The KZfaq Algorithm is really pushing this video hard at the moment. I see it at least three times a day in my queue. And I find that fantastic ❤

Do you realize that you made a perfect ASMR video simultaneously with gifting viewers a wonderful tutorial? 🙂 Thank you.

I've been saving this video on a browser tab for a few weeks, and I finally found the time and headspace to watch and give it the attention it deserves. At times I found myself getting antsy because I was getting so excited by what I was learning. But I lit a candle, took breaks, took notes, ate snacks, made a night of it. Thanks so much for taking the time to make this, and thank you for the inspiring info-It was worth every minute!

Fantastic video. I will say you’re missing out on a lot by not stopping, though. Motionlessness is a super interesting space, I highly recommend giving it a try

“Move slowly, but don’t stop moving.” Thinking about this while listening.

Wow, just fantastic. Thank you for putting this together

Lots of good knowledge being dropped here, thank you!

👍🔝 cool to hear you’re finding peace in this genre 🎶 thanks for sharing your creative process.

Super insightful man! thanks for the beautiful music and stay safe!

Cool. So many ways to approach making music with this, it's nice to see things from your perspective.

I learned a lot about drones on Digitone, but more importantly, this is possibly the best overall Digitone demo I've seen. I've learned so much. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks OS ... another great and passionate tuturial. I learned so much.

I really enjoy the methodical approach with explanations along the way. Well done!

a great insight to the depth of this amazing device, thanx for the video.. brilliant!!!

Great insight into the process. Thank you!

Great job on these Digitone vids, you do a wonderful job explaining things perfectly as you go. Learning lots from this and your drum video .

Great video man!!! A wonderful piece of tutorial! I learn a lot! Thanks and regards

Thank you for letting us see your process. I've been wondering what making slow music entails. Amazing!

You're my hero and you know it.

Really appreciate this video. Initially listened through, and now going back with my Digitone set up and playing along. So far the first ~25 minutes has taken me about 90 minutes as I experimented and listened and played. Made for a lovely evening after the kids went to bed. Thank you.

Thank you so much for sharing - so helpful - explaining so many features in detail is brilliant.

Thank you for this. I found it relaxing, inspiring, and instructive.

Genius ! An absolute MasterClass in a) drone design, b) FM sound design and c) Digitone programming. Really stunning video with beautiful atmosphere throughout. Such a pleasure to watch you work. Like a skilled oil painter mixing his colours (sound design) and applying them to canvas (programming and mixing). Thank you. 🙏

So awesome to watch your step by step process! Picked up a bunch of tips/ideas, thx👍🏻

Impressive sounds presented in a nearly meditative way. Thank you 🙏

I'm still just in the first sound but I had to stop and comment on how amazing and creative I've found the way you programmed the steps with all the note values, the modulations and parameter lock. I was wondering for a long time how people could achieve such a moving pattern, almost perceived as modular self-generative, with the digitone 'closed' pattern system and you just gave me the answer. I guess I still have to commit to the Elektron's sequencer potential. But this was nasty! Thanks a lot, now I'm gonna keep watching the rest!

This is the best lesson I‘ve ever had. Thank you!

Such a beautiful and helpful tutorial thanks!

Another inspiring video ... helped make my weekend ... plus (as always) learned a great deal about the Digitone.

mate, this is fantastic stuff. Very well explained and absolutely gorgeous to listen to.

As a new Digitone owner, this video was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for doing it!

I stayed the whole time. Thank you so much dude

Thanks! This is very helpful studymaterial!

i love this video! relaxing and informative. really helped remind me of many features i don't use while showing me ways to use other features differently. great narration and sounds. :)

Lovely sounds and very inspiring process :) Thanks for sharing this!

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and process. This, for me at least, is where the Digitone shines. Fantastic work!

Nicely done, and thank-you for having the time and patience to "herd the musical cats" once again.

Great job, video and narrative...! Cheers and best. :)

This is incredible and exactly what I was looking for without really knowing how to look for it. Haven't finished yet bc 20 minutes in I had enough of the rudiments to get blissfully stuck in droneland for a well spent hour of slight adjustments. Thanks!

