digitables for Elektron Digitone

Pitch tables for every note: arpeggios, trills and riffs from one trig, and ADD steps that strum chords.

Module version 1.3.1-experimental. Base firmware: 1.43.

About this module

M8-style pitch tables for the Digitone mk1. The project holds 16 tables of up to 16 semitone steps, each with a length and a loop point. A sound with a table on plays every note through it: each note restarts the table and the sequencer’s clock steps it, from a slow walk to 1500 steps a second, so one trig plays an arpeggio, a trill, a pitch drop or a riff. A step can ADD a note instead of moving the pitch, so one trig can strum a chord. The TBL page has two knobs, TBL and SPD; hold a track key there for the table editor.

• 16 tables of up to 16 semitone steps, each with a length and a loop point, saved with the project.
• TBL and SPD are sound parameters: saved with the kit and p-lockable per trig.
• Speeds from 24 ticks a step down to a step every audio block (MAX, 1500 a second, at any tempo).
• ADD steps start a copy of the trig’s note at the step’s offset: a strummed chord from one trig.
• A full-screen table editor whose edits sound at once, even on a note already playing.
• A project saved with digitables loads on the stock OS, which ignores the tables and keeps them through a save.

How to use it

1. Use a build containing digitables and Digitone core 2.2 on OS 1.43. Hold T1 for about half a second and choose TABLES, or cycle AMP to its third page.
2. Select table 2 with TBL, then hold T1 to open its editor. Set three steps to 0, +4 and +7 semitones, length 3 and loop point 1.
3. Press NO to return to TBL and set SPD to 1. Hold a long note on a bright sound to hear the table cycle through a major chord.
4. Release the note and stop playback. Set TBL to OFF to restore ordinary pitch playback for that sound.

Controls

A: TBL

The sound’s table: OFF, or 1–16. A sound parameter: saved with the kit, shown and edited like the stock ones, and p-lockable per trig (hold a trig in grid recording and turn the knob).

B: SPD

The table’s speed: ticks of the 24 PPQN clock a step, 1–24 (6 is a 16th, 24 a quarter note), and faster to the left of 1: a step every 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/8, 1/12, 1/16, 1/24 or 1/32 of a tick, and MAX, a step every audio block (1500 a second, at any tempo). At 120 BPM, 1 is 48 steps a second and 1/16 is 768. P-lockable; turning it while a note plays changes its speed from the next step.

TABLES (Mod Menu)

Opens the TBL page. Hold a track key (T1–T4) on its own for about half a second for the Mod Menu, then pick TABLES with YES or trig key 1.

Hold a track key (TBL page)

Opens the table editor on the table the track’s sound plays. The editor shows the table’s 16 steps as bars around a zero line; a marker under a step follows a note playing that table. PLAY, STOP, FUNC and the track keys still work while it is open.

Editor: trig keys 1–16, LEFT/RIGHT

Pick a step.

Editor: A, UP/DOWN

The step’s offset, -48 to +48 semitones; FUNC + UP/DOWN moves it an octave. Edits sound at once, even on a note already playing.

Editor: B

The step.

Editor: C

The table’s length, 1–16.

Editor: D

The loop point: OFF (the last step holds), or 1 up to the length.

Editor: H

Which table, 1–16.

Editor: YES

The step adds a note (ADD), or not; an ADD step is drawn hollow. When the table reaches an ADD step, the note keeps its pitch and a copy of the trig’s note (its sound, p-locks, velocity and length) starts at the note’s pitch plus the step’s offset, released together with the note that added it. Step 1 always sets the note’s own pitch; marked ADD, it adds a note only when a loop comes back to it.

Editor: NO, or hold a track key

Back to the TBL page.

Editor: a page key

TRIG, SYN1, SYN2, FLTR, AMP or LFO: leaves the editor for that page.

Compatibility notes

• The builder refuses no mod beside it: in elekloader’s check it combines with every other Modwerk mod for Digitone OS 1.43. The author checked that it links with digihealth 1.1, but has not run the two together.
• It needs the Digitone core 2.2 (core-dn1 2.2) for its parameter slots, mod page, project data and Mod Menu entry; core 2.2 is then the one every Digitone OS 1.43 build uses.
• Built for Digitone OS 1.43 only; the author has not ported it to OS 1.44. The Digitone Keys runs the same OS file but has not been tried.
• The tables restored at power-up are unchecked: the Digitone keeps a working copy of the project for power-up, which the author’s emulator cannot show.
• The arpeggiator and portamento have not been tried with tables. On a note the arpeggiator plays, ADD steps add nothing.
• ADD steps use voices: the Digitone has 8, shared by the four tracks, and an added note takes one like any note, stealing the oldest when none is free. A loop over ADD steps adds notes over and over. An added note is skipped when the firmware’s note pool is short.
• The author reports testing v1.3 on a Digitone mk1 (3–4 October 2026): the TBL page, the table editor, the fast speeds, the Mod Menu and ADD steps. Not yet checked: the tables restored at power-up, and the arpeggiator with tables. That report is for the author’s own build.
• SPD MAX steps once every audio block, 1500 times a second at any tempo: the one setting that does not follow the sequencer's tempo, by design. Every other SPD value counts ticks of the 24 PPQN clock.

Test evidence

Modwerk’s builder linked and verified a build of the author’s v1.3 source with core 2.2 for OS 1.43; nothing was flashed or tested on hardware in Modwerk, and evidence is none. Documentation captures verify the listed UI pages on OS 1.43; audio, timing and hardware remain unqualified.