This synth is so cool.... don't think i've ever been this excited over any other synth before. Thank you so much for this awesome fiddling. Every sound was is so useable and inspiring...
I got a Digitone today... but went right to my neice’s birthday party and then out to a club, so I haven’t even opened the box yet. Gonna have an Xmas morning in March at 46 years old when I get up (and sober up) though! Can’t wait to crack it open!!! My goal, connect it to my Digitakt, Arp Odyssey, SH-01a, and TB-03 and jam!
I must I have never heard anyone deliver information in away that encapsulates our learning hunger for fm synthesis, I love watching your videos and will keep watching and learning from you, thankyou so much 🙏😁🤙
This sounds so good. Looking forward to exploring and venturing off when I add one next to my Digitakt in my studio. I see and hear unlimited tweakability and creative potential right here.
My 4th Elektron box. They've been sold, as they weren't right for me. But this machine is their best yet in my opinion. It took me days to write a Digitakt track. But in a couple of hours I have a track grooving along with my Digitone. This box is full of wonder. And no longer repeating analog sound set ups. Stunning!
I got my Digitone last Friday. And I'm quite in love with that machine, it's my first Elektron, too. Lovely piece of gear. Now that I'm almost through with the full manual and spent some time fiddling its knobs (heh ;)) I felt like revisiting this video and maybe learn a thing or two from watching your hands-on experience.
Cool to hear. I hope you’ll be long-time friends you and your Digitone. I’ll be making a full tutorial soon’ish. I’ve been on tour and busy. After the tour over I’ll be on it!
All the best for the rest of the tour! Hope you're having a great time. As for the Digitone: I am pretty sure this will be a long-term thing. I've always been a sucker for FM synthesis (every since my Sega Mega Drive, I guess) and I am learning to appreciate some of the stuff Elektron does here. The trigger conditions are a lot of fun, overall a cool and capable sequencer.. and I am so impressed with some of the presets, quite amazing range of sounds. This has been my first synth/gear purchase in 2 years and now I'm already thirsting for a Digitakt as well ;))
Thank you Cuckoo! What I wanna know is does it have a frequency coarse function like the Yamaha DX synths? I had a DX9 once, and I loved how it gave kind of a stepped filter sound.
For someone who's held on to the same gear for a long time, I am SERIOUSLY thinking about selling off some less used stuff to get one of these! What a sound! Sampling all that drum goodness into a drum rack too...mmmm
Hello Cuckoo!!! I have a question, how to make lets say a white noise going overlaping to the next pattern/bank more then couple 3 bars? as all I can manage is couple of seconds i think there is thing that could do more?!
I liked how you mentioned Aliens in sci-fi and chip-tunes type sounds. The best fun sounds to make on FM synthesis are Portal (Bell type sounds) @Cuckoo What are your favorite?
Sub'd. I'm new to the electron line. Is it possible to plug a midi controller (w/ full size keys) into the Digitone and play it as an instrument? If so can it be done in real time while a sequence is playing? I want to play that synth! Zelda jams and the like.
It would be great if there was a slot mode for entering sound locks like on OT. Can’t stand entering drum beats on a single channel with just the selector knob.
A few questions on the new Digitone: 1. Can you import and record samples on an internal flash SD type card on the Digitone? 2. How does it compare to Octatrack for sampling and sequencing? Looks like a solid bargain to Octatrack along with Digitack for both drum kit and synth but wonder if it can use samples on SD card like that possible with Octatrack.
There's an internal flash storage called the +Drive. I think it's 2GB, if I remember correctly. You're using the Elektron app Transfer to send files back and forth. Octatrack and Digitakt has some common ground, but the Octatrack can stream and process long (unlimited length even?) high quality 24-bit stereo sounds straight from the compact flash card. The Digitakt has a locked (but great sounding) sound engine, but the Octatrack is more open and flexible to many scenarios. The Octatrack has powerful slicing feature which I find really useful and fun. The Digitakt has no slicing memory, but you can still program slices manually per trig if you need slices. Octatrack can process audio in realtime. Digitakt can not process audio in realtime. Digitakt has a feature to control all tracks at the same time, which is a great musical feature. In my opinion the Digitakt is faster to use, because there is less choice. It might be more immediately rewarding. But the Octa has tremendous depth, and if you need the power features you know that they're there.
thanks for the speedy reply Cuckoo! I think that for my needs the Octatrack is the way to go along with some sort of drum synth machine and synth add on like the Digitone, 0-coast Make Noise or OP-1 synth for a portable rig. I am interested in modular so having analog CV and MIDI is really important.
nice flavour , is it not possible to make FM with analog? Frequenz-Modulation is possible with analog but still it will sound a bit different , guess you got different overtone harmonics. I think the Buchla synthesis was in that style. but the sounds are lovely.
Nice video dude, I’ve noticed a lacking implementation on the midi side. Just the root note is explicit and no arp for the midi tracks. Hope they fix it
The Digitone sound engine has some unique features, and it also lacks some FM depth compared to some top FM synths. It’s uniqueness is designed and optimised around modern electronic performance. The Volca FM engine is not. I like the engine. The only thing I would’ve liked to add is a key-off level in the envelopes. But that’s the keyboardist in me talking. For the sequencer music it’s not that important.
Can you also tell me if it is possible to use one external synth for 2 midi tracks in digitone. For example use op-1s drum engine for 1 midi track and op-1 synth for 2th midi.. hope you understand what i meant.
It works if the synth allows several layers of sound. So with the OP-1 it will not work. It only allows one layer. But the Nord Synths often have 4 layers. And Analog 4 also has 4 layers. Many synths can play several layers on separate midi channels. But not every synth.
Gimme a good, tweakable FM synth over subtractive/wavetable anyday. such complex sounds. Gonna dig up me Dx-200 now to compare, but I might have to fork over some $ for this one. Thanks for this informative video!
It almost is. It has a subtractive synth filter. Set the modulator to the same frequency as the carrier, and you get a sawtooth, especially with a little feedback on the operators. Set the frequencies to a 2:1 ratio, and you get a square.
Hey Cukoo i'm sure if you ask around many of us would clean your studio for free just for the oportuniity of touching some of that amazing stuff you may have laying around that studio floor..🤤🤤🤣🤣
dizolv R, Oh! I thought it was deliberate - suggesting an alternative way to pronounce it . I'd like to nominate Suh-weee-dish, as a new way of saying it :)
