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@eangman re-reading the latest Rytm manual, I noticed a rogue “POLYPHONY” in the Index, ostensibly on page 30 - but it’s not there.
Maybe the Index needs regenerated?

AR Mk1 OS 1.70 manual, we Mk1 enthusiasts don’t have no purple led. :upside_down_face:

Page 42:

When you turn on Euclidean mode for a track, the [REC] button will turn purple, indicating the mode is active

And the DVCO still describes the old behaviour with 24 values in an octave for osc 2 and 48 values in an octave for osc 2 . I haven’t checked DVCO since the update, but I read that there have been changes.

On the Digitone manual, page 65, section 14.2.1 Sound Browser, where it says “Press [FUNC]+[TRIG 9-16] to select Sound bank A-H”, it should say “Press [BANK]+[TRIG 9-16]”.

The exact same bug repeats on the next page, at the 14.2.2 Sound Manager section.

I’m looking at https://cdn.www.elektron.se/media/downloads/syntakt/Syntakt_User_Manual_ENG_OS1.21_231108.pdf which is the current version from this month, and it has a different but still incorrect instruction.

What it currently has is

Press [TRIG 9–16] to select sound bank A–H.

What it should say is

Press [BANK]+[TRIG 9–16] to select sound bank A–H.

This applies to both the Sound Browser and Sound Manager sections of the Syntakt manual.

The same bug is in https://cdn.www.elektron.se/media/downloads/digitakt/Digitakt_User_Manual_ENG_OS1.51_231108.pdf.

Thanks!

I checked the Digitone manual https://cdn.www.elektron.se/media/downloads/digitone/Digitone_User_Manual_ENG_OS1.41_231108.pdf has the correct instruction.

I also checked https://cdn.www.elektron.se/media/downloads/analog-four-mkii/Analog-Four-MKII-User-Manual_ENG_OS1.51C_220204.pdf and it has a different doc bug: it doesn’t mention this feature at all. On the A4 unlike the Digi-guys, you do just press a trig key with no modifier to change banks in the Sound Browser/Manager.

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The Octatrack manual has only one reference to the MULTIPLY functionality for pickup machines, in the MIDI implementation section of the appendix. There’s no other information about this useful feature or how to do it in the pickup machine or key combination sections.

Multiply just doubles the length of a pickup machine’s buffer, duplicating the audio. It allows you to overdub for some extra variation over a longer period. A pretty handy feature.

Aside from the MIDI note command you can use to do it you can also hold the track button + REC3. I don’t even know where I found out how to do that now, I think it was a forum post about patch notes that had a reference to it or something. Tx + REC3 works for the OT Mk.2 btw, I think the Mk.1 uses something else, seems to be Tx + the MIDI button if the couple of threads about multiply are accurate.

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Just a follow up to the post below (and our little discussion @avantronica):

1.70 fixed this issue and now incompatible sounds are crossed out in the sound pool.
However, this isn’t reflected in the manual which still shows the original text (now on page 48).

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Interesting, I was trying to do this vid the audio editor which has a duplicate > function but it seemed to do nothing. Will try out this track+rec 3.

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@eangman, it could be nice to add in A4’s manual a paragraph about mattias/@_mr’s precisions on amplitude modulation, maybe.

The use of PWM depending on the waveform is not something one can come up with by themselves I guess :tongue:

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:elan: Analog Four 1.51C manual –

10.6.2 SPD
Sets the speed of the arpeggiator. It is synchronized to the BPM of the project. A setting of 6 equals 16th notes, a setting of 12 equals 8th notes and so on.

No offense, but “and so on” might deserve elaboration. Like maybe a table.

From reading the paragraph, without consulting the forum, I’m doing these calculations in my head:

1? - 64th notes?
3? - 32nd notes?
6 - 16th notes
12 - 8th notes
16? 24? - 1/4 notes?
32? - 1/2 notes?

Maybe it’s somewhere else in the manual

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The confusion has indeed been been there ever since:

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Here’s a mistake noticed in the AH+FX manual with CC numbers:

From the Analog Heat +FX manual:

Analog Heat -FX sounds like just the original Analog Heat :slight_smile:

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Octatrack 1.40B upgrade instructions

Should there be a step in here before (3) which says to boot up holding FUNC?

@eangman DT II manual: p54 shows VFAD’s icon as a square fader, but it’s now a bi-directional knob icon :smiley:

Oh, thanks. I will fix that. There were 100.000 last minute changes and some of them slipped past me.

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Hi @eangman, I’m stepping over from another thread where the DT LFO speed has been widely discussed: https://www.elektronauts.com/t/i-finally-solved-and-understand-the-lfos/194190

The manual is a bit shy with information on this toppic. On page 47, 11.7.1 SPD it only says: “Speed sets the speed of the LFO.” That’s not excactly any new information.

As I learned from this thread, to put it in my own words:
"…a speed setting of n represents n/128 LFO cycles per bar."
If this is true and correct, could you add this information to the manual in a future update?

To qualify this further it does require a certain amount of context, which includes (which shape s/h is obviously an outlier), what the pattern speed factor is set to etc and it’s specifically the

ABSOLUTE of the FACTOR of SPEED multiplied by MULT if the PAGE SPEED is 1X

it’s probably better as an addendum in every manual as it needs a tiny bit of qualification, but a short description will at least point people in the right direction

see this old post for examples

wrt phase, 0 is 0deg , 32 is 90deg and so on

There are many parameters which divi up this way, it’s usually defaulting to a musically/tempo related value and in the case of speed, it makes more intuitive sense to vary Mult for consistent/related periodicity

An addendum for all these significant values would be a nice move … including referencing that 32 is equal to 100% filter(one of the filters) tracking on e.g. A4 etc

Likewise certain time values work this way, such as ‘delay’ on DN modifier envelopes, 32 and multiples gets you tempo related time values

Elektron expect us to do a bit of work it seems, but it would be prudent to help illustrate these hidden gems that many will be missing

If this is done in every section it would read poorly, i think an addendum may be an option to ‘dive deeper’ … the cool thing is that it’s going to be very similar across devices

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Yeah, it dont really provide a lot of extra info. As avantronica mentions below, there are a lot of things that can be said about the LFO speed (and a buch of other parameters) and hopefully at some point I will have the time to dig deeper and provide a bit more meat on the bones. Thanks for bringing it up.

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@eangman I was just trying to change the ‘TEMPO’ from 'PTN" to ‘PRJ’. I figured it out but it’s not mentioned anywhere in the manual.

The old Digitakt/Digitone method is to hit ‘FUNC+YES’ in the ‘TEMPO’ screen (which is clearly labelled at the bottom of that screen). On the Digitakt II, you hold ‘FUNC’ and turn the ‘E’ encoder to change states. As there’s no onscreen hint unless ‘FUNC’ is held and there’s no reference to this process in the manual, it might be helpful to add this information to the manual. :slight_smile:

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hm ! :wink:

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D’Oh!! I should’ve broadened my search terms in the manual.

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