Thank you for sharing this! It sounds great and it’s helping me to hold out for when mine ships!
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I’m assuming the mods will start a bug report thread but for now I’ll just post here. In regards to the arp, it is now working and it’s great! However, if you p lock a new sound on a track with the arp ON the arp does not play on that new sound. Not sure if this is bug or feature request but I feel like this should work. I must say this thing is a blast and deeper than I thought in terms of sound design. Everything else seems to be working very well and much better than the digitakt was early on.
I played second day today, no freezes or crashes after 1.01 update. So far so good. All basses and percussive patches sound good. Great FM sound. I also like new way of adding notes to the sequencer. Changing algorithms on sounds is definitely something different comparing to any subtractive synth. Basically your patch can sound unpredictable. As far as downsides, those filters added, dont really make the machine sound any substractive. I.e. it is still FM synth with filters for voices. I think A4 or any other heavy duty subtractive synth needs to be in pair for tracks to have some good harmonic balance. Smaller rect buttons feel better than on Digitakt and screen is better as well (no lines).
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down for growing pains here get that batch out to sweetwater! lol
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Did ypu try to p_lock arp on on this sound change trig?
This might be standard behavior? My A4 is an ocean away from me at the moment so I can’t test, but I think it works the same on it. It’s like when you’re previewing sounds in the sound browser - if you select a new sound while you’re previewing another, the new sound won’t be used until you explicitly trigger the voice again. I’m assuming the arp relies on trigs to initiate, and I think the notes in the arp aren’t processed like trigs from the sequencer.
Subtractive synthesis is not the same thing as ‘sounding analog’. “FM synth with filters” is literally additive (fm) + subtractive (filter) synthesis. Subtractive is simply reducing harmonics rather than adding.
That said, you can get some standard analog-ish waves out of it. See preset B001 and B002 - Saw and Square.
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Red Means recording let you go out USA ?
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nice skiff you got there 
i actually got away from Red Means recording as quick as possible… but was not quick enough apparently… 
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Yes you are right. I used that term interchangeably while I should not. What I was going to say is that those standard waves sound FM-ish. Of course I checked those presets and even tried to create my own presets. I played with feedback and shape modulation. Any standard wave sound sounds either thin or metallic. Building a track on just FM sounds would be quite difficult, as after several minutes your start feeling headache of those metallic shades of every instrument. Perhaps width filter could be changed to band or notch to do some better equalization. Idk. Or maybe I am just not a good patch creator. I just wanted to warn people not to ditch their A4 synths. DN will play nice with A4 (or any other Analog or VA synth) complementing each other. I am sure a lot people will agree with me as initial hype is gone.
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Except you can trig a new sound from the sound library on the same track the arp is playing. I guess it would be no different than just changing a few parameters on the same sound. When you do this I would like the arp to continue running. I’m used to doing this all the time on mm. Not a huge deal really but does limit creativity and more dynamic patterns.
For example:
Track 1: Arp ON.
Step 1 (trig bass sound) Step 9 (trig lead sound)
ARP should play on both these trigs but it does not it only plays on first. I could be missing something I’ll have another look today.
I dont think its related to being a good patch creator or not…
I would say you just need to spend time with the unit and find your own sweet spots within the DN.
Saying this from my own experience.
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can’t perform the update, transfer don’t detect my digitone ( mac os sierra 10.12.6)
I beg to differ. Strongly. I like those metallic sounds. Love them. I listen to hour long live Autechre sets full of them. DN is a huge threat to my A4 as I personally just love Monomachine and DN and Yamaha TG-33 and Modor sounds a lot more lately, and with Digitone I get a lot of the A4’s features but with a sound engine I find much more interesting, personally.
(I’ll probably keep the A4 though. I do like it. But I just haven’t quite connected with it as strongly as 
, 
, 
, etc). And I feel like the same thing - maybe I’m just a bad A4 patch creator.)
I really love the almost vector-synth kinds of sounds I was able to get out of Digitone almost immediately, in a much more friendly and usable interface than most of the old vector synths have.
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I used good old classic SysEx Librarian to update my Digitone. It was slow but worked fine. Plugged Digitone in via USB, selected it in the dropdown list of MIDI ports/devices, dragged the system update SysEx to SysEx Librarian window, selected it, and hit its ‘play’ button (after selecting ‘system update’ in digitone’s system menu).
Kindof like C6, SysEx Librarian is an old workhorse piece of software and current version works on MacOS back to 10.7.
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Me too fm can be so gorgeous as well.
SAW2 is full of fm pads