Introducing Digitakt

[AikiGhost]

Im really quite interested in the DT, one thing that is still a bit weird to me is the 1gb of built in sample storage.

In an era where 128gb of fast flash memory costs less than £50 why not have 8, 16, 32, 64 gb of memory?

[TomLostMonkey]

Volca Sample (not in the same league, I know) Has 4Mb sample memory, 100 samples or 65 seconds. So a Gb of storage is going to go a fairly long way, even with a higher sample rate. I honestly can't see myself needing more than a few thousand samples at any one time!

[Buska]

the importer did tell me that they would not be getting their original allocations so maybe this still is the case

[AikiGhost]

For a comparison my AR ran out of sample storage first day and I constantly have to delete things and add new, its rather annoying to be honest.

[smithymicky]

Did you order from Store DJ in Melbs? I am on the first batch of orders through them and was told that DTs would be leaving Sweden on the 12th May (about a week ago)

[buzz]

I just put a down payment on one of seven that will be arriving at Store DJ Sydney late in June

[TomLostMonkey]

What kind of samples do you have on there, how long etc? I'm planning on using the DT for mostly drums, synth stabs and some short vocal samples, so I"m expecting the storage to be plenty big enough for my needs.

[Teamoth]

After selling an OP-1 I wasn't really using I ordered my Digitakt through Andertons in the UK on 29 April. They were £600 instead of £660 (which seemed to be the price everywhere else at the time). Last I heard from Andertons on 16th May was:

"It looks like there has been no change to the ETA! It is still set to arrive at the end of the month/ beginning of June! We will keep you informed!"

This'll be my first bit of Elektron gear and I'm super excited about getting it. I've never been good at waiting for gear to be delivered...

Oh yeah and somehow second-hand OP-1s seem to have gone up in value. Couple of years ago there were about £550, now you can get £730 for them.

[pidgeo]

It should be plenty.
64mb in mono is about 12 mninutes. so you have that per project.
then how many times does 64mb go into a gig. so that would give you about 18 projects or somink.

More sample space would be nice in this day and age considering how cheap it is now, but its totally usable. i dont see myself running out of space n ima gon use plenty of long samples n phrases.

[pidgeo]

Similar line coming from Thomann. End of this month beginning of june for 1st batch, tho who knows if they even know. Im still hoping they come in early which can be seen by my constant refreshing of my thomann order page

[smithymicky]

Did they say if that was first or second round?

[umonox]

Oh yeah and somehow second-hand OP-1s seem to have gone up in value. Couple of years ago there were about £550, now you can get £730 for them.

you can probably thank "Jeremy Blake" aka Red Means Recording for that With his talent on the OP-1 he raised interest in this machine quite considerably i assume ...

[AikiGhost]

Oh all sorts, drums, synth/bass single hits, hip hop chords, single cycle waveforms, loops. A wide church as they say.

[Muddler]

That's why I'm hoping there's quick project load/unload program via software. It would also help in organizing sets and samples.

Seriously, a good little app for storing and tweaking project, pattern, samples (and hopefully params) that chugs along on usb2 would be a welcome development from

[AikiGhost]

For me its not really a question of "usable" its more a question of "odd restriction in this era" or perhaps better stated as the inconvenience of not being able to pop on my entire sample library without having to spend ages auditioning stuff (IE: Being bored/annoyed ).

[pidgeo]

@AikiGhost I think the problem would more likely be if theres a limit on the number pf samples allowed per project (128 for example). then you have got to be selective. is the limit 128 on Rytm?

The limit for DT's projects hasnt been made public yet. im guessing it'll be either 128 or 256. It would be better if its open ended aka any number of samples up to 64mb. as you allude to Aiki, the less restrictions the better.

[DED]

I'm going to miss this thread when our Digi's all turn up.

However, I'm sure I'll be frequenting the "Digitakt Issues", "Digitakt Firmware Update Requests" and "Digitakt Hints and Tips" threads instead.

See y'all there...

[muzka]

1 gb does seem bit low seeing as my watch for example has 4 times that

[void]

what's that and why do they have 4 Digitakts

[Buska]

Yes, first batch. Hopefully very soon, but lots of mixed messages coming from everyone so think I'm just going to chill and wait it out