Did you mean Hold to max ?
Didn’t try with MIDI, should work.
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A little poppy thing made only using FM drum
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Awesome track, man! Love the acoustic/metallic percussions on this one.
Yeah, making full sounding tracks on the OG Digitone made me feel like a wizard. Squeezing all the drums into one track with p-locks and sound-locks and and microtiming hats with arps to free up trigs for even more complexity was really satisfying (and undeniably more work). Getting around the 8 voice limitation by increasing the delay and reverb right before the pattern switches to let chords from the first pattern bleed over into the next pattern while the track switches to a different sound was really satisfying to pull off.
That said, it’s very nice to not HAVE to do those things anymore. I still find myself only using around 7-8 tracks when working with the Digitone 2. I’m basically structuring stuff the same way as on the OG Digitone, but all the drum sounds are on 4 tracks instead of 1, and 3 tracks for all the melodic stuff 
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Thanks. On the Rytm, it’s hold to min, turns to “auto”.
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That means a lot coming from you, thanks \m/
Yeah I seem to be hovering around 6ish in the patterns i’ve started. I want to see how far I can stretch one pattern by having duplicate sounds across multiple sequence tracks that i switch out to build up progressions and different sections… might be a way to keep it more performance oriented from time to time. Having 128 steps now should help a ton with that as well.
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Yeah, having 128 steps is really nice! I did run into a problem on my last video though. I’d set the pattern length to 256 steps but forgot to set the change steps, so at one point I tried switching patterns but the pattern kept playing for another 128 steps, and I had to improvise around that 
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I’ve just ordered one to pair with my octatrack.
I’ve never ordered anything on release so this is fun. It’ll arrive tomorrow.
I’ll aim to share some bits made with it here!
@_Niko that track is really nice
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Can anyone clarify (I can’t find in the manual) if operators A+B are free running with FM drum engine? I’m trying to make kick drums but sometimes 2 hits don’t sound the same, like it’s losing the transient because the phase is different. I know I can lock phase of operator C, can’t find anything about A+B. I’m just using the operators, no noise or transient from synth page 4.
Cheers!
so with the new trig modes - if you set the trigs to play different presets and use the arp, will it arpeggiate between different sounds?
Just bought this thing after a long elektron hiatus. It’s awesome!
Question about performance
Only previous elektron box i had was the Rytm, and on that I liked being able to perform with a combination of track muting and the quick perf knob.
I don’t really see a way to set up macros on this, so I’m mostly Control/All’ing, but struggling to figure out how to combine this with muting and unmuting tracks.
Is there a good way to do this? I.e. affect some synth parameters for a build up, and simultanously mute/unmute some tracks on the drop. If I’m in Control/All mode, I can’t do anything else, since I need to hold down all those buttons so that I can ‘No’ (revert) the whole thing at the end.
Any tips?
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Try performance macros for mod wheel, breath controller, aftertouch, velocity, pitch bend. It’s a workaround that requires an external MIDI controller to be used to its full potential though. More on this here:
Some well prepared ctrl all action that only includes certain tracks might also be nice.
It’s the one thing the flagships still have over the digis. I hope Elektron will implement some way of accessing these macros more easily, they’re 90% there but just need to give us an additional screen where these values are displayed at once. And maybe another menu where we can group macros for several tracks.
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Nice, thanks for that <3
I guess I don’t use the fill much, so wondering if I could tie muting or levels of specific tracks to the fill button. Hm.
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I tried, it did not.
Something weird happened: record something in preset pool trig mode then turn on the arp: the volume is decreased quite a lot or the sound pool preset is like ignored and revert to the basic sound.
will see if it’s just me in the bug thread.
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I don’t think it is possible without an external midi arp…
Arp on/off state is saved with the preset, apparently you can’t plock anything concerning arp.
You can save several presets with arp…and use them on a track.
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thanks for checking. too bad it doesn’t work. i was really hoping the arp would be more flexible than in the original digitone.
I didn’t experienced that starting from scratch…
I think the DN is the only Elektron machine that stores arp info with the presets; presets you can sound-lock, it’s quite powerful (sure, being able to lock the arp on/off per step could be nice but you could certainly not have different settings per trig like you do with presets). The only thing I miss is a random mode for the arp (was available in other machines).
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Problem with preset locks with arp : you have to save the preset again if you want to change arp settings…
Basic setting !
This, choke groups, lfos on Euclidean parameters and you in generative music heaven.
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I mainly used them to create premade rhythm patch as you can use weird intervals easily and used them as pseudo-retrigs too so I was fine with this limitation.
This, choke groups, lfos on Euclidean parameters and you in generative music heaven.
yes! and… LFO on velocity to use the 4 macros we can set! This is a common request with the infamous… MIDI arp 
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The e25 versions were especially hand built. I imagine that making the assembly of those nicer displays in a mass production environment would eat into their margins. Could be very costly to make that work on whatever assembly line. For a limited run, they could make sure the fit and finish were perfect (and I’m fairly certain the screen cover is a different material on e25). Just my speculation.
But I agree with you - I’d pay a bit more for screens like the one on my e25, it looks fantastic and much nicer than the OG digi screens. The gap bugs me a little