I’d be really happy with either of these additions. Parameter slides would probably be more interesting than any “new” synthesis method thrown in there.
You will get a nice sound pack .
Notch filter/eq, more waveforms for the harmonics, more algorithms & looping mod envelopes would be nice. But those are fairly pedestrian requests 🤷
Slide trigs might be all I want for the Digitone
Hopefully something basic that frees up lfos, like a pitch envelope.
Velocity settings for the arp would also be a nice addition. (More control over the arp in general)
Lately Bass-only machine.
When I first got into elektron devices (coming from modular) I was a bit surprised at the lack of dedicated modulation envelope and and inability to route modulation to multiple destinations.
I have a DT and not a DN, but if they add a VA mode to the DN I’ll throw my credit card at the screen. That would make the Digitone soooo much desirable for many.
I think Machines would be great in addition to what’s already there, especially if they were focused on drums and percussion. That would be a nice halfway point between using presets and having to learn how to, say, make a hi-hat from scratch.
It’d be quite cool to have polyphonic versions of any of Syntakt’s digital machines. SY Bits would probably be enough “VA” for me.
Those machines provide a nice bridge between preset tweaking and just randomizing the SYN pages until something sounds workable.
A digitakt engine for the DN would be cool
Phase distortion algorithm, FM-adjacent synthesis structure would fit the DN like a glove.
Was I right to expect an update to Digitone, after seeing their machines update to Digitakt? More experienced Elektronauts might know.
A physical modelling machine would be
Machine that lets you control the levels of B1 and B2 independently so we can have full 4-op FM rather than 3.5-op FM would be nice
I wouldn’t mind if we could get custom algos (to keep it fm…)
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btw: if you’re into modular stuff, the quad operator fugging rooooock yeah baba yay!
I don’t think you should expect one. Look at when the digitakt got the 2 lfo update, there was no corresponding big feature update for the digitone. And when song mode came out the features were essentially in parity. I would be a little surprised if the digitone got a huge unique feature update like the digitakt just did.
They could make the Digitone into a versatile synth with machines. a more in depth VA and Wavetable come to mind.
Fair enough!
You could certainly “assign” a machine to a track and lock in a number of voices much as you can right now, the question is what do they think is valuable to Digitone owners?
The reason I would suspect against Wavetable, is that this is closer to a sampler than an FM synth and I don’t know how much disc space Wavetables would take up (tho I appreciate some are very lightweight)
Also, if you were going to built a WT synth, why not release it as the Digiwave and give it some Digitakt/Syntakt like aspects? They’d make a lot more money that way.
Or are Wavetable synths too niche now? Do they sell too few? Is it worth a whole product launch? I don’t know.
Physical modeling however - I can see that working very well and sonically it would sit very nicely with the sounds existing Digitone owners like / use.
I’d be happy with a couple of User Algorithms. Let us chain together some nonsense.
I don’t need them though?