Elektron Unleashes Double D Update, Bringing New Features To Digitakt + Digitone
Today, Elektron unleashed a ‘Double OS delight’, with free firmware updates for the Digitakt II and Digitone II.
Firmware for both devices has been updated to firmware 1.10, with some cross-pollination between the two, plus some ‘tasty new additions’.
What’s new with Digitakt and Digitone firmware 1.10:
Digitakt II:
- Comb+ Filter – Digitone II’s Comb+ filter is now also available on Digitakt II. It gives you another super versatile shade of feedback to add to your filter options, bringing additional metallic-sounding, resonant qualities to explore.
- Mono Sampling – Much requested and back again! Mono sampling returns to the Digitakt setup, alongside the existing Stereo sampling approach, giving you more choice when it comes to capturing sound.
- Routable distortion and base-width filter – Choose whether you want your overdrive distortion and your base-width filter to be placed before or after your various filter alternatives, with your decision opening up different sonic avenues to your track.
- Keytrack Modulation – Also arriving from its sibling, key tracking lets you choose from a variety of parameter destinations (and up to four of them) to be modulated depending on where you are on the keyboard. Play high notes to change the parameters in one way and low notes to modulate in another way.
Digitone II:
- Chord Mode – Rejoice in unison! Chord Mode arrives on Digitone II. And this version has even more melodic flexibility than ever. Your one-finger harmonizing power can be activated in a variety of scales, types, and root notes, but that’s only the beginning of the fun available. Choose from different modes such as Chord Root, Chord Center, and Chord Spread, and add an additional bass note; all allowing you to further tweak the kind of chord that will be played. To top it all off, use Chord Memory to store whatever wild chords you can put together, enabling instant playing of up to 16 that can be saved per pattern.
- Overbridge streaming – With 1.10, you can now multi-stream all of your Digitone II tracks separately to your computer. We’re still working on the rest of the Overbridge goods for Digitone II – the plugin is currently in BETA testing and will be available in the near future.
- Rotate arpeggiator + more speeds – Play with the arpeggiator in new ways by rotating the offsets and forming new melodic sequences. That’s not the only way you can twist things either, with a bunch of new arpeggiator speeds to experiment with. Connect it to the new Chord Modes to really open things up.
There are also a host of new features that are arriving on both machines.
- Track Swap lets you switch two tracks – with all the settings, presets and sequencer info attached – helping you organize for live shows or just keep things tidy.
- With P-lock to active trigs you can quickly edit parameters on all active trigs on your page, or track.
- Live record overdub allows notes to be recorded on top of existing trigs instead of overwriting them.
- There’s also an option for live recording Parameter Locks to active trigs only, and new track select options.
Here’s the official OS Trailer:
Visit the Elektronauts site for details.
