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julioelgenio · Post by **julioelgenio** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 4:31 pm

Electra2 grace period - free upgade to v2.0:

Some of you might have already noticed the upcoming release of Electra2.
We decided to offer a grace period: All customers who order ElectraX between May 2014 and the release of Electra2 will be able to upgrade to Electra2 for free.

Some highlights of the upgrade will be:
500 additional patches
Reworked factory patches
A patch browser
16 new effects
5 new filters
Sample editor
Physical modelling synthesis
Enhanced sound quality
New graphics
Better user interface
Downward compatibility with the previous version
And a huge number of further new featues and enhancements!

As seen on Facebook & Their email campaign

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 5:16 pm

Your post keeps referring to it as "Electra2" but you mean ElectraX 2, right? How do you have this info?

jsp1979 · Post by **jsp1979** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 5:24 pm

zerocrossing wrote:Your post keeps referring to it as "Electra2" but you mean ElectraX 2, right? How do you have this info?

It is definitely Electra 2 (with no "X"). This info was posted on Tone2's Facebook page earlier today and sent in an email to those on their mailing list.

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 5:42 pm

The OP was copied from an email I received as well. It is Electra2, they've dropped the X, as mentioned in the other thread.

I wonder what kind of physical modelling it can do...

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 5:44 pm

jsp1979 wrote:
zerocrossing wrote:Your post keeps referring to it as "Electra2" but you mean ElectraX 2, right? How do you have this info?
It is definitely Electra 2 (with no "X"). This info was posted on Tone2's Facebook page earlier today and sent in an email to those on their mailing list.

OK, saw it. Weird. I'll never quite get why Tone2 does what it does marketing wise. Do they think that "X" is stopping people from buying their instrument?

Robmobius · Post by **Robmobius** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 5:55 pm

Can't wait!!!!!!!

julioelgenio · Post by **julioelgenio** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 6:26 pm

Fixed the title, why drop the X?

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 6:41 pm

julioelgenio wrote:Fixed the title, why drop the X?

Yup, they rather need to bring out a Special Edition of it called, Electra S-E-X

fisherKing · Post by **fisherKing** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 7:20 pm

looks great! i've gotten a lot of use out of electra-with-an-X, so am excited about this...

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 8:13 pm

Electra-X-2 is too many syllables to say or think in your head.

I actually think it should have just been called Electra to start. ElectraX was awkward. Maybe they felt the same.

GeorgeZ · Post by **GeorgeZ** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:30 am

fisherKing wrote: electra-with-an-X

dead

Happy Frog · Post by **Happy Frog** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:20 am

I hope the upgrade is not more then $79 like Dune 1 to the all new Dune 2.

Igro · Post by **Igro** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 8:15 pm

Enhanced sound quality

Why not to mention this in details?

fluffy_little_something · Wed Jun 04, 2014 9:21 pm

The Tone2 comparison table is funny. The more expensive a synth is, the more genres it is good for

Aren't Gladiator and Electra rather similar?

Sendy · Post by **Sendy** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 9:39 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:The Tone2 comparison table is funny. The more expensive a synth is, the more genres it is good for

Aren't Gladiator and Electra rather similar?

Sure, your synth may be the best around, but is it good for MOOMBATRON?!

Gladiator and Electra-without-an-X are pretty different really. They both have that Tone2 sheen, but Electra-without-an-X has a more straightforward workflow, whilst Gladiator has that HCM thing, which I tend to think of as interactive wavetables (basically, you have wavetables that you can modify by applying transforms, or by using combiner algorythms between two wavetables, which are then computed quickly but not on the fly). That makes Gladiator a bit of a "try it and see" kind of affair in the oscillator department, which can work for or against it.

Electra has more of that plasticy, chompy, chewy goodness, wheras Gladiator is more at home with pads and etheral, experimental sounds. It can also do VA type stuff, but for me, it never sounds as "solid" as when done with Electrax or Saurus or another dedicated VA synth.

Tone2 Electra 2