Sorry, had to do it 
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Iâve had much fun with the Gating preset. In makes the sound evolve in microtonal realms and you can get very different phrases of the same pattern with trig conditions.
Portamento is really well implemented on DNs 
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Same here! The SH-4d sounded remarkable on paper, and all the buttons and sliders made programming look easier. However, Roland needs to hire better UX engineers. Every single one of their recent devices is a messy UX hodgepodge.
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Thanks for the kind words 
I did do the FM Drum today
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Thanks for these
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u know why i never knew it was there? never read the f manual. gassing away today i thought it was a new part of the trigger page with the og portamento knob and switch⌠but itâs (always been there) just buried in a options menu.
every video does a 2 second flick of the fm drum transient knob, i want to hear them, Iâm legit most excited about the sounds in there, they sound like bbox. bbox is my favorite thing about monomachine. like my favorite thing about Las Vegas is the corn dogs. and BW.RT / OD.RT, canât wait to get all the distortion at the END after the filters to shape it into weapons and shit
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Do any of the new instruments allow the creation of (near) pure noise merely by maxing out the feedback on one of the operators? This was something that bothered me about the original digitone; the method of increasing the feedback still has a pretty strong fundamental unlike most FM synths. There was an included preset (maybe just called âwhite noiseâ) that I used a lot, and it was a surprisingly complex patch.
I saw a machine that just had a ânoiseâ level and I think thatâs cheating 
though it probably sounds good.
All the new machines have a noise generator. I think the FM noise is not as noisy on Digitone because itâs not aliasing like most older FM synths as Digitone runs at a very high sample rate internally.
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I thought it was a practical decision going off something Ess said in an interview but you might be right. Thanks!
Is it possible to have more than one sound per note in a chord on a single trig?
Yeah I i planned to get some eurorack modules but then the DN2 plopped up. This effectively is feeding my GAS and saves me a lot of money
Iâm sitting here with my Machinedrum mk2, and thinking to myself: whatâs new really? No freely assignable lfoâs?
Okay, now you can do pretty complex waveform manipulation, which is very cool. But you can do that as well with the unofficial MD firmware using AM; Sample rate reduction and comb filtering with extensive parameter control. It has a master compressor and EQ as well and a compressor on individual neighbor tracks. The MD has no master overdrive, but does have overdrive on individual tracks. You can also use the comb filter to create flanging, phasing and chorus effects.
The first groovebox they made was and still is the most complete machine of them all. I know itâs a bit childish to keep repeating this mantra, but I hope theyâll just re-use those ideas (including the unofficial firmware ideas) to full extend. If itâs possible on 2001 hardware, then surely they can make something much more powerful in 2024. Instead, with every release I see same-ish ideas that donât go beyond creating a groovebox for the masses.
I would ask Elektron this: could you just for once make an esotoric groovebox, with a steep price, one I could barely afford, that will really challenge your own design and engineering capabilities?
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Ive sold everything, my 12u eurorack system and I only have the DN2 left. Its enough I think. I might add DT2 or OT2 for that sampling but I dont know yet. Less is more =)
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Donât know if you got an answer, but Iâll try to explain what this is referring to:
Letâs say that you had a pattern on DN1 that had voice stealing. Since you now have twice the amount of voices on DNII, there might not be voice stealing anymore, so the pattern could sound slightly different because of that.
You can actually fix it by locking 8 voices to an unused track, so that only 8 voices are left to be used by the rest of the tracks.
EDIT: Also, this is true, and could affect the pattern more than what I have described above:
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I donât think that will pay their staff wages and running costs 
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I read from a user in another forum that the chord mode is already built into the DN2, but it doesnât seem to be mentioned in the manual. As I donât own a DN2, I canât check this myself.
That makes sense!
Just received mine and had a couple of spare minutes to run through its presets and I definitely prefer the sounds from DN rather than the Syntakt! The build quality⌠hmm⌠do you have a huge gap between the screen and the casing? Itâs on my Digitakt II too, but more pronounced in this new box. But otherwise, everything seems fine. Canât wait to take it out for a proper walk 
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Yeah this one gets a little old. Iâd chose 3 LFOâs per track any day over one single freely assignable LFO. Itâs a cool feature but in practice the results arenât that great and much more can be achieved with 3 LFOâs and P-locks. Machinedrum is a fantastic machine but itâs very different from this new Digitone, i.e. they cannot be compared. In short, the Machinedrumâs machines have limited controls while Digitone, being a synthesizer has completely open-ended FM synthesis - and now with a much more complex FM Drum engine than any of the Machinedrum machines. Both are great and I absolutely love both but saying thereâs nothing new is just wrong.
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Like we have on AR and A4. Performance macroâs. They are so powerful. I envision the Elektron team debating this and reaching consensus it would eat to much into the AR and A4.
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