Even though I'm not that much into ambient this offers so many fantastic ideas to create versatile sounds on the DN. Fantastic work and inspiration as always, Alex!

Thank you for sharing this amazing knowledge. All the best :)

Fantastic.. drones ended up being the best digitone tutorial out there. Thanks! more like this :)

Great tutorial. The tonality of your voice makes the whole thing a Bob Ross experience for sound instead of painting.

This was a big help to get me rolling along with the digitone.

Just wanted to say I learned a ton along that way. Took us to little corners on the machine I had not explored yet. Stuff I know I'll use all the time in a variety of genres. Thanks for taking the time to share your philosophy and approach to this kind of stuff.

Very good teaching! Thank you! ‼️

hey hey hey, such a cool journey!

Thank you! I took notes. I was having much trouble getting moving pleasant drones, so this really nudged me in the direction. You're a godsend

I am watching this video the third time. Next week i will get my digitone and i am excited to applying the techniques i have seen here myself

So nice to hear your thoughts here... fantastic video..!

What a masterclass, thank you so much! it would be amazing the same type of video using the digitakt instead

Thanks for your insights/expressions. Also very refreshing you don’t use comercials/adds, much apreciated no stress...

Wow, I learned more in 90 minutes than in 14 days of trying. Thank you! Your voice alone is pure ambient. very enjoyable! Never stop the movement! Greetings and thank you very much!

Am so late to the party with this I feel as if flares have come back into fashion in the time elapsed! But wow! This is such a helpful and fascinating video both for the lovely ambient music vibe and the detailed FM sound design. I will come back to this over & over as I learn and play with my new Digitone which arrived yesterday. Interesting to hear you say you don't use Overbridge. Overbridge is the single most important thing Elektron have introduced, for me personally, as I like expanding my hardware setup along with still using a DAW. I actually have no more inputs available on my Apollo interface and don't have physical space for even a small mixer without totally reorganising the room, so Overbridge allows me to use the Digitakt and Digitone without need for analogue inputs to my system - an absolute godsend. I wish every hardware synth by all manufacturers had an equivalent! In fact my Volca Keys is now also going into my system via overbridge, through the analogue input of the Digitone. By the way, the finished piece puts me in mind a little of the slow intro section to Tangerine Dream's Ricochet. 👍

Learned so much from this - now blissfully droning

Thanks for such an in-depth proces! Really enjoyed following along with the process, then making my own tweaks as well!

i like the speed of labour here, this is when things grow, it appears.. what a wonderful video, i‘m happy to have come across with the channel

We love you Mr Sink, with your golden ears, touch and silky smooth narrating:)

This helped me in so many ways... Thank you !

I did exactly what you did, and I created something so very beautiful, I wanted to let it play forever and twiddle no further. Great tutorial. Thank you! Patterns of Primes is a beautiful concept that makes me think of the patterns of nature. Consider tho locusts. Ranjit

the best digitone creative process

I love you saying "but anyways I digress" halfway through and hour and a half drone video 🤣 Great stuff, you've inspired me to put droning on my near future to do list on my DN! Seems awful relaxing.

Very very inspiring, thank you! Let me start think about a Digitone keys for the vocies out (other reverbs etc.)

I really enjoyed following threw this tutorial! thank you ver much for doing this

Your voice is so relaxing. I'm gonna have trouble staying awake through this vid. That's not a criticism. :-)

Nice, thanks for sharing

Oh this one comes in handy! Kinda stuck with my Digitone I end up using every other tool around just to avoid frustration. Now I am following your tutorial to find new ways to my favorite synth. Thanks!

Brilliant tutorial. Like the guy below in Berlin, I'd like to offer you lodging should you ever want to visit Brooklyn, NY.

Legend!

Thank you so much for this video ❤️

Great tutorial, actually really liked the slow tempo of it all 👍

your best video to date.

I've gone there as well, mournful ambient and occasional plinky shimmered piano over the top. Its a sign of the times I think! I'm loving this so far, got my digitone next to me and I'm trying to take notes!

