Just learning the Digitak and not sure what the best way to establish what I would call “mute groups” on the Digitakt.
By this I mean if I trigger a sample on trig 5 it plays until trig 6 is triggered and 5 is muted by 6. This would be very beneficial for sample chopping and drums as well.
What is this functionality called on the Digitakt and how do you do it?
yeah I got you, I’d call them choke groups but same difference. you need to use the sound pool, it’ll do that for you by locking sounds to a track, that way you can use more than one sample on a single track and they’ll exhibit the choke behavior that you’re after.
I believe digitakt 2 calls them presets, but if you have a digitakt 1 it’s “sounds”.
Yes, using one track is the simplest. (Trig conditions are possible with NEI on 2 tracks, but it doesn’t cut the sample playback).
You can also use sample chains, add lfos on slices…
I don’t use sound pool…ever.
In grid mode you can parameter lock different samples to a single track as long as you have them loaded up into RAM. Go to grid rec mode. Hold done the trig you want to change the sample on. Turn knob D and the sample will change for that trig only. Triggers in one track choke each other.
Above are all good ideas but I do have some bad news for you, which is that you can’t set any tracks on the digitakt to mute/choke each other as you play them live.
You can set up trigs on neighboring tracks to choke each other when you play a sequence. Or use the techniques above. Lots of ways to create mutes/chokes in the sequencer.
But if you want to be able to finger drum on 2 pads like a closed & open hihat, the bad news is the digitakt just isn’t really meant to do it. It’s a quirk of the DT workflow you kinda have to accept and work around.
Well yeah that’s a bit of a challenge because the digitakt hasn’t got pads either 
On DT2 this is a nice use for the Preset Pool trigs: for hats and percussion, or breaks, you can load a kit into the preset pool, then play choke-grouped preset locks into one track at a time. Only downside, with sound/preset locks, the trigs aren’t affected by live parameter changes to the tracks.
Edit: sezare is right, chaining samples and using slices is the best way to do this on both machines
Also possible with slices. 