Digitone feature requests!

this is kinda confusing to me as well - specially coming from DT. I still have a long way to go until I develop some muscle memory on the whole track selection/muting. I also constantly go to the MIDI tracks by accident, going for the TRK+layer like on the DT… but that’s habit.

I agree that looping envelopes would be great - and I would love to have more LFOs (it takes only a few hours with the DN to realize you could use LFOS (subtle and extreme) on pretty much everything… once I get more comfy with the duo, I might start routing DT’s LFOs to the DT to create subtle movements on more parameters. The level of movement you can get by using LFOs in small increments is pretty insane.

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Arp Velocity/triggers
The velocity of individual notes is recorded when chords are played in live record mode (could be switched on/off in menu)

The velocity of individual notes in an arp can be adjusted.

Within Arp Settings: On/Off for amp, filter, and/or lfo. example: with amp set to off in the arp menu, the amp envelope is only triggered on the first step, and not retriggered by each note in the arp. the result is an arp which swells and fades as directed by the amp envelope setting. likewise with the lfo and filter options. As it is currently, the lfo, filter, and amp are all three triggered simultaneously with by each note of the arp as far as I can tell. It was described to me previously that this is possible but, try as I might, I don’t see that it is. I see that you can disable the triggering of the filter or the lfo on the trig page, but the setting I’m describing would only effect the notes following the first note, where as the settings on the trig page effect all notes and don’t relate to the amp envelope.

Not to mention that track buttons light up purple when using local mutes (pattern mutes), and blue when muted both globally and locally. It’s really confusing. I sent a feature request to make the midi button + trig buttons select synth and midi tracks, and func + trigs to mute them, both without having to toggle in and out of midi mode.

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AN UNDO FOR FN-NO RELOAD PATTERN

Please! So many times I work a long time on a pattern, get carried away with some performance tweaks and FN-NO to reload from TEMP only to find out there was nothing in TEMP to reload from (or it was a failed take). You can FN-CLEAR twice to undo, I’d love to not lose another carefully-crafted 4 bars again with FN-NO by making that undoable…

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This is the one thing on the DN that frustrates me to no end. I don’t ever use mutes in this fashion because it’s just so incredibly confusing. It defies logic as to why it’s not done like the DT/how you propose.

Apart from MIDI ARP, this is the one thing I would really like Elektron to re-think/implement.

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Mute the track from going to the master out. Go to pattern settings, audio routing, and mute the track. Now all that’s left is the signal sends to the FX.

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This may have been mentioned but…an undo steps function - even if you could only undo like 10 steps. That would really help.

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Quick performance controls like on A4!

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Arp Adjustments The knobs are well-built and very sensitive, but when trying to make incremental adjustments such as to shift up/down notes in the arp scale, they’re almost TOO sensitive. Would really prefer to use the arrow keys for this task.

Base/Width Filter
Add HPQ, LPQ, Base Envelope, and Width Envelope, more extreme settings here can lead to some really unique and watery textures.

Formant Synthesis Filter Models think Yamaha FS1r

LFO destination: Transpose Being able to route the LFO’s to transpose settings. Additionally, being able to “print” transpose settings to a track.

Expanded Tranpose Adjust entire track or pattern key in transpose menu (Pentatonic C, C#, D etc). Able to disable which tracks are effected by these settings. ex. track 4 is dedicated to drums, transpose disable, it doesn’t transpose as the rest of the pattern is shifting).

Transpose/Rotate Page Transpose a single page of the track’s pattern up or down by holding PAGE and pressing UP/DOWN. similarly, rotate only a single page of the tracks pattern by holding PAGE and pressing LEFT/RIGHT.

More mixing options per track Specifically, a basic EQ with FREQ and GAIN knobs that go from -64/+64.

Effects:
Sample Rate Reduction/Bit Rate Reduction opens up the experimental possibilities, can lead to less overtly synthy sounding tones when combined with filtering.
Chorus Feedback Control
Personalize mix appearance the option to see the effect mix as a simple knob adjustment rather than a cube, cone, or a circle filling with circles. These are neat, but the visuals aren’t very informative, especially the visual for delay adjustment.
Full wet mix/Parallel Processing - the effect can be turned beyond “12 o clock” to start removing the dry signal - this might require some thoughtful adjustments to the cube/cone/circles visuals.

Default LFO settings - Would be nice if it wasn’t necessary to set the LFO destination every time when you find yourself experimenting with specific destinations.

