The Elektron documentation thread

[Avivi]

Well it’s the tiniest of adds but none-the-less:
In the A4 manual appednix D: MIDI, page D-5, the CC number for the filter overdrive is 86.

[smokyfrog]

I recently went back over the Octatrack’s Arranger, determined to learn the thing once and for all. I made a few notes where the documentation felt lacking, dunno if these are useful:

The manual’s description of looping could be improved if it simply told you that when a loop row is reached, it branches back to the specified row (default 000) and does so as many times as you specify (default infinity).

A useful pointer for the Arranger Editor would have been: Remember to move the cursor away from a field that opens a menu in order to hit enter and play from that point. So if you’re doing lots of mutes, you can’t simply move one step to the right but have to move left past mute, transpose and tempo.

There is only one tempo maintained throughout. Therefore, the sentence that says ‘if there is no setting, the tempo is the main BPM’ really means nothing. Any BPM that is set takes over and remains the main BPM even when you leave Arrange mode, regardless of what it was before.

Make sure tracks are unmuted before you start using the Arranger Editor or you’ll be well confused.

Within Arrange Edit, the changes you make to mutes don’t take effect until the next time the row is engaged.

Just those few things would have saved me a few furrowed brows, but I’m old and dim.

[sezare56]

Changing the 'active' Track on an Octatrack from a MIDI controller

The manual says (page 106): Blockquote1. Set pedal 4 so it transmits MIDI note 69, an A note. This will move the focus of the active track to the previous track. If for example track 2 is active, pressing this pedal will make track 1 active.12. Set pedal 5 so it transmits MIDI note 68, a G# note. This will move the focus of the active track to the next track. If for example track 2 is active, pressing this pedal will make track 3 active. This is erronous, it’s inverted: 68=> previous and 69=>…

The tutorial should be corrected, and eventually the note list (invert active track up / down), eventually change terms, like previous, next, increment decrement…

[eangman]

Thanks I fixed that now on both A4 manuals. It will show up next time I update the PDF manuals.

[sezare56]

Maybe a little mistake with NLEN?

10.6.4 LEG Controls the legato of the arpeggiator. This setting will affect the note trigs of the track even if the MOD setting is set to OFF. ON will play overlapping notes legato, releasing the old note after the new one. The NLEN setting adjusts the length of the notes when the arpeggiator is activated. If not activated the LEN setting will adjust the length of the notes. OFF will send out a MIDI note off message before the start of each arpeggiated note.

[eangman]

Hmmm not sure what is wrong there… Enlighten me.

[sezare56]

I didn’t precise, A4 MKI. I can’t see any NLEN.
Only Note LEN or Arp LEN.

There is a NLEN for Octatrack.

[eangman]

Ahh ok. Yes I had a look at it and corrected this for both AF MKI and MKII. The text now reads:

“ON will play overlapping notes legato, releasing the old note after the new one. The LEN parameter adjusts the length of the notes when the arpeggiator is activated. If the arpeggiator is not activated, then the LEN parameter on the NOTE menu will adjust the length of the notes.”

Thanks for catching this

[papertiger]

@eangman

On p. 33 of the Digitone manual, 10.5 Voice Menu, the text says: “A dot next to the track number indicates that the sound is in mono. For more information, please see ‘9.5. Sound Setup Menu’ on page 26.”

Is that cross-reference correct? I don’t see anything related to mono sounds in section 9.5 or on p. 26.

Sorry if I’m missing something!

In addition, on p. 66 of the manual, near the bottom, some of the formatting of the text in the “Auto Channel” paragraph is messed up. The error appears in the sentence that reads “This function is useful when you want to change quickly between the active synth track to play different S20
ounds.”

Edit: Another minor one. On p. 44 of the manual, in the last paragraph on the page, after the second to last sentence, the following text appears: “J50 (-64-63).” I think it needs to be deleted.

[sezare56]

CC NRPN for Mute missing in A4’s MKI manual
Can I automate the 4 synth tracks levels with midi CC?

[sezare56]

Digitakt

8.4 MIDI NOTES
Some functions can be triggered by sending MIDI note values from an external MIDI device (a MIDI keyboard or a computer, for example) connected to the Digitakt via a standard MIDI cable or a USB 2.0 A to B connector cable. Of the 128 notes in the standard MIDI range, Note numbers 0–8 correspond to notes C0 through to G0

0-7 instead?

[eangman]

Finally had time to have a look at this. You are correct on all accounts and I have now fixed it in the manual. Thanks!

[eangman]

It is indeed. Fixed it in both AF MKI and AF MKII manuals. Thanks for the heads up!

[eangman]

Obviously, you can count to 8, unlike me I have fixed that in the manual now. Thanks!

[sezare56]

AR2 gain reduction bar is still mentioned in the manual, but it has been disabled apparently.

RYTM Compression

Blockquote THR (Threshold) sets the threshold of the compressor. A lower threshold means a larger portion of the signal will be subject to compression. There is a bar on the rightmost edge of the screen which will visu-ally represent the amount of compression. (0–127) Where is this gain reduction bar? I’m sure I’m compressing the hell out of the mix but I don’t see no bar going on the compressor page… (AR mk2)

[eangman]

Hmm… Im looking at the AR MKII User Manual on the website. Here this text is corrected. Am I missing something?

[PeterHanes]

Am I missing something?

There were at least two previous versions of the 1.45 manual that were issued in July 2018 before you deleted the reference to the gain reduction bar in the current (January 2019) version.

[eangman]

Yes I remember that. But I was wondering why the error was still in it. But it wasn’t
Good thing to remember is that if people Google for the manuals, it’s not uncommon to be sent to a cached (possibly old) version of the manual. To be on the safe side, always download them from the Elektron site directly.

[tnussb]

Btw: It would be really nice when the manuals would show the firmware version number of the device and the manual release date in a much more prominent place than the small print copyright footer at the end of the introduction chapter.

[eangman]

You just want more and more and more dont you? You wanted me to put the OS version and date in the manual, and I did. Now you want it bigger? Do you think I have heaps of unused big fonts just lying around huh? When will it ever end? Sheesh!
Just kidding