Elektron Tonverk Machines, Sampling / Multi-Sampling, Routing, FX & Modulation

What Is Elektron Tonverk?

Elektron’s Tonverk is a 16-track workstation that blends sampling, sequencing, FX, and modulation into one machine. It marks a new platform for Elektron, designed to feel familiar for existing users while pushing flexibility further.

If you’ve used Digitakt (sampler), Syntakt (digital + analog sound engine), or Analog Rytm (drum machine), Tonverk takes elements from all three and combines them into a single, modular instrument.

Elektron Tonverk Machines: The Core of Its Sound

Every track on Tonverk runs a Machine — a swappable engine that defines what the track does.

• SRC Machines for audio playback, multi-sampled instruments, or MIDI sequencing
  
• FX Machines like reverbs, delays, filters, and distortions
  
• Bus & Send FX Machines for group processing
  

This modular design is what makes Tonverk unique: swap a Machine, and the track can morph from a sampler to a MIDI sequencer or from a clean channel to a distortion-heavy FX chain.

If you’re familiar with the Digitakt’s simpler sample-playback engine, Tonverk’s Machines feel like a huge leap in flexibility.

Elektron Tonverk Sampling Features

Sampling has always been central to Elektron’s workflow, but Tonverk pushes it further than any box before it.

• File formats: Supports WAV & AIFF files up to 96 kHz / 32-bit (floating and fixed)
  
• Memory: 4 GB of sample memory per project with up to 1,023 slots
  
• Storage: Ships with a 64 GB SD card, expandable depending on your library size
  
• Auto Sampler: A built-in tool that can automatically record multiple pitches of an external synth and map them across the keyboard
  
• Headroom: Samples always play back with -22 dB attenuation, leaving plenty of space for stacking, FX, and live tweaking
  

Multi-Sampling: Instruments in a Box

The multi-sampling feature is one of Tonverk’s biggest steps forward. Unlike Digitakt or Syntakt, which play single samples per trig (albeit pitch-shifted), Tonverk allows you to map different samples across the keyboard range.

Here’s what that means in practice:

• Sample full instruments – You can capture a piano, guitar, or analog synth, recording multiple notes across octaves. Tonverk then maps them so each key plays the correct sample at the right pitch.
  
  
• Realistic playback – Instead of extreme pitch-shifting a single sample, Tonverk blends across multiple recorded pitches, giving you more natural, playable instruments.
  
  
• Hybrid sound design – You can combine multi-sampled instruments with Elektron’s sequencer tricks: parameter locks, conditional trigs, microtiming, and FX. Imagine a grand piano playing with per-step filter locks, or a sampled synth modulated by Tonverk’s FX LFOs.
  
  
• Drum kits and sound banks – Multi-sampling also makes it easier to build complete kits. Instead of juggling multiple tracks, you can load different drum hits into one mapped instrument and trigger them chromatically or across subtracks.
  

In other words: multi-sampling transforms Tonverk into a sampler and a synthesizer, letting you play sampled instruments like proper keys, not just chopped-up one-shots.

Compared to Digitakt’s single-layer mono sampling, Tonverk feels more like a Kontakt-style instrument engine inside a hardware groovebox.

Tonverk Routing Possibilities

Routing on Tonverk is a true playground:

• Route tracks to Main Mix (A/B), Direct Outs (C/D, E/F), or any of the four Bus tracks
  
• Send external audio into Tonverk for resampling or FX processing
  
• Use Buses to group drums, synths, or vocals for shared processing
  

This sets Tonverk apart from Syntakt and Analog Rytm, where routing is mostly fixed. Tonverk’s Bus tracks make it feel closer to a DAW mixer inside a hardware box.

Elektron Tonverk FX Machines

Tonverk is loaded with FX Machines that range from subtle polish to radical transformations:

• Insert FX: Chrono Pitch, Comb Filter, Dirtshaper, Infinite Flanger
  
• Send FX: Daisy Delay, Rumsklang Reverb, Supervoid Reverb
  
• Bus FX: Warble, Frequency Warper, Saturator Delay
  

Each track gets two insert FX slots, while Send FX and Bus FX expand the palette further.

Compared to Analog Rytm’s analog distortion and compressor, or Digitakt’s single global reverb & delay, Tonverk’s FX system feels much deeper. Especially with per-track modulation.

Tonverk Modulation Options

Elektron is known for modulation, and Tonverk brings serious tools:

• Two Voice LFOs per track – with multiple waveforms, sync, and trig modes
  
• One Mod Envelope – assignable, with flexible reset behavior
  
• Two FX LFOs per track – specifically for FX Machines
  

With parameter locks and conditional trigs, you can automate virtually anything on a per-step basis.

While Syntakt offers strong modulation per track, Tonverk adds dedicated FX LFOs, giving movement directly inside the effects engine.

Elektron Tonverk vs Other Elektron Instruments

Here’s a quick comparison for context:

 In short:

• Digitakt = good honest sample-based beatmaking.
• Syntakt = hybrid drum & synth box.
  
• Analog Rytm = analog drum powerhouse with pads.
  
• Tonverk = the most versatile, combining deep sampling, routing, FX, and modulation.

The Elektron Tonverk feels like the company’s most future-facing instrument yet. It blends the immediacy of Digitakt with the depth of a DAW, giving you Machines, high-quality sampling, modular routing, powerful FX, and expansive modulation - all inside a single box.

For anyone looking to build full tracks on hardware, or integrate a flexible sampler/sequencer into a hybrid setup, Tonverk is an incredible feature-packed and versatile tool.