Digitakt II Key Tracking

Hey people! I am trying to understand how the key tracking function works on the Digitakt. Before I bought the DT, I saw this video, and excited to play with the comb filter to come up with melodic tunes.

I read the manual, but I couldn’t find any useful examples.

How do you guys use the key tracking functions? I am trying to set it up with assigning macros, but I am pretty sure I am missing something cause I don’t notice much difference in the sound.

Thank you all!

For the comb filter, you just use the Key Tracking on the Filter page and set it to 100 - no need for messing with Mod Setup :wink:

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Ah, I see that now. Thank you for the reply. And do you know how the mod menu works, what are the use cases for it?

Without a Keyboard, Velocity and Key Tracking are the most interesting.

You can make the Filter dependend on the Velocity, for example (less velocity = softer sound).

I think on the Digitakt, Key Tracking is more for ‘creative’, weird things. Here are some ideas:

Keytrack → Sample Start (imagine having a long sample of a note, and the sound changes depending on the note).

Keytrack → SRR, to mimic the behaviour of playing a low samplerate sample.

Keytrack → Tune to -8, to disable pitch tracking (or use other values to get microtonality).

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And keytracking LFO speed and depth for crazy fm shenanigans :sunglasses:

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Modulation = :black_heart:

Wow ok! it sounds even more fun than I expected. Thank you guys for the replies. I’d appreciate any input so other people can also benefit. I had hard time looking for the right information about this feature.