Digitakt 2 and Digitone

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Hi again

because of the 8 pages on the DT2 it seems (at least to me) the correct way to bring the two boxes together would be to dedicate 4 tracks of the DT to the 4 synths of the DN and sequence everything via DT.

What do I miss by doing it this way?

Thanks

John

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performance macros? (mod wheel / pitch bend / whatever). also per track polyphony.

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so you would just sync clock and maybe send pattern switch commands and let the DN do its own sequence thing?

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I mean I would, unless you need a 128-bar variation on your pattern, but it depends. You don’t lose out on much else by doing it the way you suggested. You can still control the digitone mutes from digitakt, even if digitone is doing it’s own sequencing so when I use digitakt (1) and digitone together, I just do what you said and set them up for sync but use the digitakt for all mutes.

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I would sequence with the Digitone and then record those sequences into the Digitakt 2, for further manipulation, and so I could just take one box (the Digitakt) and keep working on the song.

Damn, now I want to replace my Digitakt with a Digitakt 2!

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If you prefer to record digitone sequences to digitakt, for the best fidelity you do not want to sample directly into the digitakt recorder because the forced normalization seems to change the recorded digitone audio slightly from the original.

I’ve had better luck recording digitone to computer and transferring the audio as a wav file through the transfer software, otherwise this is a good practice once composition is complete.

For evolving jams this isn’t ideal but if you’ve settled on a sequence and you won’t want to change the actual synthesis sounds, it does make life easier to work from one box.

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I would prefer to do it this way too, but I don’t think you would be able to P-lock.

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Yeah, you have to work within the confines of the slice machine or alternatively do a lot of prep work. Or if it’s not going to change (long sample, already complete) but that’s why I say “once composition is complete”. It does limit your ability to alter the original sounds / manipulate that individual track.