The result that I need to acheive is the classic reggae delay/swipe like this:
Tape echo
My idea is to apply the effect on a single event only of my snare, than progressively raise the time of delay. I usually do that with analog echo machine and It is possible to do it in DAW also, but I couldnt find the way to do that on Digitakt.
I’m sure that someone has the solution here
Can’t plock or record changes to the delay or reverb settings, only the send amount on each track.
You can do what you want however on the Rytm, as it has a dedicated FX track.
As @brodykauff said you can’t plock changes to delay. However, you could resample the snare + manually changing the delay, so you end up with a new sample with the delay effect baked in.
I see. Thanks @ brodykauff and @ thelightshineth for your answers. What you suggest (bake the effect into a new sample) would have always the same sound and this is not what I’m looking for. The goal is to connect an LFO to the delay time so to have every snare hit a different echo response. I’m starting to think that my idea goes too far beyond the possibilities of the machine
I think, You could use midi loopback and have a midi track control the fx channel.
You can record a few differently modified hits, save those as separate samples and put an LFO on the sample selection. Make sure they are in subsequent slots and you have an odd number, say 9. Lets also imagine you save them starting from slot 11. So 11-19 are hits with different delay times recorded. Put the track sample on 15 and a LFO on random wave, hold and depth to 4. That should do it, right?
Baztek
This is what on keyboard is called “Round robin”. Yes, this is my plan B
jefones
I tried once the midi loopback: this method leads to random freezing of the digitakt, I dont know how people manage with that
As others already said, unfortunately this machine doesn’t have a track dedicated to fx automation. Their older/bigger siblings do.
The digitakt is so easy to resample on though, so baking a few of these into separate samples and using the lfo to select samples is the best workaround at the moment. Not 100% perfect, but functionally gets the job done
If connected to your DAW, its pretty easy to access the effects with midi cc, and change them with one of the midi tracks.
It’s similar to midi loopback, but it’s stable.
If you need to do this without a DAW, those other workarounds are good suggestions.
Edit: I reread your post, and see that you are looking for a way to do this without a DAW. I really wish we could record automation of effect parameters directly on the DT, as that would address this.
Best regards,
Gino
Bumping this thread as a feature request - fx track or some way to “automate” effects would be great.