Introducing Digitakt II

Playing around with filters, retrigs, trig conditions, stereo noise, LFOs, FX, OD, BRR, SRR, werp loop etc.
16 steps only.

Recorded via USB audio.

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Good Drexciyan vibe

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In non-technical terms, it’s a natural effect from overlapping the signal with the delayed version of itself (i.e. comb filtering). The end result is quite similar to what happens with hard sync, where the waveform restarts before the end of its natural cycle due to being synced by another oscillator, resulting in the output signal having almost like a second copy of the waveform mixed into it. Both methods are useful for modeling this classic guitar feedback-style sound.

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No it also works by just changing the velocities of the steps on the TRIG page :slight_smile:

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So you just have it connected via USB to the OP-1F, for bi-directional MIDI?

If so would it work to also send MIDI via the 5-PIN to other devices at the same time?

Yes, the stretched samples can also be played chromatically via the keyboard.

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I strongly suspect this is Ricky Tinez influence (thanks Ricky!) as by my calculations he averages a mention of 16 levels every 3rd or 4th video. Never had an MPC so I’m stoked to try it out!

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There is no shortcut anymore. We moved the metronome parameters under the Tempo section now (you know, the button with a metronome icon on it :sweat_smile: ) so basically it’s now a matter of pressing that button and turning knob E to toggle it ON/OFF. We felt it was easy and fast enough to have it that way.

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Such a break with tradition :sweat_smile: it’s two button presses and a twist vs. one (combo) press.

(I know this is not the place for a petition. I’ll formulate one somewhere else)

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As an OT Mk II owner I think I’ll wait until the Mk III comes out as part of this new platform. I don’t think they’ll bridge the features gap between DT Mk II and OT as a result

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Exactly, one USB cable is enough. You might need a small adaptor, if you don’t have a usb-b to usb-c cable though.

I can’t answer second question, as I don’t have any synths with 5-PIN midi anymore, but I guess it would work, as there are options to configure on which outputs midi information is sent on the DTII.

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Yeah, not sure they will step on the OTs toes though.

Nice track! And a good example that 16 steps can take you far with trig conditions, albeit I see that break beat people may have a good use of the 128 steps without having to compromise on tricks like halving the tempo to have double as many steps for long phrases or chaining patterns :+1:t3:

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You should be able to sample inputs without sending inputs to Main, to avoid feedback.

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Or Velocity Trig mode. :content:

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Probably the same for retro-compatibily with DT1. They would have communicate about it otherwise imho.

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one button press and a twist
oh, you’re counting the second press to close - fair point :slight_smile:

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Sounds very similar enough to my ears, but haven’t made a side by side comparison.

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I wanted to say thanks for teasing this explanation out and that i thought i should share it here as it might be lost on the FR topic. It’s something I hadn’t noticed until reading this now and it’s very powerful for convenient editing/performance, hopefully it’s in the manual, making great use of this right now

For example, if you were to begin with Euclidean programming of a melodic sample or midi device - it makes more sense to be able to quickly get notes in without correcting … so pressing a few blue trigs and exploiting this will get the pattern going quicker (unless you had p-locks on the regular pattern to begin with) - but the genius move is being able to do so whilst in live record mode, it will populate the trigs in a flash if you push twist … you instantly get a more musical diatonic spread rather than the default track note pulsing like a hit

this is huge for building up from scratch :thup:

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Elektron need to tell us what this is.
All their other boxes are described above the display.
Then I will know whether I need this or not.

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