I could see a real filter going a long way. A weird thing is apparently the resonant stuff is just a sine at the desired cutoff, hardsynced to the main phasor, plus a neat trick to tidy clean up the sync seams a bit. An lpf following that could clean it up even more, but also… wow, no wonder I found the resonance harsh on the Phase synth… it’s basically just a crazy loud peak.
If I have enough steam I’ll probably try a full axoloti patch, at least enough to profile it and compare sounds. I still don’t have a great way to do the cz-style phasors, and I’m not sure I have an oscillator that will emit the reset pulses. So the hard part is solving those problems.
Some small things are currently a little annoying to me and seem to be easily fixable:
Mutes from midi such as from the Digitakt should be processed using the last used mute-mode on the Digitone, not only global mutes. So that you can use pattern mutes from the Digitakt. Secondly, also concerning mutes, mute mode on the Digitone is currently not great for live performance, since you can’t change tracks easily and you have to exit and reenter mute mode for that. I’d suggest to implement it such as with the Digitakt (but with the MIDI button instead of the Track button). It would be less intuitive because of the button label, but as opposed to other possible solutions, like FUNC+Track in Mute mode, it would be uniform with the Digitakt button combo but if it had to be the latter combination, it would be fine by me, also.
Also, and I’m sure this will never be implemented, but there should be an option as to how a Digi-device processes MIDI stop signals. MIDI does not differentiate between pause and stop and currently it is processed as pause. The upside of that is that you can press play again and the device will continue playing. The downside is that after pressing stop on a DT+DN combo, a pattern change will not be recognized be the controlled device, until the stop button is pressed on it, since pattern change information obviously cannot be processed in a paused state, leading to accidental changes in the wrong pattern and an extra button press on the slave-device every time you stop the master-device. For performance it can surely be useful to have the stop signal be interpreted as pause but there should be a checkmark in settings to interpret it as stop, making pause unusable of course but it would help a lot in composition!
That’s just my pet peeves with otherwise great devices.
So we can use all the 8 available voices for one track but we would still have only two lfos even though the other three tracks won’ be used. They should let us use the other lfos with freedom
it’s a weird thing but metronome on overbridge would be nice.
thing is, AR and DN plugins have different latency resulting in slight drift one from another, you could use a short sound or whatever but actually the metronome would be perfect to record and adjust the recordings afterwards.
I assume rest of the Elektron devices also have different latency…
on AR the metronome works with OB but not on DN…
Probably tricky to implement as the LFOs are per voice - e.g. if you send a square wave to filter cutoff and set it to trigger at note one, each note will have its own LFO which can be out of phase with other notes. So if you have eight voices on one track, you’re not just using the two track LFOs, you’re using 16 (assuming they’re assigned).
I know LFOs were more flexible on the Machinedrum, and on the OT you can pass audio to neighbour tracks to access “unused” LFOs - but I expect the flexible polyphony and architecture would make it difficult to implement gracefully on the DN - doable, I’m sure, but I think you’d be trading flexibility for usability and immediacy.
I have one and I’m fairly happy with it, I’d like even more flexibility but at that point I should go with modular or with max. As for the Digitone is fun and sounds good but with a little bit more modulation it would become a monster
This is a bug report. According to the forum’s administrator, there is a DN bug topic, but I can’t find it, so I post it here:
I sent a ticket already, but wanted to share here to see if it happens to everyone:
On track 2, if there is a sound with arp, when I switch patterns it stays there. Same sound and arp. It doesnt load the sound of the new pattern that is running. I had to restart the unit many times during live gigs to solve this. Completely unprofessional.
Still unsolved, the issue of transposing without showing the semitones on the screen. Happens with track and pattern transposition. I had to abandon this trick in my live sets, which is sad because it is an amazing musical effect to transpose 2 semitones the whole pattern and then back.
just going to politely bump this in advocacy for retrigs
can’t emphasize how useful they are in creating dynamic patterns when combined with trig conditions for melodies (and many other things)
i know there’s the arp trick but it’s an annoying process to achieve something that’s so intuitively/easily achievable on the other digi boxes (as well as the m:c)
the sounds used strictly for retrigs eventually begin to pollute the +drive as well
having KEYBOARD settings per pattern instead of per track would be great. usually I use the same root note, scale, fold for every track and I need to set it up manually 4 times per pattern, would be nice to have a global setting for this.
I was thinking that you have the PATTERN scale that you can control either per pattern or per track by hitting [FUNC]+YES, so I would be happy have the same thing for KEYBOARD as well, but yeah you can maybe have it per project or something…
Ive been really enjoying using LFOs as high frequency ring modulators. Different waveshapes, destinations and depths - yield musical and interesting results.
Id love to be able to key-sync an LFO, so that it sounds in tune throughout the keybed.
EDIT this is false, works fine now: Also want to add to previous posts - its weird that you cant copy and paste keyboard settings. Ran into that today. Clear works tho, which is nice!
LFO META targets like those available to mod wheel, aftertouch etc would be super nice and perhaps an option for those that feel they run out of LFOs quickly.
Would be extremely helpful to have some kind Project Mode such that track/effects/mixer etc settings were set per Project rather than per Pattern. At the moment if I’m working on something making use of, for instance, sixteen patterns and I change, ie, a reverb setting, I’ve got to then copy and paste that change 15 times to share the same reverb across patterns. Add in tweaks to sounds, mixer levels, etc, it becomes a lot to keep track of and slow to copy.
(Apologies if this has already been suggested, I saw a suggestion for copying pattern settings without copying trigs but this is slightly different)
