I’ve spent the last week dipping a bit more into the Digitone and my biggest frustration is that the arpeggiator can’t be modulated that I can see. Am I off or is there some way to do that? I’d love to have more modulation in general, but especially modulation of the ARP. If there were flexible assignable LFOs/ADSR envelopes to modulate ARP parameters, this thing would go from great for sound design to great for what I would want to do in a live setting.
Does anyone have any ideas for how I could do this, or is just sort of the limitation of the box that I have to work within. i.e. not spend my time pondering how to use it live.
no way to do it, and what’s worse, arp options are in a submenu so they’ll never be plockable. small theoretical chance that the lfo will be able to address them at some point. it’s my biggest gripe with this box too.
send it arps from the OT? modulate by hand and record?
I might be misunderstanding, but are you saying that the arp is tied to the sound and not the track? Where I could have a different sound on a step that would engage a different ARP momentarily until I change to another sound with its respective arp? If so, that’s interesting and exciting!
Um, digitone is a midi controlled synth, you are dealing with midi everytime you use it
I use the octatracks arp to control digitone synths. It is superior to the digitone arp in my opnion.
Its really not difficult because digitones synth tracks are 1,2,3 and 4 by default. So just set some midi channels on your OT to send on 1,2,3,4 and go. Easy. Insanely powerful.
For what its worth, in the OT midi settings, I turn direct control off, and make sure all audio cc are set to internal or off. Then go!
As I say it’s been a while since I used mine but I’d check if arp settings are sound based , it might be one solution if you didn’t have another external way ( using octatrack ) to do it . You’d be able to not only alter note data but tweak sound and maybe arp type/ direction / speed /note offsets.
I haven’t looked at midi cc spec and of course the octatrack arp designer can do nice things.
There’s nothing in this video showing any modulation of the ARP settings (unless I skipped it ), it’s all typical lfo stuff available on most elektron gear.
I can’t recall any arp parameters in the lfo destination list , so you have to use other methods to change things. I’m not looking at it tonight , it’s all in the manual.
hey, you can’t parameter lock the arps steps but you can use the other sequencer steps to insert a p-lock or a sound lock.
you can save arps to the sound pool, just make sure that when you save it you have the arp turned on. Lots of powerful things you can do with this machine.
could it be possible to use a midi track on the digitone itself and set up a midi loopback cable to control the arp?
edit : arf. just checked the manual.
seems there is no midi cc implementation for the arp, so nothing can be controlled via external midi unfortunately.
