Elk-herd 3.2 released!

Elektron Gear
36

Okay brave Elektronauts…

elk-herd 3.3b2

with support for Digitakt II

This is a beta release after a ton of work, and while it works in my studio… you should exercise some caution:

  1. Back up your project by saving it on the unit, and then after you load it into elk-herd, saving it as a file on your computer.
  2. When you send it back to your device, check that it is all there and is correct. Save a copy as another file on your computer at the same time, so if you later find and issue you can send them to me I can see what went wrong.

Changes in this release:

  • Support for Digitakt II w/it’s larger sample pool, track flexibility, and stereo samples.
  • Major re-working of low level structures to support the DT II and make future OS updates easier to support.
  • Many small UI tweaks, including a collapsing left side and ability to alphabetize items.

Possible issues:

  • On Mac OS 13 & 14 have a bad bug with USB MIDI and SysEx messages. See post below for details if this is you.
  • Sometimes not all the names of the factory samples are fetched, and the samples show as ??? If you see this, just fetch or open the project again. If this happens often, please let me know.
  • FireFox on Mac OS just outright crashes on the first pattern sent back to the DT II. This is known bug with FireFox on Mac OS with any SysEx over about 60k. Developers know, but no fix yet.
  • FireFox on Linux works! BUT, you need to bump the kernel buffer size with something like (need more research to find out how to make this a permanent change to one’s configuration):
cd /sys/module/snd_seq_midi/parameters/
echo 800000 | sudo tee output_buffer_size | sudo tee input_buffer_size

Okay, ready?

Live site: elk-herd 3.3b2
Code: elk-herd on github
Bug reports: here, or on github issues

Of course, if you’re just needing to get stuff done with your Digitakt original, and don’t want to fiddle beta testing, the released elk-herd is still here:

elk-herd 3.2

— Mark

36 Likes