Digitakt 1.10: bug discussion

Elektron Gear Digitakt
#51

Right … so if the SRC page is set to -anything on Pitch then you also lose those notes on the chromatic keyboard? That is ridiculous… I don’t see how that could even be a computational limit considering it’s just altering the speed the sample is played and not actually performing a true pitch shift…

Even not being able to take one long sample and play chords with it is kinda crap compared to just about any sampler I can think of… but the 1-2 octave limit on every monophonic sample’s pitch is kind of absurd.

Working with the Digitakt is great, but I have to say… some odd operational choices on both Digitakt and Octatrack.

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#52

You could resample the pitched sample, that would reset your starting position and give you range again.

#53

I know but… whyyyy get distracted resampling and assigning when it could just play the sample faster so easily?

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#54

yeah this is a common frustration with pitching samples on digitakt, would be good if the pitch wheel went 36 either way or more, re sampling does fix it but seems like it should warrant a proper fix in an update

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#56

same with me. really odd. i thought this was being dealt with around 4 months back. i love the digitakt but the first trig not firing up is really quite a bind seeing as all os’s up to 1.04 worked. since 1.05… its been the same issue. back to 1.04.

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#57

Not sure if it’s a new bug or an old, or if anybody can verify, but I’ve hit a situation where programmed midi notes are transposed 2 octaves up on playback. Have commented as such over here, and it looks like I’m not the only one seeing it. Notes transposed after chromatic recording

#58

Hey! I don’t know for your guys, but if I have a track playing with a waveform looping, if I stop the sequencer there is like an annoying infitnite feedback of that track, even if I mute that track. I have to switch the playmode to forward and then go back to loopmode if I want to stop that annoying noise.

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#59

does this happen even you hit the stop button twice?

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#60

I noticed this too, but as of yesterday, I’m a new Digitakt user so I’m not familiar with most things yet.

#61

Ok sorry for spamming, I found out what the problem was. The amp envellope was set to infinite. :confused:

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#62

This one is hard to explain because I might just be still learning but the mute mode LEDs don’t make sense sometimes. It’s hard to explain but sometimes the LED state on one of the tracks doesn’t match what you hear, eg track looks unmuted but is playing and visa versa. Checked both mute modes to make sure it wasn’t that as well. It’s really hard to tell if a track is muted or not sometimes, idk if that’s a bug or not though

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#63

Yes, I have this issue also. Its impossible to tell what is muted or unmuted sometimes, I’ll select a track and a pad will look muted “totally unlit” but after striking the pad to “unmute” it mutes it and also seems to jolt the lights in acting “normally” again…
Also, I really wish they would stop the flashing of the pads in mute mode and just display the play head.

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#64

I don’t mean to be a Debby Downer (“Nobody likes a Debby Downer, mmmkay!?”), but is this really a bug or your, understandable, confusion with the workflow?
The mute lights are quite complicated to get the hang of and there are a few threads about the way they ‘work’ already. It would be great if there wasn’t so much blinking IMO, but this is more of a feature request (disabling/ changing mute state visual feedback).

Don’t forget that when you press and hold [FUNC], the trig keys light up in ‘Quick Mute’ mode which is dimmer than (press and hold) [FUNC] + [BANK] = regular ‘Mute Mode’ in which the trig keys are noticeably brighter and the mode remains active until [FUNC] + [BANK] is pressed.

N.B. there are two mute modes - ‘Global’ which is green and ‘Pattern’ which is purple.

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#65

Don’t think it’s an issue of understanding how they work. I’ve experienced exactly what mpicard and deepmoses have gone thru. Happens when I have trigs on every step, and I believe if you’re working in a higher BPM (I’m in 160) you’ll have this issue often. My understanding is that in mute mode (global for example) all tracks will be bright green and it will flash white when trigged, and when muted it will flash dim green. The track with trigs on every step will sometimes appear to be flashing dim green as if it’s muted, but the sound is still there. Once I mute/unmute that track, it goes back to flashing white like the rest of the tracks. Hope any of this makes sense :sweat_smile:

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#66

The mute states can be confusing for some but they do function how they are described in the manual. So ultimately not a bug.
But they could definitely be changed to be less confusing.

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#67

They are definately a little bugged. Switching between global mute and pattern mute will sometimes cause the green leds to keep blinking in pattern mute mode (without having anything muted.

Also the behavior of a fast rhythm of 16ths is probably not as intended as sometimes the light will be off or it will stay lit while holding quick mute and it makes it impossible to see if it’s actually muted or not. :slight_smile: this is went the case in os 1.04.It’s not a case of it being confusing though. I remember my mutes so it’s no big deal but it’s definitely not normal behavior.

I think this is a known bug at Elektron as it has been reported since 1.08.

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#68

Interesting to know. I personally haven’t experienced any bug behavior related to mute leds. But they did take a while to get used to reading them.

#69

Try switching between global mutemode and pattern mutemode with a couple of tracks running 16 steps at 130bpm+. Also note when holding func for a bit, then release and rehold, how those tracks behave. The leds will freeze. Happens on both my DT’s.

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#70

Yeah don’t worry I’m not offended, I will gladly admit I’ve only had my digitakt for two weeks!

I’ve seen the green led blink in playback mode when unmuted. That’s the part that I couldn’t explain but yea. Ok, so it’s a known issue, fair enough. I can live with it for now

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#71

Tried this just now, got some very buggy behavior. Shockingly buggy, holy cow.

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