in Electrix stuff.
So they releasing the same product that bankrupted them seven years ago, into a more advanced and different market with more competition... and I am an a-hole for pointing this out?
Like I said, I used and like their stuff. If they released a flter/delay combo (WITH DOTTED EIGHTHS...) I would buy it. I know there are lots of loopers who hate laptops who would love a debugged, updated Repeater. They could be very successful with these two products, which would require only some tweaking of their previous designs.
But re-releasing the exact same stuff ten years later? Best of luck to them, but if even a fan like myself is skeptical, they gave an uphill road. Sorry for being an a-hole by pointing that out.
The only thing they should release is the Looper.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the market for that isn't so large I think.
There's no reason to re-release all these things as they are, with different labels.
Esp. their MoFX box -- for the Line6 stuff that's in every Guitar Center totally blows it away in every meaningful way.
Well if you actualy read the Electrix Page you can see that SBD is releasing Repeater V2.01 software to run on the OLD hardware....kinda pricy at $129, but hey I stepped up to the plate and ordered the fix, BTW there is a link to all the fixes and add-ins and it sounds to me like they fixed a lot of what people were griping about, especially MIDI clock and starting out in Overdub mode ...originally they were not gonna upgrade old Repeaters, but I guess customer bitching and the need for $129 out their old customers did the trick ....I got all my Electrix stuff at deep discount and used so I got my money's worth, hey if you can afford a Sherman and a Moog delay go for it ....
ReplyDeleteclick on products and it looks like they have some other product categories in store too. maybe some basic bread and butter stuff to keep revenue flowing eh? I always wanted a repeater. A shiny new one would be cool, even if it's not much different from MK1.
ReplyDeleteHey...if these make it to market will pigs automatically fly or will they have practice for a while at first?
I wonder if they've upped the resolution on the Filter Factory's cutoff/res knobs.
ReplyDeleteIt's a beautiful multimode analog filter, abosolutly gigantic self-osciallation - but with high Q and slow knobtweaks, you get audible cutoff steps. (Even with the internal LFO) if the thing was VCF-smooth, it would be an essential purchase. Still, it's my favorite standalone filter, just based on performance features..
I think the one thing that separates them from the POD type effects and anything else you could buy at guitarcenter is that these units are specifically ANALOG in the sound production and completely MIDI controllable.
ReplyDeleteI spent all day at Guitar Center not long ago challenging the rep to find me effects (even crappy digital ones) that had MIDI syncable reverb or anything. They could not, even with stuff like the new GDEC from fender it's got Midi only for the purpose of saving banks, it doesn't sync. And then you've got a few out there that do sync but they are crappy digital sounds.
Midi sync + analog sound. The only other producers of simmilar gear is MAM i think.. but they quit too.