I agree. would love some other approach for chords. I still have no idea what I’m doing with the chord machine. n I studied jazz in college. it was years ago mind, but still. no idea 
I do like the little ghosts tho
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fix the clicks and fix the Sync in overbrdge mode
Agreed! I recently discovered the MicroFreak can do this—quantizing the keyboard to a scale, and then a chord mode from holding the paraphony button while playing in a set of intervals. It’s an absolute blast because hitting the out-of-scale notes wind up generating little variations and suspensions because of how it quantized the notes. Breathed new life into that synth for me…
I’d love to have the 12 keys’ “diachronic” chord types added, though I’d assume it would require substantial code additions, and processor cycles.
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I wish there was a system wide scale lock. I want to be able to transpose sequences in the scale while they are playing. If it extended to the chord mode it would make putting together melodic and harmonic elements so fast.
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I feel they might add arp someday, I mean, it is a synth, right?
I doubt it will ever get sampling, because that would essentially kill Digitakt. As polyphony would probably Digitone, except maybe for real FM fans. Unless if they add machines to Digitone too.
Btw., lack od polyphony is main reason I have no interest in Syntakt. Using multiple tracks is a no for me, because then I would be left with none to spare for MIDI.
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I’m glad that these things were mentioned in the latest Bad Gear episode too. Elektron needs to hear this message from more people.
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That’s the thing - people keep speculating that they wouldn’t add track voice sharing (polyphony) because it would kill Digitone sales, but they just made the Digitakt better, and have for years. They could do the same with Digitone: add wavetable synthesis, new and deep subtractive machines, etc. Essentially, ensure that the Digitone remains the superior synthesizer in the trio. The devices would still be different enough to warrant owning both for those who enjoy a multi-device setup. But for those of us that like to keep one of them in our laps and use them as standalone grooveboxes, we’d have much more fun. 
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Absolutely agree, expanding Digitone sound palette beyond FM and easy way to program classic sounds would take it to a completely new level (and make current price much easier to swallow). But I fear this is much harder to do than those machines on Digitakt, which essentially give you more like a “macro controls” for things, that could more or less already be done in a more manual way. We’re talking about new types of oscillators here. We can hope though.
But yes, Syntakt with polyphony would be the nicest Elektron standalone groovebox machine and also much improved as a centerpiece for other gear. Currently is just too limited in this regard and having only monophonic supersaw is a blasphemy 
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I wonder if there will be some new, surprising ways they can use the M1-M4 modifier trig keys in support of polyphony or some other new feature.
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So my personal desire for the modifiers would be to have them act a little like “scenes” in the octatrack, Where you could hold down the modifier trig, twist a knob to save a variation on the current sound, then be able to 4 variations of a sound that you could record into the sequencer. Then when you change the modifier it would change the sound of all the trigs associated with that modifier.
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That’s a cool idea. It’s useful and it helps make up for the lack of kits, etc.
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Looking forward to messing with the Syntakt that should be coming next few days, I’ve got a couple of synths i’ll be hooking up to make up for the lack of polyphony, how come the digital tracks aren’t polyphonic, I can understand the Analog tracks being monophonic, but I would have thought the digital tracks would have been at least 8 voices like the Digitone or 12 voices? I hope this is something that is added in the future and not by sacrificing 4 digital tracks just to play a 7th chord or whatever.
Would love to have some tools to help with generative music.
LFO target to Quantised notes for example. Then you could have random notes triggered with random + hold, then route LFO2 to depth of LFO1 to have wandering melodies.
Also having the the Trig Note parameter lock being quantised to the scale by default.
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I’ve been wanting LFO to microtiming, to be able to get a beat that moves into and out of being perfectly timed. Having more generative tools would be really cool.
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I’d love to have an LFO shape that is random gliding / smoothed random like on the Microfreak, for example. Up and Down get’s a bit boring.
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The spice and dice is so much fun on the microfreak. I would love tempo synced looping random modulation like that.
I requested that the SPH parameter turn into a slew parameter when the stepped random wave is selected because 1, phase doesn’t do anything to random, and 2. this would allow us to turn it into a smooth random.
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Genius!
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Although I think I sent it to them when the Digitone was released so I stopped being hopeful a while ago 
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and also modulating that slew parameter with another lfo would be a very fun thing, let’s hope it will be implemented!