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A new SRC machine for the Digitakt (mk1), DIGISLICER: the SLICE machine with a slice editor, for OS 1.53 and 1.54, as an elekloader mod.

What's new in 2.1

The keyboard plays the slices. Turn the keyboard on (FUNC + TRK) on a DIGISLICER track, and the trig keys work as the Octatrack's trig slice mode:

  • Trig 1 plays slice 1, trig 2 slice 2, and so on, whatever SLICE is set to. Each plays at the track's pitch: TUNE moves it, the key does not.
  • The trig keys of the sample's slices light up, every fourth one blue. With fewer than 16 slices, the rest stay dark and silent. The count is what the track plays: your own slices, AUTO's, or the grid.
  • UP / DOWN go to slices 17-32, 33-48 and 49-64, as far as the sample has slices. The popup and the keyboard menu (FUNC + TRK held) count the pages, for example Slice Page: 2/3.
  • Live recording (REC + PLAY) records each key as a trig with a slice lock, which plays that slice at the track's NOTE, as a slice lock entered on the grid does. STEP REC (REC + STOP, then FUNC + a trig key) records the same at the cursor.
  • With the keyboard off, or on any other machine, the trig keys work as ever. The slice editor's trig keys still audition its slices.

Worth knowing: a key plays its slice at note 60 (plus TUNE). A recorded trig plays it at the track's NOTE (the TRIG page's NOTE); at its default the two sound the same.

OS 1.54. The same mod for Digitakt OS 1.54, Elektron's release of 2026-09-30: digislicer-2.1-os1.54.elemod, with core-2.1-os1.54.elemod. It needs elekloader 0.4.0. Pick the file for the OS your unit runs; elekloader refuses the other one.

Everything from 2.0 is unchanged: the DIGISLICER machine and its slice editor (press SRC again on its SRC page), GRID = AUTO, and PLAY = PIPO. The README has every control.

Files

file sha256
digislicer-2.1.elemod 351bfb3a7c8bbbc8f925e085d77ee136114ad7edb90beeed9a6ea351f2cde51f
digislicer-2.1-os1.54.elemod b484401eac741c72dbc334e11dd7e0df6b799237cafd9581d020b43e06a0a277
core-2.1.elemod f38b0c193677a060b3fdb28fe71b9332be8a5e7d36ecaf91a3c86a61bab558eb
core-2.1-os1.54.elemod 8c1fe78ccd1427d6a93f181eaad9f064efb65cf6dd683192dbcc33e83dc548b9

digislicer 2.1 needs core 2.1, elekloader's hook bus with its SRC machine slots: the same core as digislicer 2.0. core-2.1.elemod (OS 1.53) and core-2.1-os1.54.elemod (OS 1.54) are elekloader 0.4.0's, built from its mods/core. The Windows and macOS apps bundle both from 0.4.0 on. From source, install the core for your OS with the mod.

Install

  1. Get elekloader 0.4.0 or later, and the stock OS file your unit runs, Digitakt_OS1.54.syx or Digitakt_OS1.53.syx, from Elektron.

  2. In elekloader's window, Install from file the digislicer file for that OS (from source, its core too). Tick digislicer, choose your stock file and Build firmware. Or:

    python -m elekloader.patch --stock Digitakt_OS1.53.syx \
    --mod core-2.1.elemod --mod digislicer-2.1.elemod \
    --out Digitakt_OS1.53-slicer.syx --version DS21

  3. Send the .syx to the unit as you would any OS update.

Recovery: hold FUNC while powering on for the startup menu, then send the stock OS file. elekloader never changes the bootloader.

It combines with digihealth and with digineighbor 0.6.

Checked

In digikit's emulator, on a DIGISLICER track with the keyboard on:

  • The keys: trig keys 1, 2 and 16 play slices 1, 2 and 16, and on page 2 trig 16 plays slice 32, with SLICE at 5 and with SLICE on the keyboard icon.

  • The LEDs: all 16 lit with 32 slices; with a sample's own 6 slices, keys 1-6 lit, 7-16 dark, and trig 7 silent; with AUTO, AUTO's count.

  • The pages: UP stops at the last page; the popup and the keyboard menu count the pages; a page left past the last one, after a change to a sample with fewer slices, reads as the last.

  • Recording: a key recorded with REC + PLAY plays its slice on that step every loop; STEP REC records the slice lock at the cursor.

  • Unchanged: the keyboard off, a ONESHOT track, and the slice editor's trig keys.

  • The patched places were checked by a second reader against the firmware's code.

  • Cold boots against stock (with and without digihealth and digineighbor): every screen is identical; the audio is identical, or 1 ms longer at its silent end.

  • OS 1.54: core + digislicer against stock 1.54: every stage passes, and the nine screens are identical. With digihealth and digineighbor, for 1.54 against the same for 1.53: DIGISLICER in the machine menu, its SRC page, GRID to AUTO, PLAY to PIPO and the keyboard's slice pages are identical, screen for screen. That emulator had no samples, so your slices and their playback have not run on 1.54.

Not yet tried on a unit.

Custom firmware is at your own risk. Not affiliated with Elektron.

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