Sequencer & Sound Programming Tips for Digitone

maybe it happens due to inappropriate length value

A cool trick if you want to create trap style hi hats that can jump from 1/16th to 1/12th triplets and 1/32nd notes, etc…

Create or find a patch you want to use. Enable the arpeggiator. Now access the arp settings. Set the SPEED to 1/16th. Once this is done save your patch. Copy the patch to create a new one, this time changing only the SPEED of the Arpeggiator to 1/12th (triplets) Copy and save as many different patch variations you desire.

Load all your newly created patches into your sound pool so you can now lay them down in a pattern and use SOUND LOCKS to change the patch on any given trig, in turn changing the speed of the hi hats.

This is excellent fun with weird glitchy sounds, FM, claps, anything!!! Love tossing these at the end of a 4 bar phrase. This is basically the Digitone’s unofficial Retrig.

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Bravo!

Yeah this works a treat! You can approach the arp as a performance retrig thing as well - set the speed you want then just turn it on and off as desired. The arp key combo is easy and accessible from any menu so it’s a fun thing to reach for.

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Richard Devine recently shared his FM sound design tips here. He uses a plugin, but it generally applies to the Digitone.

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I think he mainly uses the ModX for his FM sound design which he has been speaking about in earlier interviews. Those preset sounds do not at all sound as good as the Digitone IMO. He uses mainly hardware so I think this is more of a commercial for Waves :grinning:

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So I was trying to use the DN to add delay to an outside signal but the delay won’t apply when I change the parameter on the master page. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

I think the synth track also needs to be triggered at least one time do get the delay working.

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Thanks so much for the link. It’s nice to know I wasn’t the first to have that happen.

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