Leave it to the Swedes to suck the fun out of synth-pop. Elektron creates extremely expensive synthesizers and markets them in a decidedly surly manner. As the sample sounds on the Elektron website can attest, they do sound cool, but $2072 for a sampler with 12 MB of memory—”No endless sample library to stop creativity,” they say—and no storage, music geeks are up in arms. The point, apparently, is that these things sound much better than traditional synths and are very well made. But so is Ikea’s meatball platter, and that costs only a few dollars.
Machinedrum Userwave: World’s most expensive sampler? [MusicThing]
