Digitone Project Lost?!

Elektron Gear Digitone/Digitone Keys
#1

I read elektronauts fairly regularly but haven’t posted yet… but here it goes.

I’m pretty sure I just lost months of work on my Digitone and I have no idea how or why. The project I’ve been working in, which I’ve saved (FUNC + Save Project, YES) probably hundreds of times, was getting full. I saved the project and initialized a new one in the next slot. Returning to my previous project… all of my patterns have been replaced with the preset patterns, its like the whole project is just a copy of the presets project.

Apart from the feelings of grief and anger I’m feeling presently, I’m mostly wondering what gives?! I don’t know what I could have done differently… also I’ve successfully saved and initialized new projects on my digitakt without any issue whatsoever many times over. I’m totally baffled.

(Note: ONE pattern… BANK1 PTN1… the first attempt I ever made at making anything after getting the DN appears to have saved in that project… but only partially. Even more baffling that SOMETHING saved but from so long ago??).

#2

Aww, feel bad for you :pensive: I save projects in 5 slots, so if I mess up something I can use from old saves

#3

Don’t have a DN but on AR for example the preset project is write protected by default, there is a toggle for it in the project menu… It’s important to either use a different project slot or untoggle the write protect if you don’t care to keep the presets project intact and want to save over it.

#4

Totally, I do wonder if that is what happened although I’m almost entirely certain I was working in a new, non-write protected project (although it might have started as a copy of the presets project originally, I quite don’t remember).

Question: Would I get an error trying to “save project” (FUNC + SaveProject, YES) in a write protected project?

#5

Yes there will be an error but you can use Func + Yes to safe temporarily and then untoogle and save once in a while. Its really quick when you have done it a few times.

Also maybe a backup via sysex dump will keep your projects more save.