Same here! Excited to hear what you’ll be able to cook up with it.
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I was wondering, many times before actually, Elektron never talks about how they improved audio quality or reverb, delay quality. They never do. I wonder why?
Personally I’d love to know if they increased the dynamic range e.g. of the audio circuit, especially since DN2 now includes a compressor. Or if they beefed up the processor for a more lush reverb? Nobody seems to talk about this stuff.
To me those are things I consider when upgrading. (although I insta bought DN2 without watching the video’s).
I mean how does this sound:
“With DN2 We doubled the processing capacity so we could implement our best reverb yet, more detail more spacious including two new algorithms. It also allowed us to add a high dynamic range compressor and increase the dynamic range of the audio with 50% overall resulting in better articulation and a lower noise floor. With DN2 everything just sounds better”.
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is there any information if the reverb is the same as on the OG?
Almost 100% what I expected. After release of DTII I bet on two things being the next box:
- DNII - most probalbe
- ARII - less probable
Specs on new thing are almost as I expected. I thought it to be 8 track/16 vices, yet they made it 16 track which is perfect.
Finally Elektron makes boxes with enough tracks and voices.
DN is one o my favorite boxes and I’m glad to see it got an update like this. Right now I don’t need to upgrade, but who knows what’s in the future?
I have been wishing that my OG Digitone (acquired shortly after it was released) could have the offsets from its arp quantized to the selected scale. At this point pretty clear DN1 won’t be getting that, so I hope Elektron implement this in DN2. This should be a selectable option, for the same reason I illustrate below for transposition.
It would also be good to have the option, for track-level and pattern-level transposition, for this to be applied either after or before quantization to the selected scale + root note.
To illustrate, say you’ve selected Hirajoshi A. Transposing the track +3 semitones after quantization would shift the whole track into Hirajoshi C. Transposing the track +3 semitones before quantization would keep it within Hirajoshi A.
If Digitone II is intended to be the flagship “do it all” melodic Elektron box, these are very relevant details to attend to.
It would also be very nice if DN2 could grow an option for its externally received MIDI to be quantized to the selected scale+root.
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ah, I misunderstood that part, so he bought the DN for 800 then, same as me two years ago, pretty decent of elektron not to raise the price! 
well, sure, I can see it too if that’s the case, but still, he had it for 6+ months without knowing that new model will come out, I mean there’s a reason he bought the DN, no?
probably watched some videos, heard some music, went like “cool cool cool I like that I probably can do this and that”, so, nothing changed in that perspective, only FOMO which is solely personal thing and there’s no cure for that and no one to blame for it…
I bought mac studio m1 ultra for shitload of money and 6 months later m2 came out, fuck apple right? well, no, and honestly now that m4 is around the corner I still don’t see myself fomo’ing for a new one, and hard to believe that I will until this one breaks down…
same goes for DN for me, I know for a fact that I haven’t touched the surface on DN1 in a year or so, I’m planning to go back to in a while, and I’m still in doubt one can fully master and max out the DN in that period, there’s so much variety I’ve heard over the last years…
is the new one sweeter? hell yes! does that mean DN1 obsolete? hell no!
would I feel like “should I just give up on life cuz I spent some money on something I wanted”? hell no!
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Sorry if I didn’t catch it and it has already been discussed: does DN II have a kit/performance kit approach for easy song building with different patterns without the hassle of copying each single sound to each lane in each pattern if/when some minor changes were made?
A4 loves to get some Inputs fed
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I expected syntakt style some analog voices.
No, obviously it’s the features that matter most! I’m glad I didn’t buy DT+DN yet (I only have Mk1-s of A4 and OT), because I will now feel way more confident - getting them early next year - that they won’t become obsolete for at least couple of years 
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No more Multi Map apparently. 
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There’s no robust way to do this in practice, transposition in semitones is absolute for tracks and patterns, the Func option takes it in Octaves to retain scale but you can transpose individual trigs in scale (or chromatically with Func)
Yes for both
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Almost certainly for compatibility and convenience. The overdrive has been changed iirc, so this is the one area where DN1 project/Preset importing receives some ‘translation’ … there’s no such translation on reverb, so it will be the same imo
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No robust way to do scale quantisation? That is surprising.
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I don’t get why I get some much shade only for saying that Im upset that the 4 tracks in my DN feel limited compared with the 16 you got on the new device. And also that Im stuck with it because I will never get back more than 50% of what I paid (800€ btw). But yeah sure, Im really happy for you and your advanced knowledge of the DN, Im sure Im not remotely as close as you to master it. Congrats.
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Im happy i have zero gas for this product. It feels to me like Elektron have run out of steam a bit and are strapping on new features rather than innovating. I wish it well but FM synthesis is a bit of a hard sell. You either like it or you dont. It should please a lot of folk though. For now my money is safe.
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Yes indeed
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Same as DTII, there are Kits that you can save and load, but like Presets once in a Pattern they are not linked anymore. So if you have 2 patterns one after the other, adjusting a kick on pattern 1 will not affect the same track on pattern 2. Unless you use the Perform Kit, that precisely offers this.
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