Wondering about the performance aspect, it seems the options are Performance and Memorize/Recall, but those only work for one pattern at a time.
I know it’s more catered for studio use than OT, but did I maybe miss something else?
I’m really torn between hate and hype, i really crave polyphonic samples, but i love the DT2 form factor and all its features, and i dont need even less understand most lf what the Tonverk can do.
I can see the tonverk as the multitimbral polyphonic sample player i need… but i would prefer that in a basic version in my digitakt 2.
Do you all think it will ever happen ?
Anyway my retrokits-002 is on its way for polyphonic duties, but i would love it the elektron way.
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Apparently there is a"transition" mode as well not sure what it does.
(edit: It’s “just” how the pattern chain when you switch to another pattern while playing, although there is the possibility of temporarily playing another pattern from where you are and going back)
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I had a think about this and I just feel like this device does not focus on the parts of Elektron machines that I personally enjoy and is markedly different from what I had hoped to see in this release.
It’s a great accomplishment and I don’t want to kill the vibe, I’m sure everyone else is really pleased with this one and I hope everyone finds interesting ways to use it, but I am having a difficult time maintaining GAS in the face of reality.
For the kind of user I am, the extra routing possibilities won’t make my music sound any better (or any worse), and unfortunately that’s not enough of motivation for me.
This is not the machine that will allow me to sell my MPC which is what I was hoping that it would be and I’m not going to apologize for my feelings.
I considered censoring myself but if I can’t say what I want in a constuctive manner then what’s the point of being part of a community such as this and as members of the same community you can feel free to scroll over my post and not let it hit your eyes if you happen to not like what you’re reading.
I’ll look forward to our many talented users putting it to excellent use and changing my initial impressions because I can see that this box has great potential, but this device probably won’t take me any closer to finishing tracks than a combination of gear which I already own will, and when I gear shop, that is a major factor for me: what the device will do for me in terms of practical application.
I hope people can really push their boundaries with Tonverk and that we’ll see it riding their creativity into becoming a modern classic.
I hope this platform has more to offer than just what it shows at launch, and that the potential exists within the machine to sustain that for the life of a new device and does not need successive generations of hardware upgrades to see this dream take form.
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I’m curious if this will read other multisample formats, like soundfont. Hopefully it will be easy to convert other multisamples, with something like Chicken Systems Translator.
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Yeah would love to load Samples from Mars chromatic synth samples into this but if its a pain in the ass I’m almost better off staying in the DAW
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@Jeanne mentioned that it can load SFZ.
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Yeah I don’t even want to talk about racist comments, that was the last place on earth where I’d have expected to read this shit.
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Overbridge splits tracks as individual dry outputs. You can do whatever you want with those in a DAW, including live. Route them through send FX (to an FX track like Elektron does), attach insert FX (dedicated to the source track), or route them through hardware from the DAW. For the last option with hardware pedals, you need an audio interface that is capable of doing a send/return loop. So 1 input 1 output or 2 I/O for stereo pedals.
You can do this in any DAW. In things like Bitwig, it is even more braindead easy because you can have the DAW find and correct the latency compensation with the push of a button (time it takes for audio to fully pass through all elements of the chain) for you.
They feed off each other, and post on repeat.
But no, I didn’t expect that on their chat.
As @josker said, it was shameful to see. Unfortunately, they have no shame.
On topic though, it was a great video.
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It’s so weird, remember the Tonverk speculation thread? It all was true…
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I think this is a totally rational take. It’s not criticism. This is actually a really cool device and I see it has pretty healthy reception to people who see a use and those who don’t (ignoring the GAS addicts). I think it is great that you can identify that it would not bring you closer to finishing tracks - it would probably stretch the process out for you.
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Who could have possibly predicted that a basically complete looking production prototype would end up being sold as the final product? 
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I’m pretty sure that’s about when the pattern changes occur in time.
But seems like there’s no global parameter assign and tweaking, even like A4 or such.
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This sounds fine for fast sounds but for longer, evolving sounds, I want some animation of the overtone makeup.
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YT comments are a tire fire as is, and YT chat streams, being real-time and interactive, are even worse. I shut it off before the main event started, and when I saw and heard the presenter, I was glad I did. We are spoiled here on Elektronauts. Everywhere else is worse, often much worse.
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wow! a polyphonic sampler!
a piece of gear i certainly don’t need.
my wallet is happy because 2025 is way too tough.
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The accent stole the show imo; I couldn’t understand a thing!
All the weird routing and fx and the fact that you can sequence anything really appeals to my tweaker brain. And as with all samplers, you get out what you put in.
That said, I don’t really care for multi sampling (even though you could probably make some crazy setups recording splits and different sounds on velocity layers or whatever and go wild) but it’s definitely cool.
All that to say, not everything is all things to everyone and that’s fine 
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