Digitakt 2 Sampling Over USB

Elektron Gear Digitakt
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I’m trying to sample from Ableton into the Digitakt 2 over usb but Ableton doesn’t recognise the digitakt 2 as an interface.

To confirm I’ve connected my Digitakt 1 and it is only recognised in Ableton when Overbridge is selected in the usb config settings.

If that’s the case what is the purpose of the usb audio/midi setting?

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Does your operating system itself recognize the DT2 as an audio device?

The DT2 is class-compliant and thus should be available as a source and a destination when using the USB AUDIO/MIDI option.

If you are on Windows, you might need to swap from ASIO to WASAPI in Live’s configuration menus (just a guess as I don’t use Live myself).

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The Digitakt 2 is recognised by windows and I can get it to work with MME/Direct X driver but it sounds like shit. WASAPI isn’t an option.

The Digitakt 1, Syntakt and Digitone all show up and work as ASIO devices. Something is different with the 2.

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Ive had a similar issue @Chrisbe77, if youre using an audio interface with ableton as well as wanting audio via usb(without OB) to/from DTII then theres 2 solutions, both require you to select audio/midi in the usb settings on DTII first:

  1. make an aggregate device of both your interface AND DTII. And select it as your interface for ableton. Either the first two or last two outputs available will be for DTII. This has been sorta ok for me with bitwig but when I want to check a tutorial on youtube using chrome the audio is scratchy and weird or videos dont play and an error saying audio rendering failed, restart computer pops up. (If anyone has a solve for this please let me know)

  2. Select DTII as your interface in ableton when you want to sample into it. Not the worst solution but definitely takes me out of flow to do it. I keep some headphones handy to monitor DT for the brief time I’m sampling into it rather than swapping monitor speakers over to DT’s main outs.

I’ve had DTII freezing a few times while using both solutions. Power cycling fixed that. Dunno why and I cbf making bug reports, I’ve made a decision to find the simplest workaround and let other users stress over bugs with DTII rather than let it get me too angry/distracted :slight_smile:

Also I use mac so I’m unsure wether aggregate devices are a thing on windows or if they have a different term. Hope this helps!!!

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Thanks Watto.

  1. I’m not sure aggregate device is possible in Windows but I’ll look into it. That being said I would expect the Digitakt 2 to work exactly the same as its siblings without having to do this.

  2. That’s how I had planned to work and how it works for the Digitakt 1. It’s a nuisance but means fewer cables. the Digitakt 2 doesn’t exist as an ASIO interface in Ableton though. Again, this is different from its siblings.

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Ok i see.

Does your computer see DT2 at all? Eg can you select it as an audio interface for non-ableton audio listening like youtube/media players/zoom?

If it does, try selecting DT2 as your computers interface with ableton closed, then open it and see if its suddenly available… stranger things have happened.

If not contact support.

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My computer recognises it and I can use it in Ableton with MME/Direct X drivers but not with ASIO. This is very different to the OG Digitakt, Digitone and Syntakt.

I think I’ll contact support tonight.

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No need to contact support, this is normal behaviour.

ASIO only works for audio interfaces with their own drivers. The DT2 doesn’t have Overbridge yet, hence no drivers. So it now runs as a standard class compliant audio interface with only 2 channels.
You’ll have to wait for Overbridge for this to change.

In the meantime, this might help depending on your setup:
https://vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/index.htm

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Thanks. I assumed it was Overbridge related given the Digitakt 1 behaves similarly if I disable overbridge in the settings.

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On the Mac, oyu can use Rogue Amoeba’s loopback to send the entire output of any App (Ableton in this case) to a USB output. I use this to send Ableton’s main output to the Digitakt. You have to solo the track you want to sample, but there are advantages to this method.

  • No extra latency from using an aggregate device.
  • You can keep using Overbridge in Ableton for sync/mixing the digitakt etc.
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Does ASIO4All still exist? When I was using Windows (6 or 7 years ago) this was the tool of choice for those cases.

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I would like to learn more about this driver option. Looks active still at my quick search but I’m new.

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ASIO4All provides ASIO drivers for class-compliamt devices. It seems to aggregate devices now too. I’m not shure how stable it is on current Windows.
Best is to try it out yourself.

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Came here looking how to do this as I’m a recent Digitakt II owner.

Here’s how for Bitwig:

  1. Put Digitakt in Overbridge mode
  2. Add a Midi Track in Bitwig and add the Digitakt Overbridge Plug-in
  3. Open Overbridge plug-in and click on the routing tab at the top
  4. Route 1/2 to Main L and Main R
  5. Go to the Digitakt Overbridge Device in Bitwig and click on the ‘Show plug-in sidechain’ (top of device 2 icons across from the Device ON/OFF switch)
  6. Select the source track in Bitwig you want to sample from
  7. Go into the sampler on the Digitakt and change SRC to USB

That’s it. No aggregates needed! :sunglasses:

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