Updating OS

Elektron Gear Digitone/Digitone Keys
#8

Just tried updating with Transfer and it wouldn’t connect to Digitone, it actually showed as a Digitakt. I tried with Sysex Librarian and it took ages to send it but then the update never happened in Digitone…any ideas?

#9

Its a bug that it is shown as digitakt, that will be fixed with this update - so connect to the “digitakt”

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#10

Sysex librarian is mainly made for “true” (old) din midi Synths. I am not sure, but I think, “full speed” here is only full speed of old midi. Turbo Midi over usb is much faster. Try c6 for that tasks.

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#11

Ok will do, cheers :+1:

#12

Did anybody try updating under Linux? I did not try myself yet, but I probably will, so now I am just asking - do you have any verified and reliable solution, or just know that it is better not to even try?

EDIT: Does anybody know if amidi command would work? Any risk, special preparations, or something?

#13

FYI: the amidi command worked perfectly fine for me.

If anyone is interested, here are the steps for upgrading the Digitone to 1.02, under Linux:

WARNING! The firmware upgrade is generally a sensitive process and the procedure described below is unofficial, unsupported, and therefore - I suppose - unrecommended by Elektron. So think twice, understand what you are doing, and know the risk. So anyway.

  1. Open the terminal, and download the Digitone firmware:
    wget https://www.elektron.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Digitone_OS1.02.zip

  2. Unpack the ZIP file:
    unzip Digitone_OS1.02.zip

  3. Connect the Digitone to USB port, and list MIDI devices to get its port:
    amidi -l
    You should see something like:
    Dir Device Name
    IO hw:X,0,0 Elektron Digitone MIDI 1
    Where X will be some number. Remember it.

  4. Go to SETTINGS > SYSTEM > OS UPGRADE in the Digitone menu.
    It should display the info about waiting for SysEx.

  5. Send the file to the Digitone:
    amidi -p hw:X,0,0 -s Digitone_OS1.02.syx
    Replace X with the number you got at point 3 above.
    Sending takes less than a second. Then the device displays the info about erasing, writing the firmware and rebooting, which all takes a couple of seconds. And that’s all. You should see 1.02 version number when the Digitone is rebooting.

Similar procedure should probably work for any other Elektron device and any other firmware version, provided the firmware upgrade is being realized through the SysEx protocol.

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Updating the DN
Updating the DN
#14

For OS 1.0.1 on Digitone, I used SysEx librarian because I knew how it worked for this kind of thing. But man, was it slow! I take it I can use C6 and ‘turbo midi’ even over USB? I guess that makes sense, since the TM-1 is a USB-Midi interface, I’ve just never tried using turbo midi (especially for SysEx) directly over USB before.

#15

You can use C6 for transfers over a USB connection.

The Turbo protocol is only applicable for MIDI transfers via 5-pin DIN connections. There’s no need to think about the Turbo protocol if you have a direct USB connection between the computer and the Digitone.

#16

Yeah that was me yesterday. I never bothered with C6 before as I thought I was sorted for that kind of stuff with Sysex Librarian. Thanks to @jox it’s done, fast as f*** too!

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#17

Just got my digitone and am having the same problem… Tried to use the transfer app and C6. It shows up as the digitakt when configuring the midi in and out. The update file won’t work in either app… Not sure if it’s on my end or Elektrons.

Please help…

#18

You can update the Digitone’s firmware using Elektron Transfer?

#19

I think he’s confusing the digitone with the digitakt… There’s no indication that the transfer app works with digitone… In fact, when configuring the midi in and out with digitone. The app doesn’t even see it, it thinks it’s seeing the digitakt… This is so Elektron… Great concepts with horrible execution… At super high prices…

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#20

Got a Digitone yesterday. Tried Transfer and no luck (works fine with Digitakt).
Tried C6 and the Digitone was updated in seconds.

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#21

I’ve had my 'tone for a week now - sitting on the fence about the os update.

How’s it running for you? Any DSP boot failures? All good?

Thanks for any comments you may share…

#22

No problems at all in the few hours I have had with it.

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#23

So then maybe the problem I’m having with C6 is on my end. When you configure your midi in and out, does it say Digitone or Digitakt? Because the app thinks the tone is the takt…lol

#24

I only ever had one or the other switched on, each was identified correctly.

#25

Same here… Only one at a time, not sure why the app insists on the digitakt when it’s not even in the set up…
Great going Elektron…lol

#26

Pretty sure someone else claims that it’s a bug and will change with update. They said they picked Digitakt and it worked fine not sure tho

#27

Elektron Transfer recognizes my Digitone properly (as “Digitone”) - it just freezes / times out during the process of “connecting”, or the next step (which I can’t recall now) - before I’m able to drop the .syx file in the box. This makes me believe that ET was designed to work with the DN… it just doesn’t work yet.

It’d be really convenient (possible?) to be able to update the Digitone’s firmware using Elektron Transfer.