--- product_id: 166164447 title: "Elektron Digitone Keys 37-key 8-voice Digital Synthesizer with Sequencer" brand: "elektron" price: "HK$689" currency: HKD in_stock: false reviews_count: 2 url: https://www.desertcart.hk/products/166164447-elektron-digitone-keys-37-key-8-voice-digital-synthesizer-sequencer store_origin: HK region: Hong Kong --- # 37-key semi-weighted Fatar keybed 8-voice polyphonic FM synth engine 8 assignable knobs for custom control Elektron Digitone Keys 37-key 8-voice Digital Synthesizer with Sequencer **Brand:** elektron **Price:** HK$689 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > 🎶 Unlock sonic universes with Digitone Keys — where FM meets fearless expression! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Elektron Digitone Keys 37-key 8-voice Digital Synthesizer with Sequencer by elektron - **How much does it cost?** HK$689 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hk](https://www.desertcart.hk/products/166164447-elektron-digitone-keys-37-key-8-voice-digital-synthesizer-sequencer) ## Best For - elektron enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted elektron brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Pro-Grade Effects Suite:** Built-in Panoramic Chorus, Saturator Delay, and Supervoid Reverb to elevate your soundscape - • **Elektron Sequencing Mastery:** Advanced parameter locking and 4-part multitimbral sequencing to craft complex patterns - • **Powerful 8-Voice FM Synthesis:** Four synth tracks with 4-operator engines and 8 algorithms for rich sound design - • **Expressive 37-Key Fatar Keyboard:** Semi-weighted with aftertouch for nuanced performance control - • **Seamless Connectivity & Flexibility:** USB audio/MIDI interface, separate track outputs, and CV in/out for studio and live setups ## Overview The Elektron Digitone Keys is a 37-key semi-weighted digital synthesizer featuring an 8-voice polyphonic FM engine with four 4-operator synth tracks. It offers powerful Elektron sequencing with parameter locking, a versatile effects suite, and extensive connectivity including USB audio/MIDI and CV I/O. Designed for professional sound designers and performers, it combines expressive keyboard control with deep synthesis and flexible live performance capabilities. ## Description Digitone Keys - Unlock Your Sweet DreamsRestrictions are for the dreamless: This eight-voice polyphonic synthesizer keyboard is a performance machine that can usher in soundscapes of distant dreams and worlds previously out of reach. The 37-key velocity and pressure sensitive keyboard gives you a whole new level of expression and control over the Digitone's intuitive sound engine. Multimap lets you configure and assign individual sounds per region, triggering sounds or patterns with the tap of a key, while the ability to use portamento and arpeggio flourishes with the freedom of three octaves. Twist through the looking glass and back with the flick of a wrist. Sculpt your sound: With the Digitone's powerful and easy to use FM engine you have Digitone dynamism in keyboard form. A variety of dedicated features put the power at your fingertips. Get maximum control out of the machine with eight new assignable knobs. Choose the function you want for each knob to tailor your Digitone Keys, and then let loose. The freedom to switch between tempestuous and serene soundscapes in an instant is laid out in front of you. In an Elektron first, the Digitone Keys helps you liberate your live show with a flexible mod and pitch wheel setup, allowing you to warp your sound to another world with multiple modulations.Get connected: With separate outputs for each track, connecting to external effects mixers and pedals, audio interfaces, and modulation sources is easier than ever before. Pinpoint single Digitone Keys tracks to process independently from the rest of your sound.Synth voice features:8 voice polyphony (4-part multitimbral)Multiple FM algorithmsMultiple operator harmonics1 × multimode filter per voice1 × base-width filter per voice1 × overdrive per voice2 × assignable LFO per voiceUnisonPortamento2048 patch storage capacity on the +Drive Review: Digitone Keys - An Inspiring FM Synth and Much More. - The Digitone Keys is an FM synth with a more conventional analogue filter back end - giving sound designers (like me) what has, in the space of just a few days, been something like manna from heaven. I'm old enough to remember soldering discrete hand made oscillators and filters in my schools e-music lab to feed our 2 inch tape deck, but I'd long ago sold off the few Moog-like sounding hardware synths of my past, convincing myself that with more and more horsepower under the hood, computer based software synths were the way to go. There remains a lot to be said for this perspective. Computer based synthesis is far less expensive than filling equipment racks. I currently have better than twenty sample, granular and wavetable based synths, not to mention umpteen gazillion filters and plug ins. My favorite software synths of late include Hauptwerk, a sophisticated pipe organ sample player-- you can play a sampled instruments