Does anybody have any good method for rigging up lowering the pitch/tempo at the same time? I assume I’m going to need a computer to do this. Slowing the samples is only half effective when the sequence is playing at the same speed.
would I have to:
-slave the Digitakt to Ableton
-rig a midi knob to Ableton BPM & 8 Max 4 Live CC knobs directed towards Digitakt’s pitch parameters for each track?
I’m curious for the same with Octatrack, but I assume resampling would be half the work and maybe turn off triggering on fills- but it doesn’t seem full proof…
Reaper IMHO is one of the best means to chop/edit/repitch samples. It has a long free demo and even if you want to use for a long time it’s only 60$ to buy. You can load the sample in there and double click the media item and change the speed to .5. This will time stretch it down, but not pitch it down. You need to drag the length of the sample out as well once it’s timestretched because it will be longer. Then you use also use the same media properties window to drop the pitch by the desired amount. I find the time stretch algorithm in Reaper to be quite good. Render out your results and send to DT.
Alternately if you have ableton live you can do the same in that. Warp the sample to be half speed and change the tune of it as well then render out the file to transfer to Digitakt.
The intention is to use the sound of it slowing down. the decline in play-speed. I can pitch/slow down the sample in both OT and DT, the issue is the sequencer. it confuses the sentiment when the beats and chops are still being triggered at the same speed.
or, actually, even easier just wind the tempo down on the appropriate screen… Think you can “Func-No” that too, or probably do some trick with global vs. pattern tempo…
as you say can assumedly do it from A DAW by sending MIDI clock and pitch CC I guess (although it will be 9 channels/clips worth of automation I imagine)
I think Blue cat Remote would probably let you combine all eight tracks and the clock to one knob (virtual or otherwise) if you don’t have MAX…
Ahhh sorry I misunderstood the question ! You want to slow down your sequencer tempo and also have the samples pitch down like vinyl slowing down. No way I know of to internally do this since you can not control the pitch while the tempo “window” is up. Can I inquire, is your intention to use this a lot or just on one or two songs ? I wonder if you could record a clip of you playing the song and slowing down the tempo, play a trig with a sample lock and a fill condition that plays a resampled version of you slowing it all down then you are free to control pitch, filter, fx ETC. This would be a nice breakdown, song ender type trick.