elk-herd is a device manager for some Elektron instruments:
+Drive Sample management for Digitakt and Analog Rytm
Transfer files to and from your computer with simple drag-n-drop
Reorganize the +Drive with drag-n-drop
Easily rename files and folders
View your whole +Drive structure at once
Project & Pattern management for Digitakt
Transfer projects to/from your computer
Reorganize patterns, the sample pool, and the sound pool with drag-n-drop
All sounds and plocks are kept in sync with all changes
Find unused sample and sound slots
Move free space in the sample and sound pools to the end
Import patterns, sample pool entries, and sounds from one project into another
Using it:
elk-herd is free, and hosted on the web. You need a browser that supports WebMIDI - which means Chrome for now - and once loaded it runs locally on your machine:
Local Elektronaut @DaveMech’s awesome walk through:
Demonstration of project import:
Short manual for other features:
Thanks
Thanks to all the people who tested the alpha and beta versions over the last four months! You were very brave to trust your Digitakt projects to me, and I couldn’t have done this without you!
If you were using the rc1 version, 3.0 release is exactly the same save the version number.
Known Issues
Be aware of LFO Dest set to Sample Slot (in the track or plock’d): If you rearrange the sample pool, you have to know which samples need to be kept next to each other.
There are still problems with using elk-herd on Linux due to known Chromium browser bugs. I’m still trying to work out a work around.
You can report bugs here, or if you have a github account in the elk-herd-project repo.
It’s free: Enjoy, have fun, make music.
And if you like it, buy me a beer!
Very cool! I pulled the trigger in a Digitakt just a week ago and the wealth of information and stuff like this is just awesome, its a like a turbo button for my workflow and creativity
Brilliant, thanks Mark for all your hard work on this. I for one see this as a massive step up in terms of how I use and see the Digi. Makes a massive difference. Now if you could only setup a crowdfund to buy you a Digitone and do something similar, my life would be complete
Hey @mzero awesome job!
Tried it yesterday for a little bit, and it worked like a charm. Would have saved me 2 days of tedious work a while ago.
I like the layout overview, no more scribbling down and losing track of my notes
Tried to dld The offline (paranoid) package, but the link doesn’t seem to work
(whenever working on personal stuff gfx/audio i tend to unplug the internet so… )
I’ll be happy to buy you a beer, six pack even
Would be nice if there was another (micro management) function/tab on selecting a PTN that would show the 8 TRKs + functionality of drag/drop rearranging and maybe even construct a new PTN on the fly.
Would it be possible to add preview buttons in a future update?
(sending midi commands to the DT for playback of parts, like in front of the PTNs (preview whole pattern) TRKs (individual previewing, soloing)
Thank you so much for sharing an offline version. But I can’t get it to work, are there requirements to run it? I’m using Chromium on Catalina and the online version works but I can’t get the offline one to work in the same browser.
Tried dragging the index.html in to a new tab and tried putting the files on my local lighttpd server. There are no errors or warnings in my lighttpd logs and it appears to load more than when I dragged it, it only loaded the top part when dragging. Pictures can explain it much betetr than I can; https://imgur.com/a/fmXPtkr