— Interactive guide · OS 1.12

Digitone II

Everything in Elektron’s manual, reorganised so you can actually find it — every key combination, parameter and workflow, searchable in a keystroke, with the community’s best videos and tips beside the sections they explain.

chapters: 11
topics: 101
key combos: 420
videos: 40

— Where to start

Your first hour

Plug in, play the factory patterns, play it like a keyboard and tweak a sound.

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Sequencing essentials

The Elektron sequencer tricks that make patterns come alive.

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FM without fear

How operators, algorithms and ratios shape the sound, then the other machines.

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Playing it live

Chords, arpeggios, mutes, fills, perform kits and safe experimentation on stage.

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— Explore the panel

What does this key do?

Tap any key or knob. Press FUNC to light up the secondary functions.

Pick a control to see what it does.

All 26 numbered controls from the manual. The caption under a key is what it does while FUNC is held.

Redrawn from the manual’s panel diagram (§3.1) · not to exact scale

— Contents

11 chapters, start anywhere

Start here

Connect it, power it up and make noise in ten minutes.

What the Digitone II is · How to read this guide · Rear panel and connections · Setting up and powering on · Hear the presets and factory patterns · Play a preset chromatically · Mute and unmute tracks · Tempo, swing and metronome · Tweak a sound · Technical specifications

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Panel & controls

Every key, knob and mode — and how they combine.

Front panel tour · Navigating the screen · Editing parameters · Quick scrolling · Copy, clear and paste · Naming things · Trig keys, knobs and key behaviour · KEYBOARD mode · KEYBOARD SETUP: scales, folding and chords · Keyboard scales · MUTE mode · TRIG mode

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How it’s organised

Projects, patterns, kits, presets, tracks and the sound engine.

Sound architecture · Projects, patterns, kits and presets · Audio tracks, MIDI tracks and machines · The +Drive library and the pool

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Presets, kits & arpeggiator

Load, edit and save sounds and kits, and set up the arpeggiator.

The PRESET/KIT menu · Managing the preset pool · Loading, saving and managing kits · Playing presets · Editing a preset · Saving a preset · The SETUP menu: kit and track settings · The arpeggiator

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The sequencer

Patterns, recording modes, notes, trigs, locks and conditions.

Patterns and banks · Pattern chains · Trig types · GRID RECORDING mode · The NOTE EDIT menu · LIVE RECORDING mode · STEP RECORDING mode · Euclidean sequencer mode · Micro timing · Retrigs · The QUANTIZE menu · Pattern length, speed and page setup · Parameter locks · Preset locks · Trig conditions and conditional locks · FILL mode · Copy, paste and clear in the sequencer · Temporary save and reload · Transposing tracks, patterns and trigs

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Songs & performance

Arrange patterns into songs and play the machine live.

Song mode · PERFORM KIT mode

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Sound design

Voices, the track parameter pages and modulation.

Editing track parameters · Voice setup and unison · The TRIG pages · The SYN pages · The FLTR pages · The AMP page · The FX page · The MOD pages (LFOs) · Modulation destinations

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Machines & FM

FM Tone, FM Drum, Wavetone, Swarmer, the filters — and how FM works.

Machines overview · FM Tone machine · FM synthesis basics · FM algorithms · FM ratios and detune · FM operator envelopes · FM harmonics · FM Drum machine · Wavetone machine · Swarmer machine · Filter machines

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Effects & mixing

Delay, reverb, chorus, compressor and the mixer pages.

Editing send FX and mixer pages · Delay · Reverb · Chorus · Compressor · Internal mixer · FX mixer · External mixer

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MIDI, USB & integration

Computers, Overbridge, external synths and sync.

Overbridge · Outbox 8 · Class-compliant USB audio and MIDI · Playing the Digitone II from MIDI · MIDI tracks: sequencing external gear · MIDI configuration: sync, ports and channels · SysEx send and receive · MIDI CC and NRPN reference · Setup examples · Backing up with Elektron Transfer

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Settings & system

Projects, routing, personalisation, updates and resets.

Projects: load, save and manage · SONG settings menu · PATTERN settings menu · Audio routing · The PERSONALIZE menu · The SYSTEM menu · The STARTUP menu · Updating the OS

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— Muscle memory

The combos you’ll use every day

Copy, paste and clear work almost everywhere. The full cheat sheet has all 420, filterable by key and printable.

Open the cheat sheet

FUNC + RECORD: Copies the selected item.
FUNC + STOP: Pastes the copied item.
FUNC + PLAY: Clears the selected item.
RECORD + PLAY: Enters LIVE RECORDING mode and starts the sequencer.
RECORD + STOP: Enters STEP RECORDING mode.
FUNC + TRK: Enters or leaves MUTE mode.
FUNC + YES: Temporarily saves the active pattern.
FUNC + NO: Reloads the active pattern from its temporary save.

— Watch

Learn it from the community

All videos & links

Digitone II — At A Glance
Elektron
The official tour: Hissquiet and Jeremiah Chiu take turns showing off the machines, the sound and the new features.

Review: DIGITONE II vs OG Digitone // Everything new in Elektron's Digitone 2 // Detailed tutorial
loopop
A detailed tour of everything new compared with the original Digitone — half review, half tutorial.

Digitone 2 Mega Tutorial - for beginners
True Cuckoo
A chaptered, unhurried beginner tutorial that builds a whole track — the best first long watch.

An independent guide by boog.ie, not affiliated with or endorsed by Elektron. Digitone is a trademark of Elektron Music Machines MAV AB. Content is written from the official Digitone II User Manual (OS 1.12, October 2026) and Elektron’s release notes; community material is credited and linked. When in doubt, the official manual wins. Official downloads