I know you do a decent amount of compression of your tracks in a DAW. With the addition of the compressor, do you think you could do most of your finishing with the built in compressor or are you still going into a DAW for the final touches?
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Wow!
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Am i correct to assume that the dn2 is the first 16 voice/track synth from elektron since the md?
I can definitely get a lot closer than I could with just the OG DT and DN and A4. With the DT2 and DN2 I’m comfortable only running the stereo recording through a multiband expander and a limiter. I my “”“mastering”"" chain used to be a lot longer, with a tube compressor sim -> preamp sim -> multiband expander -> tape sim -> limiter. Pretty excessive, but really fun 
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I use the multiband expander as an EQ, where the lows and highs are compressed and slightly boosted compared to the mids. I’ve gotten to the point where if I’m happy with how my track sounds without plugins, I’ll likely be happy with how it sounds through my go-to settings on my multiband expander so there’s very little actual tweaking in post.
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MD isn’t polyphonic.
Digitakt 2 have 16 audio tracks, can be used as a synth too.
(Much more usable synth than MD)
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Thank you for the clarification. Forgot about the dt2. On the dt2/dn2, is that 16 channels of midi assignable?
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Yes but 4 notes max per step on DT2 vs 16 on DN2, 256 notes, theoretically…
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Thank you for figuring that out for us!
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256 notes? Challenge accepted 
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Reality check :
There’s still no way to remotely load a kit, is it ?
“remotely load” as in use the Transfer application in order to copy kits onto the device from a computer and vice versa? I didn’t find any option inside Transfer either but as a workaround, you could load a kit into a project, save the project and copy the project instead.
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Thanks for this, what do you mean by “real motion recording”?
I’m kind of okay with being quantized to a certain extent if thats the main limitation.
Nothing new in that concern compared to DT2; as you know, possible to load a pattern with an assigned kit, hence 128 kits available with program changes per project.
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Well, for one, as far as i know there’s no way to record pitch bend. Modulation CAN be recorded with a CC control workaround but not supported on the default mod cc channel. Also the time resolution is pretty bad (4 steps per bar) for filter sweeps and stuff. It works, I play into elektron stuff often, but there are limitations, to the point where sometimes i adjust what i play to work correctly in a musical context. There are times where i give up and just sample what i play into a digitakt for phrases I really don’t want to change to accommodate the sequencer.
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16 steps per bar? Still too coarse.
I meant bar in musical terms: 4 bars per page / 4 steps per bar = 16 steps per page.
So did I. Here is my reasoning: in 4/4 time (sort of a default on Elektron boxes), there are four beats to a bar, a beat being a quarter-note. If you take the default tempo of 120 BPM, two beats per second, you get through a 16-step page in two seconds. So each step is a sixteenth note, 16 steps to a bar, one page, so four-bar patterns in the DN/DT 1’s and eight-bar patterns (more natural for a lot of music) in the 2’s.
(Edit: is the DN2 manual ever explicit about the relationship between BPM and the time taken to traverse a page? All I can find is one reference that says that setting speed to 2x changes the resolution of the sequencer to 32nd notes. Searching on “16th” turns up nothing. But I have not finished reading the whole manual yet.)
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That would explain why my BPM is always like 40-60 on all my patterns 
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Oh man. Going past quarter-note resolution, a whole new world awaits you! (Unless you’ve been using microtiming…)
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