And now you can build kits of disparate samples if you wish. Maybe there’ll be a quick populate button later. Its not the Digitakt or the Octatrack, it’s the Tonverk. People wedded to the slice grid can buy DT, it’s still the same excellent device it was on Wednesday.
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SD card & sample management
Since the manual doesn’t go into details regarding the actual procedure of changing SD cards, I thought I’d share some details here:
Powering on the Tonverk with an empty, exFAT formatted SD card acts like any other startup. It will not give you any messages indicating a card change; it will give you the regular “Opening project” message.
The subfolders on the card will be created as they are “needed” rather than being pre-populated - so initially, only the User/Projects folder will be created. (Saving a preset will create the User/Presets folder, and so on.)
So a tip from me regarding this is that since samples, instruments, recordings and presets are not stored on a per-project basis; if you only going to work with your own (sampled) content, it might be a good idea to use (a) separate SD card(s) in order to “unclutter” the UI a bit - I think it will save you a fair amount of time.
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There is no velocity mod matrix on Tonverk, at least it’s not in the manual. The keytrack mod setup that was introduced with the DT2 is missing, too.
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Renaming autosampled instruments
Since it is currently not possible to name or rename the autosampled instruments, I though I’d share that it is actually quite easy to do this manually.
!!! ONLY DO THIS PRIOR TO USING THE INSTRUMENT IN ANY PATTERN OR PRESET, OTHERWISE THOSE PATTERNS/PRESETS WILL BE BROKEN !!!
The sampled data is stored in a regular WAV file, and the multi-sample mapping metadata is stored in a plaintext file (with an .elmulti extension), e.g:
# ELEKTRON MULTI-SAMPLE MAPPING FORMAT
version = 0
name = 'FRANK CHUTE'
[[key-zones]]
pitch = 36
key-center = 36.0
[[key-zones.velocity-layers]]
velocity = 0.9960785
strategy = 'Forward'
[[key-zones.velocity-layers.sample-slots]]
sample = 'FRANK CHUTE.wav'
trim-start = 1370
trim-end = 117082
...
So, rename the files (and the containing folder) and then update all the (name/sample) references in the elmulti file and you should be good to go! (Or, to be on the safe side, first make a copy of the folder and do the changes there.)
(Edit: it seems that the preset files (.tvpst) are also plaintext-based, so any presets referencing (renamed) instruments could be updated as well. The project (e.g. pattern) data on the other hand, seems to be based around RocksDB, so updating any existing pattern instrument references would be far less trivial.)
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I wouldn’t be surprised if those are on the list to be added as things like aftertouch, breath, mod wheel & pitch bend all have four destinations to be modulated by them.
I would hope so. However, existing mods are all related to the track as a whole, these two affect notes individually. Maybe a similar reason why there are no send levels for subtracks.
(Moved)
I don’t want to get into ‘it should be easy to do x…’ territory but since the filters on the audio tracks already have keytracking I’m hopeful it’ll become a mod source as well 
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Oh? I can only assume the mod matrixes will come in a later OS… every other device seems to have them
While the configs are plaintext, they are written in TOML
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With the setup shown in my video (pulses going out into modular as clock, audio going in into TV), and maybe adding another track going out with a pulse for clock reset, it should be possible to very easily sample loops from one’s modular:
Set the length (e.g. 4 Bars), arm, hit play.
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The longest signal path
- Route Track 1 to Bus 1
- Route Bus 1 to Out CD
- Plug two cables from Out CD to In AB
- On Master Track (16) SRC menu, set Routing to Track 2
- Route Track 2 to Bus 2
=> We now have Track 1 with 9 layers of FX (counting the Master FX) and 4 different stages towards the 3 FX sends.
PS: You can set the paths separately for each input, so it’s possible to turn TV into a multi FX for a guitar and still have a powerful groove box to play with. @sezare56 will be happy ^^
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I’m not sure to use TV this way.
I’d rather use Octatrack, Tempera, Superego+, Space, Attack Decay, Microcosm (on its way)…
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Alternative to FX on separate subtrack: resample!
If one is sad that there are no separate effect sends on the subtracks …
Let’s say you want reverb only on the snare.
Possible solution: Resample the snare with the reverb (in stereo) and put it back into the Subtrack.
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Genuine question: is (sound A + sound B)->reverb the same as (A->reverb)+(B->reverb)?
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Should be
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How do you “update” subtracks? Let’s say I load a subtrack kit from the file menu, and resample the snare with reverb. How do I update said kit to contain my new reverb snare?
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Func+subtrack opens the sample browser to switch samples
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