I am playing with my fresh DN and the knobs are kinda loose (in direct comparison to the OT). I feel like the quality of some of them is not as good (not as tight - I can move them a tiny bit without changing parameters on almost half of the knobs). Should I send it back? My mate has an OT where knobs are already starting to not work at all and I am thinking this could be happening to my knobs as well in some time when they behave like this already. Would you send it back and hope for better build quality for the next? Anybody else noticing this?
Yeah i have the same issue with my Rytm mk2, when i moove my encoders just a tiny bit nothing happens ā¦
Knobs on my digitakt are a bit on the weak side as well. Doesnāt feel like they will survive the test of time too wellā¦
Same here on DTn. Itās pretty funny how moving a knob slowly might yield zero results, but move it just a little bit faster and you snap from 0.25/0.25 to 16.0/16.0.
Matter of fact, itās downright hilarious.
One of the encoders on my digitakt has developed some extra slack and weight and will need sorting at some point, the others are better but not great, the responsiveness has allways been off though so it doesnt make much difference.
I have a feeling they did the ādeadzoneā thing on purpose to reduce accidental parameter changes. As for the acceleration, yeah, it does perhaps need some work.
Other than that though, the encoder action on my DN feels thick and smooth like caramel. There was a brief amount of time when one encoder felt a bit scratchy, but that seems to have fixed itselfā¦ for now.
I was hoping the knobs would be firm and responsive, seeing how Elektron markets them as being higher quality than those on older models. However, both my digitakts and digitones knobs feel loose and unprecise if Iām honest. Theyāre not unusable but definitely not as good as I had hoped.
Higher res not higher quality. Its all very well having solid metal boxes with nice buttons capable of 50 million presses but to me the encoders are a weak link that will need attention prematurely, I wonder how much it would cost to get them replaced out of warranty?.
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How often do they actually fail? Itās something that stops me buying any more elektron gear. Do they just āfeelā fragile but keep working. I donāt use the encoders in the same way I would with other hardware beacuase they always feel a bit wobbly.
Not sure how much it is to actually get them replaced by someone else, but Elektron sent me a whole set of encoders for my OT last year for a very good price; after a very stressful evening replacing a few of them they ended up working really well.
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How much did they charge you for how many of them? How long does it take to replace one of them?
I canāt remember, but it was cheap.
It took a couple of hours to replace them; removing the old ones was the most fiddly/time consuming part (you basically have to destroy them. Thereās a guide though, so as long as youāre not a madman with a soldering iron itāll be fine.
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