Introducing Digitakt II

@Jeanne

Ihre Musik wird von namhaften InterpretInnen weltweit aufgeführt, und sie erhielt u.a. Stipendien des Goethe Instituts, des Berliner Senats, den Musikfonds e.V., Neustart Kultur und dem Deutscher Musikrat.

Da biste platt. :smiley: Studierte Komponistin. Wow.

Noch mehr :smiley::open_mouth::

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Now that’s a Trickless Trick!

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Thanks! I am stereotypical male and I need pictures to understand better. I think in pictures, not words, so I translate what I read into pictures, hence this is where I found discrepancy.

Cordially,
Norman

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I hope you will not abandon this one detail, because it is the best reference point for people like me. It’s good to RTFM at least once, but then it’s best to have just that picture for reference, instead of RTFM every time one forgets something. ;]

I was thinking about least space consuming solution and I think that it would be enough to just copy, how it was done in Voice diagram (4.1), like this, bypassing whole “External Mixer” block concept:

I mean, we could debate about if it’s even needed, since everyone here and their grand children know that, but then - we are not the group that is target for it anymore, I guess. I remember these diagrams already (heck, to understand my BiG SiX I had to look at their diagram for few days and with full understanding came my remembering of it fully). So I am not fighting for myself - I think about people with brains like mine, but who are yet to RTFM. ;]

Oh, and I don’t think it’s that simplified, and if it is, then I probably miss something, because beyond that one thing - I find them very useful and reliable. But if you think so, then there should be word reflecting that in first paragraph, like this:

The illustrations below show the simplified Digitakt II sound architecture (…)

But I would vote for that mentioned inclusion to diagram.

Cordially,
Norman

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My DT II arrived from Sweetwater yesterday. Unfortunately it had a manufacturing defect… it seems the top board with the buttons is not properly secured to the case. I noticed a few of the keys felt especially clunky and seemed to rattle against the case when pressed. Upon further inspection, the whole board moves when buttons in that corner are pressed. Waiting to hear from SW about a replacement.

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Just a heads up: I asked Alto a few days ago and they said they charge for orders right away, whether they have the item or not… some limitation of their ordering system. Anyway, hope it gets to you soon, but thought you’d prob appreciate knowing that.

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I ordered from Alto last week with the 15% discount. $849.15 total was charged right away. Their website just updated today showing ‘On order from manufacturer’. I’m guessing a few weeks before delivery. I’m in no hurry to get it.

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Mine arrived today. Early thoughts:

Tons of quality of life and workflow improvements

Stereo! 128 step! Euclidean sequencer! Huge sample pool! More RAM! More Storage! More FX! Kits!

Have you always been able to work away while Transfer is in progress?

Might sound a little flatter and less “hi-fi” compared to the OG’s sound signature. Not muddy, but doesn’t have that mid-high polished sparkle. Is the compressor less punchy? Reminds me of the Octatrack EQ 🫣

The new retrig mode is one of the main reasons I bought this but I hope they can tweak it a bit to allow smoother rolls. Not easy to explain but the current behaviour is to have to hit each key, sometimes leading to gaps. It would be nice if I could hold 1/16th, press 1/32nd (while still holding 1/16th), release 1/32nd and have it smoothly go back to 1/16th, if that makes sense.

Can you live “record” in track mutes (MPC style) without p-locking the volume level?

If this thing had a crossfader/scenes and proper slice mode (128 slices!) it would be an Octatrack II

I hope there’s some surprises in the pipeline, but it’s a good start, congrats Elektron!

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Yeah, no worries. If it gets me somewhat close to the front of the line then cool by me. I’m fine with waiting, living vicariously through the Nauts who are receiving them :raised_hands:

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Any feedback on transfer speed improvements yet? Haven’t seen any official comment if the 30-35MiB/s is what should be expected.

I’d be already happy if it wouldn’t freeze randomly while transferring samples. Then I would have finished filling the 20GB in 3 nights. Right now: often restart Transfer and DT2 (twice), then it works for a while until it doesn’t. Wasn’t the case with the first 10GB. Have hopes in overbridge for transferring samples.

I was having this issue as well, but it was a result of nested folder structure. I flattened my folder hierarchy to 1 level deep, and everything transferred without crashing.

Try removing any nested folders and see if that improves things in Transfer for you.

I can’t wait for the LoopCloud Support to come online. I find that interface x1000 better than Transfer.

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Yes, that might be the case here, too. Totally overlooked that some (only some) folders have 2 levels nested structure. Thanks for the reminder.

Edit:
Unfortunately, that was not the case:
I copied only folders with no other folders in them
it kept crashing/freezing as before
Now I have

  • many corrupted files (sample just digital garbage)
    • that cannot be deleted
  • projects that cannot be backuped (Read: permission denied)

I wrote bug report and try to save what is to save and start over. I am pretty sure that these problems occur once > 10GB filled (as others have reported, too).

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Yeah, quite annoying to have to refactor all that organization…but at least the files transfer now :slight_smile:

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Interesting. Purists might say it is less coloured, though the D1 colour was nice.

Perhaps more Octatracky sound wise?

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You will finally will make me do a blind A/B test with both machines on one desk, sample the same sound source, try to set everything equal :sweat_smile::rofl:

With OT: I was using it wrong. It’s a Beasty Boys Rap Battle Loop Machine. (I had tried to use it like a DT and got frustrated with sampling and it didn’t sound good/voluminous enough).

OT OT video

https://youtu.be/VFCXw-OV7h8?t=4m12s

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Can’t wait for my OctaThreek!

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Yes it does

The intention is that slice index should be latched only at a trig event, and not while playing. It might be that the above described behavior can be considered a bug. We will look into it.

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IMHO, this is the best DT2 performance I’ve seen so far. His other DT2 clips are also really interesting.

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