Hello all, I’ve had a Model Cycles a few months now and though I’m not totally into the drum sounds (besides the BD of course) the perc, tone, and specifically chord machines have really impressed me. My question is the Digitone does great chords like M:C yes? Looking to be able to get a bit more into FM sound design, I love the M:C but deeper customization of sounds would be very neat I think.
the DN has 8 voice polyphony across the 4 tracks. You can distribute this however you want, with each track having 1-8 voices, but once you hit the limit there will be voice stealing. It doesn’t have the cool chord inversions knob from the M:C, but it does have a really nifty system for inputting notes and chords: hold a trig and press the note button, then the trigs become a keyboard where you can enable the notes you want for that trig. there is a way to lock the trigs so each one plays a chord of your choice, but it’s a little more fiddly than the M:C.
tl;dr the DN sounds great with chords and is very flexible, but not as immediate as the M:C.
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Thanks. Answer itself has been pretty obvious to me even before posting but this clears some things up
M:C would be a good companion for DN as long as you like the sounds of both.
With Live Recording, chords on the Digitone are about as easy as it gets. You can even set it to quantize (or not) when you record.
I love my Digitone.
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