Great idea. I was thinking of a “hardware-overbridge” with volume faders, a cross fader, a box where you can multitrack all the digi/analogs via usb add effects, resample, loop on the fly, record. Basically an octa mk3
A couple of days before the 1.70 Rytm update, I posted this… who knows 
i think you’re not quite understanding how the digitone work to imagine such complicated workflow as you can already do this with soundlocks and LFO only.
in fact you just gave me ideas to use the arpegiator also like the tables on sid chip
Personally I’d love to see a 4 part polyphonic VA box from Elektron. Something like the Digitone but with a different synthesis engine.
But for it to be an Elektron product it would have to have some kind of a quirk tho. A 8 voice, 4 part VA synth seems too ‘vanilla’ for them in a way.
But that’s only what I wish for, in reality I have a gut feeling they might be done with the ‘Digi’ format boxes.
You can already kinda do this with aftertouch/breadth controller macros, either with MIDI feedback or with one Elektron controlling others. More on that here:
That being said, I agree that a device tailored to that would be very nice. Like a faderfox that is pre-mapped to work well with Elektrons. The above mentioned method also isn’t ideal for controlling several boxes at the same time.
Ah I knew about this and I do use it sometimes, but I didn’t realise they could listen on the same channel to do exactly this! Awesome! *disappears into studio for several days…
Polytakt 
The Digitone already is a VA. The only “VA features” missing are pulse oscillator and maybe filter drive. Perhaps a selectable envelope curve and sync. Doable in an update
A small QoL feature that could be easily implemented is allowing the use of the FUNC button to snap to some useful points in the Harmonics setting Digitone has, like saw wave or square wave.
As for my wishlist, maybe adding a second harmonics/waveshaping parameter to SYN, relegating Detune to the second page.
Almost but not really. You can get close to classic analog waveforms if you create them yourself but the waveforms are not that accurately shaped.
It would make more sense to make a wavetable Digibox with VA wave shapes like it’s usually done. I thought Elektron would have made this years ago so I guess they are not going to do that.
Pulse width would be fantastic in Digitone.
I have also been thinking about an “Overmix”. Basically, say, an 8-track mixer, where 2 tracks are stereo ins, 6 are mono ins, but all have the option of being Overbridge busses, where you can dedicate any combination of tracks from connected OB-enabled devices.
Each track could have its own drive and compressor, EQ or filter, and effects sends.
Honestly, I would find it very boring if Elektron released a DigiVA when the Digitone is already very close to be this. I think an update with an “analog” machine that would introduce emulations of classic analog waveform would be enough (and even an update like this would disappoint me… there is a ton of synthesis technics way more fun and wild than susbstractive).
I agree. That’s why I said a VA would make more sense in the form of a new wavetable synth. But an update with this would be great yes.
I’d love to see other Harm wavetables in Digitone.
I’m feeling like an A4 firmware update is inevitable at this point.
Euclidian CV track envelopes 
I think they will launch another firmware update tomorrow
A4 most probably but they could also launch new machines for Syntakt as the e25 are not selling fast
I have a feeling Octatrack MK3 is really going to be more like Digitakt MK2, with Ocatrack-like features. Stereo samples, disk streaming, expandable hard drive, more intense mixer features. In the Digi shaped box.
I realize i’m being a reproductive body member for saying this, but i think if there were updates for A4 then they would’ve pushed both at the same time and included both machines in the BF discount.
I also count it as likely that they’re trying out the new sequencer features on a single device first to minimise the amount of bugfixes that need to be addressed at the same time.
That said, i’d love to be wrong on this
you may very well be right 🥲
master distortion, Ctrl-all, save p-locks, euclidean. alas 
