I thought you were talking about Syntakt SY TONE.
Isn’t DN1 engine FM TONE?
And if you were answering about WAVE TONE, aren’t waveforms similar to SY BITS?
I mentioned it recently when I saw it in the manual. Really good news. Want this kind of routing since ages since AH MKI ! Coming from guitar fx, wah is before distortion, or between 2 distortions! 
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Found this video to be extremely helpful to understand the voices a bit more. I’m fairly new to the Elektron world (DT2 + ST), but I would love to see more content like this out there. Also very cool that this machine has 16 32bit FM voices. I can’t wait to buy one.
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Oof. I went down the MC-101/707 path before converting to Elektrons…it isn’t bad once you learn it but the learning is painful. Most of navigating those devices makes no sense. The button combos. ugh. Changing certain parameters was like a 12 step process. button combo into Menu to a sub-menu (sometimes another sub menu) to a selection to sub-page to scrolling through parameter choices to selecting a parameter to finally changing it.
People complaining about DNII “menu diving” are crazy.
Pressing a button to access a page and an arrow button to flip to the next page and having controls for each parameter on the screen is not menu diving.
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I assume this is their new Wavetone engine??
Also, random request - how’s it sound running Swarm with Unison? Currently intrigued by the possibility of being able to get proper trancey supersaws
Possible to save a trig directly to the Soundpool?
“Press [TRIG] + [PRESET/KIT] to save the sound of a trig as a preset, taking all parameter locks into consideration.”
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Damn, thought it came in the new ST update.
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Roland, Yamaha (and Korg) do it as they are geared up to selling a synth or 2, on top of all their piano/basic keyboards-they are geared up to be sold from music shops and geared up to do package deals/explain simply to lazy music shop owners.
It is why their synths/products are designed to look/sound good on the surface (packed with all sorts of badly designed features) over being easy/good to use in the long run.
I was thinking today of when I bought my first guitar from the local music shop/monopoly. They had a choice of 6 cheap pedals-I did not know anything better and got on with them. Today, I watched people in the US/everywhere on Youtube demonstrate pedals-hundreds of channels from 200 subscribers to 500,000. And there are 1000s of pedals, companies, choices and loads of free, almost unbiased good advice. Some of the pedals where cheaper, better and more interesting than the pedals from 30 years ago-despite 30 years of inflation.
The internet has come like a meteorite and has yet to kill all the dinosaurs.
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Same, I thought it was more direct, since DT2 btw. Not directly in the Preset Pool but, it makes the process faster.
I’m not so sure, the SH-4d appears to have all those models, but they are all overlays on the same core synth engine, and a bunch of the models like PCM, wavetable, cross FM and sync are absolutely garbage.
The UX is another matter, but yeah it’s pretty bad, using the device creates that weird dissonance where you always feel you’re doing something slightly wrong. Anyhow we can take this to the SH-4d thread
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Confused by this?
« You can now save a Sound from a specific trig on the sequencer, complete with its Sound and parameter locks applied »
From the Release Notes of the new ST OS.
Tchu see my question about this just above.
Preset Pool
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The tedious bit is actually more of saving a preset to the Preset Pool (OG DN: Sound Pool) since quite some menu diving and button presses needs to be done for this. If you could just press the Trig and then press Preset/Kit and save directly to the Preset Pool it would be so much easier.
That’s why I said « Confused by this? ».
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Not exactly. At DT2 release I also thought it was possible to save a plocked trig directly to the Sound Pool / Preset Pool.
I guess it would be possible, by saving the Sound / Preset automatically in the banks, first available slot…or a secondary prompt after selecting a pool slot.
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Nice! That’s properly acidic. 
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You’re right, I was talking about the FM TONE.
I think I have read during the tests that WAVE TONE’s “harmonics” were the waveforms from FM TONE engine found under the parameter “harmonics”.
@Gino, wasn’t it you that found out this?
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