Preparing samples for Digitakt and Rtym

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Hello nauts

I’ve been reading about preparing my samples for my Elektron Machine. I’m still confused by a few things and could use some general reassurance I’m understanding my options right.

I love that Octatrack just mounts right to my desktop and all my organizing can be done there. Brilliant!

Not so easy with DT and AR… Hmmmm

I’m running mac 10.8 and I’d rather not update… So the Elektron transfer won’t work for me. I did try to install but no love.

I’ve got a few friends who said they’d help so I’d like to be ready for the occasion. I’ve got a gig of samples picked to each one.

Will the same Elektron transfer app work on my devices. DT os 1.07 Rtym os 1.30C
Will I need to update those?

Does anyone recommend a naming structure like do you put key and bpm in the name of the sample?

If I’m not mistaken on the Rtym I need to create the directory folders before hand on the unit. ie: kick folder; snare folder; etc if I want them like that for searching on the unit. Is this still the case? It’s different on DT right just drag and drop and folders will be created. Like if I grab the kick folder and snare folder together and drag and drop them together I’ll see DT create those folders on the unit populated with the samples?

My plan is fill my DT and my Rtym. I don’t general sample on the DT and I do have OT for such things. Beside that is there any reasons to leave space on either machine?

Lastly if I was to put the full amount of samples (1 gig) on each how long will it likely take? Hour or hours? Full day?

Oh and I’m not planning to do the prior mono conversation as I don’t really understand how or why really I could read up more but I’m hoping Elektron has things covered as far as dragging in samples and having them play back sounding good. Am I assuming to much like will I absolutely regret not putting them mono at -3 before hand? Rtym does stereo so no prep work there right?

Thanks tons…

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Try this as a transfer alternative

https://electric.kitchen/crunch/elk-herd/

A member here (@mzero) put it together and it should work for digitakt and rytm.

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Cool

So it’s web based… Wild… Never would have thought.

Wish I had better internet. I’ll check it out.
Thanks

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There is no better internet required, because the internet is not involved after the app got loaded into the browser.

Transfer speed:

The standard MIDI transfer speed is 3125 bytes per second. When you configure the Digitakt and Rytm to “MIDI: USB only” and enable the TURBO MIDI option (please check the manual how to do this), the transfer speed gets increased by a factor 10x.

So the (theoretical) speed is 31250 bytes per second (~30kBytes/s). That’s still quite slow. Do the maths yourself. It will take hours over hours to transfer 1GB.

On both machines it make sense to leave space for resampling (for example: to layer multiple sounds).

IMHO it makes also sense to start out with less samples, because you need to find your own directories structure and redoing the transfer of 1GB takes very long. A directory which contains too many samples is quite cumbersome to navigate on both machines (long lists to scroll). So I would start with a smaller set of samples and work with them to see how it “feels” and what you need to change to get it “usable” for you.

It depends on the samples itself. In general you get better quality when doing the stereo to mono conversion yourself, because you can fine tune it (for example: use only L or R or L+R). But with a large sample collection this isn’t really an option.

Rytm supports also ONLY mono samples like the Digitakt.

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Thanks tons