Honestly DN2 is a great pairing for it too and I think it’s a toss-up but I would want to also have at least one analog monosynth in the mix for bass because I’m that bitch so if that was the case I’d have my SE-02 or Typhon there alongside the Lyra running into the DN2 inputs.
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I have a Monome Norns attached to the ins and outs of my Tonverk. I think they make a great pair, as Norns has synths I can sample into the Tonverk, and incredible samplers I can sample into from Tonverk, like MLRE, Eterna and NDLS to name a few. It’s a lot of fun to mangle sounds and bounce them between the two devices. Highly recommend this setup!
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Lots of votes for DN2 here, but the DN1 is also killer with the TV. Any synth tbh—I just can’t get enough of the TV’s filter folder effect.
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…if ur talking hw here and tv is ur first…well, u obviously need a synthesis based hw device to pair nicely with ur sample based device…
if we talk elektron here, i’d say, a syntakt would be the perfect sidekick…
biggest bang for the buck…a second hand a4 mk1…then u even have truu analog synth…
in digital, synthesis biggest bang for the buck would be second hand digitone mk1…fm flexing full on…
whatever u end up with…last hting u need is another sampling device…at least for now…
I totally forgot to include the other piece in the above setup! Intech Studio’s VSN1 and EN16 controllers:
(aside: anyone know how to take images from phone without LED glare?)
Since the TV doesn’t have performance macros, I make heavy use of MIDI macros. This gives me immediate access to 8 channels of mod-wheel, breath-controller, and aftertouch messages. It also provides me with 3 snapshots of controller state, randomization of controller state, and 8 channels of RTRIG which currently don’t work because Elektron hasn’t implemented RTRIG yet (although it is listed as a target in the CC reference part of the manual)
This controller setup would work likewise for any other Elektron products that support MIDI macros, although not as 1:1 due to track count differences. Here’s a more in-depth guide to how the controller pair works:
This was a lot of work, took me weeks, and I’m a professional software engineer, so while Intech Studio’s Grid is an amazing product, creating highly customized things like this is non-trivial to say the least, so keep that in mind if something like this looks attractive to you (then again you can always just use this or other schemas from the community). It was also kind of a bummer that the TV doesn’t support class compliant MIDI over USB, in other words it can’t host, so I had to purchase a connector since the grid controllers are USB only, which as anyone who has ever purchased a basic MIDI utility knows was not cheap.
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Yes. Clean the lens :).
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Not the culprit but thanks.
In that case it’s either lots is small scratches or some kind of dirt/smudge on the inside of the lens. If you already have tried to use a micro fiber cloth to clean the lens I think only option is to open it up to see what’s on the other side of the glass. 
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I Feel like any fx box looping back in is going to be loads of fun. I’ve been lost all evening in the above set up.
out of c/d into mood mk2 and beck in the left input. Also finally Got the midibox working with the mood tonight so it’s synced with the Tonverk. Hydras coming in the right input. I’m still not 100% with the routing. Seems like the inputs are bypassing all tracks, busses etc and going straight to the main outs. But fun nonetheless.
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You can adjust this in the routing src [see next post!] menu, send inputs to a track or a bus.
Go to SRC on track 16. AB routings are on that page. You can have them go either to the mix track for example if you want them through whatever effect is on the mix track along with everything else, straight to the outputs, or any track or bus.
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Sweet. Thanks both.
Here’s my setup with the Tonverk. For me it’s a good mix of options, while remaining fairly focussed.
If I had to recommend one thing to pair with the TV for me it would be either;
iPad because you sample instruments from the iPad, send/return effects, re-sample, record etc… it’s a nice portable combo that would provide a ton of options.
Or, an RYTM, because using both together doesn’t add too much to the workload and, for me, drums are limited on TV as you can’t assign effects per subtrack.
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Found it. Working like a charm. I’m torn atm. I’m planning on grabbing a mio xl and rewiring my main studio so everything’s Connectable. But i have this nagging feeling that I’m just going to end up pulling bits out to use with the Tonverk in the living room / kitchen.
Really loving this box.
iPads an interesting option. How many Tonverk usb outs does the iPad recognise?
iPad will currently recognise TV outputs 1+2 and 3+4
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For me this is also so far the case. The Tonverk is there to multisample other things and make them unneeded! At last I am able to take my soft synth patches in non-12-tet and suck them up into a machine to play live with. Not as expressive anymore, but i sample them dry so i can be expressive with effects rather than say envelopes.
Right now i am building around my TV as a highly structured and structuring central component, and surrounding it with very gestural expressive things that cannot be autosampled, including the chromaplane and some hardware effects with feedback looping. I may get a very wild drum element to finish things, in addition to my bastl wave bard that will also be getting hoovered into the TV.
I’m grateful the TV does so much or at least promises it will (I am also encountering odd buggy behavior, to my dismay) so I can plan for it to grow into the structuring frame of my tracks as i begun work on a new project that is otherwise very driven by improvisation. TV will contribute fixed elements that help keep time and give definition to places.
I only hope they keep straightening out TV issues so i can confidently tour w it like i could any of my other Elektron gear I’ve had over the years.
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I have one now so plonking this here.
I think the answer is nothing or anything, really it just needs audio in it to have a good time and make compelling sounds.
Is that two stereo pairs? It would be interesting to get 4 monos…any chance? Don’t have an iPad so I can’t check myself.
