Feature Requests for all Elektron Machines

I always imagine how hard being an engineer is. You spend hundreds if not 1000s of hours thinking, designing and programming. You finish the project and send it out. Then you go on the ol’ product forum to see how everyone is liking it, imaging all the praise your tireless efforts will gather. Instead you see hundreds of post in several different request threads wanting more, and others wondering when the updated version will come. I wonder if they ever feel like Russell Crowe in the Gladiator? “Are you not entertained!”.

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Which represents hundreds hours of thinking too ! :content:

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True but they must have many plans that they couldn’t implement and to some extent seek feedback to ascertain what the masses would appreciate the most.

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Certainly true. It’s just a thought I have when I see the feature request threads.

Digital parity for Digi devices, meaning all get chorus, portamento, compressor etc.

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Because of the quote from Ess Q and A it seems to imply the system is unique to the Models. But time will tell :slight_smile:

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In at least one of the :3lektron: devices, there is a preference for “Kit reload on pattern change” … seems like it’s on the analog models at least. So then I guess you’d need to have a duplicate/copy of your pattern and switch to it.

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REQUEST: something like C6 that wears for all boxes. ive tried exporting SYSEX from MM and it just fucks up with LibSys. missing parts of a dump. I use and old Laptop with C6 and its flawless. this Laptop wont be around for too much longer…she OLD.

PLEASE!

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This one should be easy, and much appreciated.

In Repitch machine on Digitakt, can we instead of empty square, actually see for how much the sample has been repitched?

It would help a lot to determine the key of the sample when working with melodic samples.

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An idea for an alternative mode for parameter locks:

Currently the Elektron devices are only capable of “rigid locks”, e.g. if you parameter lock the filter-cutoff frequency for a certain step, the cutoff point for this step is completely fixed and won’t change at all, when modulating the cutoff frequency for this track.

The Erica Synths Bassline DB-01 has a different approach: I you parameter lock the filter frequency on a certain step, you have something you might call a “fluid lock” or “interval lock”, i.e. the cutoff-value for this step will always keep the set interval to the base-value. If you modulate the filter frequency, the locked value will also change to preserve this interval.

I really, really wish Elektron would implement this as a per track option!

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That would be amazing :clap:

May make more sense as a new lock type (‘fluid lock’) rather than a track option. Perhaps ? (Or maybe there’s some obvious reason not to do that, that I’m missing).

That used to be classed as relative/absolute I think in old web terms.

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All the Digi machines need the OT LFO and Retrig setups.

  • 3 LFOS
  • LFO Designer
  • Retrig page for PLOCKING trigs
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  • bank + rec/stop = entire bank copy/paste

  • bank + up/down = transpose bank

  • bank + left/right = rotate patterns in bank

(these might interfere with fill mode, i’d assign fill on/off to double tap page:)

  • page + play = start playhead at selected page

  • page + stop = stop at current playhead position

  • page + left/right arrow (if sequencer is stopped) = playhead goes manually over steps

  • page + left/right arrow (if sequencer is playing) = repeat/skip step. if user inputs faster then step time value: repeat action

  • page + up/down arrow (if sequencer is stopped) = transpose page up/down destructively

  • page + up/down arrow (if sequencer is playing) = temporarily transpose page up/down

  • page+yes = random trigs on page (page+no = previous state)

  • play + left/right = playhead plays backward/forward

  • more granular pattern scaling, ie quintuplets etc… the weird stuff

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  • sequencer going backward or randomly forward-backward. it would even be cool to have the sequencer jump randomly in sync with the tempo
  • random retrigs on selected trigs and with a range to choose from
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You’ve just won this thread. :clap:

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I would like to be able to midi map func yes/no. Could be a note message, or could be a CC where 0-63 is func yes, and 64-127 is func no.

I basically want one button for each to control across all my digi boxes.

thanks fellow naut, for it was only a momentary glimpse of seeing the light :smile:

adding to this:

page + left/right arrow (if sequencer is playing) = repeat/skip step

would be awesome if they could implement a subdivision parameter for it. so if holding the button combo we could have some ace manual repeating/forward jumping ratchet action going on (edit: would be awesome for french house style eight/quarternote repeats too)

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Good ideas for free button combinations, but double tap page would kill the FILL function playability.

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