circuitghost wrote:The Circuit's not so much about the feature, but rather the way it's designed. I think it's of little relevance what it can and can't do, compared to the Electribe Sampler. It's the way you play it and work with it that makes it different, not the number (or lack thereof) of voices and features.
Ironically, it's the other way around with the Electribes. They're quite fleshed out when it comes to features, but it's the way you play them and work them that stands in their way.
I think all these design limitations are intentional; offering 4 sample voices on the circuit in 2016; and all these other sill limitations with the korg voices dropping out, there is no need, that would be like them selling a new computer 512 MB ram in 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
Planned obsolescence or built-in obsolescence in industrial design and economics is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so it will become obsolete, that is, unfashionable or no longer functional after a certain period of time.
Producers that pursue this strategy believe that the additional sales revenue it creates more than offsets the additional costs of research and development and opportunity costs of existing product line cannibalization. In a competitive industry, this is a risky strategy because when consumers catch on to this, they may decide to buy from competitors instead.