Sounds dope as hell man.
Nine Inch Nails soundtrack for Quake vibez
Custom firmware for model:cycles seemingly makes in into the most all in one elektron box
samples including stereo samples, slice mode, granular, resampling, full audio editor with zero point quantise, side chain, envelope attack, the Syntakt only digital machines, slide triggers etc etc. It does so much you gotta watch the CPU load.
Hope this works as well it seems here.
saw someone got MIDI macros working on the Octatrack too but I’m too precious about mine to try that
Forgot I had this bookmarked, some amazing shit here.
(Sorry, not gear - sampler food tho.)
Makes it even more apparent how much Elektron is fucking with their customers with all of these boxes. They’re all super-capable of all of the things but arbitrarily capped, such bullshit really.
Damn this is cool, actually more capable than the takts
Found a cool tweak that lets you use custom waveforms on the syntakt chord machine but nothing as transformative as this
I understand that frustration, but at the same time what other companies still support and update their instruments for over a decade. It’s been their MO since the monomachine and Machinedrum era. Under the control board (where the faceplate and sequencing/control stuff is) they are identical hardware running different software. Same with the Digitakt and digitone, same hardware just different faceplate/control board and software. No fm synth needs a 32 gb hard drive, but it’s cheaper to only manufacture one board for both. Hopefully the explosion of mods makes them re-evaluate that separation and allows you to buy one and then have the ability to purchase the other OS at a normal software price. Con to that is that you lose the device specific input schemes like the mini keyboard on the a4 and Tonverk or the pads from Rytm or the crossfader on the Octatrack
This is incredible
I’m not really frustrated since I own none of those boxes, I’m just pointing out the obvious scam.
Also, with arbitrarily capped I mainly mean that the sequencers vary a lot in terms of functionality and the fx and modulation routing capabilities are somehow not the same across the devices.
Nah it’s always the exact same pretty much
Really? I thought you said there were some differences regarding sequencing on the Digitone compared to another of the boxes… can’t remember the details here, so might be wrong then.
Some tiny differences in the interface compared to octa but I believe every elektron box can write the same sequence
I might have heard that DN2 let’s you have 2 trig conditions on a trig (so 3:5+4:4) but that might be wrong
they’re basically the same, the menus for things like individual track lengths and stuff varies slightly
That arp setup where you separate the number of notes with the rhythm on the Digitone, is that possible on all of the boxes?
Nah the arp for internal tracks is only on digitone I believe. But the arp doesn’t interact with the main sequencer at all besides receiving Note On, Pitch and note off - you can’t parameter lock or modulate speed or note length or anything via the main sequencer. I really wish you could.
actually what I might have said was that the OT’s external MIDI sequencer is different to the other boxes - that thing does have an arp you can target external machines with, and you can use sequencer p-locks on. (Say to lock speed etc)
The Tonverk arp does allow you to p-lock its settings, but it’s the only one so far, hoping that moves to all the other arps.
@Paralytik I disagree about it being scammy. They are a small company that is able to support their instruments for free for a decade plus, some of those updates being huge major things, really can’t think of many other companies that have that reputation. They all have minor differences in the sequencer. Like it wouldn’t make sense to have polyphonic note editing on the boxes that are strictly monophonic (Digitakt and syntakt) and their older synth boxes don’t have note repeat (like a 64th note drill doesn’t really make sense for melodic sequencing), though I think they’ve realized that people will make drums with anything so that’s now just standard. Older boxes are limited to 64 step per pattern, digi’s are 128 and Tonverk is 256. Most of their instruments are voice to output with send fx, only Tonverk Octatrack and A4 have bussing to neighboring tracks or busses so the routing is pretty much the same across the board with some caveats where it makes sense. It’s also important to keep in mind that while they still sell some of these older instruments, they are old hardware platforms and won’t have the same capabilities to standardize things across the product line.
They have always prioritized speed and ease of use over feature lists. Watching the video on the modded model cycles, you can really tell how cumbersome addressing some of those added features is. No doubt they add a lot of depth to the machine (and the model cycles were definitely over crippled) but at the loss of what they were originally envisioned as, a super fast jamming machine where everything is laid out in front of you with little to no menu diving
Noise engineering has been ahead of the game for a long ass time now with their swappable firmware eurorack units haha
would be cool to see them do a standalone device someday
I also wonder if this “vibe coding” AI firmware trend will start to pop up for some eurorack modules that are already friendly to custom firmware
I always thought like, why not make a groove box where the sequencer loops load to spinning touchscreen wheels where the segments are all live samples interpreted from the midi input. Essentially always synced on a snap to the midi arrangement, but that you can just individually manipulate in time and store the groove memory outside of midi.
Yeah this discussion happens every day on elektronauts
Nobody can quite agree on which features are cynically left out to sell more machines and which ones are reasonable to leave out to leave a machine “focused” though!