DIGIWERK

Digiwerk is custom firmware for the Elektron Digitone II on OS 1.12. 0.2.0 brings a new base and two new effects, a tape echo and a spring reverb, and you now pick the effects one FX slot at a time. Not made or supported by Elektron.

Digiwerk is part of the Modwerk effort, the community hub for Elektron firmware mods.

You make your Digiwerk build yourself, from Elektron's own OS 1.12 file, with Digiwerk Patcher. No Elektron firmware is in this release.

What's new

The base, in every build

• KEY, the LFO in the track's key. A Déjà vu wave snapped to the scale and root of the track's KEYBOARD SETUP: whatever note the trig plays, the melody stays in the key over the whole range of DEP. On an LFO's WAVE, past OCTA, with DEST on the machine's tuning.
• LFO ONE and HALF run one whole cycle, or half of one, from where SPH starts them, then hold. Elektron's OS 1.12 cuts them short.
• Arp SHUF, RAND and TM, after CYCL. SHUF plays every held note in every octave of RANGE once per cycle, in a new order each time; RAND a random one at each step. TM is a Turing Machine loop: hold one note and the arp plays a melody from it in the track's scale, one note per step of ARP LENGTH, and LOOP CHANGE sets how often a step takes a new note.
• The arp on MIDI tracks. The ARP key and menu work on MIDI-machine tracks: trigs and the keys you play go through the arp, out on the track's MIDI channel, with SHUF, RAND and TM too.
• The Digiwerk intro at power-on.
• DJVU, the Déjà vu LFO, as in 0.1.0.

The effects, one per FX slot

• TAPE, new: a tape echo in the delay slot, with three playback heads at one, two and three times head 1's time, a band filter in the feedback loop and tape wear (AGE).
• SPNG, new: a spring reverb in the reverb slot, three springs that drip and boing; MODE sets their character and DIRT breaks up the tail.
• CMP3, the 3-band master compressor, and FLNG, the flanger, as in 0.1.0.

Digiwerk Patcher has a slot for each effect: keep Elektron's or take ours, and the patcher makes the build for that combination. Its MANUAL page explains every effect and base feature.

The builds

Each build is named after its four slots, compressor, chorus, delay, reverb: C, F, T or S where ours runs, E where Elektron's does. CMP3 with TAPE and SPNG doesn't fit in the DSP's memory, with or without FLNG. The patcher checks both hashes itself: Elektron's Digitone_II_OS1.12.syx (inside Digitone_II_OS1.12_dist.zip) must be 7e5b8a733d4ab1fdf7e5d22757f7d8eddaa3cbf71d0858874a791844c02ceb35 before it starts, and the build must be the one above before it saves it.

Downloads

To check a download, open Terminal, type shasum -a 256 with a space at the end, drag the file onto the window and press Return. It must print the sha256 above.

How to install

1. Back up your projects and the +Drive with Elektron Transfer.
2. Download Digiwerk Patcher (above), double-click the .zip and open the app.
3. On Elektron's download page, download Digitone II OS 1.12 (Digitone_II_OS1.12_dist.zip). Keep it: Elektron's page lists only the current OS, and you need it to go back.