Digitakt MK2 - Your Suggestions?

Because the first one was a good idea so one day it will come, its a good place to put ideas on potential new features that are unreasonable expectations from the current hardware. The title could be a bit less provocative given the timeframe since launch but other than that whats the problem?, talking about possible improvements doesnt mean Digitakt isnt being used.

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What’s the projected price so I can start saving!

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Obviously a tricky question to answer, but probably in the US$1.5 to US$2k range.

I think it will/could be pretty nifty. What everyone else thinks, well… maybe we will see one day.

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The only important suggestion for me is a CUE ouptut and a second “pair” of input.

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I don’t see a DT Mk II arriving any time soon… I thought the Mk II upgrades were mostly about the new styling, screen and button upgrades which the DT already has, but it’s nice to dream :slight_smile:

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The Digitakt Feature Request Thread :wink:

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I’ve updated the Post to include your Suggestions as well. Lemme know if i forgot something :wink: Cheers

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A perfect thread to use the much ignored ‘mute thread’ function . Can be found bottom left of your screen by pressing ‘tracking’

Thank you so much @re5et

Like a digitakt extended off the side to like octatrack size and put pads and a cross fader in the gap. Implement scenes, avoid people complaining about it lacking things they wanted in OT2 cause it’s not OT2, would insta buy

These could honestly all be firmware updates:

More transposition range than 24 semitones.
Parametric EQ (1 per channel and master).
Time Stretching option (be able to switch between).
Master Channel LFO that can modulate the Reverb, Delay, Compressor, or Mixer controls.

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I’d love to see stereo tracks and/or polyphony… preferably both! Perhaps this would be a special mode you’d enable as obviously track count would be drastically reduced. Stereo would work by importing L and R mono channels of a wav and linking them in the Digitakt - stereo sampling itself looks to be not technically possible.

Even limited polyphony would be a nice thing to have, eg single stereo track with four voice polyphony. But it’s using stereo samples that I’m so keen to see. It seems it would be technically doable.

I just want an Hexatrack, 4 Stereo Inputs, 2 Fader - Mixer display status for each individual track. I.e. beeing able to constantly see what levels are incomming and outgoing. Better display what is currently recording. + Pads as input controller would be cool, like on the rytm. More or less a rytm, hexatrack combo. With digital and analog voices.

Borrowing voices for polyphony would be really cool. That feature opened up a new world when it was implemented on the A4.

I would love to see an envelope to control the bit reduction. I’ve found that a lot of what makes the bit reduction work in a pattern is when the little distorted tails of a bit reduced sound hit at the right moments within the pattern. If you had more control over when those little tails hit through some ADSR shaping it would put that effect over the top for me.

you can get a snappy envelope for almost every parameter by using an lfo with the exp-shape in single-cycle-mode.

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Add stereo and pitch shift (goes hand in hand with time stretch) to that list and it’s the Digitakt of my dreams.

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It would move a possible DT Mk2 away from its intented purpose though. The purpose of being a direct, fast, spontaneous Machine with no clutter at all. And it would make the OT redundant. I wouldnt want this to happen tbh …

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Strap locks so you can play it keytar style.

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All I really wish mine had at this point is individual outs (without a laptop) and effect sends

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