They seem to be write protected. Is there any way to undo that protection? Seems silly that I have to keep them in the device since I don’t plan on using them.
Read section 15.4.2 of the manual. Looks like Instructions can be found there. Hope that helps.
I tried to format the drive but it still left the write protected samples on the machine? Am I doing something wrong? Have you guys been abled to remove the factory samples from the digitakt?
Factory samples cannot be removed - but don’t fret - they do not use up any of your 1GB storage space for samples.
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Well that’s a bummer, why not? Can I somehow hide them? It’s a bit of a pain, having to scroll through so many useless samples.
They come in their own folder and can be completely ignored, especially since it seems they don’t eat space on the drive. I don’t even really look in the factory sample folder.
Unless you mean sounds?
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Well I don’t have any intention of using them, they’re not really what I’m after but they do show in the menu where you choose which sample to assign to a key though? It’s not a big deal, just a bit annoying to scroll through them every time.
How are you accessing the samples. The filled sample slots on the src page are project ram which can be cleared. Sounds are accessed with the func+level encoder.
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I’m not sure honestly, hah. So you can just choose not to load them for a project and they won’t show up in the assign sample menu?
Right. There are like 400 factory samples so they definitely don’t fit all into a single projects ram (127 slots, 45mb). If you start a new project the only samples that will be loaded are the 8 digital kit samples, which can easily be cleared from project ram.
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Oh ok, my mistake I guess. I’ll start a new project with only my own samples loaded (+the 8 mandatory factory samples I guess). Thanks for the help!
That said I don’t get why we can’t delete the factory samples, but I guess it’s the Apple approach to design.
You can remove those 8 samples. Press the cog wheel/gear and the samples menu will be in that list. Select the samples option. On the next menu press the left arrow button and select the ram contents. On that menu pressing right while on a sample will give you another list of option including removing the sample from your current project.
As dude said earlier the factories use up no space on the +drive so really they can be ignored.
There are a number of good single cycle waveforms contained in the factory samples though.
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… well, that’s interesting to know!
I don’t get why you’re upset mate. Free and takes no space- not an issue.
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Oh, I’m not upset… I’m just writing a tool that lets you see how much space you have free on the +Drive… And now I know I need to not count the factory content in the calculation.
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Sorry mate, that wasn’t aimed at you. Phone seems to reply to whoever it wants. Was meant for the op.
I’m wondering how you are calculating the space on the +drive for a couple of reasons. The main reason is I’ve notice samples may change size significantly after transferring them to the digi. Especially longer sample.
My code is reading the +Drive information direct from the device, which reports the stored size. There will be some inaccuracy because the DT doesn’t report file system overhead, but that is just a small fixed amount per sample and per directory.
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cool, thanks for the response
Has anybody hit a sample limit (per project) where you try to add several (large) - 33 second+ samples (approx. 3 MB +, in addition to small, one-shot samples), and you can only use approximately 30 - 40 samples (total) for a project? I’m adding up the approximate size of these samples (together), and it’s only around 30-40 MB (64 MB is the limit) - does the Digitakt only allow so much (total MB) space for samples, to allow for automation, edits, etc. ?