Thanks a ton for this video! I'll watch it in full soon and try out droning on Digitone. It's already a blast on Deepmind, and I'm sure the sequencer of Digitone (plus FM!) is going to be awesome.

thanks man this is am epic video

Beautiful and thank you

very helpful!! thanks mate ❤

Probability has to be one of the most powerful functions. I used to have to record 2-3 min audio loops to achieve the quality of a 13 step seq with probability! The first time I experienced the wonders of probability functionality was with the Novation Tracks. Then the Peak update gave us probability on arp. Really great tool for ambient composition because you no longer need 128+step seq to achieve a natural organic random quality and the illusion of long spaced out loops.

lots of excellent tips in here, will absolutely be rewatching with my Digitone in front of me. Incredible effort doing an almost 90min tutorial too, i would not be able to talk for that long and still make sense haha

Thank you! So informative.

Thank you so much. I recently purchased the Digitone primarily to make generative drones and after playing with it for 2 weeks this is exactly what I needed to see.

Great tutorial. Many thanks. Just where my head is at 🙏🏽

Amazing Mystical tones and drones that drive my toughts floating to Tibet. Thanks so much for this tutorial ! Thinking to port this too to my Yamaha (8 operator + formant) FS1r for even more mystical tones.

Very good video! Thanks a lot!!

Sehr gutes Tutorial ! Merci.

Thank You!

Oohhh thx alot for this Man!! Great✨

*BRAVO* 👏🏼 Wonderfully done! Thank you so much-I learned a lot of technique that can be applied to many machines with similar capabilities-like my MPC ONE, on which I can literally replicate everything you’ve done here on the Digitone, though not as handily! I also love the way you explain how and why you’re selecting and adjusting the various parameters of each control/filter and so forth, _”to punctuate…some goddam reverb…in context…”_ 😎 The composer of the ‘The Outer Limits’ main theme score and much of OL’s background music would have no doubt sacrificed at least one limb to have this sonic capability, it is simply immense-esp. at around 45:00 (I’ve been trying for decades to electronically replicate that _reverse-running electric vacuum cleaner_ sound-I often came close, but no luck to-date). 😊 Personally, I’m reluctant to ever buy one of these or any other *_ELEKTRON_* synth because of the display-it is profoundly, inexcusably bad in every way shape or function! Even if they were trying to present it as _a cool old 8-bit world reminiscent of the earliest LED display technology,_ it just plain massively sucks. If actually trying to be ‘retro-cool’ or something, it is a miserable, unfathomably ridiculous, insanely absurd failure. Why? Even the cheapest toys out there have better displays, x 100%! It makes me wanna hammer an old Casio Data-Watch into it! THAT would be a hundred times more preferable than Elektron’s current LED display technology! _and the _*_voice stealing! THAT is a total deal-breaker!_* My God People! THIS IS 2023!_ 😂😉

Awesome thank you

Fantastic

lovely

Friend, if you can, look for a similar drone sound of these two instruments: Shruti box and tampura + Bansuri. Thank you

Thank you!!

Thanks.

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Fantastic!!! We need more Digitone videos!! Please!!! Please!!!

I love drone. I have a Model Samples, Mininova and a Microfreak. And a Zoom effects box. I need to get my drone on.

Also turning off reuse on the voice menu will remove click as each successive note even if two consecutive identical notes play they will use separate voices so there won’t be a voice cut off.

Thanks for this. Aces as always. I followed your instructions to the T - except - for each wave in each LFO, I used S&H. As you might imagine the resulting sound is a good deal more bleepy and bloopy than yours! Keep up the good work!

you've said Korg OP6 is (was?) one of your fave instruments, I think. It and the Digitone are nominally both modern FM instruments with interesting sequencers, etc. Can you compare/contrast them, for us? I have used neither and don't see myself acquiring and learning both (hence my admiration for you). So it would be useful to have help choosing and understanding their relative advantages and differences. I HAVE watched several demo/tutorials for both, esp DTone, FWIW. This is a lovely video btw, really blurring the boundary between demo/tutorial and beautiful musical performance. I love your channel so much!