Could you clarify about sample preview on MIDI tracks? What is that useful for (I feel dumb)
Installed the new version of Overbridge?
When you had a MIDI track active, sample preview in the sampler screen did not give any sound output. You first had to select an audiotrack and go back to the sampler menu to preview.
Not needed anymore: Now you can preview samples in the sample menu even with a MIDI track activated.
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Previously it used the active audio track to preview the sample, but this meant if you had a midi track selected then preview didnāt work.
An example would be if you were using a midi track to sequence an external synth and decided to sample it, then you couldnāt preview the recorded sample unless you switched to an audio track. This caused a lot of confusion.
So Elektron have updated it so you can preview a recording even if you currently have a midi track selected.
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I did. I actually first opened Overbridge for all my devices inside of Ableton without updating Overbridge and everything except for the Digitakt was working. That led me to installing the Overbridge updateā¦ now nothing is workingā¦ well nothing is making sound, the sequencer and lights are still blinking and Overbridge is seeing the devices.
Ugh sorry to hear that. Expect itās something simple but havenāt got my kit (at work) to test how OB works so hopefully another kind person will advise.
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You can use lfos on the new parameters and parameter lock them to do stuff that was certainly never possible before.
The random / Lin locks feature also provides things that were very hard to do before.
And what about control all on these new machines 
Iād say that probably 20% of what you can do with these was possible with laborious workarounds before.
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This is my fifth. 
Shoutout to @DaveMech for making the best tutorial of the new machines for Digitakt.
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DN wavetable, VA, and physical modeling yes pleaseeee
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niche question but i havenāt found anything in the manual - if i set a track on the digitakt to the slice machine, and i were to trigger it via external MIDI notes, do the notes play back different slices or the currently selected slice at different pitches?
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Wavetable machine should be in the reach of possibility, otoh, how many slices can you have and switch through in realtime? 64, 128? Use an LFO. Virtually the same thing.
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THIS. Love the Update. A possibility to automatically start recording at the beginning of the next bar (in the threshhold sub-menu) is the only thing missing imho. That would turn the DT effectively into a live-looping machine and would expand the live-performance possibilities massively. Please Elektron make it happen!
I just submitted the idea/wish here: feature -request @elektron .se
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Me too ā but Iām wondering: That might mean that a slightly bigger overhaul would be needed. Youād need to somehow be able to assign the recording to a track right away, to achieve some sort of looper functionality?
Iām a bit sceptical, theyāre probably aiming to keep OT and DT both viable still and not have one cannibalize the other too much, but one can always hope 
I donāt think Elektron have ever said the OT code is old and mystical ā¦ Thatās more come from people on this forum (many of whom will have no software development experience).
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man, ive never been so inspired by the digitakt. i am using it like an octatrack, stacking/layering perfectly timed loops then mangling them with lfos on the new bar/segment/slice parameters. using a lot of the dave mech tricks for werp. just so much resampling and coming out with completely new rhythms, patterns, melodies
ive been midi sequencing the Waldorf M all night and multitracking that. its insane
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Yeah, I feel like their development time is fairly tightly balanced to what they think with provide the most rewards for the least effort. So itās definitely possible for them to extensively upgrade the octatrack or other machines, but the reward for that work pales in comparison to the reward for the same amount of work done on the digitakt.
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Different problem, are you remembering that usually/sometimes/still never worked out how/why when Overbridge is connected that the audio comes out of your computer rather than the device.
Apart from that, my weirdness got fixed by running the latest uninstaller rather than the old one and restarting my macbook and then overbridge was able to see the DT.
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I am not naysaying, I love the Digitakt and this update has delivered so much of what Iād wished for out of my feature requests BUT once the warm fuzzies subsided a little, I remembered that itās literally just got 1gb of storage, like, thatās 32 times less than my Octatrackā¦
Anyway, itās amazing fun and sounds great (hoping they let us tweak the slice start points soon).
10/10
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Itās usually more about writing efficient code than CPU power. I wouldnāt be surprised if CPU in Digitakt is many times more powerful than those in old samplers from 90ās and just look what those could do. Now, itās true that in those times specialized DSPās took care for much of the work, but still.
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Another thing Iāve been thinking about is how these new features probably integrate very well along an iPad. Create a nice percussion loop on an app, sample on Digitakt with a predefined length, Werp to keep in sync.
Also great to create sample chains on iPad and sample them straight into Digitakt.
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