Digitakt II Tips & Tricks

Elektron Gear Digitakt
#7

Page loop/mute

As reported in the bugs thread, it seems there is some trouble with page loops in live playing mode.
So far, I’ve mostly used it to isolate a couple of page to work on a sub selection of a long pattern.

It’s very fast to use.

  • Switch to grid mode
  • Hold page button: trigs 1 to 8 now correspond to the 8 page leds. Trigs 9 to 16 are the page mutes.
  • you can switch to the grid view of a page by holding PAGE and pressing a trig (1 to 8), then releasing PAGE
  • you can mute/unmute pages by holding PAGE and pressing trigs 9 (mutes page 1) to 16 (mutes page 8)
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#8

Gah! I’ve only had my MK1 just over a year but these improvements are all the kinds of things I would’ve hoped for.

I need to be careful :woozy_face:

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#9

Save a trig as new Preset

One I had wanted for a long time: you can save a trig sound with all its plocks as a new Preset!

Hold the trig, press the PRESET/KIT button to see the “Save new preset” menu :yum:

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#10

A dream come true…

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#11

They found a quicker workflow for this. But yes, it’s here!

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#12

Chose a note that belongs to the current scale

This is a very cool one :point_up:

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#13

whoa is dt2 the only box that does this?

#14

Playing chords

Need a workaround for polyphony on D2?

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Introducing Digitakt II
#15

Ah ok I get it now. You can Control All notes parameter following scale by pressing encoder, hence make harmonised chords, that’s it ? I used that with Syntakt, which has diminish scale when you push the encoder…
So many ways to compose randomly combined with Euclidean! Can’t wait !!!

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#17

comb filter on anything - loops, single shot sounds - anything. Resample and resample. Hours of fun!

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#18

My constitution is fading reading this thread.

We’re approaching Only a Matter of Time phase.

Before it was waiting for trig skips

Now its When Overbridge has an official release :grimacing:

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#19

I’m really looking forward to working with that approach. It may be a bit more cumbersome to program polyphonic sequences across multiple tracks loaded with the same preset, but selective CTRL all is such a welcome feature to make this easier, and it’s really quick to turn it on and off again. In addition, chords where the notes are spread across multiple tracks have a few added benefits in comparison to how it’s done e.g. on the DN: Different velocity and micro timing values allow for very natural sounding sequences, and each track can have different values for panning, or very slight differences in LFO depth/rate or filter values, which can approximate some of the little imperfections and drifts of analog instruments.

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#20

Let me know how this goes. It’s the one thing that could win me over, as DT II seems much better for doing fake synthesis with waveforms due to things like a third LFO, an abundance of tracks, new filter plus key track and portamento as well as kits.

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#21

I tried it yesterday night, doing some dub tech so very limited chord progression, but it was easy enough, both entering chords and editing (possibly even editing the pitch for the trig)
Not as convenient as a dedicated workflow, but simple enough that I will be using this often.

Fun thing: you can have slides between two notes while the rest stays static.
And out of sync LFOs for each note :slight_smile:

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#22

Drastically improved pitch range as well, which is helpful for a lot of tonal stuff.

+4 -5 octaves I heard.

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#23

5 octaves up and down! Really nice for some gnarly FM Techno sounds :wink:

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#24

Sample chains as presets

A thing I like to do is to collect 16 or 32 samples of similar type and assemble them as a chain of mono samples.
Once imported, I save them as a Preset.
This way, I have my favorite samples under the hand, easy to reach.

Long chains are not necessarily the best.
Better get 16 mono sample chain that you know well than a do it all that you can’t learn.
Plus it’s faster to load.

Save your favorite Kit

Once you have a few of your favorite Presets, it’s nice to assemble them in a Kit that you save for future recall

Default samples

As samples 1-16 are the one loaded by default on every new Pattern in your Project, it’s a thing I did during the tests to populate slots 1-16 with my favorite samples.
Works best for One Shot samples though.

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#25

I think the preset pool trig mode can basically now give a more MPC like work flow if you just utilise sample start and copy over a few tracks, to make ‘chops’.

With synced resampling, you can then start to lineup chops to work in grid-mode. A dirty method of getting around the lack of moveable slice points.

This realisation tipped me over the edge…

(I think the above post hints at the potential without explicitly going into this particular application)

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#26

Thanks for the Tup but DT2 is kinda slow in comparison to the OG when loading samples and slices when changing patterns. The OG had no Problems even with longer 64 slices Sample chains!

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#27

I’ve do not have DTII , but this trick used to work on the OG DT, but got broke in V1.50, I’ve reported the bug many months ago. I’m wondering if it works on the DT II ?

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