A way to quickly edit sounds in the sound pool without the import export dance would be nice. Like a mode where a current sound in the sound pool replaces the track sound and you can scroll between them with the level/data knob. (The list could not be displayed but it would tell you what sound is selected in the pop-up tab.).
It sucks having to do the dance to hear the change in a sequence that uses sound locks.
I still look forward to the new update adding LFO or free complex envelope as modulators, but if it doesnāt happen. Itād be nice to have modulation wheel as LFO destinations. Therefore weāll have eight LFO destinations with two LFO.
Possibly more algorithms and variations of waveforms with wave scanning or wavetables
Has someone suggested the MIDI + FUNC button combo to edit a parameter for all four voices, but with the FUNC + encoder values (you know, the ones that lock to 0, for instance)?
Because yeah, iād like that. It would make it easier to set all voices lfos to zero at once, as an example.
A third page with more destinations would work better I think. Perhaps 2 more per lfo plus amount, which would be multiplied by the depth.
Have you considered trying multi map and midi loop back? Iām doing that as my workaround for lack of kits.
They should make multi map the center of the track architecture (i.e. the digitoneās version of kits) and remove the need to connect a physical cable to jam / live record multi map. A kit per track (4) per bank would work for me.
Iāve never tried multimap. Since Iām not a player, it seemed like something I wouldnāt bother with. Whatās the deal?
Multimap essentially letās you assign a MIDI note value to a +Drive slot. So, you could load up drum patches into a half dozen slots then play say, a kick, snare, and hi hat on the same trig by inputting a chord of those notes.
Just one example.
Oh thatās neat. Iāll need to look into it more.
I would really like pattern direct jump just like on AR
also I would like arp midi out
Strum feature for chords!
(within single trig)
Yep, imagine the beauty!
I am sure some of the new DT features could be implemented into the Digitone
For an extra touch its got to be Midi ARP
Chance, ratcheting, random for arpeggiator
Wave scanning between three to five waveforms for operator B and C
Comb filter, resonator, morphing filter
Sequencer or arpeggiator as modulators
Wheel modulation, velocity and breath controller as LFO destinations
Fixed ratios
Looping complex envelope as a modulator and two more LFOs
A lot of future requests. Is it possible to see which requests are actually send to elektron?
Doubt itāll happen ā¦ they never promise anything, a wise policy.
None of the feature requests here are sent to Elektron. Elektron staff might read them.
Elektron has an email address specifically for sending feature requests to them.
Hello all! Just want to add some heat to a couple of requests, perhaps some of this could be cleared up or is my misunderstanding.
Background: Just received the digitone keys a few days ago. I have been in love with the monomachine since I first acquired one in 2011. Have owned many of them since, picked up an octatrack later on and the pairing has brought me much joy in the many years that followed. My requests are inspired by my love for a few of the groundbreaking features from the monomachine. I see in interviews that Ess was a fellow monomachine-obsessed, so I suspect they are aware these features are missing, and have plenty of new things in store as well.
