Digitakt Banks Management

vasidudu · April 30, 2019, 12:26pm

Hello to all,

Have read the manual…
Though something I am not clear with: Banks
How are the sounds I import being distrubuted in Banks?
ie:

When bank A is full then bank B etc… or
Do I assign sounds to Banks manually?
Thanks a lot,
V

Padevil · April 30, 2019, 12:38pm

By sounds you import you mean the samples? The samples are shared between the whole project. You have a list of 128 slots and 64mb if I am not mistaken, and you will use this list for all banks in that project.
So banks are essentially a group of 16 patterns.

vasidudu · April 30, 2019, 12:40pm

Thanks for that
This I understood but I am still unsure about how Banks are being filled with samples, sounds or patterns…

Padevil · April 30, 2019, 12:44pm

I don’t understand what you mean by your question. Could you rephrase please?
Sounds are snapshots of samples with all parameters saved, they are global and independent from which project you are at.

Kloanhead · April 30, 2019, 12:48pm

vasidudu · April 30, 2019, 12:51pm

Hi @Padevil
I am certainly mistaking at a point
What I gather is that:

Working on a project I can have 8 Banks with 16 patterns containing 8 audio tracks each (am I correct?)
Now let’s say I have a sound (tweaked with filters, lfos etc… where will this sound be exported and saved on the +Drive which bank will it be exported to?

Sorry for the stupid question but apart from this aspect of the sound management, I think the Digitakt is a hell of a workhorse
V

jefones · April 30, 2019, 12:53pm

You choose the bank when you save the sound.

vasidudu · April 30, 2019, 12:54pm

@jefones
Ok

digimatt · April 30, 2019, 1:02pm

If I remember rightly the midi trig buttons select sound bank B,C,D and on.

DEEPMOSES · April 30, 2019, 2:42pm

Banks are for patterns, not sounds. The sound pool is for sounds and the sample pool is for samples. You have 8 banks that contain 16 pattern each, all of those patterns and banks share the same project sound/sample pool.

the_duckchild · April 30, 2019, 2:50pm

That’s actually not quite true! Sounds are also in banks.

they are two different sets of banks though - which is where the OPs confusion is coming from I think!

From p23 of the Digitakt manual:

"The total size of the +Drive is 1 GB. The +Drive Sound library can hold up to 2048 sounds (256 sounds in
each bank A-H) "

So there’s that first.

Plus - in every project, there are 8 banks, A-H with 16 patterns in each.

AFAIK - which bank a sound is in has no special relationship to which bank in a project it can be used in, as long as it is loaded into the project.

DEEPMOSES · April 30, 2019, 2:56pm

I’ll get my coat…

the_duckchild · April 30, 2019, 2:58pm

it’s not all that obvious tbh!

jefones · April 30, 2019, 9:19pm

Before the sound pool the bank to sounds relationship was a little easier to grasp. Since the addition of the sound pool it has gotten a little more complicated.

Sounds on the +drive are stored in banks labeled a-h which can be selected by pressing the corresponding midi trig when you choose to export a sound. Sounds on the +drive can be loaded into any audio track to create a sort of kit. Banks a and b are the factory sounds that come with the unit and can be deleted if room is needed.

The soundpool is project specific and is used for sound locks. Sounds can not be sound locked to individual steps unless they are in the sound pool. The soundpool and the sound banks are not the same thing.

vasidudu · April 30, 2019, 9:37pm

@jefones
That is where my grasp is… I know it is going to happen though
No seriously, this is what confuses me. Let’s see:
New project:
I load on audio track samples I have transfered into the DT. These 909, 808, 606 samples are in a folder called KITS. Question: do these pertain to a bank where they are stored on the +Drive?
I mess around with these samples making them a sound (correct?). These turn into patterns. Sounds and patterns can in their turn be saved/exported to the +Drive (in a specfic bank on the +Drive? ).
At the moment I have not yet exported anything. Therefore I believe banks A & B are the only ones filled with factory sounds and patterns?

Now the soundpool…
“The soundpool is project specific and is used for sound locks. Sounds can not be sound locked to individual steps unless they are in the sound pool. The soundpool and the sound banks are not the same thing.”
Where else could they be apart from the soundpool?

A bit at a loss here…

I like this DT very much though.
V

digimatt · May 1, 2019, 8:05am

A sound is a sample + parameters saved to sound bank to be universally used in all projects, any sound loaded to an audio track replaces the current sample and parameter set.
Soundpool sounds( for inserting only) have to be taken from the sound banks and loaded to individual projects where they can be inserted on any step in any pattern in the project without changing the track parameters, they do not need to be related to any sample in the project ram, so you can have a full project ram(64mb/127 samples) plus 127 different soundpool sounds.

the_duckchild · May 1, 2019, 9:54am

" so you can have a full project ram(64mb/127 samples) plus 127 different soundpool sounds."

but only if you have the samples used by the Sounds in the project RAM, right?

(just checking!)

digimatt · May 1, 2019, 11:45am

The samples connected to the soundpool sounds are not linked to the project ram so they only need to be present in the +drive not loaded to the project ram.

the_duckchild · May 1, 2019, 12:03pm

ah, ok - as long as you Sound Lock them in?
or can you assign them to a track?

brilliant if so!

digimatt · May 1, 2019, 1:52pm

You hold the trig the want to add the sound to (whilst in record), turn the browser encoder to open the soundpool list and scroll through. The Soundpool is for trig insertion, you would just access the Sound banks(func+ browser encoder) if you wanted to assign a Sound to a track, Sounds are just presets.