that Bach played 300 years ago! -- Chris Watson's environmental recording based Geosonics (on Kontakt), Iris II, and now Circles, all of which can run concurrently and not begin to tax the 10 Core Xeon W iMac Pro on my desk. If I lean toward sample based synths (granular and wavetable, for example, it's because my work in sound design uses lots of my own environmental recordings. Nonetheless, when I read that Elektron was offering a keyboard version of Digitone, I jumped for it. Whilst I might like a better display (at $1200 list, is an OLED too much to ask for?), I know the rough graphics are part of the vibe, but the fine text js actually tough to read, and all the clever mutating symbols in the filtering section are a waste on this display. The body is well executed steel, with a matt black finish that resists both fingerprints and dust. The encoders, buttons and wheels all feel very solid, and the backlighting is not just gamer style good looks. It's a useful feature: there's a colour shift when items go to the second level of control, and a third "warning" colour set that comes into play when using the keyboard, pitch and mod wheels to control other midi devices - yes, it can do that, and CV in and out as well. Adding even more to its flexibility, virtually every control can be reassigned to suit the user with dozens of parameters to choose from. The three octave keyboard has a pretty standard light synth feel, with good velocity control. After-touch is available, but the sound design has to call for it. Some of the presets use it, some don't. The owner can add it to any preset - controlling one of many parameters -- noise, harmonics, panning, pitch. etc. The actual feel to the aftertouch is polar opposite from the light touch of the keyboard. It seems to take a bit more pressure than I'd like. The keyboard can be shifted 4 octaves in either direction. Three octaves in each direction are indicated by leds, while the 4th in either direction is indicated by a dimming of the last led. This is a total key range of 11 octaves, and enough keyboard to take users out of the normal range of hearing in either subsonic or ultrasonic directions. The keys physically jut out over the keybed. While they're well protected by the steel case, If using with a gig bag, I'd find a piece of foam to place under the keys as they extend out, just to be safe. They don't feel especially vulnerable, but why take a chance. One little known fact is that in addition to the two 1/4" input jacks (unbalanced!) to receive external audio, when the unit is connected to a computer via USB, it also functions as a standards compliant audio interface functioning at up to 96KHz/24 bit, making it super easy to run samples from a Mac -- even from iTunes, or network based data streams like YouTube -- through the Digitone's various filters and what not and on to a recording track in the DAW of your choosing. I use Studio One, but I tried it and it works equally well with Logic Pro. When used this way, you control the levels using the various filter levels and the Digitone's Master Volume. Having this audio and midi capability means that it's also possible to easily operate computer free. Bottom line: This is a sound designers dream machine, combining the best features of FM in an easily understood work flow, while still offering subtractive features like LFO controlled filtering etc. For less technically oriented users, it offers the arpeggiation and sequencing abilities and workflow that have made Elektron famous, along with presets in such a variety of styles that many users will likely look no further. Learn the workflow once, and the whole range of Elektron machines is open to you, from the budget "Models" line to the flagships: Octatrack, Rytm, and Analog Four. If this sounds good to you, go for it. I don't think you'll be disappointed. Review: FM HEAVEN - Take some time to read the user manual and learn about the algorithms! This synth is ridiculously powerful and fun! ## Features - 8-voice FM synthesizer with sequencer and keyboard with - 37-note semi-weighted Fatar keybed with aftertouch - Powerful Elektron sequencing with parameter locking - 4 synth tracks, each with a 4-operator synth engine with 8 algorithms - Built-in send effects include Panoramic Chorus, Saturator Delay, and Supervoid Reverb ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B07RR2KM4Z | | Brand | Elektron | | Brand Name | Elektron | | Connector Type | MIDI USB | | Customer Reviews | 5.0 out of 5 stars 10 Reviews | | Item Dimensions | 101.6 x 22.9 x 30.5 centimetres | | Item Weight | 6 Kilograms | | Item dimensions L x W x H | 101.6 x 22.9 x 30.5 centimetres | | Item weight | 6 Kilograms | | Manufacturer | Elektron | | Model Number | 113008 | | Part Number | DIGITONEKEYSDTK-1 | ## Product Details - **Brand:** Elektron - **Item dimensions L x W x H:** 101.6 x 22.9 x 30.5 centimetres - **Item weight:** 6 Kilograms - **Manufacturer:** Elektron ## Images ![Elektron Digitone Keys 37-key 8-voice Digital Synthesizer with Sequencer - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41smzhVq8zL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Digitone