Elektron has released Tonverk 1.1.0, a free firmware update that adds a new granular machine and more.
Here’s what’s new in Elektron Tonverk firmware 1.1.0:
Features:
- Grainer – Grainer is a SRC machine that lets you chop and sculpt your sample from the smallest fragments of sound into entirely new sonic forms. You control grain amount, size, density, position, randomness, spread, direction, and more – with three Play Modes that shift it from drifting pads to tempo-synced stutters to smooth, oscillating layers. Dive in and explore – you’ll likely manipulate your own wild sounds into existence. Jump over to the FLTR page and dial in Grainer’s unique dual shelving filter to take things even further. Each voice can run up to eight grains, and with every one of Tonverk’s audio tracks able to use eight voices, the Grainer potential is massive. It’s granular made polyphonic, tactile, and expressive.
- Shape is a special machine added to enable the shaping of sound on the bus and send tracks. These can be utilized via additional parameters on the filter page, offering a dual shelving filter with low shelf gain, low shelf frequency, high shelf gain and high shelf frequency. You can also head to AMP to access ADSR or AHD envelopes and stereo width control on these tracks.
- Bus compressor Sidechain source – Choose what the compressor listens to when shaping the bus mix. Select any track (TRK 1–8) or the external inputs as the sidechain source – letting kicks carve space, external signals drive movement, or any element in your pattern control the dynamics of the whole bus track.
- Post FX pan control – Open up the FX Setup and gain the ability to pan the track’s sound after the effects stage, affecting the entire output of the track. This is available for all audio tracks, as well as the buses and sends.
- Other fixes and improvements:
- The USB MIDI input and output is now functioning as intended (alongside the previously fixed MIDI over DIN), meaning you can create multisampled instruments yourself with ease, via the Auto Sampler.
- Undo/Redo functionality is also accessible for paste/clear operations of patterns and track sequences, with deeper Undo/Redo powers to come/in the pipeline.
- The sample browser’s look and feel have been sharpened too, part of a number of general improvements to navigation, performance, and stability.
Elektron Tonverk Grainer Demo:
Elektron Tonverk firmware 1.1.0 is available now.
I don’t know about you guys but this is the best device from 2025 imo and there’s still a lot more they’re gonna add in the near future.
I can hear some of you already go “NO WAY!” but it is. 😉
Brilliant that they’ve done this – looks like the platform is maturing.
Sample-slicer to come next? We live in hope.
Sample-slicer: Maybe, but many other Elektron devices already have this feature. And these devices are also very good and should be sold.
From this perspective, it may not make sense for Elektron to implement a Digitakt completely in the Tonverk.
This may not be easy for everyone to understand, but that’s just how it is…
It’s more likely that they will come up with other wonderful surprises.
You don’t think a flagship sampler shouldn’t have a slicer because a more limited sampler already does? Because of sales – If I got that right – it’s the precise attitude that turns people off about this stuff. Shouldn’t the ethos be innovation and practicality? OFC we live in a world driven by sales but I’m not spending a paycheck or more on something because it’s marketable?
I think the point is that this is the only Elektron Device that Multisamples and therefore would be best developed with unique forms of sample mangling, sample based synthesis and granular/other processing tools.
For example : unique filters, FM style modulation of samples, AM of samples and even ring modulation or V-Synth style, time pitch and and formant domain manipulation and the like too and prhaps some form of fourier transform synthesis that allows you to merge other samples into newer wave forms, create multi sampled wave tables from samples, unique looping options and so on and so forth.
The OT and Digitakt sample slice perfectly well, reinventing the wheel in a third device seems a bit pointless IMHO.
I’d be more interested in this device if it keeps a singular vision focus and possibly expands on external sequencing features in the process too.
My Mk1 Analog Four and Monomachine have stayed the course due to having a singular focus and mission statement, unlike the ungodly bloatware that is/was the Octatrack IMHO. I also think the Digitone Keys is a bit of an unsung hero but I digress.
Amen. This is exactly the sort of artificial limitation that convinced me not to buy Elektron. As a customer I’m not interested in the why of these limitations. It doesn’t matter. There is simply much more capable stuff out there for less money. I’ll buy the tools that give me the most bang for my buck. Especially if they also give me much more intuitive and flexible UI’s than Elektron’s “my way or the highway” approach to workflow.
There are tons of unique and inspiring features on their machines that are constantly updated, some are truly groundbreaking innovations that other brands seem to admire and copy years later.
If you’re looking for mere basic features elektron is not for you.
The device that has it all is usually the least bit interesting.
Tonverk offers a lot and will get more features over time.
Don’t focus on what it can’t. Explore what it can and works for you.