First of all, thank you very much to everyone who is working on these Digitakt 1 mods.
It is honestly amazing to see how much new life you are giving to this machine. Features like new synth engines, filters, Neighbor-style processing, polyphony and modulation options are far beyond what I ever expected to see on the original Digitakt, and I am genuinely grateful for the time and knowledge people are putting into this.
I would like to suggest one feature that I think could be extremely useful musically:
True glide / slide / portamento for Digitakt 1.
What I mean is not just using an LFO with SLEW to imitate pitch movement, but a real smooth pitch transition from one note to the next.
Ideally, it would be possible to decide on which trigs the glide happens, somewhat like slide trigs on classic acid sequencers or other Elektron machines.
For example:
C3 → G3
Normally, the second note would retrigger immediately.
But if the second trig has SLIDE enabled, the pitch could travel smoothly from C3 to G3 over a defined amount of time.
Even a simpler implementation would already be extremely useful — for example, legato-style portamento when two notes overlap, with a global or per-track glide time.
I think this could be especially powerful together with the new synth machines such as SAW, PULSE, ENS, etc. It would make it possible to build proper acid basslines, sliding leads and expressive mono synth sequences directly inside Digitakt.
If per-trig glide is technically possible, that would of course be incredible. But even basic mono portamento would already be a fantastic addition.
This is only a suggestion, and I completely understand that some ideas may be difficult or impossible because of the firmware architecture, DSP limits or available development time.
Thank you again for everything you are doing for these machines. Watching this modding scene develop has been incredibly exciting.
It is honestly amazing to see how much new life you are giving to this machine. Features like new synth engines, filters, Neighbor-style processing, polyphony and modulation options are far beyond what I ever expected to see on the original Digitakt, and I am genuinely grateful for the time and knowledge people are putting into this.
I would like to suggest one feature that I think could be extremely useful musically:
True glide / slide / portamento for Digitakt 1.
What I mean is not just using an LFO with SLEW to imitate pitch movement, but a real smooth pitch transition from one note to the next.
Ideally, it would be possible to decide on which trigs the glide happens, somewhat like slide trigs on classic acid sequencers or other Elektron machines.
For example:
C3 → G3
Normally, the second note would retrigger immediately.
But if the second trig has SLIDE enabled, the pitch could travel smoothly from C3 to G3 over a defined amount of time.
Even a simpler implementation would already be extremely useful — for example, legato-style portamento when two notes overlap, with a global or per-track glide time.
I think this could be especially powerful together with the new synth machines such as SAW, PULSE, ENS, etc. It would make it possible to build proper acid basslines, sliding leads and expressive mono synth sequences directly inside Digitakt.
If per-trig glide is technically possible, that would of course be incredible. But even basic mono portamento would already be a fantastic addition.
This is only a suggestion, and I completely understand that some ideas may be difficult or impossible because of the firmware architecture, DSP limits or available development time.
Thank you again for everything you are doing for these machines. Watching this modding scene develop has been incredibly exciting.