Ive got pattern one playing, i switch to pattern 2, and now track one has a different sample loaded? I thought once a track has a sample, it aplpies across all patterns? that seems logical, but im not seeing that behavior here… Track one on pattern one is playing sample 9 (something i loaded up), then when i hit pattern + 2, the digi queues then plays pattern 2 and track one reads that it is playing sample 2. im thru page 35 of the manual and i cant see anyting that would explain this behavior…
Plock on the SRC slot? Long press an active trig. Any plocked parameters will get highlighted and shows a different value than when the trig is not long pressed.
i dont know much about parameter lock… is that what youre suggesting? I went to source page and i def see different samples on each pattern
Not by default, only if you’ve copied pattern one to pattern 2 etc. Otherwise, each track will always have the default sample for that track assigned.
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Long press an active trig (lit up red). Any plocked parameters will get highlighted on the display and will show a different (plocked) value than when the trig is not long pressed.
To add a plock to a trig you long press the trig and adjust the encoder you want to lock a value to. My suggestion is that you may have inadvertently plocked a sample swap on a trig.
Each pattern on the Digitakt is independent of the other patterns. It’s not really a “Kit” system. Though I think the DT has kits now, it’s not really the traditional way to work with it.
Since all the patterns are independent, you can write lots of different kinds of songs.
If you want to use the same samples across multiple patterns, you can save the samples as Sounds and recall them, or just copy and paste the old pattern into a new slot and start making variations in your new pattern. Then repeat as needed. But if you change a sample in, say, your new Pattern 2, that won’t effect that Track in Pattern 1. It will still sound the same way you left it.
That makes it a lot harder to mess up patterns that you’ve already made and saved. And easier to go back and revert if needed.
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^^^^^^^
This too. I forgot bc I have a mental block when it comes to the sound pool.
oh, wow. so vastly different than how a kit works in Ableton drum rack… okay. thanks for that. so, now ive looked up how to copy and paste, i can easily move the samples/tracks from pattrn a01 to a02… etc etc. but you already hit on the problem im worried about: editing sample 9 (for example) in A01 will not affect sample 9 in A02? i mean, with cutting up breaks, which is what im doing, theres all kind of little adjustments i will need to make as i move forward thru the project, but pretty soon im going to end up with 16 differnet chops of the same section of break. that sounds painful. is there now ay to adjust the start and length of a chop and have it aply across the project? Did you say that i can save the chop as a sound and have that change apply across al patterns?
correct. this is why an edited sample can be saved as preset or “sound” on dt1. fast recall and apply to track, all parameters included. A sound can also be copied between tracks / pattern. these are stored in a different pool and are non-destructive of the original file.
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You can save a sound, load it in other patterns. Once loaded, this sound settings are part of the project, modifications last.
If you load that sound, modify it and save it again with overwrite, changes aren’t applyed to all patterns or projects.
If you change a sample slot, it is applyed to all patterns.
You can copy track sounds across patterns.
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I don’t have a DTII, so I could be off here… I thought that if you load a Sound into a Pattern, it’s still separate from other Pattern’s use of that Sound. If you change and save the Sound in one Pattern, you’ll still have to lod that Sound into the second Pattern again to get the changes.
No?
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I must have phrased it too vaguely, I’m saying after it’s saved it can be loaded (recalled from save) and applied to another track / pattern.
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This is where the ability to copy and paste just about anything becomes huge.
Let’s say you have the same chop in 3 different patterns. Then say you make a change to the Track 1 SRC settings on Pattern 3 that you want to apply to that Track/Sample in the other 2 patterns. To do that, you can just hit SRC and COPY (Func+Rec) to copy all the settings from the SRC page, then go to the other 2 patterns and paste those settings into them for that Track (or any other Track).
This will become second nature after a while. But it’s also nice to be able to have very slight variations to the sounds in each pattern so that the sample fits the specific pattern. For instance one pattern where the hihat has a very slight filter and then another pattern where the same sound has a much less subtle filter because that’s what works best for that pattern.
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