Digitone 2 track layering in the setup menu for qol.
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Really, really, really wish I could manage KITS with transfer the same way I can manage presets(sounds).
I guess we’re waiting on the DT2 firmware to support sysex for Kits first.
EDIT: I mean, there’s no way even to make a backup of your kits (like you can for sounds) … well … except for making a ‘kit backup’ project with all your kits loaded into it, and then making a backup of that.
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You do it drag and drop via the Transfer app from Elektron.
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I started using Segments on iOS to overcome this issue, using the multi out mode in AUM I’m able to discretely effect slices too (via bus mapping).
And samples, are they coming with the file?
Yes, transfer takes the project and every sample it needs and bundles it all into a single file on your computer.
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I am leaving myself wide-open for ridicule here, but I am forever accidentally clearing the pattern I’m working on (Func + Clear). This mainly happens when I think I’m still in grid record mode. What makes this worse, is that I won’t realise immediately that it’s pilot-error and I’ll press something else then can’t undo. I do it with annoying frequency. I can of course go back to the temp save, but it typically happens after I have done something wonderous, but never to be repeated. If this is simply me being simple, then fire away with insults and mockery. Otherwise, I would be eternally grateful if the Elektron Overseers could include a tick box in the personalise menu for simpletons such as me. “Are you sure you want to clear the pattern?”. I presume it could just be ‘Func + Clear’, followed by ‘Yes’ to confirm deletion.
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No ridicule from me, I’ve done this a bunch of times. Not notice for a while as I go tweak something else. Then “where the $*%! has my music gone!?!”
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Poking my head in here to say that voice sharing / “polyphonic” sampling would make Digitakt II my done-deal-ride-or-die device as an ambient artist.
I’m mostly interested so that I can loop a sample with a long reverb tail and it would allow the tail to play out while the new triggered sample starts.
I know the workaround is to use two different tracks for the same sound, however its kind of shoddy as you can’t really modify any parameters in unison.
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If all three of the below were added to DTII, I don’t think I’d need anything else:
- Sample polyphony/voice sharing as mentioned above
- Performance macros as featured on A4/AR
- Multiple reverb algorithms, delay overdrive (really just more variation in effects)
The DTII is already so close to my ideal groovebox. I don’t even need a real slice machine tbh (although I get why people want it)
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No ridicule from me I’ve done it too.
If you save your patterns regularly then func+no to reload the pattern should at least bring you back to your last save point. Hope that helps.
I like to copy/paste to a new pattern slot regularly too so I have something to go back to when I over tweak or go off on some weird musical tangent that might not work out. I always do this at the start of a session and at toilet/drink breaks. Listening back over these iterations from time to time is really good for regaining perspective.
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Something that really disappoints me are the clicks. I still can’t easily sequence samples like sustained 808s without clicks occurring when a new note cuts off the previous note at a non-zero point in the waveform. All basic samplers in modern DAWs avoid this - I think, simply by using micro releases. The release on the AMP page doesn’t help when the notes are not all the same length. I don’t want to have to run the tracks through a de-clicker every time I record into a DAW. This is such a basic thing for a sampler.
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We have search functions for kits and presets, why not samples? I’ve got very well labelled samples and it would be good to be able to have both a tidy folder structure for different sampled devices and also be able to search for all kicks in all folders.
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Absolutely.
I wouldn’t want or ever expect full polyphony, but a native way to round robin 2-3 tracks would make ambient stuff, and pads with long tails possible.
However the other thing they really need to fix (and aligned to this style of music), is all the issues with loop points and zero crossing that have never been resolved
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The device is plagued by zero crossing and looping problems.
It remains a one shot sample machine at heart
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Hi everyone,
White perfoming a DT2 set i’m working on today, i thinked about a function that would be helpfull for the « pattern reload » function.
So, it would be Nice to add a « On or Off » button in the « Personalize Menu » that would allow (or not) to :
Idea 1 : save the AT, MW, BC value state within the « temporary save » data, to allow for « macro-ist like me , to twist my pattern/sounds, the AT, BC, MW macros affiliated to these Sounds, and press just « Shift + No » to reload the pattern and also the AT MW BC values previously saved in the pattern.
Idea 2 : a Little différent but use full too, would be that AT BC MW values are NOT saved with on the pattern data, but, that the ON or OFF function would initialize the those values to ZÉRO the value. If this implémentée fonction is OFF, reloading a pattern wouldn’t affect the actual valeurs of AT, BC, MW, if the fonction is set to ON, those 3 values for each 16 tracks would jump to ZÉRO.
I think my request could be Nice for performance comfort ?…
What do you think about it ?
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As someone who’s just bought 16 faders for their DT2, I celebrate, applaud and salute this idea.
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I done this quite a bit too.
The only thing I can recommend is try to be mindful of constantly keeping your finger on the FUNC button. Easier said than done, and I know it sounds obvious.
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This is actually a question about DNII mixed in with a DTII feature request.
I am not sure how the voice sharing/stealing architecture works on the DNII. Is it dynamic? Or do you for example set 4 voices to track one and that leaves tracks 14, 15, 16 (for example) with 0 voices?
To cut to the chase: I would like the DTII to be able to assign, for example, 4 voices dedicated on track 1, and to be able to use tracks that are left with zero voices (in above example, tracks 14, 15, 16) as midi tracks.
Is that similar to DNII now?
Not positive but usually voice allocation is an upper limit and priority based system. Midi tracks shouldn’t eat up voices. But also you should still be able to run as many poly tracks as you want with sounds on them granted there will be some amount of voice stealing.