Like many of you, I spend a lot of time reading through wishlist threads and feature requests. While it’s good to give feedback, I felt like channeling that energy into something more immediately useful.
We all know that the best tricks, workarounds, and “happy accidents” often get buried on page 42 of a mega-thread. It’s hard to find them when you actually need them.
Why GitHub? Unlike a forum thread, a repository is structured, searchable, and always up-to-date. I’ve set it up as a centralized “Second Brain” for the Tonverk community.
The Goal: To create the “Missing Manual.” Not the basic stuff (RTFM), but the deep cuts:
Workarounds for currently missing features.
Creative abuse of the engines.
Workflow shortcuts for live performance.
Specific sound design recipes.
I need your brainpower! I’ve set up the structure, but I need your tricks to fill it.
PRs are very welcome!
Let’s see how far we can push this machine exactly as it is today.
@avantronica
That’s exactly what I want, only a little more structured and without chats = a strict collection of tips and tricks. In the end, the GitHub repo will die anyway if there is too little interest.
Good initiative. I don’t have TV, but I do this for my DT2 in a private repo. Interested to see how your public repo develops as a collaborative project.
Yes. I started creating some content, but it stagnated relatively quickly and unfortunately I couldn’t find any collaborators. The best thing right now is probably the Tonverk user thread.
My Tonverk arrived today.
I had planned to enter a song I had started on the Syntakt.
First I entered the bass in grid recording mode. No problem, since it’s exactly like on the Syntakt. I made a temporary bass sound with the single cycle sawtooth and the filter. Worked fine.
Then it was time for the chords, for triggering my Waldorf Protein.
Not at all like on the Syntakt, so how to do it?
The chord button looked promising. But no cigar, since you can’t choose chord inversions. And how do you input more than one note per trig in grid recording mode?
But that step edit button. Could that be something?
It looked like I was able to enter my chords but it didn’t sound like the notes I had entered. Why?
After a cup of coffee, I realized that the notes entered in grid edit might still be in the track. So I erased all trigs and restarted, using only step edit.
Suddenly everything sounded like I had intended.
And I must say, step edit is very nice for entering and editing chords. Much better that the chord editing on the Syntakt. With the keyboard buttons and the transpose function, it’s very straight-forward to enter chords in the inversions you want. I think I will use step edit for all my note entry on the Tonverk.
The other way is to play the chords in with real time recording, quantised or not. I need to dig in to that a bit more, since I’m not clear on how to edit, but so far if I make a mistake I just do it again.