Here’s a mistake noticed in the AH+FX manual with CC numbers:
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 
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. 
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D’Oh!! I should’ve broadened my search terms in the manual.
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