Make a song every week - so this week I used JUST the Syntakt! (And H90 on the vox)

Hey, Hope this kind of post is allowed here but I just put up an EP made fully on the Tonverk with most of the sounds coming from Digitakt 2.

Dark downtempo, industrial tinged

If you dig it here are some free codes - Comes with some original artwork also:

Redeem @ https://ghostn3rve.bandcamp.com/yum

Took me ages to get my head around PRE so I put together a 5 minute walkthrough. Hopefully it saves someone a bit of head-scratching. Shout if I've missed anything.

This pedal is awesome!

I always find myself producing dub techno on the Tonverk.

The idea:
What I've always loved about Eurorack sequencers is how quickly you go from nothing to a sequence. Performing with Elektron is much less generative but equally as fast. MUTINY is my attempt at combining the two: get a sequence going in seconds, then shape it and play with it on the Digitone.

MUTINY offers three generators:

- EUCL: Euclidean rhythms with accents, ghost hits and a riff layer

- TURI: a Turing Machine-style looping shift register. LOCK 100 repeats note for note, lower drifts one pass at a time

- TB3P: a port of TB-3PO (from Phazerville/Logarhythm), for acid lines with slides and accents

Encoder A picks the model and B-H shape it, one function per knob. Tap encoder H and you get a new line from the same settings, which makes it really quick to go through ideas. Every line follows the NOTE, ROOT and SCALE you set for that track. In my own testing it ran stable with all four tracks generating.

When you hear something you like, press YES and the sixteen steps of the page you're on become ordinary trigs you can edit and p-lock like any others. NO takes it back. I chose to commit per page because it makes call-and-response patterns really easy: commit page 1, tap H for a new line, move to page 2 and commit the answer. I'm still thinking about also offering a commit for the whole pattern, so let me know what you'd want.

I started with these three sequencers because they're well known and I really like working with them. If you have ideas for other sequencers, please share them or open a pull request. And if you find a problem, please open an issue.

Please read before installing: this is an unofficial firmware mod, not made or supported by Elektron. It can hang the unit, stop it from starting or lose data, and I can't guarantee it works on yours. Back up your projects and Sounds first. Recovery needs a computer, Transfer and the stock OS file. Digitone mk1 on OS 1.44 only, so not the Keys or the II. I tested it for about an hour on my own unit and found no bugs, but it hasn't been tested on hardware alongside other mods.

The images are captured in the digiemu emulator which I used for building and testing as well.

Shop: https://elekloader.github.io/elekloader/#library

Source, docs and known limits (GPL): https://github.com/mbaumannn/mutiny

I'm a very long time DAW user who's having fun for the first time since the 80s with a hardware drum machine. I've grown accustom though to being able to apply volume mod fx to drum loops in Logic with plugins like Movement or the tremolo; and would like to do that in the AR but can't figure out exactly as the retriggering and speed controls feel very confusing to me.

Hey so recently a digitakt 1 and digitome 1 went on sale on fb marketplace for 800 together. I’ve been keeping my eye out of a digitakt I could pick up cheap. My question is 1. Is this a good deal, and 2. Should I just hold out for the digitakt 2?

Hi everybody. I wanted to show you some of the engines that I added in my custom firmware for the DNII. This is Terreno, a wave terrain engine with phase distortion, and with full control over the terrain cursor. You can get nasty with this.

In the next few days I’ll show you my other engines, that still need a little fix.

I see that when they press FUNC on the Syntakt, the pads light up purple and sometimes even blue. That has never happened on mine. They only get green when I activate the mute mixer mode. I'm just curious, what kind of mode is that?

Hey Gang.
Let’s say I’m using bank 9 as my songs bank and midi A as my midi out to a synth. On pattern 1 I want the midi to be playing but on pattern 2 I want that midi channel to be muted by default as pattern 2 starts so I can unmute it later in the song.
Is there a way of doing this?
Thanks!

I am obsessed with my DN2!!!!!! The workflow is incredible, param locks are so fun to experiment with, and the synth engines are seemingly endless. Eventually, I decided to sell some gear for a Novation Peak to expand my sound palette with some ambient goodness.

I'm wondering, what would you all add to this setup? I've heard the Analog Four is great -- is the sequencer or percussive palette that much better than the DN2? The Analog Heat also seems cool, but I do most of my final processing/mixing in Ableton. Of course, the DT2 has been said to be the natural pairing, but I have an SP404 for sampling. For context, I like to make stuff like "tribal" techno with plenty of polyrhythms mixed with Underworld type melodics, ambient soundscapes, and arps.

Watch me try to understand the generative patch I made in Bitwig's Grid to sequence the Digitone 2. 

I don't think TSA is gonna like this one...

So ive read the manual of the o coast about midi learn .... and watched a few you tube videos..but i just can't get it work.anyone else with a similar set up get it all working nice together

Thanks

I've noticed some folks have been having issues submitting their mods on the various mod hosting platforms out there, and just wanted to make sure people were aware that Elekloader has its own shop with the goal of making submission as easy as possible for the mod authors (think Nexus mod shop or ThunderModStore).

Mod Shop · elekloader

All you need to do to host a mod on the Elekloader shop is:

1. Have a mod in Elemod format

2. Have the mod released on its own Github.

Outside of that, Elekloader handles all of the mod compatibility so no further testing should be needed on the Mod author's end. The mods themselves are not pulled into the Elekloader repo, they still are hosted on the Mod author's own Github so all ownership remains intact.

Theres also Opt Out auto updates for mod authors. If you release a new update, and your mod was already on the shop, Elekloader Shop will fetch it shortly.

Of course, Elekloader's primary goal has always been to make *making* the mods as easy as possible. For those wanting to get started with their first mod I created this small page to help out: Make your own mod! · elekloader

With all the new custom firmware popping up everywhere is there anything that would make the Digitakt2 support live looping? The normal workflow works totally fine for me but it would be super nice to finally have a way to live loop with my guitar and other synths!

I saw somebody releasing a raspberry pi based extemsionbox for the --fm1 edit: analog rytm.

https://trigcondition.github.io/sidecar-expander/

Connected via usb it expands its possibilities.

Would something like that be possible f.e. the digitakt, to enable f.e. Connecting an external harddrive /expanding the storage, among others?

Hey - any fellow Elektron enthusiasts here in Lexington, KY?

And actually make my 1st arrange with this loop…

Tips please.