The Big Elektron Analog Heat Video - Sonic LAB 

Cenk perfectly illustrates how genuine enthusiasm and love for a product is the best way to MAKE ME WANT TO HAVE THIS.

It's 2022. I have a MkII arriving tomorrow. I am so pumped for it (pun intended). Cenk's enthusiasm feels so genuine. Sure, he's a sales man for them but when the really amazing sounds take shape you can see he's inspired. Hopefully I'll be just as inspired tomorrow 😎

Is that an Elektron t-shirt? Probably the only Elektron gear I could ever afford. I want it!

Analog filter/eq/fx + audio interface + overbridge.... why are people complaining about the price point?

I didn't think I would be picking this up until watching this presentation...

Usually the people complaining about the price of Electron stuff has never used them. Once you have then you will understand, it's worth every penny!

Sounds fantastic. On my list for next year.

I know Cenk works for Elektron, but you can tell he's really into the device, as he makes that "this is awesome" face several times during the video. If you watch the Analog Four presentation video, he does the same thing a couple of times. It's fun to see a demonstrator so into his work.

i love watching these guys ... how theyre so engaged and obsessed, and im blown away by their knowledge and articulation

Ace. Love Cenk's joy at the end. "Yes, yes. That will be great" (It is)

This will be amazing for both hip pop and techno producers.

The ability to use this as an audio interface will be a game-changer for some, myself included. There is simply too much utility in this box. I suppose it's time to start selling my blood again.

Great demo. I'm looking forward to adding this to my setup. It seems to be what I've been looking for.

Awesome device. Can anyone tell me if I am right presuming that I can use the filter and dry wet to apply saturation to specific areas only ? Like „distort Highs above 12khz only“ ? Or „only distort bass „ ?

Is it worth giving the time for the device to physically warm-up before use? Does anyone hear a difference between a device that was just switched on and one that has been been on for a while and feels warm to the touch?

Cenk and Nick do the best demos. Thanks!

souldn't heat apply analog soft clip the signal before coming back, on the overbridge plugin output?

great product demo, guys! great product elektron! i take back whatever i said before - this is much more than a $750 fuzz box.

Thanks Nick for this video about the Elektron Analog Heat. Was not so hyped by this news but after this demonstration, I see the advantage of this effect unit with the feature that you can use it as interface sounds also great. For me it's not really a distortion unit but more an analog dirty maker for signals :)

I love those analog processing boxes. I have a Vermona Retroverb Lancet and some features overlap, a great little effects unit with drive, a resonant multimode filter, env follower, low and high frequency boost, a lfo with different shapes, sample & hold modulation and.. a spring reverb. Cheaper and highly recommended!

Love the idea of warming up digital signals with this

This is guy is great, he genuinely loves this thing. I think it sounds amazing and I'd love to have one if I could afford it.

@sonicstate do you have a dead (white) pixel in on of your cameras? 18:17 just above your left ear from the viewers perspective...

Can someone tell me how i would use this in my setup without a mixer? just a couple of synths, maschine and a soundcard.

Any of you guys tried this as an audio interface? Just plug a preamp into the line-ins? Is the latency ok?

No pulse width on Lfo with filter destination?

Cenk is my favorite guest on Sonicstate!

I am impressed, wanted an Iotine core for ages, but getting hold of one is a pita, not to mention import, duty etc. I think people forget this is stereo and an audio interface. Is the input treated as another soundcard? Do you need to make an aggregate device ?

This is another great presentation to Sonic State. But Cenk is relaxed and super excited. Very cool to see him so loose, so enthused. His excitement about this product is so evident...and it does really sound good. Considering the price for a stereo distortion + envelope follower + filter...well done, Elektron. Seems like it fits nicely between lower-end solutions and higher-end rack units.

I really like the idea of this in my setup since I don't have any outboard signal processing. Any body know of a rack mount unit that works like this?

I use digitakt so can I resample each track through heat mk1 to digitakt?

