Digitone / sound pack management?

Elektron Gear Digitone/Digitone Keys
#1

So I’ve had my Digitone for about a year now. I never questioned it when I got it, but it came with 3 sound banks (A, B, and C) which I always thought were the stock sounds. I had a friend come over and trip out that I had so many more presets that his DN has. I recently bought a sound pack, and had it installed on sound D, and it had dawned on me, “what if I were to rebuy the same sound pack? what a waste”

Anyways, is there a way to see what sysex files are currently installed on the Digitone? I plan on buying a couple more sound packs and I’d like to know which ones I currently own.

#2

you can scroll through your banks in DN’s menu for selecting sound or maybe better OB? maybe you can make a screenshot of your banks and check manually with other soundpacks? The soundpacks always have a demopack with a few sounds!
It sucks that you cannot name a bank, but that’s the elektron way! I always write down on paper which banks I have installed! Or maybe you got my broken DN with my patches, refurbished unit of me :laughing:

#3

You just have to name the first preset slot with the name of the sound pack.

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#4

great idea thx

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#5

Digitone comes with presets in bank A and B. Bank C is suppose to be blank.

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#6

How do you mean?

#7

So for example I bought the “Hidden” sound pack. There isn’t a way to check my Digitone prior to a purchase to see if it already had it installed.

So if a DN comes stock with A and B banks, how can I find out what is installed in bank C? Like I said, I would hate to buy for example (d) Tones only to find that I already had it.

I wish there was a spreadsheet online of all the sound packs that Elektron offers. There aren’t any reviews or overviews of those things and I think it would totally save my Arse. Here’s a thing, the first preset on bank C is called “Baby.” Does anyone recognize what soundpack this might be?

#8

Yes, C should be empty. I purchased all the sound packs and installed them the day after I bought my DN. I promptly forgot the order, so last night I deleted them all and reinstalled them. This time I wrote down the order. Changing the name of the first sound of each pack is a brilliant solution.

#9

I edited my post before you posted just now, would you happen to know what soundpack has the “Baby” preset as its first one?

#10

This is a great solution.
I do find it odd that the banks cannot be named.

What we need is a pinned thread in the DN forum showing all packs and their contents. Who’s up for the challenge?

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#11

I searched and didn’t find “Baby” in any of the packs in any bank. Perhaps they are the previous owners custom patches or even a pack from a third party not available on the Elektron website. As I mentioned earlier, I have every pack available on the website. I’ve installed them as follows:

Bank A: 1-256 “Stock Sounds”
Bank B: 1-256 “Stock Sounds”
Bank C: 1-128 “Bionic Walk”
Bank C: 129-256 “rtFM”
Bank D: 1-128 “Big Space”
Bank D: 129-256 “Haunted Hearts”
Bank E: 1-128 “Hidden”
Bank E: 129-246 “Revealed”
Bank F: 1-128 “(d) Tones”
Bank F: 129-192 “Uncanny Valley

#12

I’m up for it. Will take me a while though (not the greatest typist).

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#13

You, sir, are a legend!

#14

Okay, did you purchase your Digitone second hand with presinstalled sound packs in Bank C?

#15

I bought my Digitone used, and yes there was 256 presets saved under bank C.
It’s my understanding that soundpacks have 128 right? So maybe I have 2 soundpacks installed under bank C? Haha this is tricky

#16

I’ll post an image of what sounds I have saved under bank C when I’m off work to give you guys some insight

#17

Okay then I understand.

The number of presets can differ. One that I bought have 130 and another one has around 60.

One thing to consider is that the presets in Bank C don’t have to belong to an Elektron released sound pack and maybe its the first owners own presets. It doesn’t have to be like that, but it’s one option.

#18

Don’t forget also that you can download the Digitone Keys presets, these are found in your Elektron account. :grinning:

#19

It’s be handy if the full sound list of each pack was included as a txt file within each demo sound pack , and the full pack.

I’ve installed all the demo packs but have no idea which one is in each bank. I should’ve prefixed the Syssex file too.

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Help identifying installed sound packs
#20

Is via using overbridge a better management of installed presets possible? Right now, I feel like I missed my chance by naming the first preset the pack name and I am lost in hundreds iPod hundreds patches…