Chord edit

Hello,

I received my DN this weekend. It’s probably the easiest FM synth I ever had. And what a great sound !

Maybe I overlooked something in the manual but I can’t edit chords the way I do with other Elektron gear. The track note menu has nice options to define chords but with this:

If you press [TRACK NOTE] when you are in GRID RECORDING mode you exit the GRID RECORDING mode. If you press [RECORD] when you are in the TRACK NOTE menu, you exit the menu and enter GRID RECORDING MODE.

Does this mean I can’t edit a chord once it’s on a trig ? Or even input a chord in grid recording mode ?

I’ll try again tonight but maybe something breaks the principle of least astonishment here :wink:

I know that chords on the DN can be eight notes while other Elektron boxes have only 4 notes chords so I understand the UI problem, but still… another page in the trig menu with the 8 encoders would be great.

I wondering if it’s not with the SCALE page i set the moment in the cuckoo video it should start on this page :

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thank you, I’ll try this.

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note chords

[TRACK NOTE] opens the TRACK NOTE menu where you can view and edit note related settings such as transpose, scale, and chords. The secondary function toggles the arpeggiator on and o . This key is also used to add notes in the sequencer (when in GRID RECORDING mode)

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(PAGE 28 in the manual I guess)
10.2.3 GRID RECORDING USING TRACK NOTE METHOD

and 10.2.4 GRID RECORDING USING QUICK NOTE METHOD
it’s said :
5. Press [YES] to enter a new note. Then again use the [UP] and [DOWN] keys to move the added note to the desired note value.

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ah ! not as straight-forward as other boxes but it should work fine… thank you William :wink:

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Press the [TRIG] key to where you want to add or remove notes + [TRACK NOTE]

Good !

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So we have 2 methods for editing chords. For the record, I’ll leave here the one that seems closer to the other boxes:

Makes sense now :slight_smile:

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I feel like it would be awesome if the DN would input the last note you played, like the A4

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