Default Pattern Settings - Would be very nice to be able to set a global default for settings such as scale per pattern vs. scale per track. One of the first tasks for me when setting up a new pattern is to set it to per track with an infinite master length so that the sequences are free to land where they will without cutting each other off. I know this isn’t everyones cup of tea, but there may be others out there who would also enjoy this kind of global personalization.

Loopable Envelopes for Operator A and B, Amp, and Filter, a way of adding LFO’s without adding LFOs.

Personalize LED colors - Want to move away from extreme and frequent color changes, specifically in the track keys, would appreciate a more basic option in personalize such as a simple white led which is on/off depending on the mute setting. Also, to disable the flashing tap tempo light, and have this displayed as a single 1x1 flashing pixel on the main OLED display instead.

Recording/Note Overwrite Options A personalize option to control, in live record, whether held notes overwrite existing notes or simply allow the decay tail of the recorded note, allowing it to play polyphonically with existing notes.

Turn off Reload Pattern Keycombo Could be a personalize setting. I keep accidentally losing a ton of work, maybe I’ll get used to it, but it seems like there are a few different undo features which need their own undo feature before they can be trusted, such as reload and undo-reload pattern.

<3 Smooth Parameter Locks <3 Don’t mind repeating this one. Smooth/Slide between parameter locks are a glaring omission, as is the ability to clear or copy all of a tracks existing parameter locks in a single button combo. It’s nice as an option which can be edited per step, but even just an overall slide on/off would be greatly appreciated.

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1- Easy request

Midi arp and possibility to p-lock the arp per step like on the octatrack. Arp as lfo destination
It makes no sense at all selling a product also as a midi sequencer without a midi arp. Monomachine had one in 2004 :grimacing:.

2- close to impossible requests

Probabilities over note per step (something like Vector sequencer)

Sequencer direction per track (forward, backward, Pendulum)

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I’d love to be able to layer a synth channel and a MIDI channel. I’ve been layering one synth track and one iPad synth track for my basses and it’d be great to not have to make changes to 2 different track patterns every time I want to edit a sequence.

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led intensity pls! like in the digitakt!

It would be great an editor like Elk-herd for the digitone for project management too!

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Is there an easier way to access subtle LFO depth values? Of the -127/+127 values, soft depths seems to pretty much all happen between -2 and +2 (most of the time even -.5/+
.5 is sufficient), which are very difficult to tune into exactly. It would be nice if these scaled with the bpm multiplier or had it’s own scale, since most of the range from -127/+127 produces extreme results. There seems to be a whole worlds worth of LFO depth subtly between just -5/+5, would love to be able to spread this out across the entire parameter than have it occupy such an extremely small portion of the knob.

An interpolation feature would also be nice here, to interpolate between the lfo signal and the dry signal at a speed which can be defined by a parameter.

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oh! I forgot about this one: unipolar LFOs - so they only affect values upward, and not downward… this would be really helpful for B ratios for example (where some lower-than-current values are not as appropriate harmonically as higher tones (not sure if I’m explaining myself correctly).
Not sure how this could be implemented… but would definitely be useful.

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I do t know if it’s possible but an increase in possible patch/preset storing on the device would be cool. Probably impossible though

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Would be convenient but it is already possible if you set the parameter you want to modulate into the range you want it to be modulated. Use phase to set the start point of the LFO.

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I was thinking lately how I would love a DT & DN combined in the one mother box. Or maybe like, more of a, ergonomically, analogmkii-box style Digi, with sampling features (like the Rytm with Digitakt features). It could add in all the extra bits and bobs people have been asking for, like slide trigs, song mode, and extra bells and whistles like on DNK, basically be the flagship Digi box. I guess you could just buy both boxes now, but the standalone thing would surely be able to hold its own. That would be so rad to me. But seriously make it like the Rytm. Isn’t it crazy that the Rytm has 12 tracks? Well a ToneTakt (or DN mkii) box could be a 12 tracker also - 4 synth tracks like normal, and then 8 sample tracks on the trigs themselves. It’d be an easy move for Elektron, recycling their IP and tech, an easy sell too. Suits their MO of updates lately, and doesn’t ask for much, just combines things. That’s my feature request.

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I wish DN will implement wavetable, granular and sampling options for one of operator B that is limited to sine wave in the current OS. More selections of filter types like format, low pass gate and comb filters are nice.

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interesting! not sure if it will respond how I’m expecting but I’ll play around with that later

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well… not really - because I’m already using the HOLD parameter there, as to keep the B ratio consistant on each note

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