Free Firmware Mod Adds ‘Incredible’ Features To Elektron Model:Cycles
The video, by developer TinyGreg, demonstrates Model-TG, a free, open-source firmware mod for the Elektron Model:Cycles (OS 1.13) that adds a full Sampler machine and a variety of other new features.
The announcement follows on the announcement that Elektron was banning discussion of firmware mods from its official forum, Elektronauts – and the proliferation of unofficial alternate firmware.
“The Model:Cycles getting sample slicing before the Tonverk was not something I had predicted,” notes one Model:Cycles owner. “Incredible work, this is now the ‘best of Elektron’ box.”
New in the Model-TG alternate firmware:
- A Sampler machine on any track: per-pattern samples, sample locks, reverse, a waveform view
- Seven playback modes: One shot, Loop, Slice, Granular, Stretch, Pluck and Wave (wavetables)
- Slice by equal size, transient or two kinds of manual chopping.
- Resampling of a track, the whole mix, or your computer’s audio over USB
- Stereo samples, and uploading your own WAVs with Elektron Transfer
- A performance page with beat-repeat and 12 master FX
- Attack, Filter and Resonance on all the stock machines
- Slide trigs: glide any p-locked parameter from one trig to the next
- Scale Lock, a CPU/memory page, and lower CPU use overall
*Note: Model-TG is not made, supported or endorsed by Elektron. Install it at your own risk, and back up your projects first.
Model-TG is available now as an unofficial firmware mod.
