So if Elektron can do it so should Roland.
They probably can. But who knows. When i first found out that the DT1 had no kits i was shocked. And after being angry for a few days i learned to play live sets in one pattern.
But i hope this issue gets fixed. It seems like a great machine and it wouldnāt make sense to leave it like that.
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First few hours with this and I can see that this is quite a deep machine with lots of possibilities. Even still, cannot help discovering opportunities for new features or enhancements.
Can master FX have custom knob assignments?
Does anyone agree that it would be cool to apply an LFO to master FX? edit: this is possible via editing the KIT params ā you can also fine adjust send FX settings here too.
When editing a morph scene, is it possible to trigger individual tracks?
And yes, hope the pattern transition silence gap can be closed. Itās not a total dealbreaker for me, but I did get this with the side-intention of jamming/performing with it.
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yes i think so, some of the factory patterns are doing this. But maybe not exactly the way you expect it too.
Morph lets you automate all the individual track controls on the panel. You could set Morph to update the Mix control on track 1-4, and just have one of the layers empty
I think I noticed a way to do this using the Fill editā¦ I think you can assign Fill to call one of the sub A-H patterns within the main pattern youāre in.
Not quite Elektron level, but you can go to other main patterns, copy one of the parts and bring it back into the pattern youāre working in.
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Itās currently all of it (inc kit delay and master fx not trailing over the change).
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For sure, though what Iām trying to do is manually trigger the tracks to hear the params Iām adjusting. For example, using the sequencer keys to play the sounds as if the machine were set to INST REC and dialing the params to taste. When itās in Morph Edit mode, I cannot seem to trig the sounds with those keys.
I guess thatās limited to the same kit if fills are sub-patterns then though? Better than nothing, for sure and you could parameter lock the fills to have pretty different sounds to the main pattern even with the same kitā¦
Yeah idk seems like something they could hopefully provide an additional configuration to disable this functionality. Might result in some trade offs but eh.
Similar feelings here.
I have lots of gear where changing presets leads to a wide variety of outcomes. With some boxes I only switch a sound or FX preset at the right time. Other boxes donāt support kits and some donāt have presets at all. Some boxes allow you to plock sounds and even switch whole kits at very little sonic penalty. Itās all part of the game and I donāt expect one unit to do everything.
Iām blown away by TR-1000 so far. I can see that closing the kit / pattern change impact would expand its flexibility for sure.
Yes master / analog FX sequencing would be nice, as well as LFO control of these FX. (Edit: actually I found that the KIT level LFO can be used with MFX and AFX as targets 
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Would also like s&h LFO to be activated by note trigs rather than just time / steps
Iām really looking forward to see what further refinements will be brought forward.
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Donāt forget Morph here too, that can effectively change your kit completely and give a ton of variables between A and B on the slider.
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Worth saying the two-layer tracks can help with this since you can trigger each layer independently or together as well as adjust the relative mix between the two to give more sound flexibility under morph or plock control.
I would love for there to be multiple lab threads on which Elektron denizens explored Rolandās analog machine. Iād expect to see more of that in Rolandās forums than here, but technical/artistic threads generally seem better here.
measured this from the mp3s in audcity, itās exactly 100ms. itās kind of a big gap, almost a whole 16th (125ms) at 120bpm. Itās likely muting at 100ms before the end of the current pattern, and it has 100ms to load the next kit/patttern, and then itās ready for the step 1 when it switches over.
i would be surprised if this couldnāt be modified/fixed in firmware, but only if they can get the load time down to almost nothing, or get some clever caching. It would be easiest to fix in a song mode (they can predict kit changes), but if they can cache the kits from the patterns in memory, they should be able to fix this.
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One other thing to bring this further into Octatrack territory, would be to be able to assign a CTRL knob to slice offset, so one can use that morph fader to live-freak things like breakbeats. Assigning it to sample start: also cool.
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How can they cache the analogue voices? The manual makes it sound like a gap was deliberately chosen maybe for consistency across the different sound engines. Presumably because each of the 16 analogue voices are unique they take time to change settings.
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I would assume that the reason things like Elektrons p-locks and sound locks and the BSII afx mode are possible is because at the end of the day the analog voices are just being fed a bunch of CVs being output from a dac and so anything can instantaneously change to anything else. Donāt know what that means for the TR but thereās no inherent reason why an analog voice would need to take time to change settings.
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I donāt really know and I donāt actually have this thing yet so Iām not actually allowed in this thread yet, but I hadnāt considered the analog aspect of this particular thing yet and I know that with my Behringer Edge (and presumably the DFAM also) there are a lot of things that are sonic side effects of the fact that voltage changes create audible weirdness between steps.
I feel like Roland would know that people would want to exploit this on the analog side but when mixed with digital the results are probably unpredictable and sometimes ugly.
Itās not just the analog voices.
By ānot being super truthfulā you are referring of course to the fact that itās written explicitly in the manual?
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