STRING 0.6.0

STRING is a Karplus-Strong plucked string SRC machine for the original Digitakt (Mk1), OS 1.53. It runs through the normal AMP, filter, mixer and sends, and works alone or alongside Sophie for Digitakt.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. This modifies your instrument's firmware. Back up your projects and sounds, and keep a stock OS 1.53 file for recovery.

Install

1. Download digistring-0.6.0.elemod below.
2. In elekloader, select your own stock OS 1.53 with Change stock firmware.
3. Install from file, enable STRING (with core 2.1; Sophie and digihealth can be enabled too), Build Firmware.
4. Send the generated .syx with Elektron Transfer.

Controls

Knob	Control	What it does
A	TUNE	Pitch (an untransposed note plays C4)
B	EXC	Exciter, shown as icons: BOW, HIT, NOISE, PLUCK
C	STIFF	From an ideal string to a bell-like tone
E	POS	Pluck position
F	SOFT	Darker, softer attack
G	TONE	Damping: 0 warm, 3 bright, 4 open
H	DECAY	Decay time, 0.07 s to ~17 s, endless at the top, same on every note

In this release

• Own SRC page names and values, EXC icons, menu icon and LFO destination names
• Equal-tempered tuning from about 1.5 Hz up, with no octave jumps on low notes
• DECAY as a T60 and a note-tracking TONE, following the String model of Mutable Instruments Rings
• Ranges and defaults are SLICE's: STRING borrows its parameter slots

CPU load has not been measured; the optional digihealth mod shows it on the instrument. The .elemod contains only this project's code, not Elektron's firmware.