At Superbooth 2026, Elektron was sharing a sneak preview of their upcoming Outbox 8, a new USB interface that promises to add 8 additional audio or CV/Gate outputs to your Overbridge-compatible synthesizer.
Planned for release later this summer, the Outbox 8 will connect to devices like the Digitakt, Digitone and Syntakt and add 8 additional outputs, each of which can be configured for audio or CV/Gate. Updated firmware will allow these synths to use the additional outputs like Overbridge for the DAW-less jammers.
This promises to be hugely powerful, because it opens up a new realm of effects processing and sequencing power for these devices.
Here’s what Elektron superuser Ezbot (Matthew Piecora) has to say about the Outbox 8:
Note: Official details on pricing, specifications and compatible devices are still to be announced at the Elektron site.
Check out the video and share your thoughts on the Elektron Output 8 in the comments!
No octatrack hurts kinda ?
It uses Overbridge. Why would you expect the octatrack to work?
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?
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.
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.
Apparently, people have too many inputs and too few outputs. ?