Crunch/elk-herd

[mzero]

Update: 3.0 has been released: Elk-Herd 3.0

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I’m super happy to announce the 1.0 release of crunch/digitakt-manager - a web app for your Digitakt. Now with editing!

Announcing 2.0, renamed crunch/elk-herd and supports Rytm mkII as well!
Update: Elk-herd 3 sneak peek

Yup - that is drag-n-drop sample reorganization right there!

• Scan you +Drive
• Transfer samples to… and from… your device
• Rename files and directories
• Reorganize them with drag-n-drop
• Create directories
• Delete whole trees easily

_Yes, similar to what Transfer 1.1 does, but a different take on organization - you may find it more to your liking.

Want to use it?

• Nothing to install! Runs in any browser with WebMIDI… which is only Chrome! So run that.

• Hook up your Digitakt - USB connection, or via DIN MIDI and your MIDI interface. Turn it on.

• Navigate to: https://electric.kitchen/crunch/elk-herd/

• When you load the app, the browser will ask your permission for the app to use MIDI, click Allow:
  

• Then just follow the big blue buttons in the app to get it set up and scan your +Drive.

Enjoy!

• Mark

[Alume]

Wizardry!

[macinski]

Wow! Great job! Buy this guy a !

Even better because i see you used Elm to create it
If you don’t mind asking, how was the dev experience ?

[mzero]

Elm is a blast to code in. I could do major refactorings with easy thanks to the strong type system. Getting WebMIDI integrated took some doing, but once that was done… it was pretty lovely. I do confess, I have several years of Haskell under my belt, so functional is natural to me by now.

[ehg]

Just to say: I volunteered to help test the 0.9 version the other week and it worked like a charm, made it an absolute breeze to reorganise and rename a bunch of samples and folders. Really worth checking out, huge props to @mzero for giving up his time to create it.

[X]

@mzero is a certified wizard. This is incredible.

[mzero]

Shout out to the beta testers who helped me test this: @ehg, @forsh, @jefones, @peter, @re5et. & @soundklinik! Thank you!!!

[ZORDON]

i dont own a digitakt, but shouts out to mzero for doing this for the community. cool stuff

[psyclone001]

Don’t own a DT so not up to speed with its included software. Limitations etc.
Is this sort of what people have wanted Elektron to release?

[ehg]

Before now you could use software to load samples, but organising / renaming / deleting them had to be done direct from the DT, which was really fiddly & annoying (e.g. you couldn’t delete a folder until every individual sample in it had been deleted one-by-one).

Elektron said Overbridge would include sample management / librarian functions, so I assume there may be some duplication, but this is lightweight, simple and exists now rather than in Feb / some later date.

[dubmasterfish]

Looks awesome!

A small question before i set out to make some order in the mess. If i move samples around between folders will they be found when i load projects using those samples?

[psyclone001]

Sounds like great work mate

[coda]

Amazing. Thank you

[Jay]

Awesome job. Thanks a lot.

[durutti]

Genius. @Elektron, give this man a job.

[rennweg]

Very nice!
Thanks so much!!!

[Jay]

Does this work on chrome ios (via camera connection kit)?

[moo]

Awesome work, thank you!

Would it be possible to check out your source and run this locally without an internet connection? I don’t think it needs a database and such right? Just nginx+php will do?

[djerror]

very nice sir!

[Ryan]

Super cool! Thanks for your effort!