We are delighted to introduce Tonverk. A deep and adaptable sonic pathfinder, packed with all kinds of tracks, tricks, effects, and pathways to capture your sound and take it on whatever wild and wonderful journeys you choose. It can be so many things: your versatile polyphonic sampler, your flexible routing playground, your FX laboratory of possibilities, your machine with tracks within tracks, your multi-tonal factory, your modulation maze. Or, plug your imagination in and discover what else you can dream up together.
Polyphonic multisampler & audio processor
This is a machine primed for adventure: an instrument to propel you towards extraordinary music-making and boundless sound exploration. Tonverk is both a revelatory pathfinder and wondrous labyrinth to immerse yourself in, offering diverse solutions to capture, process, route, and reveal your sound. Stay a while. Stay forever.
Sonic Pathfinder
Tonverk has eight audio tracks that can be utilized in different ways depending on where you want to take your sounds. There are a further eight tracks for buses, sends, and mix - all primed for extensive routing, putting a wealth of fresh FX flavors in your hands for use across the box.
Tonverk heralds the arrival of another Elektron platform, the first device and certainly not the last. It joins our family of platforms, each offering hugely exciting opportunities that we can’t wait to explore and bring to life. You’re invited to enter a gateway to fantastic fun and experimentation. And, like all adventures, the beginning offers only a glimpse of what’s to come.
Meet the Machines
Three machines form the initial basis of Tonverk’s sound creation, plus another for MIDI.
Single Player is a Tonverk take on a polyphonic one-shot machine. Load, record, or drag and drop your stereo sample from your device, and play it back polyphonically. Find your start point, find your end, set your loop point, and smooth it out like butter with the crossfade parameter for seamless looping. Let a single tone run on into polyphoninfinity.
Multi Player lets you load a multisampled instrument. Various samples are spread out over the keyboard, full of melodic potential, and ready for your fingertips. The machine comes with several multisampled instruments covering plenty of flavors, and with the Auto Sampler you can of course create your own magic.
Subtracks offers you the chance to load a sample on every lower row key on Tonverk’s keyboard. This means one track is essentially eight Subtracks, each able to play their samples simultaneously. And every Subtrack has its own two filters, an amp envelope, and modulation. Load a curated set of samples or pick and choose what sound lives where. Why not have eight drum machines in your drum machine? The choice is yours.
Super sampling
There are two ways to sample with Tonverk. Recorder allows for straightforward audio sampling, externally or internally, in a way familiar to those who have used Elektron samplers before. Tonverk’s Auto Sampler adds another layer of interest. Connect your MIDI gear and record whatever sound you like. Maybe it’s your favorite monophonic patch from elsewhere, magically made polyphonic, giving it a new lease of life. Decide how many notes and velocity layers you want to collect, start the recording, and let the machine do the work. You can even connect via USB, and sample from whatever app you have at your disposal.
Routing adventures
Tonverk’s routing capabilities are huge. There are lots of places to begin your journey and countless directions you can head off in. Let one sound have its own unique adventure or bring tracks together for combined treatment. All of Tonverk’s tracks have their own routing. Its extensive, flexible routing setup allows you to direct sound from multiple sources to various destinations. You can also send audio out of Tonverk, process it externally, and bring it right back in.
Mass FX
Tonverk is an effects beast, giving you different options when it comes to what, where, and how you use the scores of effects on offer. There are plenty of newcomers to work with as well: Rumsklang Reverb, Daisy Delay, Dirtshaper, Degrader, Chrono Pitch, Frequency Warper, Infinite Flanger, Phase 98, Filterbank, and Comb +/- are all eager to be explored, and are joined by some Elektron classics, and a bunch more filters.
The eight audio tracks and four buses each have their own two insert effects, while the three sends have one insert effect usable across the machine. The mix has an insert effect of its own too. But that’s just the beginning. How you process your sound and the order of your effects in the signal chain is entirely up to you - an FX puzzle to play around with every time.
Mega modulation
There’s modulation mayhem on offer on Tonverk, with LFO possibilities everywhere you look, letting you shape your sound as deeply as you dare to. Each of the eight audio tracks has two voice LFOs, two FX LFOs, and a Mod Envelope. If you’re using the Subtracks machine, many of the modulation powers are usable per Subtrack. Every track or Subtrack has one filter envelope and one amp envelope as well. And if that’s not enough, each of your buses, sends, and the mix has two LFOs too, making for a crazy number of modulation options.
The Sequencer
Tonverk boosts the Elektron sequencer to its biggest-ever size, with the possibility of 256 steps to put to use. And every single track has its own sequencer, meaning you can Parameter lock in all kinds of magical ways and granting you even more movement and control. You can even P-lock the routing itself, letting you route your sound continuously or for just a split second. In fact, across the device, Tonverk has more Parameter lock potential than we’ve ever put in one box.
A Verkstation with tons more to dive into
In many ways, Tonverk could be your perfect Elektron workstation. Multisample your favorite piece of gear, and take it in unimaginable directions. Build your drum kits, build your instruments, save your presets. Sequence your songs, route your sounds, and dive into plenty more features like arpeggiator, chord mode, song mode, pattern transitions, perform mode, and a selection of modulation sources that shine when connecting your external keyboard. And all of this from one box.
Tonverk is loaded with a broad and diverse factory library packed with options to work across its machines. There are multisampled instruments, Subtracks instruments, single samples, and presets aplenty, providing a true springboard for your sonic escapades.
Connectivity
On the back of your machine you have four outputs and two inputs, and a headphone out that is also a routing option. Plus: MIDI In, Out, and Thru; two USB-C slots; and an SD card.
Updating Tonverk
With Tonverk you update your OS or manage your content via the included USB-C cable. Connect, drag, and drop.
See the launch video here.
Artwork by EKTA.
Head to the At A Glance video here.
Pricing and availability
Tonverk is available to purchase from the Elektron website or from retailers carrying the Elektron range of products. Pricing on elektron.se is 1599 USD/1399 EUR/1199 GBP.
Moderator Edit: Post-launch official updates …
