Moar Sound Machines please!
->accelerate and decelerate for retrigs
->overbridge
->ability to load a different wavetable for the transient param in FM Drum
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basically all monomachine machines and effects !
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Imagine visiting a thread called âfeature requestsâ and responding to a paying consumer who simply requests the ONE missing feature promised by the manufacturerââitâs in beta so you really like nitpickingâ.
Ironic. Alas, 2025.
Above, I provided a screenshot of DN2 product page which has and still reads like OB is a feature despite it being missing close to a year post launch*. Not cool. The fact that âit is in (private) betaâ is irrelevant.
For contrast, hereâs an example of how another company you folks may have heard promotes devices with beta featuresâŚ
Apple annotates mentions of AI Feature on new devices, letting consumers know it is in beta. Whatâs wild is, AI is actually ON THE DEVICE.
Unlike G14 classified OB beta which again, has been advertised for close to a year*âŚ.but never available to public despite folks paying $1k for the device it is supposedly âenabledâ on.
Whatâs worse, many of us have applied and not heard anything about being accepted into beta so links to it are moot.
Obviously, false advertising or misleading consumers is never ok and pointing it out is never ânitpickingâ. Much the contrary.
To be clear, I love my DN2 despite whatâs missing and do not consider Elektron to be one of the evil companies of the world. However, they are clearly wrong in this case and as a paying consumer itâs my right to voice such along with any other criticism or feature requests I may have.
*Fact Check Edit
DN2 was released in October not âclose to a yearâ. However, I believe the announcement proceeded launch. Either way, I standby the point that it is never cool for a company to promote a feature as âenabledâ when it isnât available yet. Especially when the feature obviously influences the consumers decision.
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oh⌠so there is no OB at all? Well⌠at least itâs not a paid subscription update!!
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Easier Arpeggiator Programming
Could there please be a way to hold down DN keys or keys on an external keyboard to set the Offsets? Similar to how you set an arp on say an Arturia keyboard. This would not only be much faster, but more musically intuitive.
If using an external keyboard, velocity could be captured at the same time.
If using the DN keyboard, the current kb scale would naturally be used, building arps that are in-scale, and taking out the step of the user having to work out each degree of the scale as offsets.
Please make the Arpeggiator better.
-It should follow SWING amount
-Its parameters should be lockable (Mode, Speed, Range & N.Length)
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A âMulti-Mapâ Machine that you can save as a Preset.
Not sure if this has already come up but I wish that locking voices to a track would also lock it to the corresponding voice location of that track (eg of locking 1 voice on track 13, then literally lock that voice at voice slot 13).
I often want to lock eg the bass track to have just one voice, but I may still prefer for other tracks to have varying degrees of dynamic allocation depending on the pattern. However, the only way to avoid one bass note ringing out over a new bass note when switching patterns is by making sure the voice allocation is identical between those two patterns. Which means youâve limited the creative possibilities. Plus, itâs annoying to manage across 16 different patterns if you didnât do the voice allocation before copying and lasting patterns.
You could set the play mode to mono. I still lock the voice as it was suggested in the manual to lock drum and bass voices, but really dont understand why. Maybe so they donât cut out and some too smart for me phase thingie.
Kit mode also let you mix the track for every pattern at once.
Itâs more like 6 months than 12 months after launch, but I still agree with you.
If it doesnât get released today (itâs wednesday my dudes!), I do hope that we at the very least can get open beta.
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The track is already set to mono. The problem is that the voice allocated for that mono sound isnât necessarily the same voice when switching pattern. Basically, today you need to make sure that the âlockedâ voices are exactly the same amount prior to the track with the bass.
Example:
In pattern A1, the bass is on track 13 and itâs a monophonic sound with 1 voice locked. There are also two other tracks in this pattern with a kick (track 1) and snare (track 2) locked with 1 voice each. As a result, the locked bass sound on track 13 is locking voice #3.
In pattern A2, the snare wasnât locked, so itâs only the kick and bass that is locked. As a consequence, the bass (on track 13) is now using voice #2, which means that the voice in #3 is still ringing out because DN2 tries to keep it going for as long as it can since itâs a dynamic voice in this pattern.
Hope this makes sense. Again, the only way to avoid this seems to be to ensure that the exact number of voices are locked across all used patterns, in the exact same order. Otherwise, things break down when switching patterns.
Kits seem nice but arenât feasible because a key aspect of DN2 that I love is the ability to create dramatic contrasts between patterns by changing up the sounds. So I donât want to be locked to one set of sounds across patterns.
Ah, got it. That is good to know.
One workaround could be plocking vca volume for switched sounds. Havent used kits myself just yet. I kinda like that you donât have to be fast with reload all after drops and Iâm sloowâŚ
It sure is a chore to mix every pattern separately. Especcially after adding limiting I seem to have to tweak a lot. Maybe Iâll try the kit functionality next to see if I dig it. Or go hybrid and kit the sounds I plan to keep.
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Thereâs definitely some tamaguchi-like copy/paste gymnastics needed if youâve done a full song structure and want to mix that kick differently. Would be nice to be able to set only some of the track sounds to be global - as in, not just the level but the entire track sound.
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would love to see the machines from the Monomachine ported over, maybe some of the FM stuff from the Machinedrum as well?
+1 for parameter lock slides as always! an important part of the p-lock equation still missing on the digiâs.
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TRK+YES/NO isnât used currently by anythingâŚmaybe it could be used to latch/unlatch track selection mode for the trigs. It would be equivalent to holding the TRK key, so when latched all the trigs would stay lit up.
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Iâd love an additive synthesis machine.
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Make default of RESET = INF
Surprised that nobody hasnât mentioned this already, but, having to remember to adjust this whenever I increase a trackâs length in per-track mode is a bother.
Add CHANGE = RES setting (reset)
Having a setting that makes CHANGE follow the RESET setting would be convenient. When RESET = INF, it could behave the same as CHANGE = OFF.
Make default CHANGE setting = pattern length (or RES)
Having it default to OFF seems like an oversight as it effectively disables pattern-queuing when per-track length is enabled.
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This would be a HUGE won if addressed. In the meantime, this reminds me that I really need to go make a template project(s) with all the baseline settings that avoid time sinks like thisâŚ
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