Introducing Digitakt II

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2877

Guess you would need 2 Kenton USB host and a MIDImerger for this. Or a MiO xm or xl.

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2878

Thank you I will have a look! I will probably combine several intech midi controllers

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2880

gotta say it’s hard to go back to some of the older stuff after using dt2 for a while

after some (actually a lot) of bug-squashing and a firmware update or two it will get to the point where some of the older machines won’t cut it

obviously it’s a totally different beast but i felt like i was hitting a wall with the a4 today after i couldn’t page loop, cheat with the (parameter-lockable!) euclidean mode, only had 64 steps, didn’t have a LAST trig condition, etc.

going back to the dt2 was like a huge sigh of relief- you don’t realize how game-changing the new features are until you step up to an elektron box that doesn’t have them

now if only i didn’t have to anxiously and dreadfully wait for the white bars of death to contaminate my screen-

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2881

:dart:

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2882

Next live tif for me is DTII and A4 in OT.
OT is still the best for mangling incoming sound. And is fast at loading long samples.
But DTII is so fun to play with ^^

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2883

To be honest: That Elektron still did not release a firmware that fixes low-input level and random sample detune, makes me worry a lot :frowning:

2884

Don’t.
:slight_smile:

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2885

You’ve heard about random LFO’ slew?
The phase parameter makes no sense on random, so instead they had it introducing some portamento so to say.
Perfect for random sample detune.

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2886

I noticed Slew isn’t available on LFOs on MIDI track though. I was sad about it. Or did I trip?

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2887

Dunno, if we talk about the same thing:

It happens from time to time, that a loaded sample that worked fine is suddenly out of tune. It’s easy to fix by turning DT2 off and on again, but that’s not something one wants to have on a live set.

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2888

If you’re talking about input over USB, there’s a setting to choose up to +18db in audio routing.

2889

Haven’t used that yet. Talking about line in. Even if I bring line in volumes near the distortion level, it is not nearly as loud as the samples. To have that even, I need to tune down track volume a lot, when routing external instrument into DT2

2890

A workaround (until firmware release) route your external gear to audio interface, use input over USB and adjust the db level in audio routing as needed.

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Another possible work around is to turn down the pattern volume. This is the volume controlled by the level knob that’s in the first page of the mixer [FUNC] + [LFO].
It attenuates all the track volumes. I overlooked this feature for a few years on the original DT. It’s very handy.

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2892

Thanks all for the tips! I am using my DT2 daily and found ways to get around all that.
I just mentioned them because that are bugs known since the first days after launch, that were not there on DT1 and are still not fixed.
Let’s me thinks it’s either not important for them to fix awailable issues or (as lots already stated before) are hardware issues.
If that’s the case it’s very very bad to wait that long as we already left the return-policy times now. And as I saw them fixing bugs quite quickly in the past and there is no official statement about all that, I mentioned that I am worried.
And as already stated before: having samples go out of tune is bad, as the workaround of rebooting the device is nothing that’s doable in every usecase.

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2893

I don’t know what you count as ‘official’ but it’s pretty clear from posts in the bugs thread from an Elektron employee and from mods, that beta testing of the firmware is well underway, and appears to be nearing completion. So they are hard at work fixing bugs, it’s just not all rolled into a firmware/software release yet.

There was a hint above:

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2894

You did not trip, at least about this :slight_smile:
MIDI LFOs are pretty ‘low res’ (nowhere near as fast as internal ones) so I doubt they’d add slew - unless they beef up MIDI LFOs at some point
[edit] I was wrong! As @sezare56 says below, it already exists but is just named incorrectly

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2895

I understand the concern since it’s a new piece of gear, but Elektron has never not fixed major bugs soon after release as far as I know. I know they don’t always address peoples’ wish-lists right away, and some smaller things slip by for a bit sometimes (probably due to triage) but items like the ones you’ve mentioned should be addressed soon I would think. I wouldn’t worry.

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2896

A slew over midi is quite errmmm….
You need to define how many ticks, and give care to not send too much data over this protocol.

Better slew in your destination.

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