I am happy to announce that we decided to make the Offline Editor and Virtual Electra One free to all owners of Electra One hardware. If you feel you want to say thank you, say thank you to @eusti for asking the right question at the right moment
You may wonder what Virtual Electra One is. It is the firmware, both mk2 and Mini, running on your computer. We have macOS ARM and Windows Intel installers ready now. I am busy with Linux builds for ARM and Intel. As of version 5.0.6, the Offline Editor comes with both Mini and mk2 bundled inside.
The purpose is to be able to develop, test, and run presets without having the hardware. It allows mk1 users to access features of newer hardware, experience Electra One without buying the hardware, and develop and test presets for the other model. Of course, Virtual Electra misses the premium Electra One hardware, but for the rest, we did all we could to make the experience as close to the hardware as possible — it really runs the firmware. Of course, higher latencies or timing issues might stem from the computer running it. On the hardware controller, we have everything under control. Not on your computer.
Anybody who owns Electra One hardware can claim a free license for two computers. The web editor provides a tool to claim the license.
Anybody who does not own Electra One hardware yet and decides to purchase the Editor with Virtual Electra One will have its cost deducted when they buy a hardware controller in the future.
Zdenek and I spent substantial time making this happen. The project was driven mostly by porting the existing mk2/Mini firmware to the new mk3 hardware platform. There still might be issues, and there still might be things to improve. Feedback is welcome. Spreading and sharing the word about it and the mk3 is very welcome too!
EDIT: The windows installer installs BOME’s virtual MIDI driver. It is needed to provide virtual MIDI ports to the computer.
Windows 11 has now virtual MIDI out of the box, in case you still want to support Windows 10 it would at least nice to make the BOME installation optional.
I clicked claim for the license for the offline editor for hardware owners, I own a mk2. It flashed a message saying something but was too quick for me to read. No license has appeared under my licenses on the web editor. Is it due to appear?
UPDATE; Just took a while to appear under licences, thank you! Really appreciate it.
Thanks for the offline editor. But I must be doing something wrong, because I can’t find anywhere to download it! I get redirected to app.electra.one, and then what? I see my license, but I can’t get any further…
@martin , thank you!!! This is really appreciated!
What exactly is the procedure? I feel I am doing smth wrong, because I can’t get past the last step.
Here’s what I did:
Connected my E1 MkII to the computer.
Opened the App and pressed “Claim the free licence”.
Saw it appear under my Licenses after some time (saying I can activate 2 computers, and 0 out of 2 are activated).
Downloaded the “Free Trial” from the store.
Installed the package.
Went to the Settings → Licences.
Clicked to “Activate Online”
This is where I got stuck: The online app shows me the frame where I have my Licence Key, and the empty field of “Machine Code”. Where/how do I get this code? Should this field be populated automatically, or do I need to copy this “machine code” from somewhere?
Thank you in advance!
P.S. everything is on Widows 10 and Google Chrome. The online app works perfectly, the Electra is running the latest 5.0.6 FW
Haha, thanks! Wikipedia says: It is the modern Scandinavian and German form of Holmger (Old Norse for “warrior from the island” or “faithful spearman”) Now I know where my shoulder pain comes from: all that javelin throwing…
The Machine Code is the identifier of the hardware. I will check on my end if I can see anything that would explain why your machine code cannot be read. For now, use the trial, there is no difference in the functionality.
