ExportPattern / Project

DIGITAKT II

Hey guys, someone please tell me you can export a pattern and or project as a WAV OR MP3 from the Digitakt 2?

I would like export some patterns I am already happy with. How would I do this?

I see nothing online about this and the is no Overbridge for the 2 yet. Please help.

I assume that it’s like digitakt 1 where you don’t need overbridge, you can still record a single stereo track into a daw of your master out over USB. In your daw you create a track and select digitakt as the soundcard, and of course digitakt settings need to be correct for usb midi/ usb audio (I think it’s one setting enables both).

Anyway, overbridge lets you track things out but not necessary for USB audio out. So, the answer is: you can export dtprj files which are projects and not audio, there is no memory card or anything so you can only export what the operating system allows, therefore you can’t export a pattern or project as an audio file. however you can still record audio over USB which if you don’t need individual tracks is fine, otherwise you would have to track out each audio instance in the old school way by muting all other tracks, recording, then moving on to the next one.

It’s also possible that DTII is crippled as a soundcard though, I honestly don’t know, but I thought that what I had read on here was that it doesn’t work with overbridge, not that USB audio is broken.

you can also resample your patterns internally if they’re 128 or less steps (or less than 66 secs?) and transfer

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Thanks for the responses guys. Really? Can you speak more to that? If I resample my patterns I can export easier?

How exactly would you do this Boorch, can you explain?

Assuming that your project is shorter (in length of time) than the max allowed sampling time, if you’re also willing to live with a normalized recording, I think boorch is saying that you can resample the playback of your entire pattern/project and then once trimmed and saved should exist as an audio file. Then you should be able to use the Transfer software to back up the project and the audio file would exist in the backup folder. You could also do this with individual track audio (to export as an audio file of a track only) and then combine it in a daw, but normalization is a big drawback.

It’s fine if you want to listen to it on your phone or something where you just want to hear it off of the Digitakt, but I wouldn’t commit to a normalized resampled mix for anything you intend to process further (without at least first being aware of what you’re doing, I guess).

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yeah i was emphasizing in “export a pattern” part :sweat_smile: assuming you’ll process those patterns further. i frequently do “resampling sessions” to have this collection of “riffs” i can mangle later at a “mangling” session :smiley:

but for whole songs (or live performances) you can connect your DT to your computer via USB cable and record its output with any software that can record (even in Quicktime, in fact I do this when I’m recording quick performance videos using my phone as the camera and DT as the audio source) in pristine quality stereo.

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