Here’s a mistake noticed in the AH+FX manual with CC numbers:
Octatrack 1.40B upgrade instructions
Should there be a step in here before (3) which says to boot up holding FUNC?
@eangman DT II manual: p54 shows VFAD’s icon as a square fader, but it’s now a bi-directional knob icon
Oh, thanks. I will fix that. There were 100.000 last minute changes and some of them slipped past me.
Hi @eangman, I’m stepping over from another thread where the DT LFO speed has been widely discussed: https://www.elektronauts.com/t/i-finally-solved-and-understand-the-lfos/194190
The manual is a bit shy with information on this toppic. On page 47, 11.7.1 SPD it only says: “Speed sets the speed of the LFO.” That’s not excactly any new information.
As I learned from this thread, to put it in my own words:
"…a speed setting of n represents n/128 LFO cycles per bar."
If this is true and correct, could you add this information to the manual in a future update?
To qualify this further it does require a certain amount of context, which includes (which shape s/h is obviously an outlier), what the pattern speed factor is set to etc and it’s specifically the
ABSOLUTE of the FACTOR of SPEED multiplied by MULT if the PAGE SPEED is 1X
it’s probably better as an addendum in every manual as it needs a tiny bit of qualification, but a short description will at least point people in the right direction
see this old post for examples
wrt phase, 0 is 0deg , 32 is 90deg and so on
There are many parameters which divi up this way, it’s usually defaulting to a musically/tempo related value and in the case of speed, it makes more intuitive sense to vary Mult for consistent/related periodicity
An addendum for all these significant values would be a nice move … including referencing that 32 is equal to 100% filter(one of the filters) tracking on e.g. A4 etc
Likewise certain time values work this way, such as ‘delay’ on DN modifier envelopes, 32 and multiples gets you tempo related time values
Elektron expect us to do a bit of work it seems, but it would be prudent to help illustrate these hidden gems that many will be missing
If this is done in every section it would read poorly, i think an addendum may be an option to ‘dive deeper’ … the cool thing is that it’s going to be very similar across devices
Yeah, it dont really provide a lot of extra info. As avantronica mentions below, there are a lot of things that can be said about the LFO speed (and a buch of other parameters) and hopefully at some point I will have the time to dig deeper and provide a bit more meat on the bones. Thanks for bringing it up.
@eangman I was just trying to change the ‘TEMPO’ from 'PTN" to ‘PRJ’. I figured it out but it’s not mentioned anywhere in the manual.
The old Digitakt/Digitone method is to hit ‘FUNC+YES’ in the ‘TEMPO’ screen (which is clearly labelled at the bottom of that screen). On the Digitakt II, you hold ‘FUNC’ and turn the ‘E’ encoder to change states. As there’s no onscreen hint unless ‘FUNC’ is held and there’s no reference to this process in the manual, it might be helpful to add this information to the manual.
D’Oh!! I should’ve broadened my search terms in the manual.
@eangman the Index of Digitakt 2 manual doesn’t reflect the name of the chapter correctly.
In particular, it still mentions “Sounds” instead of “Presets”.
Note that the concept of “Preset” as opposed to “Sound” should maybe make it to the “Sound packs” term as sold on Elektron.se
And I’d like to underline that the term “sound pack” has been abusively used for the latest sample pack, as mentioned twice in this thread:
The type has always been accurate as to the contents IMO:
But I agree we should start calling them sample packs or sound packs. I know the terminology has changed with DTII to call the latter presets but I don’t think preset pack sounds as good as sound pack.
Agreed, Presets being Sounds or MIDI configurations anyway.
Thanks for your feedback. The Sound/Preset thing should be fixed now. But I will take an extra look at it again just to make sure.
When it comes to Sound packs, for now, that name will stay the same since they can contain both Presets and/or samples. Also, the name Sounds still exists for other older products. However, we might have a a look in the future about the naming of the sound packs.
just kindly reporting some inaccurate documentation:
according to the digitakt 2 manual, [trk] + [record] / [stop] / [play] will copy, paste, or clear the track’s sequence when in grid recording mode. this key combination will actually implement the functions mentioned above to the track’s preset, regardless of whether or not you are in grid recording mode
[func] + [record] / [stop] / [play] will copy, paste, or clear the track’s sequence when in grid recording mode, but this is not mentioned in the manual
@eangman there is something wrong in OT MKI manual, inherited from MKI’s.
Func + Arrows doesn’t work on MKII, and the button combination I found for Quick Link isn’t mentioned.
(Hold Part + Arrows)
Was reading the Syntakt manual today, more of a suggestion, but can there be some brief explanation of the different available filter types? They are mentioned in manuals but that’s about it. I understand it’s generic synth lingo, but even a brief distinction between them could be nice for the end user rather than assuming it is self-explanatory. Even without that, I see decibels mentioned in the Digitone manual, for comparison:
Digitone:
Syntakt:
It’s also a bit scattered in the Syntakt. The above screenshot refers to the FX block filters, but the analog machines also have additional filters like a highpass shelf and lowpass shelf.
To be frank, I don’t know if there is one valid way of saying that in layman terms. The phrasing of poles comes from Laplace’s transform, where transfer function has zero - it’s about order of that zero (like x-a cubed is third order, because when x equals a whole phrase is zero, and the shape of that function is third order polynomial). And I am speaking very briefly. But then: there are decibels, which are also kind of abbreviations, because it’s about steepness and that is correctly phrased in decibels per octave after the cutoff point. And for new person, it’s far too much omitted to explain, because it’s impossible to tell, without graphs and mentioned slope.
So in a way I understand Elektron’s choice to leave it that way. People not interested in technical details have their ears to judge, roughly understanding what resonance, cutoff and -pass filters are. If anything, your finding is kind of evidence, that Elektron’s manual aren’t just copy and paste of previous ones. ;]
Cordially,
Norman