OK it turns out I was using the sound manager. I’ve never actually used the sound browser at all.
Holy shit, it never occurred to me to hit left lol. Thanks!
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There’s also overbridge.
The Sound Manager vs Sound Browser thing is about the most confusing aspect of the entire Syntakt user experience… which says something about how intuitive the rest of it really is (to me at least).
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Did we mentioned kits ? Kits always make a lot of sens in a drum machine.
None of the Digi boxes support kits, so I’m doubtful we’ll see them
`All song mode items. Transpose, specific trig start, and pattern length per row.
Sorry if this is already discussed:
On FUNC Machine page - select machine and YES or right arrow shows available sounds for that machine available on the current track. This way sounds are inherently linked to track/machine as you browse and only ever show sounds that are relevant. It makes sense to think of the machine as the root level tag for the sounds and to dive in from there.
Also have the sound you’re on previewed automatically during playback by playing the trigs sequenced to that track as you browse.
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Parameter slides!
(for the midi tracks as well, is MNM truly the only machine which can do this?)
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I’ve lost track of which requests I’ve already posted and which I haven’t, so here’s a quick summary in prioritized order that I would like to see in the future:
- Polyphony in the form of voice sharing across tracks / track grouping. As a second-best option, the ability to group 2-3 tracks and have them controlled as one (eg modifying the filter cutoff changes it for any grouped tracks too).
- Arpeggiator from Digitone. Or just any simple arpeggiator.
- Chorus effect from Digitone.
- SY PWM / SY Morph machine - the ability to do some form of pulse width modulation on different wave shapes like saw, square, sine, triangle, etc.
- Velocity, Mod and Aftertouch as LFO destinations. This would open up the two LFOs to much more modulation via the macros.
- Master compressor from Digitakt for added punch on the drums.
- The ability to disable ctrl+all on certain tracks.
- A new hi hat machine. I just find the current ones to leave something to be desired.
- More interesting uses of the Mod trigs. Several great ideas have already been proposed, like some form of p-locked FX block steps, pre-defined ctrl+all states, etc. Basically, more live performance fun.
- Sequence playback modes a la Roland MC series: reverse, random, inverted. Even more performance fun and potential for happy accidents.
- Sequence transpose. Something like Func+Track+Up to transpose an entire track sequence up a semitone.
- Recreate stereo panning on the computer when recording via Overbridge. I understand there’s a bandwidth limitation over the cable, but just pass on the panning as a parameter value and use it to recreate stereo tracks on the other end. This would save us from recreating meticulously p-locked panning tricks across our tracks post recording.
- Free-form rearrangement of tracks so that you can place the kick on track 1 regardless of whether you chose an analog or digital kick. This would make it way easier to stay organized across songs.
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More midi tracks. Perhaps that could be one new use of the Mods? They printed M1-M4 in white on the device after all, maybe that could also mean dedicated midi tracks 1-4.
- Send midi PC changes a bit earlier when in Song Mode, like half a bar earlier as an option. This should eliminate any sync issues with other gear.
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in addition to parameter slides for internal and midi, some other QOL features which exist in a few of the other instruments, some of these are already implemented in DT/DN as well.
-kits - from a4/md/mnm
-super copy menu - hold func + copy/paste to see a popup menu of what you’d like to copy/paste, rather than different key combinations for copy track/sound/pattern etc.
-easier access to some slower LFO mod speeds, possibly by adding a multiplier setting to break up the extreme range of the speeds available.
-SSR and EQ per track, before/after toggle
-control all MACHINE which can be placed on a track and sequenced. side note: If transpose became a parameter, this would allow all tracks to be transposed per step.
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so many great suggestions and implementation notes here! <3
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RAM/ROM machine. Tracks 13-16 are perfect for sample playback.
Locking the filter type would be helpfull.
Control ALL machine !
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yes, control-all represented as a machine, p-lockable, especially if parameter slide is implemented… 
The ability to exclude some parameters or machines from the control all scenario, as many others have mentioned, would be very helpful in this case!
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I feel like the sampling requests are a slippery slope, and a waste of time to ask for. If we had single shot samples, people would immediately complain about lack of sample memory and lack of loop play back, ask for wavefolding, internal recording, sample slicing, and want samples to play in stereo. Etc… Just buy a Digitakt!
I’d much rather have more machines focused on percussion synthesis like the Nord Drum, LXR-02 and original MachineDrum.
All the quality of life features and polyphony sound great!
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Nord Drum 2/Machinedrum-like machines, and other interesting machines would be enough to shut me up. Fortunately, i suspect additional machines, FX, and Mod trigs configurations (to do slides, arps, and other, in my view, elektron essentials) are probably already planned.
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Polyphonic chords on external keyboard
(like Digitone)
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OK, have an idea for a possible implementation for parameter slide in the digi line that’s elegant and barely less capable than how it appears in the mnm/md/ot/ar/a4.
So, as is, recorded automation on the digi’s is played back at low scale resolutions that don’t capture the fluidity of live expert knob twiddling. Can be used intentionally, but isn’t always desirable.
Proposed solution: adding an on/off parameter for smooth automation (parameter slide) on the track amp/trig parameter page. Importantly, the parameter slide on/off switch would be p-lockable, making the parameter editable on a per-step basis. [Possibly even with it’s own matching slide time parameter for further fine tuning and experimentation. …p-lockable pslide time? …glissando?]
Possibly, this would be achieved on the backend by interpolating between the parameter values on two consecutive steps. Unlike pitch portamento, there may be multiple parameters changing from step to step which would be interpolated.
On previous machines parameter slides have always had their own lane of automation which could be edited and cleared, even copied, without altering the parameter locks themselves. Because the on/off switch proposed would be p-lockable, editing would require rerecording automation data using the p-slide on/off switch or individually editing steps. Not a 1 to 1 feature port but very serviceable and with it’s own benefits.
With the new implementation, it’s actually easier to turn smooth automation on for an entire pattern. Previously, you had to enter the parameter slide lane using a special combination or menu and fill out every trig of the pattern, potentially up to 64 steps, to have entirely smooth automation. Now you would simple turn it on using a single parameter.
I also think these new parameter slide settings would be right at home on a midi sequence, though the MNM seems to be the only machine to pull this off so far.
This just popped into my head while drinking some coffee this morn and… I felt excited by it, let me know what ya’ll think!
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I agree for sampling ability, nbut a basic sample based drum kit as on MnM doesn’t seem extraordinary to ask for. MD sample based drums. Just examples of machines Elektron already used, using similar CPU ressources I suppose.
TR 909 had samples playback a few years ago…
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A sample layer machine might be interesting, choose a short mono sample or wave from a small folder, layer it over a digital or analog machine in the the same sequence
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Please dear elektron
Mutate (in scale) ( i use a lot of mozaic scripts for this on my ipad)
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