Ton drum machine : iOS elektron parameter locks UPDATE now with IAP sample import

SheffieldBleep

I’m getting reacquainted with SeekBeats and the new Efx. I can’t see how the per step velocity mapping to other parameters works though. Advice anyone?

stemshade

@ExAsperis99 said:

@vpich said:

@ExAsperis99 said:
Never having actually used any Elektron gear, I might not understand the finer points of parameter-locking, and maybe I am misusing the term? But in patterning and elastic drums, you can change all sorts of parameters in each step. In Elastic drum you can also do it live, and in patterning, you can also draw in the automation. And I just remembered that TriqTraq also has crazy Step-by-step automation capabilities.

A main difference between elektron parameter locks and automation is that you can change the sound (patch or sample) per step. So your kick drum track can have a snare on steps 7 and 12 for example. You can also change the actual fx parameters, like delay tempo, etc. Even change from a low pass filter on all notes to a high pass on one note. Basically holding down one step you can completely change everything about that moment in time.

Dude, ever since you joined the Digitakt cult you've been trying to extract my $649 with brutal efficiency. First the woozy and ecstatic videos of your Digitakt sessions, and now this astonishing fact! And then you just posted a video of using the thing to sequence iOS apps?

All right. I'm selling my old Rickenbacker bass.

Haha. Do it. The vids with the ios apps aren’t me though. That’s @echoopera

But yeah, some of my videos are just using the analog four, which on paper is only 4 tracks but all drum sounds are on track 4. And one of the tracks i use 1 voice to make chords. By parameter locking the tuning of each of the 2 osc’s and the 2 subs i can make chords of up to 4 notes each. Say a Cmajor7 on one step and a Dmin on another step. On top of that you can have some of these changes triggered on the second repeat of a pattern or only when you press down a fill button, etc.

Philippe

Nanoloop is all parameter lock oriented. Love it!

Will

In DM1 it's somewhat oddly on the mixer page.

Philippe

@ExAsperis99 said:
And how could I forget SeekBeats! P-lock nirvana

I can’t figure out what parameter is affected per step.

ExAsperis99

@Philippe said:

@ExAsperis99 said:
And how could I forget SeekBeats! P-lock nirvana

I can’t figure out what parameter is affected per step.

Yeah, that's part of the joy? It seems that there are sliders on the individual drum page, where you can set a range of several parameters, from pitch to noise to overdrive, etc....
Then on the pattern page, you adjust the velocity (in the same manner of ElasticDrums), and you get intriguing variations. It's like you get a single velocity control for ALL the parameters you select. I think? Regardless, I get patterns in ED that I can't conjure anywhere else.

Philippe

@ExAsperis99 said:

@Philippe said:

@ExAsperis99 said:
And how could I forget SeekBeats! P-lock nirvana

I can’t figure out what parameter is affected per step.

Yeah, that's part of the joy? It seems that there are sliders on the individual drum page, where you can set a range of several parameters, from pitch to noise to overdrive, etc....
Then on the pattern page, you adjust the velocity (in the same manner of ElasticDrums), and you get intriguing variations. It's like you get a single velocity control for ALL the parameters you select. I think? Regardless, I get patterns in ED that I can't conjure anywhere else.

I got it! In the parameter window of a track, if you doudle tap on a parameter slider, a second slider appear to determine a range in which the automation will affect that parameter, and it can be set in the negative. So pretty much every parameters can be automated, but all at a same time.
Lots of possibility!
Thanks!!

SheffieldBleep

learnt a lot about apps I have had for ages and not fully explored from this thread so - thanks all!

SheffieldBleep

As if by magic Ton now has an iap for sample import

ExAsperis99

@SheffieldBleep said:
As if by magic Ton now has an iap for sample import

$9.99 for sample import.
I fear that's a miscalculation in a very drum-machine-heavy market.

SheffieldBleep

I’ve jumped in. Obviously it opens up far more possibilities but at this stage it is quite rudimentary for the price in comparison to others. hopefully the developer has plans! It does have its own plock thing going on

ALB

I jumped in, too - the initial app was free. I am able to import samples from Audioshare, but cannot figure out how to assign them to one of the drum pads. Any ideas? I'm sure that I'm missing something basic.

SheffieldBleep

Just scroll through the sample manager. The sample highlighted is the one active in the pad

ALB

Figured it out - it's drag and drop (long press, drag to right, pick from list). Kind of different...

Looping_Loddar

Werkbench is a parameter lock paradise. Really cool.

LucidMusicInc

This is fun... could we get 8 drum slots?

DCJ

@ExAsperis99 said:
ED has a kind of hidden-panel step sequencer if you long-press on AUTOM. You can get a really granular in there.

How did I not know this?!?! Even on velocity! Brilliant!