So ive made some DnB on my digitakt. Also using 2 synthesizers and effect pedals. I would love to get some feedback from you all, people that know how it is to work only with hardware. Also specifically the DT.
Everything is recorded straight onto a computer. No editing exept a mastering process.
Also im wondering if there are any other DnB heads making music on a Digitakt? If so how do you handle breaks? Do you live record evwrything? Overbridge? Any preformance tricks? I find it kind of challenging to use the control all thing on DnB, in part due to tempo but also cus the breaks dont respond that well. I would love to hear how other people do it🙂
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Oh man my heart pumps drum and bass, it is a pleasure to hear your enthusiasm about doing dnb on the Digitakt! I myself am trying to make dnb and jungle on the DT, with acceptable quality.
I found that for breaks, the highest acceptable resolution is 3.75, for the start point, every multiple of 3.75 is good to work with, this also depends on the lenght of your break aswell.
Also if you are not filling your break start points full in the sequencer, just every second step, then you have room for making FILL variations in the break which is super duper handy, I always use this in my sets. You can also always make melody or some parts longer with not just the scale per track, but with trig conditions aswell. Pre and Nei are your friends also, use them with FILL and chance and you become a master of the digitakt in no time.
Very nice breaks btw man, the kicks are truly clean, I am struggling to achieve this cleanlyness, maybe it’s the samples I use, I donno. Anyway I am really stoked to see this thread
Yeah, I was thinking of the resolution of the chops of your sample. Maybe I am using bad wording.
You get a break loop on the Digitakt. The only reasonable way to chop up that break for further beat slice arrangement is to divide the total of 120.00 units in the sample source page, consisting of the maximum length of the current sample into the smallest divisor which is 3.75 ,taking into account that anything below that can not be accurately written in the maschine. Most of the time I just use 7.5, use every multiple of that in the step sequencer as starting points for different times in the loop, and on every other step I nudge it right ont the beat that’s before it with microtiming, and add something different on that slice with the conditional trig FILL, so only when you push the FILL you have the effected step playing. With breaks setting the FILL trigs to retrig is especially cool sounding.
If you were to have a length let’s say 15 then your slice “resolution” would be smaller then slices of 3.75 or 7.50. I have a dumb way of forming sentences in english, sorry about that!
Really stoked about using fill now! Ive been trying to keep it fairly simple and focus on different things in diffrent tunes. Conditional trigs i use alot. Not yet on breaks but alot on hats and cymbals and some on melodic samples.
Might go for a really jungely mad break heavy tune next with lots of variations and fills. So stoked🤗
The way i have approached chopping the breaks is just by ear so far. Ive made the loop in logic at 172bpm and if a song is 180 i just tune it. Works for me🤷‍♂️
Thx about the kick thing. Dont know how to do it though. I just pitch by ear, if it sounds good it sounds good.
Also shorten the amp envelope probably🤷‍♂️
Txh!
