Electra One laid the foundation of smart controllers: top-notch hardware that understands your instruments, not just their MIDI messages. A preset is an application, not a simple MIDI mapping. It knows every parameter and keeps it in sync.
Presets in the public library
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The first thing Electra One changes is how well you know your gear and your setup. As you build and use your presets, you learn your instruments inside out: every parameter of a synth, every detail of a sequencer. You get to know your gear in a way that manuals and menus never did. And that is a useful skill.
See how Electra One fits into existing workflows with instruments and integrations for DAWs..
Many Electra One users know their way around MIDI and Lua and build everything themselves. For them, Electra One is a complete MIDI toolbox. But you don't have to learn advanced MIDI or scripting. Describe what you want in plain language and an AI agent such as Claude Code or Codex can build it for you. How the feedback loop works →
Six years ago, we thought there was something missing in the realm of MIDI. We designed the original Electra One mk1 to address that need. The following six years allowed us to evolve the controller into a truly impressive MIDI toolbox.
A preset knows what the instrument can do: every parameter, its range, units, how it is encoded, how patches are requested, and how patch dumps are turned into values on the display. It shows meaningful texts instead of cryptic numbers, and envelopes as shapes instead of raw numbers.
How Electra One understands an instrument →
One preset addresses up to 32 devices over DIN, USB Host, and USB Device. The controller always tracks all parameters. Put four synths' filters on one page, morph snapshots with a knob, and unplug the computer, all while MIDI messages are routed, filtered, and transformed.
Devices, ports, and routing →
Every preset carries a Lua script that runs on the controller. Build a synth programmer for an instrument that never had one, fix timing of SysEx message exchange, add a macro that moves a dozen parameters with a single knob, a step sequencer or a MIDI LFO with your own interface and controls. The Electra One Lua extension allows you to do almost anything.
What Lua adds →The latest firmware (5.0.0) improves the real-time processing to one-millisecond precision. MIDI parsing, routing, and sending happen above the user interface and graphics. A busy page or a long or inefficient Lua script can slow the graphics, but never the MIDI messages.
Read about the MIDI engine →
Use inexpensive MIDI controllers to add more knobs, pads, and faders to your Electra One. Program them on the fly and make them smart and SysEx capable. Control Electra One and its controls with CCs from your DAW, MPC, or a computer program.
Ports, routing, and translation →
Drive dozen parameters at once. Use snapshots store the whole state of a preset to recall later, to morph between two sounds, or to randomize within a range. Record, edit, loop MIDI captures and replay it with the timing intact or tempo-synced.
Snapshots, captures, and timing →Search the community library for your instrument and send the preset to the controller. Or turn a knob on the synth and let MIDI learn write the control for you, SysEx included. Arrange the rest by drag and drop, and keep revisions and releases as it grows. And of course, share your work to keep the spirit of the Electra One project going.
Search the library →Electra One publishes your instrument's parameters over MIDI-CI Property Exchange. Load a preset, and a MIDI 2.0 host sees every parameter in it: names, ranges, and the display values shown on the screen. It also allows you to control them through the preset's assigned controllers. Your DX7 does not speak MIDI 2.0. Electra One speaks it for it.
Learn about MIDI 2.0 →
An aluminium body with a panel of real mahogany. Tactile push buttons, touch-sensitive high-resolution knobs with a switch action under each one, a high-resolution screen, and high-retention USB ports that hold on to the cable. No compromises here.
Electra One has never been developed behind closed doors. Much of its evolution happens on the Forum, together with the people who use it. Their ideas, testing, and feedback have helped shape the platform into what it is today. Thank you to everyone who has been part of that story:
NewIgnis, oldgearguy, jhh, HaPe, Ziv, markus.schloesser, kiwigrass, eusti, Abbes, Electrolove, joris.roling, thetechnobear, Mint-Gecko, Red_Hector, Phommed, moss, kram53, SimonORorke, nuipb, icaria36, klaustrophil, xiizoo, SmartBits, Flyweight, and many others.
Videos by loopop, Yamaha Synths Official, Art Of Hardingmål, Phommed, Jürgen Moßgraber, Richard Kram, Matthias Millhoff, EaganMatrix Programming, Attack Sustain, oldgearguy, sonicstate, Sean Good Vibes, DNKO.3000, Absent, uija
Photos by electrolove, brahms, flow3, 1am, eusti, kiwigrass, keymanpal, michaelhaefliger, filpal, Bohdan
Thank you all for sharing your music and your setups!
