This is my most liked track ever:
4-Tracky to the core.
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I completely agree with my previous statement, even while I watch the shipment tracker for a new DNII heading my way tomorrow 
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This is dope! Proof positive you can get exceptional compositions out of the OG Digitone by itself. Nice work!
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You make a helluva case 
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It’s funny, I rately notice the lower end of perceivable track counts because they feel natural in a way? I often appreciate hearing other music that has only 1 or 2 tracks but have a hard time stopping there myself.
On the other end, I make and hear music from ST and think: That sounds sooo 12-tracky!
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I think the one thing that will keep me from the DNII is the fact that I view FM synthesis as better when lower voice count/polyphony is observed. My reasoning for this is that the entire basis of FM synthesis is to create sounds that are harmonically complex. When creating such rich sounds, I find that arranging large chord stacks etc. like I would on a subtractive polysynth will generally turn the mix into pure mud. Alternatively, with the right modulation (particularly on the mix and ratio parameters), you can create sounds using one voice that sound like a multitimbral stack. The only thing that could sway me is the compressor, as I do consistently reach for glue compression post-Overbridge, and would love to have that built in for dawless without having to run it into the same compressor handling my drums (DTII) - I’m a big fan of subgroup compression in my workflow as much as possible.
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Lovable. I must have missed that if you posted it sometime before. Never used multimap. Need to dive deeper. Into the OG, I mean.
Did you just map sounds or anything else? Would love to hear something about your process behind that! 
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My E25 DN is way shinier than the black evil block that is DN II 
. Still want to have a II one day, but I will definitely swap some keys.
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this is lovely
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Thanks 
I always start with the lead riff in1 track. t doesn’t need to be a lead melody, sometimes it’s a lead percussion riff. Like in this song. I wrap other tracks around until one other thing is interesting enough to become the new lead riff.
Multimap for me is all about percussion. Linear drums is not only a track saver, but a sonic space saver. Prevents the mud. Linear drums make easy to built percussion lead riffs.
I use Multimap for internal sounds with an offset of 6~8 presets per key, so I can cover all my sound pool very fast using the right/left arrows.
From there it’s just finger drumming in round Robin using Multimap and the 4 dedicated track buttons.
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Cool! Thanks 
As far as I understand recording multimap only works with an external keyboard?
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Dude, I asked this question in the multimap thread but nobody seems to know, do you know how to transpose the trigs in multimap mode ?
Like, for example, if I map a sound to the C0 trig and another one to the C2 trig, I can play the C0 trig with the DN but I can’t transpose two octaves up to play the C2 trig directly with the DN. It would be possible with an external controller but it seems it’s not possible with the DN.
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No. It works with the own Digitone keyboard. Self contained unlimited power. It’s just setting it properly (which took me 1 hour the first time… but know is ok)
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You can’t transpose on the Digitone keyboard. You have to “transpose” using the sound pool, I.e. built the sound pool in a way you can move it across the mapped keyboard.
Think Avengers End Game time travel vs travel trough time analogy.
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Oh… 
Will have to see if my brain can do that too
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So you can only play 16 trigs in multimap mode directly with the DN ? That’s a shame considering you can map 128 sounds.
It’s been awhile since I touched multimap, but I believe you can map more albeit you will have to move through octaves. The Digitone II has a ‘Preset Pool’ trig mode where you play presets according to their slot order in the preset pool and navigate with arrows 
, but I don’t believe you can rearrange the order.
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No. You can trig all 128 sounds with it.
You transpose the pool, not the keyboard.
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I’m same. I only bought my first Elektron device a month ago - DN 1. It’s in mint condition (& with a £100 trade in on my Korg Monologue, I only had to pay £300 at Anderson’s) I think I should really get to know this, before I buy the DN 2 (which looks amazing btw!). I’m already writing some great stuff. It excels at exotic percussive music, that act as a structure for playing live stuff on top (like bass guitar through granular pedal!). I only wish I could control the note aspect and make melodic stuff with more control. Patience! I’ll get there.
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Not entirely sure about the process here. I managed to get the range from C0-C1 working/playable with sounds from my pool. In live recording you can perform and record from these 13 keys. But nothing more. Which is as good as it gets if I understand the manual (p. 77) correctly. Huge fun and a good reason to explore the OG DN a little further still
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