reading the manual, elektron really gonna just quietly implement the most humanistic portamento system architecture ever designed and literally not even mention it as a selling point? the only other way to do synthesis glissando inflection like this is 1. with automation lanes and a mouse, or 2. having an actual pulse and a pair of lips
when i absolutely have to buy something, it’s cause of stuff like this. something it does that you can’t get anywhere else. there is literally nothing else in the hardware realm that can do this type of humanistic pitch expression
This is probably not drastically different from working with DT1 and DN1 together. There might be a bit more vertical paging on the 2’s, but it’s just slightly different muscle memory.
If you don’t need extra tracks and samples, it may be just easier in every way to keep it in one box. That is one of the selling point of the Digis II, one box and 16 tracks/voices would be enough for a lot of people, when it was a constraint with the OGs, especially the DN. So we can see a lot of Digis I together online, but I expect to see less of Digis II together now.
I’ll try to ask you another question, while waiting to receive my dn2 I’m still thinking about how to save all my sounds: the sounds saved in a project remain in the project, is that correct? I could temporarily import a soundpack into the dn2, create many projects with 16 sounds associated with 16 tracks, save these projects and then remove the soundpack. At that point, if I need some sound I open one of these projects, save the sound and import it where I want. Can all this work? How many projects can you save? Is there a limit?
If I understood you correctly, this should work fine. Once you’ve allocated a preset from your sound browser to a track in a project and save the project, it’s associated with the track. You could copy that track’s sound and paste it to whatever track in whatever pattern. You should even be able to copy the track sound, open a new project and paste it to a track there.
If you change the track sound after you’ve allocated a preset to a track, your preset won’t be affected by that change. Thus, what you’ve mentioned should be doable. The question is why you’d want to do that, there should be plenty of space for presets, so you don’t need that workaround if it’s only about unchanged presets.
(do not own DN II btw, but that’s how it works on all synthesis based Elektrons)
The problem is that you can store a maximum of 2048 presets distributed across 8 banks. Consider this: inside the dn2 I imagine there are at least 2 banks of presets, right? I want to at least recover all the presets of the dn1 and the dn keys, they are 3 more banks, I also bought all the soundpacks for dn on the Elektron site, more than ten, and around the web there is a lot of other stuff made by very good people, and then obviously I need space to create my sounds… 8 banks of presets are not enough for me, saving the sounds inside the projects could be a solution, a little inconvenient, but perhaps the only one.
I love the real astate to romp around. It’s like two Digitones … and since I’ve used it ever mostly monophonic, it’s like four Digitones to me! And to have actual square, saw etc. waveforms also gives a better feeling for these kinds of sounds, that it doesn’t have to be coaxed out of FM and be imperfect (softer, less steel-like [as such i perceive analog oscillators, they sound like steel]).
Techno! The kick sucks though
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Edit: Now it doesn’t suck anymore! Kick is Wavetone.
Likewise FM Drum being also a synth voice, Wavetone is also an extremely capable drum voice.
I think a lot of my Eurorack modules are looking at this thing with fear. Not a bad thing as I’m always keen to downsize and to have this kind of capability in such a small footprint is tempting to say the least. Ah who am I kidding, I give myself a week before I end up buying it
Got my pre-order in today! I’m so excited. I’ll use this to make music for a video game that my friends and I are releasing. Loopop’s excellent (as always) explanation really highlights the great leaps forward on this iteration.
I think my Eurorack modules (plus my DNK) are acting as a bulwark against a rapid purchase, though any two of my best FM performers (Three Body, Brenso, Generate 3, with 3, 2, 1 oscillators respectively) cost about as much as DT2. If one doesn’t already have these or something similar, there is no GAS relief to be had on the Eurorack side, for sure.
