@ jm2c
i missed the announcement. is it working ok with digitone? last time i used it (couple of months back) digitone kept freezing (not the actual device, but the connection would become unresponsive until a reset)

I did another brief test last night, and was able to get 18 24bit audiostreams from three elektrons (A4, AR, Digitone), everything played in sync and glitch-free @256 buffers!

Only issues I've encountered come from sync settings and when using the OB control panel. If you use OB for syncing, you must remember to uncheck all slave sync settings from the hardware's settings for most reliable operation.

OB control panel causes all sorts of dropouts and latency changes when reassigning the audio stream counts and bitdepths, so make sure you've set these settings correctly before you start running audio in your DAW to prevent glitches. You need to specify the audio channel count & bitdepth settings to every elektron device separately, but once you've done that you can close the ctrl panel and start rocking.

I can only speak for my own system here, but this is the first time I've gotten anything resembling reliable performance from OB2. I'm using overhub with a mac mini i7 2018 8GB RAM / OSX 10.15.4 / Ableton 10 (latest build).

And I'm kinda $hitting my pants now that I can use A4+AR+Digitone combo like this, giving me 20 voices of combined elektron goodness, with FM, subtractive synthesis & samples... running multitracked into my 12-core UAD. It's going to take getting used to all this power...

@ jm2c
thanks for the answer. i appreciate it. i've only used overbridge for patch editing tbh but i will give it a try to see how it behaves to actually start recording with it.

I have OB set in my DAW like this: One instace of each elektron's plugin on a MIDI track, followed by a bunch of audio tracks which take their input from the indiouts each plugin instance outputs. Each elektron gets it's own group in the mixer, with the plugin track and the individual audio tracks inside the group.

Hope it will work for you as well!

yeah, that's pretty much how i tested it ob last year with the dn and dt. more out of curiosity to see how it works. but when i did start using ob was to make a bunch of patches (it is much faster with the "editor" than on the unit but the freezing really drove me mad sometimes. but i have a lot of patterns now from various live sets i played and i thought i'd at least record them as audio.

They posted on Elektronauts that they will start beta testing soon.

Because of the changes in Big Sur (drivers are no longer kernel extensions) they had to rewrite the driver from scratch, so it is taking some time. The good news, they said, is that the new framework provided by Big Sur has made the driver simpler to implement, so should make maintenance simpler in future.

Good chance to make drivers as light as RME-class drivers)))

Its working for me. Macbook air m1 and alo on mac mini intel. On mac pro and macbook as well in sierra. makig my analog four2 and analog heat work fine.

I sure hope these guys could license their plugin to other manufactures. its the coolest thing. MAybe give it to Access virus so they can so the virus ti for big sur. Every single midi editor/librarian for any hardware synth sucks so hard. always a hassle. but with this overbirdge its been smooth sailing.

Spent the last two days forcing myself to dig down heavily into Overbridge 2 with my Analog keys and get it working and I can say that I'm so glad I did. In the past I had issues with it ( user error most likely ) but since I have separated each channels output, stopped just using the main outs, and set up the control panel properly, it has been a dream to use. Damn being lazy and impatient is a hinderance in this gig.

Getting away from the little screen to use things is wonderful. Using it as a 4 voice mono is how I like to use it, so when you change channels on hardware you instantly see that screen in the software and and can dive away to other extraneous mod/performance parameters without leaving that particular sounds screen. You literally can jam on it like DJ and really enjoy the hardware, through the use of software. All the little extras you can see around the plug in you can't see on the hardware screen is where it really shines.