Introducing Digitakt

Ah, pitch shifting includes timestretch sounds like.

It uses audio grains too.

As long as I can tune something by cents rather than just semitones (or like on the OT - smallest is 0.2 semitone), I’m happy :relaxed:

There is fine tuning on DT apparently.

I lie awake and say your name
And in my dreams i do the same
Over and over again :sparkling_heart:

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Yep! Two decimal values. Almost all the parameters in the Digitakt are high resolution.

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My favorite part from the DT demos is how nice the sample edit screen looks, and how efficient the workflow appears. It seems to be real nice for chopping up samples. It’s a pity the delay parameters cannot be p-locked though.

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but I think some transient detection would have helped cutting the samples

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Hi Simon, I have a question that just occurred to me but might be a make or break whether I buy the unit.

I will use the digitakt standalone until the point when I go to track out my performance through overbridge so I can mix and master the song.

Now in the superbooth videos it is mentioned that the eight tracks can be streamed over overbridge for recording to a DAW.
Are these 8 mono tracks? Or eight stereo tracks?

If they are mono then we are going to loose that great bus reverb and delay stereo depth when tracking to DAW.

what happens to the reverb and delay when tracking individual tracks via overbridge?

Thanks

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Hey Simon! Does the DT have some sort of frequency shifter? To tune drums to the key of the song?

if this is the case ‘duplicating’ as stated in the manual, then there should be no din-sync at all at THRU, or did i get something wrong?

individual Tracks can’t have the Effects included … those would have to be in an separate effects return channel. Or on the Master.
If the individual Tracks are not stereo - wich I think is the case for bandwidth reasons - they won’t have panning. Wich I understand could be a drawback for some users.

But I don’t know. … just guessing here

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I am pretty sure that you can add your own delay and reverb to the mix itb after you track everything out.

Yes this is what I’m worried about, it needs a fx bus channel too for overbridge.
Adding itb won’t do because if I am recording a set from the digitakt to DAW I am going to be adjusting the fx to do the cool build ups etc, all that cool stuff Dataline was doing in the superbooth demos won’t be recordable through overbridge.
This might have just killed all my excitement for the digitakt :frowning:

Really hope there is an effects bus for overbridge… going to ruin the whole point of the performance side of the digitakt for me if there is no way to track out all the cool delay and reverb tweaks to the DAW mix down.
What a let down :pensive:

There’s a separate fx send track in OB for the Rytm. I expect it will be the same for the Digitakt.

EDIT: Sorry, there is no separate FX send track as it is now. What you can do is, internally, route the tracks so that the Main out will be ONLY the FX. Hopefully this routing will be a feature in the Digitakt too.

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It’s pretty simple, you just take the individual tracks out of the master, and then the master stream becomes your stereo FX return (aka FX bus) , which goes to OB as its own stereo stream.

A4 also the same way.

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Yes, this is what I meant!

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Ok I have never used overbridge, so when the spec on the digitakt page says 8 ch to overbridge it isn’t including the master ch?

often limitations are a good thing - your requested feature makes totally sense when they advertise DAW integration - but what if you just record the sum with effects and all that ? The huge advantage is you have something finished. Thats how I always work. Maybe worth considering for you as well?