I spent some time with my DT2 and what a fun time it was. Sample browsing and sample loading was easy, time stretched and cut loops up to my hearts content, and I even sync’d it up to some other machines!
Then it dawned on me…I’m looking at all this backwards.
It’s not the TV that needs timestretching and slices, it’s the Digitakt 2 that needs BUS and SEND tracks that can be sequenced, subtracks, and all the new Elektron FX.
All the basic infrastructure and things that are supposed to work are already there working, and working great in the DT2. Just add the BUSSES and FX to the DT2 and we’re good.
Perhaps beat slicing is not on Tonverk (Tone work) because the next device in the series is Drum Work.
Finessed product line, if you like.
As is interminably stated, it is a fairly standard sampling function. I lean towards the view that it’s not there on purpose. So maybe there’s a reason for that so far unexplored on these pages.
Contradictions don’t exist, if you think you see one check YOUR premises. One of them is wrong.
Having the ability to slice on a sampler isn’t turning it into an all-in-one machine, it’s just making it a more feature complete sampler. There are still a million other things it can’t do - but not being able to do karplus strong synthesis or emulate a wind instrument aren’t things anyone is asking for.
They just want to be able to use it as a sampler.
I use samplers heavily in most of the music I make and not having the ability to slice is a hindrance. I accept that means that Tonverk isn’t for me, but if it DID do it, it would be a machine I’d have a lot of interest it. If Elektron want to leave money on the table that’s their business though.
Critically though, Tonverk is not a sampler. It is a creative effects box that hinges itself on multisampling. Or as Elektron put it: A “polyphonic multisampler & audio processor”
