I’m not a huge fan of the single reverb algorithm Elektron has been using for all machines created since the A4 (2012). That’s nearly 13 years of the same reverb with no additional algorithms.
The main reason I’m not a huge fan of this reverb algorithm is because it’s a bit metallic and I don’t like how it sounds with percussion. I’d really like a nice room reverb to choose from as well.
It kind of blows my mind that as “innovative” as Elektron might be, that they continue to design instruments with only one single reverb algorithm and continue to use the exact same one for almost 13 years. This is the main reason I’m not too interested in the new Digitakt.
Nah IIRC someone asked why the Model’s Reverb sounded better than A4 although it just had 2 controls, and then they responded it’s the same in every box except OT. It’ just that the Models have lower headroom overall and therefore eveything sounds a little different.
…ot offers three different basic algorithmic reverbs…
while it’s long/cloudy one, it’s dark reverb, joined the ot insert fx cake of ur choice a little later…and yes, these are only to find in the ot and nowhere else…it’s the only insert fx machine anyways…
with the a4, came the actual reverb as we know it, while it sounds a little different in the a4, since it’s added digitally to an analog circuit, which deals with different gainstaging ratios, while all digis stay within digital circuit "one way"gainstaging…
if u take a close listen to syntakts analog machines, there is some little a4 like reverb magic back…and for about the first two years (i purchased the a4 mk1 right away when it entered the market), i must say, i respected my a4’s reverb as one of the best i had in use back then…
and sure some room and plate like reverbs would be nice, but let’s keep in mind, that one for all reverb as we know it for now, is pretty versatile…u actually can damp, shorten and widen it in many ways…
but in essence, yup, it’s time to raise the fx game again…one same send reverb, no matter how much use u make of various p locking spots/snapshots and pre/post eq’ing, starts to outdate itself in this 21st century…
ot three will bring back insert fx and therefor an endless array of different reverb flavours to choose from…
I just can’t bring myself to buy new machines without individual outputs. If only the Digitone had individual outputs. I know, Overbridge, but then I got to use the daw and latency.
I wouldn’t mind few additional parameters to the current reverb, like more control over the diffusion, just give up the shelving section in favor of other parameters and just have low/high cut…
I guess that pairing with a nice pedal will be more effective then mushing up the built in one, but then again, reverbs like Valhalla are so simple in terms of control and have big amount of algorithms inside, I wouldn’t mind having bits less controls over couple more algorithms, that would be nice to have for sure. imagine a Valhalla Room built in… that would be something.
Likely it’s just marketing, but I’m hoping for some updated FX algorithms one day like our new filter machines. Maybe they will refer to the legacy FX with these names
except correction, it seems like “Panoramic Chorus” comes from Digitone … digging …
I can find “panoramic chorus” only in advertisements for Digitone [and Digitakt II], but no source [for Digitone] from Elektron themselves. Maybe it’s written in the presskit materials.
A partnership between Elektron and another company for new FX might be cool. Kind of like Valhalla and TipTop, Erbe and MakeNoise, Ableton and Cytomic, Teenage Engineering and SonicCharge, etc.
I’ve definitely messed with the only available parameters. I think the problem is I want it to sound less metallic while not filtering out the high-end.
