I agree, I think they left more room for the extra tracks to breathe on the DT II, not as saturated and hi-fi as the OG DT which definitely had a punch and sparkle. Could also be due to the clarity of mono based sampling.
Anyone have a recipe for a good tape warble effect. I was trying random slew lfo to the pitch just a little. Maybe I add a second lfo to the first?
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Is there a setting to record in stereo an external input with only 1 cable jack? For instance when I record my Moog Minitaur on the left input, the audio file is hard panned on the leftâŚ
Ideally I would prefer to have the sample in mono in that situation but panned in the center
Sampling/Recorder Page:
Choose âIN Lâ for SRC(G) to sample the Mono Signal of the left Input centered.
All In-options are in the manual described under: Sampling/Sampling Menu/SRC
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Just tried this and pretty happy with itâŚmight use it myself 
basically getting conditional parameters locks to tweak the pitch randomly now and again.
I used a 16 step track.
Turn off LFO.T for track.
Put sample on step 1. Lock condition to FIRST and lock conditional to 100%
Put a parameter lock on trig 2. Lock LFO.T on. Copy this to all the rest of the steps except 1.
Set LFO to one shot sine wave.
Adjust conditional for track to about 25%
Adjust speed of LFO and conditional % to taste.
You could also use a half step sine but the sample will get out of time. May or may not be important.
EDIT this was to try and replicate tape speed changes but could also use the same technique on second LFo to replicate dropouts.
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With an example. This trick works best with dt2 (since it is stereo)
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Somehow my DTII has reverted to the state where to select a track I have to hold down the TRK button while choosing a track. I normally have it set to change tracks just by pressing the track number itself. HOW do I switch it back to this mode?? I canât find it in the manual.
You have to specify what mode are you in first.
If you see the keyboardc press and hold the keyboard button.
If you see mutes go back from the mute mode with FUNC + TRACK.
If you are in a different trig mode, try selecting another trig mode with FUNC + UP or DOWN.
Hope you figure it out!
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I believe the culprit might be the compressor, at least it was for me when I migrated my stuff from the OG to the II.
Worth a checking out, first time I listened to my old stuff it sounded weird.
On the OG DT on the compressor settings you can select if you want to route the reverb in the compressor or have it after the compressor. Having it before the compressor makes it much more noticable and longer sounding. Well when you port them over to the new DT this setting doesnât get taken into account, because now there is a different way of doing it, now you can route all the FX into the compressor, which is turned off by default.
Hope this helps! I could always save the sound of my old tracks with this and a bit of tweaking.
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Thanks, fixed it!
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Today I learned, to get maximum modulation over a 64-step wavetable, set:
- SRC: Slice to 33
- SRC: Len to 1
- SRC: Grid to 64 (of course)
- LFO: Depth to 31.99
- LFO: Dest to Src Slice (of course)
Why the centre of the oscillation should be 33, I canât figure. But if you change the centre from 33, or you increase the depth, either way you finish up with noise when the oscillation sweeps the slice off the end of the scale.
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A little trick I just did.
Say I have a melodic part and I want the Kick drum to follow the melodic part every time a melodic note is played. Previously, copying and pasting would also copy the pitch data (it still does) so youâd either have to sit there and manually change the Note per step or build the pattern from scratch by manually placing notes.
Thanks to the new Parameter Lock Track / Page functions this has become very easy:
Go to your melodic part and copy the notes. Go to your kick drum track and paste the notes. Go to the Trig page of the Kick drum. Hold a trig, hold the Track button, then adjust the Note knob (knob A) back down to C5 (or whatever pitch you want it to be) and youâve easily got your Kick drum layered with the melodic part without it jumping up and down in pitch.
This new functionality is such a time saver.
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Some more tips and tricks with the new firmware:
-Ricky Tinez mentions this in the official video but in case you missed it:
Holding shift and moving the Frequency knob on the filter locks the frequency to the C frequencies of the keyboard which allows you to tune the comb filter.
-On old samplers they would lower the pitch by slowing the clock speed / sample rate of the sampler which resulted in artifacting. To get a similar affect we can use the new Key Tracking function and aim it at the SRR setting. You really donât need to change the SRR ahead of time unless you want to, but make sure you turn the knob into the negative on the Key Track page that way as the notes get lower, the SRR increases which gives that lower clock speed sound effect.
-Another thing that might be worth doing is Lowering the volume to coincide with BRR or SRR if you have those on your Key track. Just set up a key track destination to Volume but instead of Negative youâll want to have key track go into the positive. That way when the pitch gets higher the volume is higher but when it goes lower it gets quieter. Only do this a little for best results but this helps compensate from the volume increase that BRR can give. Might want to start with volume on the Amp pages maxed out as well if you donât want high notes to get louder.
-key tracking to Pan is fun. You can make it so all low notes pan to the left and high notes pan to the right or vice versa, depending if you have positive or negative amounts sent on the key track menu. And of course key tracking Reverb or Delay sends to make it that low notes donât have as much reverb sent but high notes do. And again, mess with the volume on key tracking to make sure the high notes + reverb send doesnât completely wash out your low pitched notes as well.
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Maybe Iâm a little late to the party, but for my projects that Iâve exported from DT1 to DT2 the main culprit was bit reduction (BR not SRR), I found that on DT2 BRR gets way more âintenseâ for the same value. I feel like the value to effect ramp might be a little different between the two devices, on many melodic tracks I liked to have a bit of BRR to add some noisy effect, but after exporting to DT2 it sounded so noisy. I was able to get back to the original feel by dialling down BRR a bit on every track.
Hope it can help !
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Redundant, since the Digitakt II OS1.10 update introduced mono sampling.