Comments on: Elektron Outbox 8 Promises To Expand Your Synth With 8 Audio Or CV/Gate Outputs

By: Groaner

Groaner — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:23:46 +0000

A guess is that the analogue-to-digital (or digital-to-analogue?) converters used in the Elektron boxes are too slow for running with class compliant audio interfaces. For instance my Syntakt is far slower at sending audio over USB into a DAW than a class compliant audio interface.

Not sure how they’ll get audio out of this box without loads of latency though.

Now you point it out, I wish they’d have done the class-compliance from the start.

By: normanion

normanion — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:20:42 +0000

In reply to Frank Sampedro. I’m with you on this one. Push 3 (only standalone, unfortunately) and Akai are so great with that one feature. I wish the Tonverk and even older siblings had this feature and be done with it. I mean: audio via USB but being host, not the guest, like it works right now.

By: eoin

eoin — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:59:37 +0000

In reply to Mike. It uses Overbridge. Why would you expect the octatrack to work?

By: normanion

normanion — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:41:42 +0000

Apparently, people have too many inputs and too few outputs. ?

By: Frank Sampedro

Frank Sampedro — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:22:19 +0000

I’m not invested in either ecosystem, but when an MPC can use any class compliant interface for these purposes, why does the Elektron have to be proprietary?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:39:19 +0000

No octatrack hurts kinda ?