How do I control the Heat via Midi ? I mean all the parameters? How can they get controlled via midi?

Great demo as always.

amazing sounding piece of gear, great demo. thanks

Sounds freaking amazing!

Always fun seeing Cenk and Nick talking about cool gear.

Thanks sonic state this looks really interesting and i like it more than i thought i would. Elektron are a very cool company and i always like the interaction between Nick and Cenk. Both gentlemen. Good Day.

This is seriously a great unit!!

can you run mono sources through this as well?

I'd like to hear how it would sound on soft synths like sylenth etc so see if it removed that sort of plastic sound they have

Did anything happen with the stereo features you were talking about? Does it have any new functionality?

What are competitors making that would be a less expensive or better? Examples?

If I only had known that watching this video would cost me 800 euros.

Great demo!

They finally got the right LED screen for their products. Sounds great too!

the price for the "heat" is too hot for my tastes.

Excellent review! Thanks for remembering to ask about the sample rate because the manual doesn't even say.

Great stuff!

Top presentation.

damned changed my mind, this box is the shit. absolutelly will change my life

Ahh the envelope follower functionality is back. I've been missing it since the MachineDrum - it was awesome. Pipe in a bassline, fiddle with the envelope follower and filter settings and you got some great new sounds. It's a shame they missed it in the Octatrack and Rytm. It's back in this very expensive form factor.

When will Overbridge be available for this product?

I have on of these and it's perfect for mix bus processing, or stem mixing, it's the only piece of gear I can't live without. Waiting for analogue heat 3 - next generation, so much potential

Love this guy's enthusiasm and a great product to match. Just need to rob a bank brb

absolutely love this

how does the "analog heat" compare to the "niio lotine core"?

Got an AH MKI in 2023, still feels relevant and exciting! Great work Elektron on building classic gear.

this pad sound! Legend! Love it

Great demo! I'm personally waiting for some demos to surface of the OTO Machines BOUM Warming Unit before deciding if I should purchase this, I for one would shy away from the extreme settings as I am looking for something to add a bit of character to my digital sounds...

the idea that you can use at as a plug in is brilliant and it makes it a lot more versatile. I'd assume you can use it on a return track right?

For what it does, and how useful it could be in a high end studio, not a terrible price I think. It really does sound good. All of those distortions sounded so pleasant and non-intrusive.

My question is... if you run all drums through this, how do you then mix them individually? They will all be on one track. Not sure how to use this in a mix. The drums sound good together running through it, but I don't know how much this would help from a mix standpoint.

I'm guessing only one instance of the plugin can be used at a time? Otherwise what would happen? It explodes?

This guy is awesome! Great demo!

Sounds nice...good demo

This thing looks amazing. When I first saw it, I was also surprised by the price for a distortion/filter box. But 10 minutes into this demo I realized this is going to be a great product that will sell well among people who can afford and who use high-end gear. This isn't just an effects box -- it's a serious tool for music production or gigging. A lot of people here are complaining about the pricing -- well, guess what, it is expensive to design and produce high-quality gear like this. Elektron make high quality stuff and their prices are in line if you are making sensible comparisons. (i.e., don't compare this to Korg, please -- not that I don't love lots of Korg stuff!). Consider that Moog's ladder filter in 500 series is $500 -- just for a filter. Yes you can imitate a lot of this ITB, but it isn't going to sound the same and certainly isn't going to feel the same as using a piece of hardware. I could see myself processing a ton of stuff through this in my studio. I'll probably have to wait until I can get one of these used or on sale, but I'd love one.

