Digitakt Power-off Save Behavior Clarifications

Elektron Gear Digitakt
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I’ve had some confusing experiences with the power-down save behavior of my Digitakt. I’m on OS 1.11_BETA6.

I’m led to believe that while working in a project everything is continuously saved to RAM and stays there until you load a new project and overwrite it. So powering off and back on never should matter - it’s as though you left it on the whole time. The only time the RAM-saved project hits +Drive is if you do a “save project” operation or a “save pattern to project”. That’s what I think it’s supposed to do.

In practice I’m seeing something different. I’ll often be working on a project and have made a few new patterns, then I’m done for a while and do a “save project” to write to +Drive, get the “done” message, and turn off the unit. Then later when I come back and turn it on, I’m greeted by an old version of the project without the new patterns! However, if I then do a “load project” of the same exact project I’m in, it loads the new patterns that I saved to +Drive before I turned it off. Is this really the designed behavior? I lost a few patterns this way before I realized what was happening - now I get it, but it’s still a bit confusing that I should have to reload the project that should have stayed in RAM.

I just did a test and after leaving it off for a few minutes I came back, turned it on, and it loaded into a “New Project” that was empty instead of the project I left it on! No damage to the stuff I explicitly saved to +Drive, but this is really confusing inconsistent behavior!

Any ideas?

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this is not typical behavior. I would contact electron support.

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I would also get off the Beta and run GA releases. Beta’s are not meant to be run in normal production scenarios.

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How do I do this? I’m pretty sure I just installed the OS1.11 from the downloads page. It doesn’t say anything about beta except on the Digitakt screen.

EDIT: just installed the OS1.11 (not beta). Huh. I’m not sure how I ever ended up with the beta. I did buy it used so maybe the last guy did it.

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Okay, testing now with OS1.11 not beta and it seems to be the same. Turning on and off quickly preserves it, but leaving it off for a few minutes causes a boot to a new project. I guess I should contact support since this doesn’t seem to be the designed behavior.

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Do you hit FUNC+Yes to save to temp?
(or whatever it’s called)

Is there’s a battery? (Anyone)

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I’m not saving to temp, but you don’t need to right? That’s just a performance tool - I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be logging everything in RAM as it goes without that.

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I’d contact support. They’ll probably have you do a factory reset as first step so you might want to back up your projects (check out elk-herd) and do a reset to start.