I ordered Thu night CET, itâll probably ship soon.
Simon said that itâs p-lockable in the Cuckoo vid. I have my doubts, but he said it
Wow! All with FM synthesis, eh? Pretty realistic sounding
When the mk2âs came out I was all meh⊠I didnt like the formfactor. They sound really good, but to big for me, no GAS there. What Elektron does with these boxes, first heat, than digitakt and now the Digitone, I like that path! I am allready past that analog verses digital blabla. Digital rocks. Same with my modular, more and more digital is coming out and its soooo good. I paired the digitakt with modular and the Digitone will have its place in my workflow.
Now Elektron! The Digitone is out, its time to give some love to the Digitakt. Thanks for these great machines! (Sorry some sundaymorning sentiment, I had a really good sleep and a nice dream)
Same for me. So many people complain about all the small gear coming out these days, but itâs perfect for me.
I donât get the need for midi out on everything either. If the Dtone has 6 or 8 audio tracks and no midi out at all, well thatâd be game over. And I mean sure if you use other gear, maybe itâs handy. But itâs likely sibling is the DT, which already has 8 midi outs. Funny how the Analog series didnât have midi out at all and everybody cried blue murder for it. That said one thing I absolutely love about the Dtone is 8 voices. Thatâs two solid chord lines and maybe a bass line and a lead line. If it had 6/8 tracks it would demolish everything, but theyâve still gotta sell DTâs I guess
Velocity can be mapped to up to 4 synth parameters
Lol, no midi on the analogs and people complained
So they add midi to the DN⊠and youâre complaining?
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They even added 8 Voice polyphone to the SequencerâŠbut PPL always find something to complain about. Must be our human nature.
I just donât get why people complain about number of voices when it comes to Elektron gear, Iâm pretty sure that some of the Elektron guys use/used C64, Nanoloop, trackers etc and are fully aware of what can be achieved in the constraints of a âlimitedâ environment, and with p-locks and well chosen parameters it is pretty easy to make it sound like a lot more is going, simply reducing it down to voice count is missing the point IMHO.
Besides there are plenty of many voice synths out there, but for me they are not as fun or inspiring to use, I get that keyboardists might want huge chords and so on, but that isnât and has never really been the focus for Elektron - thank Thor
@Ess mentions this in the Cuckoo interview above. They deliberately applied limitations to the FM engine to make a more âSYNTHâ sounding machine, not a flute or piano recreation device.
Anyone know if the Arp can trigger outbound midi notes?
I donât think that was about the number of voices, but about the number of operators
I dunno about complaining, just saying what i would prefer, and hey you canât have everything your way. If they sold two versions, one with 8 audio tracks, and one with 4 and 4, that would be mad, but yeah Iâm dreaming
Yeah itâs weird, I like compact gear too, I only have a very small room so for me the smaller gear is perfect (not that the older bigger Elektron gear is too big either though) Huge monoliths like the new Waldorf synth are no good for me, but I donât go on threads pertaining to those kinds of synths complaining that they are too big, I simply disregard them, itâs pretty simple.
And If you want something Quantum SoundsâŠGo to your iPad and get the Waldorf Nave App. Similar engine.
His explanation was THE best seller Argument for me.