Keys - An Inspiring FM Synth and Much More. *by S***E on 8 April 2020* The Digitone Keys is an FM synth with a more conventional analogue filter back end - giving sound designers (like me) what has, in the space of just a few days, been something like manna from heaven. I'm old enough to remember soldering discrete hand made oscillators and filters in my schools e-music lab to feed our 2 inch tape deck, but I'd long ago sold off the few Moog-like sounding hardware synths of my past, convincing myself that with more and more horsepower under the hood, computer based software synths were the way to go. There remains a lot to be said for this perspective. Computer based synthesis is far less expensive than filling equipment racks. I currently have better than twenty sample, granular and wavetable based synths, not to mention umpteen gazillion filters and plug ins. My favorite software synths of late include Hauptwerk, a sophisticated pipe organ sample player-- you can play a sampled instruments that Bach played 300 years ago! -- Chris Watson's environmental recording based Geosonics (on Kontakt), Iris II, and now Circles, all of which can run concurrently and not begin to tax the 10 Core Xeon W iMac Pro on my desk. If I lean toward sample based synths (granular and wavetable, for example, it's because my work in sound design uses lots of my own environmental recordings. Nonetheless, when I read that Elektron was offering a keyboard version of Digitone, I jumped for it. Whilst I might like a better display (at $1200 list, is an OLED too much to ask for?), I know the rough graphics are part of the vibe, but the fine text js actually tough to read, and all the clever mutating symbols in the filtering section are a waste on this display. The body is well executed steel, with a matt black finish that resists both fingerprints and dust. The encoders, buttons and wheels all feel very solid, and the backlighting is not just gamer style good looks. It's a useful feature: there's a colour shift when items go to the second level of control, and a third "warning" colour set that comes into play when using the keyboard, pitch and mod wheels to control other midi devices - yes, it can do that, and CV in and out as well. Adding even more to its flexibility, virtually every control can be reassigned to suit the user with dozens of parameters to choose from. The three octave keyboard has a pretty standard light synth feel, with good velocity control. After-touch is available, but the sound design has to call for it. Some of the presets use it, some don't. The owner can add it to any preset - controlling one of many parameters -- noise, harmonics, panning, pitch. etc. The actual feel to the aftertouch is polar opposite from the light touch of the keyboard. It seems to take a bit more pressure than I'd like. The keyboard can be shifted 4 octaves in either direction. Three octaves in each direction are indicated by leds, while the 4th in either direction is indicated by a dimming of the last led. This is a total key range of 11 octaves, and enough keyboard to take users out of the normal range of hearing in either subsonic or ultrasonic directions. The keys physically jut out over the keybed. While they're well protected by the steel case, If using with a gig bag, I'd find a piece of foam to place under the keys as they extend out, just to be safe. They don't feel especially vulnerable, but why take a chance. One little known fact is that in addition to the two 1/4" input jacks (unbalanced!) to receive external audio, when the unit is connected to a computer via USB, it also functions as a standards compliant audio interface functioning at up to 96KHz/24 bit, making it super easy to run samples from a Mac -- even from iTunes, or network based data streams like YouTube -- through the Digitone's various filters and what not and on to a recording track in the DAW of your choosing. I use Studio One, but I tried it and it works equally well with Logic Pro. When used this way, you control the levels using the various filter levels and the Digitone's Master Volume. Having this audio and midi capability means that it's also possible to easily operate computer free. Bottom line: This is a sound designers dream machine, combining the best features of FM in an easily understood work flow, while still offering subtractive features like LFO controlled filtering etc. For less technically oriented users, it offers the arpeggiation and sequencing abilities and workflow that have made Elektron famous, along with presets in such a variety of styles that many users will likely look no further. Learn the workflow once, and the whole range of Elektron machines is open to you, from the budget "Models" line to the flagships: Octatrack, Rytm, and Analog Four. If this sounds good to you, go for it. I don't think you'll be disappointed. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ FM HEAVEN *by K***A on 7 March 2022* Take some time to read the user manual and learn about the algorithms! 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