If you want more there is always the rytm…
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I’d wish my guitar has song mode or at least pattern storage. It’s really cumbersome to play the patterns by hand over and over again.
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But isn’t wanting a different machine type to be added exactly the same a wanting song mode? Waiting for a feature that was never expected to be added.
Not that I need or am advocating for song mode but song mode actually changes nothing especially if it’s just a list of the Order patterns play similar to the A4 and AR. Another machinemode would affect the usage and sound of the machine. I would think especially there would be added menu diving if machine modes were added.
Part of what sold me on the DT was that pretty much all menu functions could be utilized by button combos, combos that aren’t cumbersome to use or remember.
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I guess my thought is song mode might not really benefit most people who bought the digitakt where as other features might… another machine is an example of something I thought most people would end up using but yea maybe its not really realistic for the digitakt. The idea is no one is waiting for a new machine mode but I doubt many people would just ignore it if it came out. I guess it all depends on the goal elektron has for the device from this point on, to pull in new consumers or to make there current consumers happier. obviously there is cross over with any new features added. I’m not against song mode if that’s what they want to do with the device but its probably not the feature that would benefit the current user base the most.
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I’d be absolutely fine with DT having no song mode if it had instant PC.
For now, my workaround for this is memorizing the pattern chains and setting the same pattern length as the length of the part this pattern is playing at.
At the same time, with patterns at 1 bar length and with DT being a master for any other sequencer in the setup you can look at it as a kind of launch quantization for live performance.
So, I guess what I’m trying to say is that there are viable and relatively easy to perform workarounds for both live and studio situations. Especially, with max chain length being at least around 16 patterns - with my 8 (±1) pattern tracks I’m yet to hit the ceiling for chain length.
Just my two cents.
P. S.
Knowing your chains you could launch one chain after another, with one intermediate pattern as a “fill”, while you dial the next chain.
I think recently someone said pattern chains can use patterns from any bank now. Here it is
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Nice! Thanks for the link!
It’s interesting how song mode or the saving of chained patterns is such a bloated topic… It would all end if only elektron would go ahead and make it happen… Like I asked before, where’s the harm in having this simple feature included to an almost brilliant music making tool?
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There is no harm. It’s just work on their side. But you know, their “world” is just larger than a single device.
Before adding new stuff there is still enough old stuff to fix/finalize for them (O…B).
Well, I’m glad you at least think there’s no harm… I just think it must take a lot of energy to dispel the demand for this feature…
Well, I don’t think the developers themself are stupid enough to come here (until they are masochists, of course).
I don’t know that it would actually take a lot of energy to dispel. While this is the official elektron forum in not sure how seriously the company uses the forum for feedback especially for feature request, They have a official request email. I wonder if all the people making the noise on the forum have submitted official request or customer service ticket regarding song mode.
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DT will never have a “song mode”
it’s a budget device w/ budget features.
a very successful product for Elektron.
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I wouldn’t say never, but actually they have more serious concerns.
Is there a way to do saveable pattern sequences using MIDI loopback and program changes? I just got my DT but that just seems like a way to handle it in a more permanent way.
Has anybody dug into it?
Yes.
This is possible.
Known as “pseudo song mode”.
It works.
But it is not the implementation that everyone wants, though it does accomplish the end. Not everyone agrees with the means.
Many say it is too “fiddly”, though this term is subjective.
Where there is a will, there is a way. Especially on a (relatively, to other Elektrons) budget device.
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This is the thing where you plug Digitakt’s MIDI out into it’s MIDI in, right?
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I wanna know more about how this works
yes, but a better way of doing it is to use a MIDI hub that has MIDI filtering. That way you can make sure the DT doesn’t loop back things you don’t want it to.
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This “pseudo” song mode has been discussed in various topics in the Digitakt category, with one notable creative application in this topic:
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