3 Awesome Features of the Digitone's LFOs (and some tips for using them) 

spr30 That's dope

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Not too late! Glad you took something useful away from it!

Haha thank you! Big compliment!

Thanks for watching!

So glad you got something out of it! Thanks for watching!

Thank you - enjoy your Digitone!

It really is.

Cheers!

It really is!

Future classic status in my eyes.

I really LOVE how close it can get to vowely gibbering, especially when programming in a quiet, dark room.

Excellent! Have fun with them!

The FM based nirvana is nearly within your grasp friend! Glad you enjoyed the video!

@@OscillatorSink I have a idea for fun😉😂 think unboxing with SANTA...ahh thanks for all you've taught us...and please don't stop!

Thanks for watching!

Glad you learned some new tricks; thanks for watching!

Oh, you're going to enjoy it. Such a fantastic synth. Probably my favourite thing I own.

Yeah, the LFOs are super powerful, I'm glad you found it useful!

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Glad you liked enjoyed it!

You're going to have a lot of fun! Take the time to really get to know the sequencer - that's where so much of the power lies. It's a bit of a learning curve, but less than people seem to think and very very worth it!

And thank you for watching!

You don't have sound selection as a mod destination unfortunately (unlike on the Digitakt where sample slot is a LFO destination), but modulating the algorithm can result in some very different sounds, so there is mileage there I think.

Cheers and you're welcome!

Thanks for checking it out, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I got a Digitone last week and this was by far the most useful / inspiring video I've seen about it. It would be great if you'd consider making more similar videos! Maybe awesome features and tips for the synth engines since it's quite unique for the Digitone :)

I hope to do this soon, I already have some ideas that I think are cool, time is just a little tight right at the moment (see my most recent video!). I hope you're enjoying your new Digitone!

I love that moment of adrenalin when you make the purchase! "I'm gonna be in so much trouble and I don't care!"

Ha ha ya i know that feeling !!

You're welcome, and have fun with your new synth!

RIGHT?! I love that trick, probably to the point of overusing it.

Oscillator Sink i feel like an idiot for not using it, to be honest

Hey - there's a lot in the synth engine to explore, always fun to find something new!

I did too

Yeah buddy!

Glad you liked this video. I hope to do a bunch of Digitone videos - just learning to balance work and the channel with a newborn in in the house, but keep an eye on the channel because I'll get there!

@@OscillatorSink congrats man! I'm subbed so look forward to more stuff

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I'm actually planning a video on that subject, but finding time to make it is a struggle. Hopefully sometime in the next few weeks... But essentially you need to choose the Mod destination and an amount. The amount adds/subtracts from the parameter's current value, so set the parameter to a starting point for zero velocity.

@@OscillatorSink I see! That already explains the issue. But very excited to see your next video. Thanks

I hope you're enjoying it!

@@OscillatorSink I most certainly am enjoying it. The Digitone is my first synth purchase along with the Deluge, both very formidable units. Ive had them barely a month. With great interest and patience I am learning both bit by bit. The learning curve is definitely there, and there is quite a path to anything remotely resembling proficiency (and mastery? who knows). Also, I'm literally setting up my little music playpen from the ground up so there's that too. Everything is new. So much great content on RU-vid, Id be lost without it. I very much enjoy your delivery and energy (and music!) and will be delving into your catalog over time.

Enjoy your new synth! However you choose to pronounce it!

Oscillator Sink - Thanks!!!! Will keep watching here for more knowledge...

Yeah some of the depths are a little funny! I think the Ratio B will do the top operator first which gives a kinda staggered sound. Sorry I can't offer any precise details!

Oscillator Sink no problem. I have the question filled to elektron and waiting for a answer. Thnx man.

Loop back here with their info if you can :) interesting case here

midinerd unfortunately Elektron does not see this as a bug. The Ratio B’s are mapped. Therefor the Modulation does not do what you expect it to do. But they can’t tell me what I can expect off it or how it does work.

You're looking for "Amp Level" I think?

It definitely would be a bonus!

And now u have it!!! :D

Negative polarity on the depth flips the shape of the waveform around the x-axis - turns it upside down. For bipolar waves (most of them) this won't make a huge difference - unless you're in "once" or "half" LFO modes. The unipolar waves like the "exp" you'll hear it "go down" rather than up. Negative speeds run the LFO wave backwards. Again for symmetrical waves you won't hear anything, normally, but for asymmetric waves like exp, ramp, saw you'll hear things swoop the other way.

Yooo thx so much for replying! Expains why im not hearing much difference on certain settings. I wasnt a big elektron fan until now. Digitone is a GREAT synth!!

No problem!

Oscillator Sink One more question. What LFO settings (polarity, wave) would u use to modulate the Hamonics knob but only to effect the “C” operator? Example Harmonic is set at 0.00 and you want to go to -15 (and back n forth obviously). Gives a nice wave table effect manually in real time, but im having trouble dialing that in with lfo. -thx

Set the harmonics at 7.5. LFO depth of 7.5 on a bipolor wave like triangle or sine should do it off the top of my head!

