I’m thinking use it standalone and get some tutorials with 59perlen
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are you just thinking out loud or was there a question?
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Um not sure a bit of both - just wondering what other people’s experience is of it as a stand-alone machine and if anybody else has had tuition?
Sorry if I’m not being clear, was a bit of a late night two ciders down purchase…
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Quite a lot of fun.
I purchased the full Digitakt video course that @DaveMech made, and am quite pleased with it.
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You bought one then, but it was a drunk purchase? well congratulations, let me tell you, if it’s shampoo for my real friends I give digitakt a full bottle. love the little guy. when you say standalone you mean just as a groovebox? I tend to make stuff and put it on dt, sounds I mean. I occasionally use sample pack type stuff but I like dt to be the arranger slash sound mangler. you can definitely use it as an all in one but it depends on how you want to get your samples and how you want to get them into it.
hypothetically one could use all single cycle waveforms but I don’t know anyone who uses it that way exclusively.
I actually used to use dt paired with dn a lot more than I do now, as lately I’m less concerned with the fidelity of my sound and more focused on texture so I tend towards sampling something I’ve created on dn into the dt and then go from there. for me it tends to make more sense because I run out of voices on dn before I get to where I want something to be, so I just focus on single pieces of the puzzle in the digitone and then puzzle them together in the digitakt.
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Thanks man this is useful
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Yes I think I’ll generate all my own samples, I like the idea of a stand-alone arranger composer, I’ve not had time to dig into ot for this so I wanted something a bit quicker to use in my limited music making moments
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My advice, and it’s only advice, but keep writing or composing how you already do and then make digitakt fit into that. If you don’t have a “loop based workflow” don’t box yourself into that. Sometimes I like to write using the dt as a grid, but just as often I write something off the machine, and then work it into the machine and use it more performatively as one might do with an OT, just without the complication of a workflow you have to think about in too much depth. Not downselling DT because it can be super deep if you need it to be, but it can also be a no brainer workflow and get the job done really well. It’s an incredibly user friendly machine, I can’t imagine how they conceptualized and then brought into existence something which is so utilitarian but then has so much available depth beneath the sheets. one would almost think that they sat around a table and made a list of things octatrack isn’t and then put those in a box, only later adding some OT like features with the machines. You have to remember song mode didn’t even get introduced until the 1.4 update and then 1.5 brought all the machines, so all through it’s infancy dt was a bit stunted in it’s growth cycle… still great though, I used the old OS for a long time because I didn’t feel like I was missing that much but now I couldn’t go back from 1.5 even if I wanted to lol.
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Arrived today and jamming late into the night with a blank factory reset and some crunchy samples this thing is instant fun in a box it’s thing one and thing two
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Keep living the dream king
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I got it today and have been playing around for an hour or two it’s basically a complete synth/seq - just with the blank factory reset anything is possible really - could put everything else away and jam on this for the next year no problem
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lol remind me of some one who did the same position leg cross but with a Octatrack jejejejeje
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Digitakt is love, Digitakt is life 
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baby don’t 'urt me, no 'ore.
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Digitakt cowbell only jam!!
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Other interesting (to me) news is that my dt has come with tonnes of sample packs which I discovered while I was heroically synthesising quite decent but ultimately samey sounding tones from the stock 8 samples…
You mean some kind angel delivered sample packs unto you to clutter your ram and lessen the capacity of your minimal hard drive? bless their hearts.
*if you are referring to the other factory samples congratulations on your discovery. The 8 preloaded samples as the only belt and trousers the machine came with would make it a pretty lousy deal, could barely keep the thing above your waist with those.
I have some other (many) free sample packs I’ve collected over the years that I really don’t use but I like to collect them anyways so if you want some free samples to clutter your putter give me a jingle.
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