DT and NI expansion packs

Elektron Gear Digitakt
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Hi,

Has anyone been able to use NI expansion packs within the DT without issue?
I know in theory this should be fine…

Cheers for any feedback!

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You can load the samples into the Digitakt. Any other stuff that comes with the NI packs is incompatible. I have a lot of the Maschine Expansions loaded into my AR and DT, the samples work great with the Elektrons.

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I’ve heard vague rumors of people scanning the NI folders on their system for .wav files before selling their Maschine and transferring their license, which of course I would by no means endorse or even recommend.

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this is a citizens arrest please remain calm

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Does the DT automatically turn the sample into mono after the import ?

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I believe this is done during the import.

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Ah ok thats great then - i guess i wouldnt be able to use the ‘construction kits’ with the expansions but not sure how much i want them anyway- just want to bulk up on my drum library mainly. Was thinking of getting a 2nd hand Maschine but i might try a pack in the DT first, thanks.

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I´d take a look into the infos before. NI tells you how many samples, one-shots, loops and other wav files are inside. I bought the Transistor Punch expansion and a few others although I don´t have a Maschine to use the samples. But there are expansions that consist mainly of patches for massive or drum synths that you couldn´t use with the Digitakt.

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If you are on a Mac you can right click on the folder and choose “show package contents”.
This may make it so you can see the .wav files contained within. Best of luck.

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Easy enough to get the sounds out of the kits and remap them.

I made some software once upon a time to do this, can’t remember where I left it though.

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It doesn’t sum to mono, instead it takes one of the channels and discards the other.

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Expansion packs arec composed of different elements: a bit like samples vs sounds on DT…
Kits are composed of sounds which are in return composed of samples.
You cannot load a sound from an expansion pack but you can load a sample. You will not be loading all the tweakings that compose the sound (ie EQ, effects etc…). Unless you sample sounds one by one.