Tonverk: Tips & Tricks

Please let this thread be one where we explain tricks as clearly as possible. Let’s keep Q&A for this thread please.

It could be a good idea to introduce your post with a title starting with ##

Trig menu plocked per note

With condition and retrig parameters per note in a chord, besides length and microtiming, you can quickly make really weird polyrhythms. All the more since retrig time is not based on a handful time divisions only.

24 Likes

Naming samples

Maybe old or stupid or both… when saving a sample you can of course use the auto naming like on the DTs.
I put a letter in front of each name for sorting…

B for Bass, C for Chord etc. Makes it easier to find stuff.

15 Likes

Swing on retrigs

Not immediately obvious, but swing now affects the retrig timing, so retrigs of all speed variations are swung. Makes for some cool rhythmic grooves.

25 Likes

OMFG yes! tell me you can also set swing per track. the retrigs that are effected by swing to interpolate closer or farther apart are the one nuclear secret weapon that keeps me loyal to volca drum, and in the swing knob is dedicated, you can hold step repeat and performatively stretch and collapse ratchets with the swing knob :smiling_imp:

Does that mean that the arpeggiator also adapts to swing? Would be a huge for me, if that was the case on the TV.

1 Like

no to both. both would be v nice to have…

1 Like

Thanks for the answer! Huge bummer :disappointed:

1 Like

Here’s an overview of FX machines by track type:

Bit of a bummer the Daisy Delay is only available as send FX.

You can trigger them from the keyboard, so I’m pretty sure you can also trigger them via MIDI. But either way they are going to be in a fixed pitch.

Edit: fixed an error in the table.

11 Likes

Just musing about the current absence of slicing here if anyone can chime in, but can you construct a subtrack kit one (re)sample at a time, inside the TV? Say I have a whole song I want bits of, can you assign one cropped section of it at a time to a kit?

Is it just as simple as saving 8 samples into one directory and loading it up to a track?

Edit: I can confirm it is so.

2 Likes

what I want is to copy the src machine with the assigend sample and all other setup settings to another track.

from the manual I understand this would be possible with “copy pattern” (func + copy not in recording mode) but it foes not work.
there seems to be no way to do it.
I can copy single setup pages one by one …

also copying or assigning the same sample in subtracks is not working / not easy.
there seems to be a bug in subtrack if one assigns a sample with “yes” it stays on the sample selection screen.

Thats awesome! Still no negative swing, nor swing trigs though… Hopefully in an OS update one day…

You need to record the arps down to note trigs, then it should work?

I was thinking about this “subtrack not recognize pitch changes” issues… could you circumvent it with velocity mod matrix? Assign velocity to TUN, disable velocity to volume, and then plock the velocities for your pitch info?

2 Likes

Could you do one sample 8 times and move start and end points, in mono, then use the global FX for the sub track to affect them all? That’s how I’d envision it, but not sure if that’s the best way.

Yes. But you could save one sample and use an LFO to modulate the start/ end points.

I tried it after speculating. It really is that simple. Save a slice, open a new Subtrack machine and follow the prompts on the screen to load it into a slot

Cool. Slicing would be sweeter but as long as it can be done…

You can plock pitch directly on the subtracks individual sequencers

3 Likes

I believe there’s a reason behind it. This way gives you separate filtering & modulation of each slice and polyphony. Im not sure of you could achieve those things with a simple slice grid. To me it looks like an innovation rather than a limitation.

1 Like

Ah yes of course! It’s all starting to make sense here.

It’s not an innovation on slicing, tho, because it makes setting up slices unnecessarily tedious, and you have to sequence each slice individually.

Plus you only get 8 slices.

You can achieve the same thing on DT, and it’s less of an effort.

An elegant polyphonic slice machine would give you one place to define slices, and multiple rows with different sounds where you can plock any slice to any step. Hardly innovative, but nice to use. You can achieve this on the DT, of course, with the added benefit of having different send values for effects on each row.

1 Like