This is a machine primed for adventure: an instrument to propel you towards extraordinary music-making and boundless sound exploration. Tonverk is both a revelatory pathfinder and wondrous labyrinth to immerse yourself in, offering diverse solutions to capture, process, route, and reveal your sound. Stay a while. Stay forever.

Tonverk has eight audio tracks that can be utilized in different ways depending on where you want to take your sounds. There are a further eight tracks for buses, sends, and mix – all primed for relentless routing, putting a wealth of fresh FX flavors in your hands for use across the box. All 16 tracks have their own sequencer.

Tonverk heralds the arrival of another Elektron platform, the first device and certainly not the last. It joins our family of platforms, each offering hugely exciting opportunities that we can’t wait to explore and bring to life. You’re invited to enter a gateway to fantastic fun and experimentation. And, like all adventures, the beginning offers only a glimpse of what’s to come.

Five machines form the initial basis of Tonverk’s sound creation, plus another for MIDI.

Single Player is a Tonverk take on a polyphonic one-shot machine. Load, record, or drag and drop your stereo sample from your device, and play it back polyphonically. Find your start point, find your end, set your loop point, and smooth it out like butter with the crossfade parameter for seamless looping. Let a single tone run on into polyphoninfinity.

Multi Player lets you load a multisampled instrument. Various samples are spread out over the keyboard, full of melodic potential, and ready for your fingertips. The machine comes with several multisampled instruments covering plenty of flavors, and with the Auto Sampler you can of course create your own magic.

Subtracks offers you the chance to load a sample on every lower row key on Tonverk’s keyboard. This means one track is essentially eight Subtracks, each able to play their samples simultaneously. And every Subtrack has its own two filters, an amp envelope, and modulation. Load a curated set of samples or pick and choose what sound lives where. Why not have eight drum machines in your drum machine? The choice is yours. 

Grainer cuts your sample into tiny grains and reassembles them into new textures, rhythms, and continuous tones. Control grain amount, size, density, randomness, spread, direction, and more, and explore three Play Modes that shift it from drifting pads to tempo-synced stutters to smooth, oscillating layers. A unique dual shelving filter opens further shaping options, and with up to eight voices each running eight grains at once, available on any of the audio tracks, Grainer delivers huge granular possibilities in deep polyphonic detail – tactile, flexible, and expressive inside Tonverk.

Wavefinder gives you two independent wavetable oscillators that can be modulated and blended. Dive in and shape your tone by picking your wavetables and using position to find the perfect wave, and level to find the perfect mix. Set tune and detune, and then modulate your position and level by choosing one of the 12 wavetable animations, with further modulation controls available. All of this works together to unlock deeper layers of movement and expression, further increased by the ability to add your own wavetables.

There are two ways to sample with Tonverk. Recorder allows for straightforward audio sampling, externally or internally, in a way familiar to those who have used Elektron samplers before. Tonverk’s Auto Sampler adds another layer of interest. Connect your MIDI gear and record whatever sound you like. Maybe it’s your favorite monophonic patch from elsewhere, magically made polyphonic, giving it a new lease of life. Decide how many notes and velocity layers you want to collect, start the recording, and let the machine do the work. You can even connect via USB, and sample from whatever app you have at your disposal.

Tonverk’s routing capabilities are huge. There are lots of places to begin your journey and countless directions you can head off in. Let one sound have its own unique adventure or bring tracks together for combined treatment. All of Tonverk’s tracks have their own routing. Its extensive, flexible routing setup allows you to direct sound from multiple sources to various destinations. You can also send audio out of Tonverk, process it externally, and bring it right back in. On the back of your machine you have four outputs and two inputs, and a headphone out that is also a routing option. Plus: MIDI In, Out, and Thru; two USB-C slots; and an SD card.

Here are a handful of ways Tonverk can send your sound on its own unique sonic journey:

Tonverk is an effects beast, giving you different options when it comes to what, where, and how you use the scores of effects on offer. There are plenty of newcomers to work with as well: Rumsklang Reverb, Daisy Delay, Dirtshaper, Degrader, Chrono Pitch, Frequency Warper, Infinite Flanger, Phase 98, Filterbank, Comb +/-, Steel Box Reverb, and Filter Folder are all eager to be explored, and are joined by some Elektron classics, and a bunch more filters.

There’s modulation mayhem on offer on Tonverk, with LFO possibilities everywhere you look, letting you shape your sound as deeply as you dare to. Each of the eight audio tracks has two voice LFOs, two FX LFOs, and a Mod Envelope. If you’re using the Subtracks machine, many of the modulation powers are usable per Subtrack. Every track or Subtrack has one filter envelope and one amp envelope as well. And if that’s not enough, each of your buses, sends, and the mix has two LFOs too, making for a crazy number of modulation options.

Tonverk boosts the Elektron sequencer to its biggest-ever size, with the possibility of 256 steps to put to use. And every single track has its own sequencer, meaning you can Parameter lock in all kinds of magical ways and granting you even more movement and control. You can even P-lock the routing itself, letting you route your sound continuously or for just a split second. In fact, across the device, Tonverk has more Parameter lock potential than we’ve ever put in one box.

In many ways, Tonverk could be your perfect Elektron workstation. Multisample your favorite piece of gear, and take it in unimaginable directions. Build your drum kits, build your instruments, save your presets. Sequence your songs, route your sounds, and dive into plenty more features like arpeggiator, chord mode, song mode, pattern transitions, perform mode, and a selection of modulation sources that shine when connecting your external keyboard. And all of this from one box.

Tonverk is loaded with a diverse factory library packed with options to work across its machines. There are multisampled instruments, Subtracks instruments, single samples, wavetables and presets aplenty, providing a true springboard for your sonic escapades.

Overbridge multistreaming

With Tonverk you can access Overbridge’s streaming functionality. This allows you to stream each track separately to your computer and is primarily intended for flexible recording, mixing, and further production, rather than full DAW integration.

Learn about Overbridge

The latest OS updates, manuals and FAQ can be found in the Tonverk support section.

TONVERK Support section