Introducing Digitone II

[verdurin]

More single track of FM Drum fun:

[_Niko]

OP A and B are always phase reset in FM drum

[Tchu]

A better contribution, IMO.
75 BPM

[Azzarole]

Does anyone know if we can back port patches from the classic DN tone machine from DN II to OG? Or would we have to manually recreate the settings?

[Nexus_Mode]

Can DNii do microtonal scales or import them from software such as Scala?
As far as I can tell, no Elektron box can do this yet but I might be wrong.

[fully_privatized_mass_medium]

@Chmate

Mine does this too. It’s pretty loud too - quite easy to hear. Thought it was an issue with my monitors at first, but then shut everything down and it turned out to be the Digitone II itself. Swapping power supplies didn’t make any difference. I’ve filed a support request and will be receiving a replacement.

the issue with my unit was a loose component on the pcb

it’s being sent back to elektron for replacement

they’ve been super cool about it

[ThomasJ]

@Cosmic

I loved that game.

Was so good! And also designed in a, for the time, very unique way!

@wws

That’s amazing. May I request a long video on how you created the pattern, both the sounds on the DN2 and your process musically?

Thanks! Yeah, thinking about making a detailed description video of it some time in the future. We’ll see what and when

In the meantime and you’re interested, you can check another video a made some while ago where I recreated Commando, on the Syntakt. Syntakt standalone music - #1172 by ThomasJ It describes some background and one way of doing these things.

For Last Ninja I didn’t do it like that, instead I just watched the SID register updates by themselves (up to 25 registers, 50 times per second) and tried to find suitable features on the DN2 to replicate them by. Sometimes done by function, some times by ear, sometimes by checking waveforms. Either way it is a good thing there are three LFOs!

[Snipecatcher]

FedEx never comes to my house early…except today Guess I’ll have to wait until tomorrow

[avantronica]

@Azzarole

from DN II to OG?

No, it’s not supported, nor will it work that way, DNII has far more variation within its preset and of course filter options and arp settings etc

[avantronica]

@Nexus_Mode

Can DNii do microtonal scales

Not really, but the Keytracking can be used to reduce the steepness (or reverse it) of pitch to note … so it can get microtonal, but only linearly

[inputmonitor]

@Sip

I imagine that making the assembly of those nicer displays in a mass production environment would eat into their margins

They already have a much higher margin, since they are essentially the same box as gen 1 but cost a lot more.

[tallrobphilp]

@_Niko

OP A and B are always phase reset in FM drum

Thanks for clarifying. I can reproduce it, but only with certain settings. If I tweak to certain places with the parameters I get consistent playback but with others I don’t. Perhaps possible there’s some other nonlinear behaviour in the synth? Seems like higher feedback settings might cause it.

Less of a bug report, more of an observation.

[buzz]

great track, very dreamy, love it

[PLaine]

I am still just learning basics but with DN ii I am already making sounds that I thought was not possible with this kind of synth: “acoustic piano”, “Wurly”, “Rhodes”, “solo violin”, “trumpet”, “Steel drum” etc. Of course this is not my major target but if it can imitate acoustic sounds quite easily with this level it’s very promising what can you do with it… Amazing. I have had quite many synths but I have never nailed this kind of stuff with a small amount of time spent with sound designing

[Tchu]

@buzz

great track, very dreamy, love it

Thank you @buzz!

[moving_particles]

quite eagerly awaiting digitone 2 arrival tomorrow. i plan on sinking some time into this thing and master it.

[sezare56]

@PLaine

I am already making sounds that I thought was not possible with this kind of synth: “acoustic piano”, “Wurly”, “Rhodes”, “solo violin”, “trumpet”, “Steel drum”

Possible to ear them ?

[Castor]

#Digitonell

[sezare56]

Digitone Hell…

Digitone Hell

[Sip]

I don’t know much about Elektron’s production process for standard DT2 or DN2. But let’s say that their production facility has an automated assembly line for the screen components. From my experiences in manufacturing, I’ve seen there are some things that are extremely costly in a mass production environment, no matter which way you slice it. Either you upgrade your machinery to allow tighter precision and tolerances, or you change your process to put a human worker there to do that work by hand. Either one could be extremely costly for production purposes.

Truthfully I don’t know if any of this is specifically the case, as I said before, I’m speculating. But changing one process and material for another in manufacturing is not trivial and sometimes can have effects on production costs that you might not expect, just from looking at two different parts side-by-side. And between those realities and general inflation, I’m not too surprised to see the cheaper and less attractive screen assembly being reused again and again.

Another possibility is that it’s a conscious design decision. The e25 screens protruding from the front of the case looks better to me and you, but it may prove less resistant to being handled roughly. Perhaps the design team chose to prioritize rough handling in certain use cases instead of form and fit.