Yeah quite true, I will never sell mine as well.
I wasnt giving it much love lately as I kept using the same old filter trick to beef up my kicks. it made them all sound the same.
So has anyone from Elektron confirmed that the Digitakt is not capable of recording stereo samples with its stereo inputs yet? Also, any info regarding whether the Digitakt is capable of playing stereo samples by somehow linking two tracks together?
No and no. No confirmation yet.
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A few posts up Jon confirms samples are mono only, but you can pan them. I canāt see much point in recording in stereo if the samples are then converted to mono taking away any stereo effectā¦
You could obviously use 2 tracks for 2 panned mono samples but this surely defeats the object of stereo sampling in any traditional senseā¦ or maybe Iām missing a trick ? but if it was possible Iām sure theyād be shouting about it now, in the wake of a fully fledged DAW like sampler about to drop.
I just cant see what the point of stereo sampling would be tho, as the units sample handling is confirmed multiple times to be mono ?
I guess The L and R are for 2 different input sources ? Or a cheeky bonus somewhere down the lineā¦ but for now, itās mono and proud.
EDIT - itās mono because itās aimed at percussion and this is clearly how they intend most of us to use it.
Stereo sampling would make sense if there is an easy way to play them back and manipulate them by pairing up two tracks (if the OS is designed with this functionality in mind). Iām actually looking for a sampler I can use to quickly sample cassette tapes, and I want it to sample in stereo to maintain the stereo image of a lot of the cool samples from the 80ās Iāve found. This is the one deciding factor for me with regards to the DT at this point. If it is confirmed that it will easily handle and manipulate stereo samples, Iād preorder one right now.
^ I hear ya, itās certainly a nice thing to haveā¦
but the samples as far as anyone official has said, are 100% converted to mono. That means the original stereo effect you want to retain will have already been summed to monoā¦ 2 panned mono samples will give you stereo flexibility, but they will be just thatā¦ 2 brand new converted mono samples.
I think 
Vaguely recall mono samples being confirmed way up the thread? Maybe theyāll add stereo samplingā¦
But if DT is their ābudget boxā and labelled as a drum sampler etc, and it already beats OT on conditional trigs, faster workflow etcā¦ Iād guess theyāre gonna wanna focus it away from OT as much as they can elsewhere so as not to kill too many OT sales. Until OT2 comes along it seems like the OT is still gonna be their flagship/ādo it allā sampler, judging by pricing. Just a shame it doesnāt have conditional trigs!
will it be able to achieve some form of granular synthesis? 
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Check out the Gotharman Little Deformer, Anomono X, or Fuzion. Spendy, but so much awesome granular possibilities you canāt find elsewhere. I have my targets set on the Fuzion to pair with my Anamono X so I can work with stereo samples.
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I have confidence there will be some tasty secret sauce in the pipeline with reguards to how DT handles its āmonoā samples. 
EDIT - I meant to add, full on Elektron style Granular would be a clever direction to take DT down its own path.
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the intention is planned, just awaiting some DT demo vids
On a slightly different tip from the current conversation, do you think we will see more of Digitakt before Superbooth?.
I recently listened to the 1st Feb NAMM catchup from Sonicstate, and Nick Batt (who seems to know Cenk quite well) mentioned we probably wouldnāt see anything new until Superbooth.
Superbooth is 20th - 22nd April, so that mentioned April release date seems kinda strange in that context.
Anyone else concerned about the possible lack of Song mode on DT (based on front panel)? MIDI tracks have me interested, but Iāll probably pass if Song mode has been cut.
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damn sweet toys! (expensive too)
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So worth it imo. Iād rather spend hundreds more to be able to do ānext-levelā granular things to my samples than have multiple more affordable devices that canāt dream of doing the same things.
Yeah man, Itās Deffo all about the gear : )
Great discussion about the mono to stereo concepts, moved to a new thread: Using 2 mono tracks to create a stereo signal
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Iām still unclear as to whether or not the DT is capable of recording two different mono samples simultaneously or not. Do we know for certain it canāt? If it can, yes, you can just manually assign the two different mono samples (that are the L and R signals of the stereo signal) to two different tracks and boom, you have stereo. Not knowing basic shit like this has gotten so annoying, I almost dislike the DT at this point. Itās just this annoying thing I know almost nothing about. Iām getting a Gotharman Fuzion instead dammit.