Digitone feature requests!

when you are in the ARP page you can move with cursor arrows: left and right and UP (step:ON) DOWN (step:OFF). One of the knobs is ARP length. Hope this help!

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Yes, it wasnt in the manual, and i had choosen the method as on A4. I would say, this should be changed, so you could select the ARP step with the trig buttons, as this is more consistent with the older machines.

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yeah itā€™s a lotttt faster with the trig buttons

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I was directed by ā€œChristanā€ at Elektron support to send feature-requests to: feature-request@elektron.se.
If you think there has been an omission from the OS (like my first request), Iā€™d still send to support.

Anyway, here are a couple of my suggestions:

  • Allow all parameters on SYN2 page to be p-locked (and I suppose, make them LFO destinations.) I was fooling around with the ATRIG, BTRIG, and PHRT switches with a particular sound, and found some really cool, if subtle, affects on the operators.

  • Add these tags to the sound manager: ā€œMONOā€, ā€œPOLYā€, ā€œUNISONā€.
    So, Iā€™m making a couple soundpacks and Iā€™d love a way to indicate to the user how it should best be configured. Since polyphony settings arenā€™t saved with the sound, the only workaround is by naming the track with those terms in it. Itā€™s not the worst thing, but this could be a time-saver.

  • Usability things:
    Maybe itā€™s just that Iā€™m so used to the way things work on the AR/A4, but my brain wants the BPM and swing settings to be modified by encoders E and H, respectively (or E and F, respectively.) To me, itā€™s more consistent to have the parameters controlled by the main encoders because every other sub-function uses them, not the ā€œdataā€ encoder. (I can understand the precedence of having the level/data encoder be dedicated for tempo duties, though.)

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being able to re-route all the LFOā€™s to one channel when not in use would be amazing.

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I think there is a big problem with the color code choice on the T1-T4 button. When tracks are playing and youā€™re going from global mute to pattern mute it sometimes becomes just impossible to see anything. Surely Iā€™m not the only one bothered by that? Looks like sometimes itā€™s clear what track is on pattern mute but some other time that purple light becomes very soft and is blinking with all kind of reds and whites and what notā€¦It works so much better on the Digitakt.

Another thing that I think is really not practical is the way LFOā€™s are spread in two pages. Way better to have LFO 1 on page 1 and LFO 2 on page 2 if you ask me.

Last, a more intuitive way to add extra notes on a step, on the trig page, like on the Digitakt, would be good.

Also retrig.

And Arp midi out.

Those are my main wishes :slight_smile:

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+1

Midi arp

& keytracking on lfos.

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Quick question regarding mute modes: is it possible to select a track in these modes? I cant figure out how

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I generally want performance macros, they are so fun on the Analog 4. Please !

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lots of posts and donā€™t know if itā€™s been said, but I would love to see glide/portamento with adjustable amount and a mono mode for a track. (maybe this functionality is there and I donā€™t know). Would be especially useful for bass music style basslines, which this device seems to excell at with very little effort.

edit: also the ability to arpeggiate chords. Right now itā€™s one or the other. Oh and legato mode as well.

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Glide has been discussed, and everyoneā€™s on board. :smiley: Totally agree there.

As for mono, I believe you could just allocate a single voice to one of the tracks and achieve that. I always leave mine all on dynamic, so I havenā€™t actually tried this. Seems like it should work though.

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I think it was mentioned before in this thread, but an ā€œaliasingā€ control would be nice, to decrease the resolution of the base operators, for a more gritty sound.

Could even be global per track, and perhaps giving a polyphony increase? Iā€™m dreaming, I know, but this is the feature request thread after all :stuck_out_tongue:

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Yeah, a touch of that high-end DAC-fuzz and a touch of aliasing can actually sound very nice in some cases. Kind of like the Amiga 8-bit sample sizzle in the high frequencies. Almost like an FM side-band style artifact, but more subtle. :face_with_monocle:

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I would also love note repeat on the sequencer ! Please do it. (Drum fills etc.) Also some more scales would be cool. (My Tempest even includes Japanese Scales ā€“ yes its exotic, but why not ? FM is good for Bell /Metall /Gongā€¦)

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Please update for sampling also stereo audio.
A playback button would be dope or like a loophole to rec

P-Locking ARP +100 ā€¦I wish there was a priority list of features from elektron that will definitely be implemented (is there a workaround for this? I guess using patterns would be of course. Or Sampling into DT/OT would be ā€¦ but well - Iā€™d like to keep stuff parametric - whatā€™s your workflow?) -

edit: I guess using the OT for the Arp would be the best solution until the feature will be hopefully implemented?

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Er, I highly doubt theyā€™ll ever give the Digitone sampling ability.

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What about vinyl sequencing?

What do you mean?

Iā€™m using my DSI Pro2 as controller. Set it to MIDI channel ā€˜allā€™. Not working tbh.