Hello all, as you might know Elektron is renowned for their well integrated “parameter-locking” features, or maybe to be more general, we could call it something like “step based automation.”
I have become interested in trying to trace the lineage of this feature since it seems like the kind of thing that has only recently become convenient to achieve.
I have a hunch that the theoretical groundwork was laid by the Serge Touch Keyboard (TKB) which offers multiple voltage modulations per step, but my knowledge of synthesizer history is far from encyclopedic so I wanted to outsource a few suggestions.
I own an elektron monomachine and octatrack, which possibly represent the peak of this sort of functionality, but I am curious to understand the progression of the concept in general. How was it utilized from the infancy of analog synthesis to modern times. Where would you suggest I look to to do more research?
Thanks in advance.