Bought this about 6 months ago. Had to think hard about parting with so much cash. SO, SO, SO worth it. I will never sell this lovely box. Literally makes everything you put through it sound like GOLD!!! Was even better than I had hoped. Only watching this cause I was looking to see what crazy things people might be doing with it. Inspired by this thorough explanation. Can't wait to get back in the studio now.... I hadn't really been even using the LFOs, and it still has being blowing my mind the past six months. Filter was an added bonus that I didn't think I'd use as much as I do.. . even without using LFO!! ,,, Amazing bit of kit. Highly recommended and actually it's a bargain for what you get ;)

Excellent sound as external effects unit (I've got one) but, at least on my case, unstable if you want to use with Overbridge.

so awesome, im getting one!!!

Still not get why analog effects are "best" than digital. Could anybody clarify? I have a bunch of analog gear pluged to my DAW filter/effects and I do not see inmediatly the benefits of getting extra analog filters or effects (with the exception of certain filters). I see the advantage of the interface and the real-time accesibility but, I don't know, sound-wise for me, I do not see mayor changes

It sounds extremely beautiful.

This is way too cool for me to be this late to the party. Pleasantly surprised 😲

Question: He mentions LA2A and “Pooltech” but I didn’t find the latter on a google search, does anyone know what he’s referring too?

solid vid!

I love Elektron's products! Very inventive designs, I have many of them but damn I'm going broke, you guys are making too many great machines!!

This thing is massive, only wish it had sequencing capabilities onboard for p-locking. DAW automation will do, I suppose. Looking forward to the inevitable "Elektron Digital Chill" too...;)

Can this be used as a Send/Return EFX Processor? Kind of like the Pioneer RMX-1000?

this really awesome knob ... (c) 2016 by Cenk ;-)

this box is real sweet i might have to get one

@Mr Dataline You made me buy the OT, then the AR, then the AK, now the AH. I'm broke now, but would do it all over again. Happy with every single purchase!

Dataline is here !!!!!!!! Yeahhhh your're the best !

this is priced right. wish it was in a 19in rack format though.

I would have liked to hear what it does to the output of decent digital synths like the Virus, or one of the better soft synths. Or is "making digital sound like analog" not in the spec sheet?

The more extreme sounds are surely usable for the kind of live setting presented in the very end of the video. There are less examples of processing more subtle audio source such as for example vocals, so it's hard to tell how good the device is on that front. Then again it is called Analog Heat, so I guess heavy distortion is its forté in the end.

So I can have an analog signal path which I can drop into a chain as an insert ? Using this as an au, vst or whatever plugin?......is the overbridge plugin just a software effect that is then controlled by this unit ( like a cc midi controler ) or is the signal path actually sent through the analog circuits ?? ( Im talking about using as an effect in my daw ) Sorry if I sound stupid im 4 beers in atm hehe

This is sooo dope gotta get it

Starting watching feeling I didn't want it. Ended by immediately adding it to my next purchase list! 😄

The host really loves the sound of his own voice.

So with envelope on preset volume it can be used kinda like a channel strip?

that is one useful box of tricks. that's a lot of guitar pedals replaced for one thing. price seems reasonable to me, and I love the elektron aesthetics. what's the build quality like?

It really reminds me of the features that the Waves MetaFilter plugin comes with!

Dear Santa ! Another amazing elektron product :)

Impressive piece of gear.

love it...so much

they need to make 1 massive drum machine with sequencer and all these fx.full analog circuitry with digital ease and maybe filter envelopes. i think you can make great 909 house kicks with this. and some awesome hip hop basstortion.

In Ableton Live its only possible to use one soundcard at a time, on PC. So using Heat with the plugin DAW integration will the Heat become the exclusive soundcard for Live?

Be ideal if you could jump the effects around like on the JD990

Pioneer RMX 1000 has similar things, like 3band EQ, LFO effects, Distortion, sample play, plug in and more.., is stereo, but ofcourse all digital. and price was similar i think around 750 if i remember well, so Analog heats price is reasonable for beeing analog hybrid with soundcard! super product, thanks Nick! peace!

I would love this unit as a 19" rack mount for last in chain audio processing for live situations.

Sure, it's a crunchy biscuit! :D I love Cenk, best company 'promo-guy/fan-boy' ever.