Random triggers?

Elektron Gear Digitakt
#1

I was reading a music radar article about the Digitakt and it says the following:

  1. Random triggers - Parameter locking ‘sample select’ allows you to have several samples triggering randomly or sequentially from a single sequence trig/step for really mangling beats.

Have I missed something? Is there really a way to use p-locks to have several samples randomly trigger from a single Trig?

#2

No. Just music radar writers not clearly regurgitating the manual.

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#3

That behaviour can be achieved using a LFO on sample slot. Is it correct?

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#4

That’s what I was thinking. I guess you can lock some steps to random LFO amount 0 and some at 3 or 4 to make only certain steps play random samples?

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#5

Yes, exactly.
You have to put the samples in the pool using a correct sequence: the samples that you want randomly played need to stay close. Let say…

  1. Sample A
  2. Sample B
  3. Sample C
  4. Sample D
  5. Sample E

Set the sample slot for track in the middle (slot 3 Sample C).

With an LFO amount of 2 it ranges from 1 to 5 (3 +/- 2).
You can use a triangle wave form to obtain a sequence (A, B, C, D, E, D, C, B, A) or you can randomly choose with the random waveform.

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#6

Thanks for the info, will certainly save me some time figuring out how to get it working :slight_smile:

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