STRING for Digitakt

Listen

Four tracks, all STRING.

On the Digitakt

The Digitakt's screen showing STRING's SRC page

Controls

STRING borrows SLICE's eight parameter slots, so every control is saved with the sound, can be p-locked and reached by MIDI CC.

BOW

HIT

NOISE

PLUCK

EXC is drawn as one of four icons instead of a knob.

Knob	Control	What it does
A	TUNE	Pitch. An untransposed note plays C4.
B	EXC	Exciter: bow, mallet hit, noise burst or pluck
C	STIFF	From an ideal string to a bell-like, inharmonic tone
E	POS	Pluck position, from the bridge to the middle
F	SOFT	Darker, softer attack
G	TONE	Damping inside the string: warm to open and metallic
H	DECAY	How long the string rings: 0.07 s to about 17 s, endless at the top

Under the hood

Karplus-Strong at 48 kHz in fixed point, in tune to within a cent from G1 up.
DECAY is a time. The same setting rings as long on a low note as on a high one.
TONE follows the note, so a setting sounds alike from bass to treble.
No octave jumps on low notes: below F#1 the string slows down instead, down to about 1.5 Hz.
Decay, tone and the low-note design follow the String model of Mutable Instruments Rings.
Works alongside the other Digitakt mods: Sophie, digislicer, digineighbor, digichain, digimono, digipoly, digihealth and more, or on its own.

Install

No compiler needed. You need elekloader, your own stock Digitakt Mk1 OS 1.53 or 1.54 file and the STRING mod for it.

Download digistring-0.8.0.elemod (OS 1.53) or digistring-0.8.0-os1.54.elemod (OS 1.54) from the release.
In elekloader, select your stock OS with Change stock firmware.
Install from file, enable STRING (and core 2.1), then Build Firmware.
Send the generated .syx to the Digitakt with Elektron Transfer.

STRING-fast

For more tracks: the same machine, whose sample loop runs from the Digitakt's fast on-chip memory while digihealth's FAST AUDIO is on. On one Digitakt, five STRING tracks played cleanly at about 95% DSP load with FAST AUDIO on.

Install digistring-fast-0.8.0.elemod (or -os1.54) instead of STRING (not both) and enable digihealth, from Sophie's repository (switch on SETTINGS > FAST AUDIO) or from irpina/digihealth (FAST AUDIO switches itself on).

Use at your own risk. This modifies your instrument's firmware. Back up your projects and sounds, and keep a stock OS file for recovery.