Digitakt II Feature Requests

Elektron Gear Digitakt
1582

Alt sample. Please, please please…
This feels like it would be so powerful, yet the UX would be awesomely simple.

Instead of setting up a grid or modulating between sample slots, where you either play one sample or another, which is all a bit binary and to be honest is a ball-ache when playing live - it would be so much nicer to be able to select a sample slot as we do now, but also be able to select an alternative sample slot, then allow us to cross-fade between the two using a modulator, velocity, aftertouch, etc.
For example using velocity we could modulate between a hard transient drum sample and a soft one. Or using an LFO/aftertouch fade between two lush string samples.

1583

Sounds like an overlap ? Or two features of one new machine perhaps ?

1584

if you just want the ends to fade together using 2 tracks you can do this already with a bit of amp envelope. That’s my workaround :grinning:

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1585

I’m 100% with you. It would be great if you could choose between overdrive or a hard clipper. A clipper after the compressor would also be really useful.

1586

:pray: Ping pong looping
:pray: Granular machine

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1587

massive +1

ping pong looping seems like such a low hanging fruit!

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1588

Yeah, I nearly said something like “it should be easy to code” and then I stopped myself. :slight_smile:

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1589

Will post a question here so i don’t make another thread since i think some of you know the answer to my question and can maybe drop me a link.
How do you backup Digitakt 2 projects with their samples used?
Thank you in advance

1590

Polyphony
Crossfades
Granular
Manual Slicing + Transient Slicing
New FX types

I would love that!

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1591

Seconded, or +1

1592

Greetingd Protons!

It’s been a while since i added to the pile, and did another silly request, so sorry about that. I was doing a quick early morning fidling about on the DT2 when another one popped into my head…

First off @elektron i really love the latest update! in RECORDER mode ! The ‘ARM + Start on PLAY’ !!! Awesome feature :metal:

Here is my silly request:
part 1: Would it be possible when i have set recording length (eg 32 steps) to keep recording ‘takes’ up to a max nr of let’s say 4 loops?

(and if recording for longer duration deleting the first take from buffer each time it exceeds the max amount of 4 takes)

Now use BTNs 1-4 to preview the take stack
So to select the best version from the 4.

part 2: ‘COMPING’ (i know i already have a workaround for this, though tedious, but anyway)

Like the once upon a time very popular genre in ‘french electro cuisine’: Complextro. Comping different parts from a stack of loops together to form the loop/hook/melodyline, etc

After stopping have the takes stacked in an editor style comping setup. Where you can select which chops (each take divided like GRiD) you want to hear or not before merging it into the final COMP loop.

Using the upper and lower buttons
1 - 8 for Take 1
9 - 16 for Take 2
(and arrow up/down btns?)
selecting the desired GRID parts or mutes by pressing the desired buttons sequence combination - while playing back/looping to hear the result before committing to the final comped loop?

part 1 would come in handy when eg trying to play a guitar part on top of a composition. (especially with the added feature of deleting the first take when exceeding the max limit of 4 takes. Because it sometimes takes a while to relax and make it sit perfectly in the groove / flow, and therefore could use a couple of takes, and then afterwards select the best version of the 4)

part 2 would be nice for more techy ‘complextro’ or tapelooping different takes into a nice COMP

The workaround for nr 2 would be (and esp with some randomization) to set the modulators to randomly switch the source sample. Multiple loops (range = stack) of a track/ins in steps of 8, 16, etc

Or manually switching it up using TRiGs

And then resampling until you hit a nice random take?

Anyhow, silly request #38362 done!

Cheers all and happy noodling with your favorite Elektrons :metal:

1593

I would LOVE a way to solo tracks, I find myself missing it constantly. I always want to solo the bassline and one or two drum elements but with 16 tracks I can’t work the mutes fast enough to get the sound I want.

Some of you will remember that it existed on the OG DT via midi cc until it was removed, and I get why, but what about a key combo?

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1594

granular machine would be ace , really
with polyphonic playback , elektron would sell tons of DTII

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1595

in mute mode hold FUNC to select track, when you release FUNC all the selected track mute/unmute depending on their previous state

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1596

In blue color

1597

Yeah I am absolutely thinking DTII needs to have polyphony of some kind at some point as well.

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1598

(I KNOW iT MUST’VE PROBABLY BEEN REQUESTED A ZiLLiON TiMES OVER?!)
iN MAiN MENU (Save Proj BTN) UNDER 'SAVE PROJECT AS

SAVE/LOAD PATTERN

Simply save a PTN + all the samples used in the PTN into a subfolder/subfolder of the current project? Like a project SysEx - Ptn SysEx, with some lovely extension .dt2ptn ???

or have it looking similar to the basic ‘split’ menu under the first MENU BTN
(‘Perform’ PRESET / KiT)

| PROJECT / PATTERN |
| LOAD | LOAD|
| SAVE | SAVE |
| MANAGE | (MANAGE?) |

Spank You for your consideration
Cheers :metal:

And maybe after loading have the nice button menu (1-16) where it waits for you to press a button as a destination for the loaded PTN to drop/overwrite?

1599

Better sample slicing for sure.
I would add being able to have two samples selectable on a single track with a facility to cross fade using velocity or other modulator

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1600

It’s a PITA and incredibly limiting having to have all the samples on grid.
The OT can adjust slices - so we know it can be done…

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1601

Since we have a dedicated Song Button, I think a little bit advanced Song Mode would be nice.
First of all we need Track Names to keep everything organized!

I like the idea of the currently tracker style mode.
But it would be nice if is a little more flexible.
Like you are not bound to a pattern per row but 16 Track slots from the whole project.

The other idea would be an arranger mode.
Where you can see where the track starts and ends in a timeline like in a daw.

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