Digitone II PCB

Haven’t seen one posted yet, so here is mine:

Looks near identical to Digitakt II PCB from what I see at close glance (including Kingston eMMC 32GB memory). In fact, both would appear to have a P/N of PCBA0109B.

  • 1x Coldfire MCF54415CMJ250
  • 1x SHARC ADSP-21569
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yeah looks the same for me like the dtii….maybe thats what cuckoo meant with their new „platform“

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nice! thank you! much appreciated :slight_smile:

edit: out of curiosity, did anyone ever try dumping a Digitakt’s/Digitone’s firmware?

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It looks 1:1 the exact same board to me. So they are likely flashing them with different OS firmware and attaching different header boards. That’s probably why this post here said the unison button was reporting as the sample button in test mode:

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Cue some enthusiastic warranty-busting experimentation

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Does anyone know if all the standoffs and mounting holes on the bottom case are identical between DT1, DN1, ST, DT2, and DN2? I am considering doing some modification, and have DT1 and DN1, as well as DT2 and DN2 and if I want to drill holes, it would be nice to use those older boxes as spares.

probably there are some protection and you can not just send DT sysex to DN, but if you decode firmware, change few bytes and encode it back it can be done

I know they won’t, because they want you to buy two boxes, but I would buy a Digitone 2 immediately if they added the Digitakt 2 sample machines.

I just want one box that does it all, and I don’t think that’s unreasonable now they’re $1000.

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I agree. I have both right now, but I don’t need 32 tracks. 16 tracks of pick and choose would be plenty for me. Maybe that’s what toneverk will be?

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Can we please not do this.

It is.

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It’s not unreasonable, just unnecessary… From a business standpoint

They did it before, and it worked fine. They could do it again if they wanted

So how about we let people have their own thoughts and opinions eh?

The griping has nothing to do with instrument design, usage, or art.

There’s no conspiracy that someone doesn’t get everything in one package at a price point they demand. It’s just GAS, unbounded desire.

Some opinions are unhelpful to the individual and toxic in aggregate. People can “have them” but they’re not learned, useful or positive for any community.

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It’s going to be a lot harder to make Syntakt II and Analog Heat III+FX (when it comes to AHs, who’s counting?) with the same PCB :wink:

Syntakt PCB takes a lot of circuit inspiration from the original Digitone minus the analog components. The two Coldfires and FPGA for them are pretty much in the exact same positions from what I remember.

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do you guys know if anyone reverse engineered their headphone amp design? it looks like they made it discrete, which is super cool and I would love to know how :))