elk-herd

elk-herd is a device manager for some Elektron instruments:

+Drive Sample management

for Digitakt, Digitakt II, Model:Samples, and Analog Rytm MK I & II

• Transfer files to and from your computer with simple drag-n-drop
• Reorganize the +Drive with drag-n-drop
• Easily rename files and folders
• View your whole +Drive structure at once

Project & Pattern management

for Digitakt and Digitakt II

• Transfer projects to/from your computer
• Reorganize patterns, the sample pool, and the sound pool with drag-n-drop
• All sounds and plocks are kept in sync with all changes
• Find unused sample and sound slots
• Move free space in the sample and sound pools to the end
• Import patterns, sample pool entries, and sounds from one project into another

Videos

• DaveMech's awesome walk through: https://youtu.be/P0NfvNJ6JM0
• Demonstration of project import: https://youtu.be/VF_0y3_9uj0
• Short manual for other features: https://youtu.be/j6yZ83FP6Qk

Using it

elk-herd is hosted on the internet by the author for all to use. You need a browser that supports WebMIDI - which means Chrome for now - and once the page is loaded it runs locally on your machine:

https://electric.kitchen/crunch/elk-herd/

If you prefer, you can download the archive, unpack it, and open it on Chrome locally on a computer with no internet net access:

https://electric.kitchen/crunch/elk-herd-live.tgz

Or you can build it and run it yourself...

Known Issues

• Be aware that if LFO Dest is set to Sample Slot (in the track or plock’d): If you rearrange the sample pool, you have to know which samples need to be kept next to each other.
• There are still problems with using elk-herd on Linux due to known Chromium browser bugs. I'm still trying to work out a work around.

You can report bugs here on GitHub.

elk-herd is free!

Enjoy, have fun, make music. And if you like it, buy me a beer!

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Building it

elk-herd is written in elm, a pure, functional language for the web.

1. Download and install elm:

https://guide.elm-lang.org/install/elm.html

2. Dependencies

There are a few external elm packages which will be downloaded the first time you build. elk-herd also makes use of jQuery, Bootstrap, and the font Source Code Pro. These can be downloaded and placed into the proper place in the tree by running this script:

./get-ext.sh

3. Build the development build

./make-dev.sh

Then open ./index.html in your browser.

4. Build the production build

If you want to build the production build, you need a javascript minimizer like terser. Install terser, if needed:

npm install terser -g

and now

./make-prod.sh

If you want to use uglifyjs or closure compiler instead, or even no minimizer, there is support in that shell script, but you need to edit it to select it instead of terser.

Now you have a tree at distribution/elk-herd/ that you can serve from a web server. It's also already tar-ball'd up for you: distribution/elk-herd-live.tgz

5. Explore the code

There is a code over view, and other coding notes in the CONTRIBUTING.md document.

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Thanks

Thanks to all the people who tested the alpha and beta versions over the years! You were very brave to trust your Digitakt projects to me, and I couldn't have done this without you!

Thanks to my husband who puts up with me getting totally obsessed with a coding project.