Here's my review of the Digitone, including an explanation of FM synthesis

Here’s the link:

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Looking forward to watching this later, love your reviews! Especially the A4 one!

Thanks :wink:

Great! but… where is Hektor?!

Initially- split second after I heard it- I thought FM synthesis was capable of making a dog bark sound- and that Elektron included that as a preset, as everyone would, naturally, want to have a synth dog bark,

Perhaps I should get to work on drinking this coffee…

Great video, by the way! It greatly scratches my itch!

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This was excellent, thanks! Would love to see a deeper dive into sound design on the DN. I’m new to FM and would love to be able to hit the ground running when I get mine

Great video!

Very informative video…Thanks.

Thanks!

How do compare the workflow between the A4mk2 and the digitone and which one do you enjoy more

Such an excellent tutorial review.

Thank you for making it. Really learned a lot…

An incredible machine that Digitone.

Great review, thank you for taking the time to make it!

I kinda regret buying my Analog Four MK1 now. Should’ve either got an MK2 or held off a month and got the Digitone instead.

Awesome review/tutorial and FM primer. Really enjoyed watching it.
Judging by the lack of options on some screens I guess this was made running a beta firmware?

Nah, it’s the same on the Digitakt too, not all screens are filled with parameters. Maybe in the future :slight_smile:

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Some of the pages were almost completely blank. On the Digitakt only some boxes on some pages are blank. I also hope they fill all the blanks in the future but not counting on it. Their other gear has empty boxes on pages too.

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I was using standard firmware on the units shipped last Friday - yeah, that page is particularly empty - the others much less so. Some “tabs” don’t have two pages (SYN1) so there’s a lot of room to add stuff if they want, for sure.

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It’s hard to compare because I’d have to do a thorough job and go feature by feature :wink:

The biggest differences that come to mind immediately are that I don’t miss kits, that’s for sure. Just happy having my sounds with my patterns, and I like the A4 more natural keyboard arrangement. I assume I’ll get used to Digitone’s parallel keys, but it’s not as intuitive as A4

A4 MK1 is kick ass… I would never give up mine unless I upgraded to MK2…

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Is the software stable?Any bugs or freezes experienced?
Lovely review! I‘m obviously not the only one who believed for a second that it can bark like a dog XD

Note to self: make FM bark sound…

The only bug I saw was the odd pattern selection lights (2 was blue for some reason and 1, 9 and 10 were off - you can see that in my “Factory patterns” video) but they quickly fixed that in 1.01. There’s something else which Elektron say isn’t a bug but rather an undeveloped feature, which I would very much like: currently when you want to sequence other gear with MIDI you can, but if you want play the notes live on the pads they don’t trigger MIDI notes in real time. Again, not necessarily a bug if you want to think of it as not an intended use, but something I would like in the future. I submitted the request so hopefully soon…

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