"Can you do this on each track independent of each other?" Each track has its own LFOs, if that's what you're asking.

You can loop back with the midi channels - just plug in the midi out to midi in, work out the cc number of the parameters you want to control and assign the lfo to that cc number.

Only one. But the destination *can* be parameter locked per step (as can everything about the LFO).

@@OscillatorSink Thanks!

For the speed, you should start on the second LFO page and set the Mult parameter first. There are settings both expressed in terms of beat length (so it'll be tempo synced) and as a straight multiplier (independent of tempo). Use that control to set the 'ballpark' speed and then you'll have a more sensible range on the actual speed control. In terms of the depth, you need to think about it in terms of the parameter you're controlling. For example, with pitch a value of 1 is a whole semi-tone, which is already way too wide for most pitch wobble purposes, so most of the time you're making very tiny adjustments. On the other hand, if you're controlling Harmonics and you want it to sweep between two values you like, say 12 and 16, you want to put your harmonics setting at 14 and your depth at 2, so it goes up 2 to 16 and down 2 to 12 (this is assuming that you're using one of the bipolar waves, which is most of them). Hope that's useful?

Very helpful! Thx again for responding👍🏼

Thanks for watching!

About the LFOs? I don't think so, on the Digitone it's only the graphics that have changed I believe, the functionality remains the same.

@@OscillatorSink I am not comfortable with the modulation of the dep , you have not updated to the latest version?

I'm running 1.40A yes. LFO 2 modulating the depth, speed, etc. of LFO 1? That's always been there, I just didn't show it in this video. Is that what you're referring to?

No phaser unfortunately, and the chorus lacks a feedback / regen control to get into flanging territory really (although you could try running the chorus into the delay set to a very short time to approximate it maybe).

@@OscillatorSink cheers man. I have a Digitone Keys arriving tomorrow. I’m pretty excited!

Well don't forget that the Digitone Keys has individual outs, so you could always just send a track out to a Phaser or Flanger pedal - enjoy your new synth!

I have no direct experience with the Fingersonic, but it looks like that is designed to be a much more classic, DX7 inspired, 6 operator style of FM where the Digitone is a more hybrid approach. It looks pretty interesting, but I'd suspect the Digitone's sequencer is rather more advanced, but that's a guess based on reading the Fingersonic marketing materials.

midi track lfo to 4 tracks

Yeah, good point - you get extra flexibility if you loop back the Midi tracks.

@@OscillatorSink but you use up your midi ports doing this, right?

Correct, sadly.

@@robertsyrett1992 get another midi splitter and or midi merger

It'll have just been something banged together for the video (so yeah, from scratch).

Hmm, no not really because there's no way to scale them to the keys played or have them only modulate the frequency of certain other operators, so you can't use them as operators in the traditional sense.

No argument there! Give me a mod matrix and I'll be happy forever!

Maybe the very high number of maximal parameter locks (80 x step number) or the highest LFO frecuency could be reduced when activating multiple LFO destinations or even a third or fourth LFO. This way the CPU won’t be overloaded. It should be doable in software.

Rusty, there are 2 CV inputs as well, there are technically 2 more of any modulator.

Index are there CV inputs on Digitone?

They just need to keep putting out good stuff and I'll buy it and talk about it for free!

When Bo speaks, I listen!

Oscillator Sink lol yep

Great video 🤙🤙

Thanks friend!

I pronounce it like Cenk pronounces it. I know its probably "did-jee" in English, but I kinda like saying it the way Elektron themselves say it.

hmm OK, but do you say mooog or moag?

I used to mooog, but now I mogue.

Because that's how elektron, who are Swedish pronounce it. People pronounce it that way because it's correct to do so.

Also, on the Digitakt - Takt is beat in Swedish. It's a Swedish word so it's pronounced that way - the same say you don't pronounce "cafe" as "kaef".

@@OscillatorSink Digi is referencing 'digital' which is not 'diggy' in english. As for cafe, that's been adopted into english lexicon. I find this pronunciation fiasco to be in the same realm as gif/jif. If, say, Japan released a piece of gear such as 'Lens Keys' and they pronounce it 'rens keys', I'm not going to do that because it's spelled lens and their language differences wouldn't direct me to pronounce lens as 'rens'.

@@heavysystemsinc. absolute travesty! 🤣

@@tubeMonger Even the box itself tells you 'digi' is short for digital as it says, and I quote, "Digitone: Master of the Digital Sound". I mean seriously, we don't call a raggatone horn a 'rage-a-tone' horn.

I dunno - the way FM is implemented on the Digitone is by far the most accessible implementation. It's much more like subtractive synth with FM oscillators (on a basic level). There's obviously loads more under the bonnet but this is a million miles away from, say, a DX7 in terms of programming. I'll do some patch design videos soon - maybe I can change your opinion 😉

Ooh yeah, i mean, ive been fiddling with operator for some years and get cool stuff with it but all times ive been fiddling this one at stores, it ends up playing with the presets. Cool piece of kit, but you hve a point there. Great techno basses though imo