With the update to version 1.3.0, Elektron’s Tonverk receives an expansion that noticeably reshapes the character of the hardware. At the center is the new wavetable engine Wavefinder, which opens up additional possibilities for sound design. This pushes Tonverk further into the realm of synthesis and deeper sound shaping. For many of you who have mainly worked with samples so far, this adds a completely new layer for exploring your own sounds. Strong update. By the way, here is our review.
Elektron TonverkUpdate 1.3.0: Wavefinder Expands Tonverk with Wavetable Synthesis and More Dynamic SoundMore Flexibility in Everyday Use: Tonverk Becomes a True Hybrid of Sampling and SynthesisUpdate 1.2.0: More Reverb, New Arp and Smarter DynamicsElektron Tonverk OS Upgrade 1.1.0 Brings Granular Synthesis to the Sampling PowerhouseUpdate 1.0.1 Now AvailableElektron Tonverk Is Finally Here8 Tracks, 8 Subtracks, 4 Bus Tracks, 4 MachinesSampling Power, Modulation PowerSequencer PowerHardware PowerElektron Tonverk Price and AvailabilityMore Information
Update 1.3.0: Wavefinder Expands Tonverk with Wavetable Synthesis and More Dynamic Sound
Wavefinder, the new instrument inside Tonverk, introduces two independently running wavetable oscillators that can be blended and modulated together. You can choose different wavetables, scan through their positions, and dial in the balance between both layers very precisely. Modulation brings movement into the sound, while additional animation features reshape the waveforms over time. One of the most exciting aspects is the ability to import your own wavetables, which opens the door to much more personal and evolving sounds. This turns Tonverk into a far more flexible system that goes well beyond working with static samples.
Beyond the new engine, the update also improves the overall workflow in a noticeable way. Subtracks can now be muted in relation to each other, which helps tighten rhythmic structures and keeps things more controlled. The arpeggiator has been expanded and now allows more variation, making it easier to capture ideas in the moment. In addition, specific sections of patterns can be looped, which makes working with longer sequences feel more immediate and musical. Altogether, these changes don’t just add features, they change how you interact with the instrument.
More Flexibility in Everyday Use: Tonverk Becomes a True Hybrid of Sampling and Synthesis
In practice, it becomes clear very quickly how well these new features connect. With Wavefinder, you can create entirely new sound sources and drop them straight into existing sequences. At the same time, rhythmic patterns feel tighter and easier to control, while spontaneous variations come together much more naturally.
The result is a setup that feels noticeably more flexible, especially in live situations or when sketching ideas on the fly. With this update, Tonverk moves further toward an instrument that blends sampling and synthesis in a way that actually changes how you work with sound.
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Update 1.2.0: More Reverb, New Arp and Smarter Dynamics
[17 December 2025] A few days ago, Elektron released a major update for Tonverk that introduced a granular engine and numerous workflow improvements. This new version, 1.2.0, significantly expands Tonverk’s creative possibilities once again. The developers clearly listened to community feedback and delivered an update that benefits both the studio and live performances. It includes two new effects, expanded routing options, and a revamped arpeggiator feature. The instrument’s characteristic sound and intuitive design remain intact, which is part of its ongoing appeal.
Tonwerk OS 1.2.0: Update with New Reverbs, Arps, and Added Sound Depth
A notable feature of the update is the Steel Box Reverb, inspired by classic digital and plate reverbs from the early ’90s. You can control this effect via an unusually wide range of parameters, from dense metallic rooms to expansive reverb tails that seem almost endless. It creates authentic vintage atmospheres and experimental sound textures that are perfect for ambient, techno, or cinematic compositions.
Those who prefer a rougher, more organic sound will love the new Filter Folder. Very cool! Here, wavefolding, filtering, and distortion merge to create a sound that goes far beyond classic filter curves. The result is overtones, sharpness, and movement that breathe new life into simple sounds, making them complex and lively. This is ideal for breathing new life into simple samples, percussive loops, or leads.
This Update has Character
In addition, Tonwerk OS 1.2.0 expands the range of existing effects. The popular Daisy Delay can now be used on all tracks, and the Frequency Warper can be used on audio and bus tracks, as well as in the master section. These additions open up significantly greater creative freedom, especially for experimental sound editing or complex effect chains. Additionally, the new Random Arp brings a breath of fresh air to arpeggiated sequences by rearranging them live and creating unexpected variations. This controlled unpredictability ensures that repetitive patterns remain lively and organic. This feature will be particularly appealing to performers.
Along with these obvious innovations, Elektron has improved many smaller details to optimize workflow. New features include Pattern Mute for more flexible song structures, new sidechain sources for the internal compressor, and shorter sample options for the Grainer. Synchronization has also been reworked to run more stably with simultaneous MIDI clock transmission and extensive external control – an important step for live performers who use Digitakt as the centerpiece of their setup.
