Holy cow, I‘ve finally started to sample my favorite drum sounds from ST and DN into it and also some ST synth sounds. I‘ve never liked working with sampled sounds that much, but with all the features DT II now offers, it’s starting to make sense if you know your source material and record variations for slice grids. It’s like having 16 certified variations of my favorite ST sounds available on the 16 trigs, something I wish I could do on ST. But I‘m most surprised by how great I can easily make the synth patches sound with a bit of overdrive, BR/SRR and chorus through the new 4 pole filter and using the new ADSR curves. I‘m making new sounds from my ST favorites within seconds. And now I can save a few presets and kits with just two button presses and load them into projects and onto tracks easily, with macros, grid settings etc. already assigned.
I use the same setup 
have the DN going to ST so can use the fx track for DN too then ST going to DT2 so can easily make samples from both those. And if sometimes want sample from something else i can plug that into the DN inputs. DN have so can plug mono things and get those in the ”middle”. Think if plug in to dt2 the mono ones goes to the ”side”
Can anyone confirm if there’s a way to load a group of samples onto all 16 tracks at once.
Either from individually selecting each one from the memory and then an option to “load all” or similar
Or just by selecting a whole folder of samples and then something like “load and map folder to trks”
Does this exist?
I suspect if you start a new project, delete all the loaded samples (via Func+Sample then project ram) then load your 16 samples into the project, you’ll find they are all allocated to the right tracks.
Not sure if that’s your scenario though ?
No. I’m more wondering if there’s a dedicated function or menu option when loading samples to load more than one at a time.
I had a Digitakt 1, but sold it and can’t check. Considering a DT2 and thought it might have been added if it wasn’t before.
I know you can load multiplie samples at once from the DRIVE to the sound pool, but can you load a group of samples straight to the track trigs?
Not possible.
guys, is it just me, or you are also missing this feature where whenever you select a track, on the top, you can see the name of the sample being used on that specific track? the OG Digitakt had this, but it doesn’t do it here, which is greatly missed :((
To see this, hold down the SRC button. (I guess it moved on the DT2, never had a DT1).
I assume it is now showing the preset name, like on the other digis? If you work with mostly the same samples, you could just save them as presets so that their name is shown. If you then make and save a kit, you can also load several of them pretty quickly.
Selecting/changing/auditioning the sample is probably the biggest workflow issue on DT for me. Having to scroll through that drop-down menu, selecting the exact sample slot, pressing fct+yes etc. - that’s a bit too much to keep you in the flow. It’s the one thing that OT does more efficiently. There also used to be a shortcut on DT that was removed when they introduced machines don’t remember it though. (Edit: I think it was fct+src)
i would like it displayed as a default
Already feature requested here
But to be sure you should go through the official channels for feature requests.
[mod edit] feature-request@elektron.se
A Jeremiah Chiu perspective
I’m thinking of getting a DT2 after owning a DT1 for several years.
Is it possible to use Transfer to move every file and sample from DT1 to DT2 directly, having them both connected by USB?
Thanks.
I think that the content needs to go into a file on your hard drive first. I’ve never seen Digitakt appear as removable memory which is why it requires transfer as an intermediary, which leads me to believe that it functions differently from a USB drive. Also, you can drag and drop into transfer but not drag and drop out of transfer so it has to be a destination visible by transfer. I’m assuming that even if you open 2 instances of transfer, each can only access the device which is currently loaded.
Basically, I suspect that you aren’t able to choose another elektron device as the destination folder in transfer, but you would have to try it to confirm.
Thank you for the reply!
Has anyone else actually attempted this?
Edit: I’m asking this because I can easily drag and drop Wav files from DT1 onto my harddisk via Transfer; just did it now.
Edit again: Sorry, @shigginpit , I didn’t read your reply about drag-and-drop properly. Now I understand what you meant.
You can easily upload all your projects and samples to a PC/laptop and then drag and drop them into transfer to send them to DT II. It will take a while but will work perfectly.
Sure, that’s not a problem. But the time bit is exactly why I’m asking if someone has tried the direct route.
This thread says that DTII has a different project file extension than DT1 so there’s definitely some additional conversion which takes place beyond just moving samples and files.
Again, we need someone to confirm, but I suspect that transfer is not configured to archive, move, and convert all in the same action.
We either need someone to try it, or someone from support would have to comment since that’s the type of thing they should know, if that limitation does or does not exist.
I understand that the idea would be rather than wait for the entire thing to back up in one action and then convert and upload in another action, if that activity time can be halved by sending straight through and let it take everything in one go.
I think it wouldn’t hurt to send a message to support and see if they respond bc waiting on users might take the same amount of time.
Thank you so much for the tips, I will follow them up.
Sorry for not looking up that thread in the first place!
It wasn’t clear to me either and it still is not. I still can’t find a clear answer so I can only assume but assumption is not a good basis for absolute answers, that’s the only reason I’d bother trying the support channel.
I don’t think it has anything to do with searching, it just seems like nobody else had your good idea!