While I’ve never used a Digitakt in combination with ARP, I can suggest some workflows.
ARP will follow MIDI input, so you could use one (or more) of the Digitakt MIDI sequencers to send single notes (one-finger mode) or chords to ARP and its sequences would follow this lead.
You can then route ARP’s MIDI outputs to one or more Synths.
You could even route the MIDI back into Digitakt to trigger pitch-based samples or even beats. ARP’s note, octave and scale locks can be useful in targeting specific samples and then using ARP’s other parameters to chop them around and create rolls, fills and craziness.
I’ve experimented with sliced beats on MPC and it’s a lot of fun.
I’d love to do a video along these lines. I’ll add it to the long list of videos on my backlog.
actually a very interesting idea to route a sequencer in to the arp (another sequencer hah) and thereby creating ‘best of both worlds’ scenario. E.g. oxi one, or digitakt, or even NDLR, in to the arp. Would love to see some video examples of this!
I use my Octatrack to send chord input to the Arp which creates arpeggios on a Virus and Proteus 2000. The Octatrack is great because you can use its probability parameters so you aren’t sending exactly the same pattern of notes every time. Endless fun, especially if you have different Arp patches ready to go.
I think this is a great addition. I can imagine a bit more control and choice in the modulation parameters could be useful, for instance to set min/max values for the CCs to alternate between as you don’t always want to full 0-127 range. Some CCs even have only an on/off value or 16 steps out of a total 127.
And I know randomization goes against your overall philosophy, but some CC values could benefit from some ‘unpredictability’ that goes beyond following a standard sine/sq/trinagle/saw shape.
Thanks for the input. There’s a project to improve the modulators as a whole in the not-too-distant future. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I agree that the current feature, while still powerful, is limited. Your ideas are very much appreciated.
I can see myself using more external CC automation tools if I can tie the device instructions to specific pattern chains where the CC’s are gradually ramping up/down over multiple bars, and I can smoothly plot points and adjust on the fly while the pattern chain is looping. Clean UI to separate modulations during edits, and a nice summary view for the sum of changes.
If I understand you correctly… It sounds like a separate “Automations” feature that would provide a non-destructive change to a parameter over time would be needed.
Thanks for your input though, it’s great to get a picture of how new features would be used in different ways and to see how I can best accommodate them.
Hey everyone I have started a series exploring the midicake arp in my video content style.
The midicake arp is a really great tool to trigger your synths, grooveboxes, daw. In this video I am triggering 4 mono synth tracks on the Korg Electribe 2.
Beware - I wired everything through my crazy chroma console so expect lo-fi fuzziness
Here is the first episode setting up the basics feel free to check out if interested!
I see the website mentions both an mki and mkii; what’s the difference between them? Is a mkiii expected in the near future? I don’t see a development blog anywhere, so I was just wanting to get caught up.
Edit: Just read the post about the mki being the first batch only and that they made hardware improvements for the second batch.
Just wondering if there will be the possibility to have a separate chord pool for each bank of patches? Would be so nice to be able to associate the stored chords with chosen ranges of patches rather than globally.
Yes, this is on our wishlist but not yet planned into a specific release. The next 2 updates (after V7) are planned.
There’s quite a bit of configuration complexity in assigning chords to groups of patches. I think the likely solution would be to store the assigned chords at bank level, so a group of 12 patches will share the chords. As we have done with Rhythm Patterns. Would that be ok?
Absolutely, being able to have each bank have its own chords would be fabulous - oddly enough it’s all I’ve personally wanted since day 1. Right now I store the chords I need for each bank externally in Octatrack patterns, so that addition would be huge for me. Cheers!