The upgrade to the new version is much more than a technical bug fix. We are excited to see what other features will be revealed. More information about the update can be found here.
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Elektron Tonverk OS Upgrade 1.1.0 Brings Granular Synthesis to the Sampling Powerhouse
[27 November 2025] Tonverk gets Grainer, Shape, bus compressor sidechain source selection, and more in the latest OS upgrade from Elektron.
Elektron Tonverk: Granular Power and Sequencer Magic in One Box – Review! · Source: Elektron
The upgrades just keep on coming for Tonverk, Elektron’s sampling machine. OS upgrade 1.1.0, which the company just announced, keeps the ball rolling with some cool new machines to play with and other improvements.
First up is Grainer, an SRC machine that lets you pulverize your samples with granular synthesis. You get control over grain amount, size, density, position, randomness, spread, direction, and more with three Play Modes for pads, stutters and oscillating layers.
There’s also Shape, a special machine added to let you control the shape 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,” says Elektron. “You can also head to AMP to access ADSR or AHD envelopes and stereo width control on these tracks.”
Other new features include bus compressor sidechain source selection, post FX pan control, plus numerous bug fixes and improvements.
Download the new update on the Elektron site.
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Update 1.0.1 Now Available
[29 September 2025] Shortly after delivery, all Elektron Tonverk users will be able to download and install the new bug fix update, version 1.0.1. Several bugs have been resolved, so sampling and editing sequences should run more smoothly now.
Tonverk 1.0.1: The First Bug Fix Update
You can now update Tonverk. Version 1.0.1 is now available and ensures smoother production with the Elektron box.
Read more about the update here, and find a link to download it.
Multisamples, 8 Subtracks Per Track, More in This Exciting New Sampler Powerhouse
[10 September 2025] The Elektron Tonverk is real, it’s here, and it’s a sampler’s paradise. But is it everything people have been hoping for in a new Elektron release?
Elektron Tonverk Is Finally Here
After a series of leaks suggesting a new Elektron instrument was coming, the Tonverk is finally here. And while advanced speculation had it that it might be a hybrid sampler/synthesizer, the new black groovebox is very definitely a sampler – but with a number of features that may surprise you.
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8 Tracks, 8 Subtracks, 4 Bus Tracks, 4 Machines
The new machine is a polyphonic performance sampler with eight stereo audio tracks. Yes, stereo. Additionally, all of those tracks can be used either as audio or MIDI tracks, positioning the Tonverk as a sequencer for a hardware setup. It also offers four bus tracks, three send effect tracks, and one mix track.
Elektron Tonverk · Source: Thomann
Each main track can be set to one of four Machines: Single Player, Multi Player, Subtracks (more on these later), or MIDI, which is also selectable on the bus tracks. Single Player will give you polyphonic playback of individual WAV files, either mono or stereo, while Multi Player allows for the loading and polyphonic playback of multisamples with multiple velocity layers per note.
As for those Subtracks, these let you expand each single track out into eight monophonic and multitimbral subtracks, each with its own sample, sequencer, and individual parameter controls. If you’re keeping track, that’s up to 64 individual sequenced tracks total.
Sampling Power, Modulation Power
As a sampler, Tonverk offers 5GB of internal sampling memory. There’s an onboard recorder for easy audio sampling plus an MPC-style Auto Sampler for automatically creating multisamples from MIDI-connected hardware instruments. Additionally, you get a filter per track and subtrack, two assignable LFOs, two FX LFOs, an assignable modulation envelope per audio track, two LFOs for each bus, send effect, and mix track, plus routing options.
Elektron Tonverk · Source: Thomann
Sequencer Power
It wouldn’t be Elektron without a sequencer, so of course Tonverk has one of those too. The polyphonic sequencer gives you up to 256 steps per pattern and track, individual pattern length per track, as well as an adjustable clock divider, the famous parameter locks, trig conditions, and retrig, plus micro timing and arpeggiator for each track. As for the MIDI tracks, you get 16-voice polyphony per step, as well as 16 assignable CC controllers and two LFOs. Two different trigger modes plus keyboard, chord, and song mode round things out.
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Hardware Power
In terms of hardware, there’s a 128 x 64 pixel OLED display, a 64GB SD card, MIDI in/out/thru, two 6.3mm inputs, four 6.3mm outputs, a headphone jack, two USB-C ports, and an SD card slot.
Elektron Tonverk · Source: Thomann
Elektron Tonverk Price and Availability
The Elektron Tonverk is available now from Thomann* for €1399.
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Is Elektron Presenting the New Hardware Today?
