Digitone - Making & saving new Projects

The Elektron Digitone has a unique data or file structure which can seem confusing at first.

The Digitone stores everything (settings, patterns, projects, sounds etc etc) in the  +Drive

You can compare this to the main hardrive of your computer which stores everything.

All your info is then divided & stored in folders. There is a main folder

containing many sub folders.

If the + Drive = C drive, 

then your main folders are the "Project" folders

stored in the C drive. 

These Project folders are at the top of the tree.

You can have 128 project "folders". Note that the first project folder contains

the presets, so you will have 127 left.

Each project is made up of patterns and sounds.

There can be 128 patterns and 128 sounds in each project.

Seems that 128 is a magic number.

I think that the best way to learn a new instrument is to first load a blank project that 

has 4 blank tracks that have the default sound setting (sine wave on each track).

Note that Projects are saved, loaded and managed in the SETTINGS menu.

So to make a new project you will need to press the settings button

You now enter the project folder

Within the project you have stored 

patterns & sounds

press YES

You are presented with 3 options.

You can create a new project either in the 

LOAD Project or MANAGE project option

but I prefer to use the Manage option as it 

allows me to name the new project.

This is a brand new Digitone Keys so the 

project slots (apart from the presets) are

empty.

Scroll to 002, then press the right arrow.

Enter INIT NEW

You will then see this screen.

Scroll to rename.

Rename using the Function button,

with the Arrow, No & Yes keys.

This will be my first Project

BLANK_1

Its a simple sinewave on each track

From this template, hopefully I'll build

interesting things

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Copying patterns between projects

1. Hold Pattern +  the Trig 1-16 you want to copy + Copy

    The screen should say "Copy Pattern"

2. Go to the project you want to copy to

     Hit Settings button etc etc and load that project

3.  Hold Pattern +  the Trig 1-16 you want to paste to + Paste

A bit about Patterns & Sounds within the Digitone enviroment.

Patterns

A pattern contains up to four sounds (one for each synth track), 

along with sequencer data like trigs and parameter locks.

We can have 128 patterns

These are stored in 8 banks 

Each bank has 16 patterns

Sounds

A Sound is a collection of the synth track settings in the 

SYN1, SYN2, FLTR, AMP, and LFO PARAMETER pages. 

Note that Sounds can be stored either in the Sound pool of the active project or 

the +Drive Sound library.

The Sound pool holds up to 128 Sounds and the +Drive library holds up to 2048 Sounds.