Isla Instruments LLC – makers of the S2400 sampling workstation – have announced that they have permanently ceased operations.
Their site has been updated to note:
The online store is closed and no new orders can be placed.
Customer support resources and the user forum will remain available here for existing customers.
Future products designed by Brad Holland will be released separately and information will be announced elsewhere in due course.
We have not seen any official announcement on this, but it sounds like Isla will be returning, but with a new name.
On the Isla Instruments forum, SteamRadio commented that Isla founder, Brad Holland, has relocated from the US to the UK, and that the US-based ‘Isla Instruments’ will be operating as a new UK-based entity, Isla Electronics.
Isla Instruments has released a new firmware update for the Isla Instruments S2400, a sampling workstation and drum machine described as “The spiritual successor to the greatest drum machine the world ever saw.”
The S2400 OS update includes a long list of fixes and new features:
Live Looping has had a major overhaul. You can now Live Loop in stereo, have more banks, and set different inputs for each one.
For those of you with an old-school E-mu SP-1200, there is great news. The S2400 can now import samples and sequences from SP-1200 floppy drive images.
Then there’s the new Round Robin playback feature that adds variation and generative sequencing to your patterns.
Miscellaneous weaks and fixes, making this the instrument’s “most stable OS update yet”.
Updating is easy, just download the update copy it to your SD card, and the S2400 will do the rest.
