Elektron Digitone II: New Machines, More Tracks, More Polyphony
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Elektron fans, hold on to your seats: Hot on the heels of the Digitakt II comes the brand-new Digitone II. The new generation offers twice the tracks, twice the polyphony, and a greatly expanded synthesis engine and sequencer. The Digitone II is available now!
Elektron Digitone II
Surprise! While fans were still discussing the rumored Tonverk and the recently released Overbridge update for the Digitakt II, Elektron was busy working on the Digitone II. A new Digitone generation was an obvious possibility since the Digitakt II came out a few months ago. However, hardly anyone was expecting it to drop so quickly.
Compared to the previous generation, the Digitone II offers more of everything. The new version not only boasts 16 voices of polyphony (as opposed to 8), it also offers twice the amount of tracks (16). And as with Digitakt II, you can now use any track for internal sounds or MIDI, which greatly enhances the flexibility for live sets and DAWless setups. Nice!
The sound engine has also been expanded. Digitone II offers four SYN machines: Wavetone, Swarmer, FM Tone, and FM Drum. Moreover, you get six FLTR machines, which complement the base width filter per voice. In addition to a new multi-mode filter, a 4-pole lowpass, and an equalizer, there are Comb-and Comb+ modes, as well as the Legacy LP/HP filter for backwards compatibility. Each voice also gets a third LFO, and there’s a new stereo master compressor in addition to the master overdrive.
128 Steps per Pattern, Euclidean Sequencer
The Elektron Digitone II has also received the same sequencer upgrades as the Digitakt II. The maximum pattern length is now 128 steps. And a new Euclidean mode generates new patterns on the fly, which can be a great source of inspiration.
While the design is largely unchanged, you’ll notice some subtle differences on the front panel. Like Digitakt II, Digitone II has dedicated buttons for the keyboard and song modes. The four buttons in the lower right corner, which used to be assigned to the predecessor’s four synth tracks, now perform other functions (arpeggiator, note edit, transpose). And because Elektron has consolidated the new SYN machines on a single SYN button, there was room for a dedicated Send FX button.
Price and Availability
You can now order the Elektron Digitone II from Thomann* for $899 / £845 / €999.
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3 responses to “Elektron Digitone II: New Machines, More Tracks, More Polyphony”
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Does somebody know if the DT 2 is able to sequence 8-note MIDI-polyphony via all 16 sequencer tracks? (The DT 1 can, via its 8 sequencer tracks.)
The little Tracker Mini has 5 synths, 16 MIDI tracks, 8 sample tracks, sidechain limiter, fx and saturator. This new one seems to be taking that device on. It looks good, plenty of tracks, not familiar with it. Do the onboard synths have preset storage, are they transferable? That’d be a big thing I’d look for, since it’s ‘all synth’, you’re gonna need to be using a lot of presets or variations made by motion control, if that is possible. And can a track change its synth/preset mid tune? That’s always useful on any groovebox.