I’m worried about this too, manual seems like chromatic won’t work with midi but I really can’t see any good reason why they wouldn’t implement that.
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I’d say Chromatic will work exactly same on midi tracks as sample tracks. Almost guaranteed and probably just seen by Elektron as a given that doesn’t really need to be specified in manual (tho I can see how it’d be reassuring if they mentioned it in there somewhere 
id be surprised if it didnt work with midi tracks much like OT, but it may well not.
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I would think if you modify a sample in a pattern the sample in the +drive has not changed.It just has bunch of parameters assigned to it in that project. I think you would need to resample the finished sound and save it as its own sample?
Yeah like mentioned, it can store 2000+ samples. The Volca can store 100 samples. I mentioned the Volca as it only got 4mb of storage, and I fill up those 100 slots before it runs out of storage space (when you’re dealing with mono samples that are primarily drums/percussion and you prepare them properly in an editor or daw, it’s usually the amount of samples that becomes a limit, not the storage). I’m just hoping for an increased nr of slots as 1gb is a lot of space and I’m looking to minimize swapping samples around as the projects uses non destructive editing on the samples in +Drive as I understand it all. So mess up a sample in the +Drive = messing up all the projects relying on that/those samples(?). I do hope we can export projects to our puters and choose to include the samples in the exported project file.
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tha SAMPLE ist still stored in the +Drive … to the Pattern only a SOUND gets assigned. The SOUND contains the information wich sample from the +Drive is assigned and wich parameters it has (start/endpoints, filter settings …)
If you want to reuse a sound you can copy and paste it from one pattern to the next. Probably there is/will be a feature to store sounds one the +Drive wich then can easily loaded into different projects
I don’t see why there couldn’t be stored much more than 2048 sounds on the +Drive …
that “only” 2048 could be directly accessible by assigning them to patterns/projects is understandable
Running with your logic for a moment… Is there really that many people sitting around saying “you know what, sample transfer on AR is so slow I’m going to shell out £650 for Digitakt for that reason alone”? I doubt it personally.
Anyway, I don’t doubt that Elektron underestimated Overbridge and that it has been a huge resource drain. Of course they are busy! It’s not like they are fannying around with no master plan. Sure there is an argument to be made that they shouldn’t be releasing new stuff when machines are (very much arguably) unfinished but listen, are you able to transfer samples to your AR just now? Yes, so this becomes an issue around convenience!
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There have never been any delays with any Elektron products. That is a myth. Elektron are in the business since a long time, they know exactly how long things take. Products were just advertised and sold way too early, obviously in the interest of creating revenue before the product is ready. Sadly this is how many companies operate these days.
In the way that you could play your connected MIDI gear using the Digitakt’s button as a keyboard … and then simultaneously record this into the Digitakt’s sequencer.
Would make the Digitakt very appealing to me if it does this. I wasn’t aware it could be done on an Octatrack already… I guess it all depends whether Elektron want to share this feature on more than one of their devices.
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Didn’t they make some merger with some other company that was supposed to speed up/ increase production? I think this speaks to the statements made at NAMM that we’ll see more new products than we can believe in 2017. But, maybe it turns out that even though you try to make the affordable simple box it is actually still damn hard to make them, harder and taking longer than they thought perhaps.
Talking about the OT - the ot comes up as a hd drive.
That’s a function not on the dt or AR.
Ok so you are going with the 2 yrs busy logic and overbridge eating up time. Ob would have been the logical tool for sample transfer, right?
Dunno, maybe elektron are on drugs or something.
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That sounds like a good fit for an SP-404SX (or perhaps one of the other Roland samplers), especially if you wouldn’t be using the other device’s sequencer at all.
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I think there was a shake up with Elektron just after the OT release. I’m not sure but Teenage Engineering might of had something to do with it. Maybe some developers jump ship, IDK. OB has been a resource drain in my opinion and not lived up to expectations. If you look at the MD, MnM and OT they are complete and self contained but since the Analog series the machines have had a missing element. (Midi, sample transfer, slow updates) DT looks to be on the right track and a return to the old school ways. That being said I’ll trade OB for individual outs any day of the week. Very excited about the DT.
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What’s your source of information? You can read the actual credit list for Product Design and Development in the manuals for each instrument.
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Just speculation on my behalf.
there has to be some way to dump and start fresh. I’m guessing there’s a few omissions from the manual.
oh I certainly hope it has sysex for patterns…
Yep. Shortly after posting the tracking was upgraded with an ETA of Friday (tomorrow). I’m stoked to get this thing before a long weekend.
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I’m getting it right after my long weekend 