Thanks for letting me know 
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Dudeā¦ your videos making hiphop on the original DT are what got me into elektron gear years ago.
I was hoping to not be seduced by the mk2 for at least a while, so if you could please refrain from making amazing videos of the mk2 my wallet would be very happy 
No but for real: congrats and looking forward to hearing some hiphop made on it!
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The DT2 looks promising given all your comments and excitement, like a complete new tool never seen before. Just thinking about getting one based on that hype, even I donāt need it - but the Elektron-way of doing things in terms of music is mesmerising.
On the other hand I simultaneously wondering if all that excitement is just based around the fact, that it is a new release from Elektron or is the DT2 really a game-changer?
Sorry for that maybe provoking questionā¦
Very interested in this same question. The OG has a very characteristic sharp sound, did any of you guys who have both now test the difference?
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I think the OG sounds very (!) clear, less compressed, with a lot of āairā. Great for precision clicks and cuts stuff and deep basses. The filter sounds very round, Q not too digital. I like the BRR/SRR of the OG1 a lot.
I donāt know about the general āsoundā of the DT2 yet. But I do know I make totally different stuff with it - because of new possibilities and features. Much more loop based stuff. Stereo drums. Comb filter. The drive in the DT2 is IMO much better (maybe only because of the switched filter/amp stages. The character of the DT2 reflects back on the human in front of it.
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Have my whole sample library there now and use samples which would have been too much hassle to preview on the computer and then push it over. Now I just go through it in the machine. This is good for other music/production styles than with the DT1. I hope, I donāt lose too much time/focus by browsing samples. 
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can you please elaborate on the click and cuts stuff and on the looped based stuff point.
surely you can do āclick and cutsā sounds on the Digitakt 2 and looped based stuff on Digitakt 1.
Thanks for the comparison! Although its difficult to compare youtube videos, the new one does seem to sound a bit different, but maybe thats mainly the stereo samples.
Thatās what the machine induces in me, because of many factors. I donāt know yet about the āsoundā of the DT2, I just observed it makes me do different stuff.
DT1 made me do this:
DT2 made me do this:
I compare them via headphones on my desk. Although I have developed the habit to have only one machine on the desk at once. And it is more the one or the other. (Like different hours or days).
Edit: (= I do not make literal side by side comparisons but have first ears experience with both machines - as source of my describing and slightly judging remarks.)
As said elsewhere (and by other people, too) - it may sound a little different, it may be occasionally difficult to reproduce DT1 projects exactly. The main point is: it makes you do different stuff. Alone the switch of filter and amp stage leads to a totally different intuitive way of using filter and drive. (And that part is really interesting, sounds good to me - was never quite satisfied with drive frequency spectrum in DT1 - now itās fun.)
Itās a different instrument. Like two ancient violins from the same maker from different decades will have a different character. And this makes each of them the personal choice for different artists or pieces of music.
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I do not have DT2, but I imagine it would allow me to do more complete tracks thanks to the 16 tracks and avoid a use of synth by sampling pad and chords in stereo and use the filters and the comb filter in a more creative way.
apart this I think you can do the same click and cuts, bass and loop with Dt2 and Dt1 - regarding the sound I imagine DT2 has got a better and newer DAC than DT1 which results in a more open and better sound.
I could do clicks and cuts also with Cubase VST 3.7 
The question (for me) is not so much what I could do with a certain machine - but what I actually do. 
The DT2 makes me do different stuff, like this test drive from yesterday evening (also includes the development: only the sound of the comb filter made me load some old presets and play around. The sound of the overdrive lead to the rest. The new time stretching leads to other stuff.
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It started as a test drive for the new comb filter in the digitakt II. Slowly developed into a hardcore session. Lost focus in the end for some minutes. Left it in. Demonstrates workflow.
Great machine for digital hardcore.
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This is not a live set but a test drive gone wild. Some lengths because I need to understand the machine first.
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Yes - if they are all true, they are evaluated as described
% Locks and FILL locks and COND locks (together on one step) must all be true
so if the % lock lucks out and you press Fill and the CONDITION lands on the right sequencing position, then the trig will voice
track % value will affect the outcome in teh same way (assuming a Trig % lock isnāt added which would supersede the Track %)
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Thanks so nice of you @Sleepyhead ! Love your beats too.
So far so good.
The SC comp isnāt as straightforward as on the mpc one but works really well with a bit more fiddling - and has more character.
Then again itās not an mpc one so it wonāt ālevel muteā tracks and doesnāt have a āproperā slicer (not to say I wouldnāt want those on the DT2) BUT I like the difference this brings.
Working with sampled melodic one shots in keyboard mode is also interesting and makes happy accidents, and brings this old school vibe.
I have also explored the wave tables and thatās so cool for instant bass lines.
The workflow is immediate which is sweet, and it def has a sound that I like!
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Anyone in the US receive theirs?
Definitely for me and Digitakt. I wasnāt using DT1 much. So much sound design possibilities with new filters, +/- 5 octave range, fx, 16 stereo tracks, stereo resamplingā¦
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So the AD/DA is 24bit / 48kHz which means anything you sample through the analogue ins will be recorded at 24bit / 48kHz. But the native file format of the DT II is 16bit / 48 kHz.
Where is the sense in that?
Also what would be the best file format for transfer 24bit / 48kHz or 16bit / 48kHz?
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After some noodling and exploring, my first proper jam on the DTII. Already heās best mates with my MicroMonsta 2, with all the new midi features on the Digi they are like Bonnie & Clyde.
The most difficult part for me is mixing on the device and gain staging. Canāt wait to stream the 16 channels into Live and have more control over that part of the game.
I can totally see myself finishing tracks with this gem, something I gave up quite a while back.
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thx for the reply! As someone who still got the OT mk1 and the MPC live, this updated version of DT seems like the best variant of being small and therefor portable, powerfull, enhanceable, 16!!! tracks mixed either midi or samples, nice fx, apparently oriented towards a simplified workflow, prepared for a minimal setup ā¦
letās see, because with that hardware-dna there could be something big around the corner, more expansive than that one, like an OT 2 Mk1!!
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24 bit gives headroom while sampling - no gain staging neccessary, after that DT applies normalization - and there, 16 bits is enough.
But thatās just what I thinkā¦ 
Edit: btw.: the USB audio output of DTII is 24bit, which makes sense (headroom, many channels).
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