P-Lock Overwrite - It used to be that pressing a knob down while turning or just holding in place during live record would overwrite previous recorded parameter locks (at least on the monomachine/machinedrum), but Iām finding this no longer is the case? So you record some p-locks, but then must go in and individually remove each p-lock if you want to live record new knob movements!? Also, there needs to be a clear all function for parameter locks. Have to hold down each knob and FUNC+NO while the entire sequence plays through is excruciatingly time consuming compared with holding down FUNC+CLEAR and selecting parameter locks from a pop up menu (which doesnāt exist yet)
-P-Lock Slides/Smooth Parameter Changes - Please allow my intense passion for this feature. Was suuuper bummed to realize this isnāt in there, almost wanted to send it back in a fit of bratness. This omission is heartbreaking. P locks feel kind of half baked without this. With parameter lock slide (referred to as āsmoothā on the octatrack) engaged upfront every knob movement is recorded and played back verbatim in live record modes. In the monomachine this is immediate (you hear changes as you make them and they are captured verbatim in that moment), in the octatrack you seem to have to wait for a loop to complete before you can hear what youāve done if youāre recording over previously recorded p-locks, which is less cool, but still helpful. The combination of live-record and p-lock slide turns live record into kind of a āsculptingā process. Great for experimentation and discovery. Anyway, the slide feature keys it from stepping and altering every move youāve made, leaving behind everything between point A and B in a knob turn. Without slide it kind of quantizes and drys out everything you were hearing in the moment. I get that you could ape this effect with LFOās, but there arenāt that many LFOās, and lfo setup is a much headier and less spontaneous process involving menu diving rather than just touching the knobs with your hands and listening. By turning on the plock slides BEFORE live recording parameter locks, you can pretty much sculpt the sequence with your eyes closed. This kind of intuitive method and the fluid results was the crystalized representation of elektron stuff for me when I first discovered it. Also lacking is the ability to quickly clear all parameter locks on a track. These two omission combined finds me using p locks less often, which is just a bit sad.
Pattern Copy - EDIT: Already Exists!
Song mode - ESSENTIAL.
Note overlap/Verbatim Keyboard Performance Record - I might need some help with this, but when I record in live keyboard performances, captured notes donāt overlap, cutting each other off in really bizarre and uncool ways. Would like to be able to hop in and add a note without it abruptly cutting off the tail of the previously recorded trigs or overwriting notes that come afterward. Additionally, while live recording over a track which already contains a few notes, it would be nice if there were an option to add your notes to a step when they land exactly on a step which already contains notes, rather than to overwrite that step. In line with this, if a step could contain multiple notes which happen at different āmicrotimingā settings, this would be very helpful and interesting. Am I doing something wrong here? I guess what Iām imagining is that the sound would more resemble a loop pedal in that what was previously recorded is preserved and something new is simply being added over the top. This seems like the ideal way that a keyboard/melodic sequencer would act. It also seems to really struggle to capture anything like a āstrumā without just lumping all the notes onto the same step. I do have quantization turned off, yes. Unquantized note record is nice, but a lot of nuance is removed from keyboard performances and itās always a bit of a bummer when you hear your performance played back and itās just been butchered a bit here and there.
PItch/Mod wheel recording - Why arenāt pitch and mod data recorded when in live record mode? This also would tie in really well with the first feature Iāve requested (slide/smooth p-lock).
More LFOās/Routing Options - such as being able to route an LFO to the properties of the master effects. only 1 midi LFO!?
Quick Save/Quick Load - while sound editing, would be nice to be able to quickly save or reload a sound. EDIT: This Apparently exists!
"Recent"/āPinnedā Sound Bank - at the top of the list of 128 available sounds, it would be nice if I could form a list of a few Iām using frequently at the moment. The list would basically be comprised of sounds which Iāve āpinnedā to the top of the larger list of 128.
Arp Midi Out/Arp Edit With Arrow Keys - Also, a small suggestion; in arp edit, it would be nice if the up/down arrows, rather than a knob alone, could also transpose individual notes in the arp sequence, and the left and right arrows shifted left/right between the notes. Using the knobs is doable, but a little more tedious than using arrows would be for small, exact changes.
Separate the AMP, LFO, and FILTER - Especially when designed an arp, itās nice to be able to arp specific components of the sound. Also within the sequencer itself, Iād like to be able to trigger just the amp, the lfo, or the filter. I see that itās possible to disable the filter and/or lfo on a trig, but it would also be nice to be able to trigger either one of those alone. Maybe this is already possible with triggless trigs, but would also be a welcome addition within the arp menu.
More Effects/Compression - P-lockable, LFOāable, and with the ability to change the order of effects in the signal chain.