[23 October 2024] After the photo leak of the unreleased Tonverk hardware, there are now new signs of new hardware from Elektron. Tonight, the Swedes will show something new in a YouTube premiere that has now been announced to start at 18:00 CET. But what will it be?
What is Elektron Presenting Tonight: Tonverk or Digitone II?
With ‘An Introduction’ and ‘Ready To Dive Deeper’ Elektron show a teaser for a video premiere on their own YouTube channel, which will be streamed tonight, 23 October 2024, at 18:00 CET. The forums are full of speculation about the Tonverk hardware shown in the leak, but also about a forthcoming Digitone II. As for the sound, the teaser features a lot of FM. Unfortunately, we don’t know much more about it yet – but as always, we’ll keep you posted!
Elektron Hardware Leak: Elektron’s Official Response
[30 September 2024] The company responds to the Elektron Tonverk rumors, hinting it’s just a prototype, revealing Overbridge for Digitakt II is “soon done.”
Elektron Leak: It’s a… Prototype?
Last week, images appeared on the internet of a supposed new Elektron device, the Tonverk. Was this the new Octatrack? Or some other new device?
Now Elektron has made an official comment on the Elektronauts site in response to the speculation:
Official response from Elektron about the Tonverk images. · Source: Elektron
“It’s great to see the speculation in the threads even if things occasionally drift a little off-piste. At any given time there are a number of prototypes in various stages of development. It would be strange if we didn’t have any since creating music machines is what we love doing. Some eventually see the light of day and others stay in the proto stage.”
So, just a prototype device that somehow got out of the office and onto a Chinese auction site (which is apparently where the pictures are from)? The Tonverk could just be an idea that they’re kicking around – or the message itself could be spin. Only time will tell.
In other news, Elektron did mention in the same post that the company was closing in on a release for Overbridge for Digitakt II, among other things.
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Elektron Leak! Is This the New Octatrack?
[24 September 2024] Multiple sound engines! Two USB-C ports! SD card slot! Onboard keyboard! Is the Elektron Tonverk even real?
Elektron Hardware Leak
The synthernet is all abuzz with pictures of a leaked Elektron instrument. Called Tonverk, it first appeared on Elektronauts, Elektron’s forum site, before being deleted and making the jump to Reddit r/synthesizers.
Is the Elektron Tonverk real? · Source: Reddit
Where the photos came from, no one knows, but they appear to show a (rather dusty) new device, the Elektron Tonverk. Elektron superfans will know that the company registered the name Tonverk as a trademark in February of this year. Is this it?
Elektron Tonverk: Pure Spekulation
As there was no accompanying information and Elektron has yet to confirm or deny anything (other than deleting the original post), all we can do is speculate on what’s in the photos.
Photos of a possible new Elektron instrument appeared on Elektronauts · Source: Reddit
The photos (are they Chinese?) show a new tabletop instrument in typical Elektron style, wider than a Digitakt and closer to an Oktatrak in size. It has DX7-like teal and purple color accents, suggesting possible inclusion of FM, but also some hints that sampling will be involved, like audio in and an SD card slot.
The display screen in the photo shows “Engine inactive,” suggesting multiple sound engines. My money is on at least FM and sampling but an analog engine would be nice too.
Sequencer, Keyboard and Effects
From the photo, it’s likely that this possible Elektron Tonverk has a 16-step sequencer, 13-key button-style keyboard and 10 rotary encoders. Audio and MIDI track buttons also suggest that it will have eight audio and 12 MIDI tracks.
The new instrument is closer in size to the Octatrack than Digitakt · Source: Reddit
There also appear to be effects. One eagle-eyed Reddit user commented, “The MOD/Matrix button and the three Send FX trigs are very interesting. That suggests more programmable effects routing than just the fixed Reverb/Delay/Chorus sends the other small boxes have, more like the Octatrack.”
Elektron Tonverk: Connectivity
Connectivity labeling reveals some surprising things, such as two USB-C ports. There’s an SD card slot suggesting sample import plus two audio-in ports, which also suggest sampling. In terms of outputs, there are four: A/B for main outs and C/D as a secondary out pair. It will also have MIDI in/out and thru.
Thoughts
Many people are saying that – assuming this is real – the Elektron Tonverk will be the new Octatrack. The original Octatrack was immensely popular, with techno producers particularly using it in their live sets. The Octatrack MKII came out in 2017, so we’re definitely overdue for a refresh of the series.
As for the name, I’m no expert on European languages but that ‘ton’ part had me intrigued. Turns out that tonwerk with a W means musical composition in German. This suggests an instrument that is more than just a drum machine, with synthesizer-like composition elements as well.
Elektron has yet to comment on the possible Tonverk. Of course, no price or availability information as of yet. First we have to confirm that it’s real. Stay tuned.
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