Digitone feature requests!

Elektron Gear Digitone/Digitone Keys
#444

A Hidden TB303 mode (with DigiTone FM sounds)
(activated by a silly oldskool console ‘cheats’-like secret key combo)

(Oct up/down, Accents, slides, transpose function on ptn playback, tie notes together)

Parameter slides/glide between selected notes.
Stepmode Ptn editing like tb303

Also a hidden 6581 Mode, if possible.(oldskool tracker-like)
1 track Per step possibillity to choose (switch) presets (e.g. bassdrum on 1, snare on 3, etc…)
(Somewhat like programming the 3 channel SID on a c64)

Also would be nice to do a quick pitchdrop on sounds like the NES soundtrick basskick was done for example (so it’d sound like percussion, a bassdrum etc, you know the deal right?

(Digitone !!! Such a monster device!!!)

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#445

Excellent suggestions. I would LOVE it if it could do constant time slides ala 303 without using up LFOs. That really is the only thing I can think of that this thing REALLY needs.

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#446

Portamento… Not really sure why that’s been left out.

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#447

Oh nice work around for the drum track! Thanks bud. That’s a really awesome trick but I meant conditional sound locks. A sound lock that will change based on what the parameter is set for randomization. Like conditional trigs but with sound locks.

#448

Yeah, thought I’d post it anyway :smiley:

Being able to set a condition to a specific sound/parameter lock is a great idea though. How do you think it could be implemented?

#449

That’s a tough one, there are open menu items but I am not sure what would work best within the UI. Maybe a menu item or key combo? I am not sure. You discovering the bit about one track playing two sounds at the same time as long as they are different notes though is making me think about what’s hidden in the architecture.That means sounds, voices, and tracks are not connected in a way I thought they were.

#450

Maybe more general than to just the Digitone, but I really hate that there are menus you have to explicitly close before entering a another menu. A menu button should open the desired menu regardless of what other menu item is open - pressing ‘no’ once (sometimes twice depending on menu depth) and then pressing the other menu you want is not a helpful UI pattern.

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#451

Ahhh, yes! I am equally annoyed by this. It’s not like those buttons have some other function in those menus. I suppose that functionality has to be written in so I’ll give Elektron some leeway.

#452

I think it just adds an unnecessary layer of complexity. There are already a lot of 2-button combos for entering different modes, why add button patterns on top of that? It’s especially obnoxious when setting up and fine tuning velocity/Aftertouch/bend mods

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#453

agreed

#454

MIDI + T1-T4 as MIDI quick mutes please!

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#455

I’d like a way to over ride automation locks quickly. Say I’m jamming and I kinda fuck up my sound, it would be great if I could press and hold down the parameter knob and while that was happening every step that plays will reset back to the sounds default value.

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#456

You can already do this in Live recording mode.
“You can also remove specific parameter locks on a track in real time. In LIVE RECORDING mode, press and hold [NO] and then press and hold the DATA ENTRY knob corresponding to the parameter that you want to remove.” P. 35

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#457

Wahoo thanks!

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#458

I wish there was a way to adjust the B osc ratios with less sensitivity. I feel like if I barely turn the knob, it jumps up 10-20 digits.

It’s also be neat if there was a sound guide for how to approach creating popular sounds. I’m reverse engineering the presets and that is very helpful, but still adjusting to Elektrons way of approaching FM compared to DX7/VST’s.

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#459

agreed on the encoder sensitivity for B ratios… kind of nerve wracking tbh

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#460

Perhaps already mentioned, but I would love a TX81Z (and/or other 4 op fm yamaha classic) patch import :slight_smile:

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#461

I feel like parameter slides and portamento is the only thing really missing from this machine.
I can live with the rest of what is “missing”

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#462

I’ve seen these previously requested, and I’d love to add my vote for:

  • Legato or Note Slide for Mono Voices

  • Some kind of Song Mode. Perhaps like the current Chain Mode, which works fine and is intuitive, but does not work as well in a traditional “song-based” live set. Maybe multiple saveable chains that can be recalled in some way?

  • Better (less super confusing) lighting for Mute Modes. For some reason I never get confused which mode I’m in on DT, but on DN I get confused almost every time.

  • SRR as Master FX

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#463

I’ve been sticking to a 1 year grace period before buying new Elektron gear but I almost folded and bought tge Digitone this week. I read this thread and no portamento/glide or slide? Looks like Ill be waiting this out. Gotta have those,