More Global Settings - Would really like to have the audio ins, for example, ALWAYS pass through the the mains, rather than having to enable this every time I switch patterns. Also, thereās a setting in Octatrackās global menu which allows you to choose for tracks patterns to no be automatically copied when expanding from, for example, 16 to 64 steps. Little details like that are the preferred default for some, even if they arenāt used by most.
More Clear/Copy/Paste Functions - On the Monomachine, holding FUNC+COPY/CLEAR/PASTE brings up an extended pop-up menu which allows you to copy/clear/paste specific elements of a pattern, such as to clear or copy ONLY the plocks or ONLY the melody. This is endlessly useful and would fit really nicely in the digitone! As far as I know this feature is currently only in the monomachine and partially in the octatrack as well. This pop up menu was extremely useful for copying a tracks melody from the internal sequencer over to the midi sequencer.
Convoluted Color Legend on Track Keys (T1, T2, T3, T4) - A moment of silence also for anyone who is red/green colorblindā¦ Curious if others are having a similar experience. The colored track keys respond differently to the led color because of their different physical key color (red, yellow, purple, and green), with the purple and yellow track keys allowing a lot of red light through so that almost the entire key appears red in a dark setting, you can no longer see the color of the physical key. In combination with the fact that muted tracks appear red when muted and simply a brighter red when muted and selected, the dimmer vs. brighter red is a bit of a wash when itās much less bright through certain keys. I would much prefer the track light simply be OFF when the track is muted and not selected, and YELLOW if selected but muted, dim white if unmuted and unselected, and bright white or green if selected and unmuted. Avoiding red all together because it simply shows through the keys in very different ways (i.e. doesnāt show through the green key at all). If a track is muted and not selected, it being unlit is much simpler to recognize, requires less thought, and all track buttons look identical when unlit. The current LED colors would probably be fine if all four track keys were painted the same color externally, but the physical keys themselves appear to change colors due to their placement on the color wheel in relation to the LED color being pushed through (red light through a green key, green light through a red key), which makes it a bit disorienting. I imagine this will be helped some by the capacity to dim the brightness such as in the recent digitakt and octatrack updates, but would still much prefer an option to simplify the colors in a āpersonalizeā menu, or just to utilize LED OFF as the default indicator that a track is muted. As is, after a few hours it appears to be a color soup of endless gradients and variations of color among the track keys and all meaning is lost.
Tune Parameter Per Track - Another monomachine feature. All machines, even the FM machines, had a dedicated āTuneā parameter. No matter how crazy things got, you were able to make fluid micro adjustments to the tuning of each machine to suit your ear. This single parameter allow for microtuning, as you could parameter lock individual notes to deviate from the western scale. I overlooked this parameter for the first few years until I realized this. Itās deceptively powerful as a p-lockable parameter. EDIT: I think something similar can be achieved by adjusting the carrier wave offset on page 2 of SYN1, but this should influence the timbre through changes in how the carrier interacts with A and B, no? It was always nice to be able to fine tune the patch relative to other tracks on any given step without altering the timbre/quality of the voice.
LPQ and HPQ for the Base/Width Filter - there seems to be plenty of room on this page for these two parameters.
Yup, agree with most of your list.
Parameter slides would be amazing but not sure if they will ever make it to the digi boxes.
Pattern copy is there already. It is possible to copy over to a new pattern and carry on without stopping. Iām not in front of my DK right now but have a look at the manual for that one.
Note overlap could work a bit better.
Pitch and mod wheel do seem to be designed as purely performance controls. I canāt see this changing.
I would love to see a proper mod matrix for LFOs and envelopes.
Quick save and load is already there.
I really hope all the global stuff from the recent Digitakt update will hit the Digitone soon.
The other stuff Iāll have to think about a bit more !
Iāve advocated for something like this but it would require a total rehaul of the sequencer so not holding my breath.
Youāre going to have to go with an external sequencer ā¦ The Pyramid is quite nice. Or, perform those bits live. Thatās the strategy Iām taking when it comes to āorganicā parts.