It doesn’t really apply to this but just another form of timestretching where you loop grains of the sample then move the start point.
A loop mode which would behave like the default pingpong grains in ableton.
IE when it reaches the “end” instead of looping from the start, it now plays in reverse.
Then when it reaches the start again it plays forward again.
This bouncing back and forth would reduce artefacts that can appear when you are rapidly restarting a sample when looping!
Been experimenting with this further and got some cool stuff going, a bit more grainy using the loop mode.
Setting the play mode to forward loop, then setting the LEN to 0. Changing the pitch/tempo gets even crazier, almost get a phaser / flanger effect going! Lets you pitch the sample up 2 octaves and still maintain the rythm etc 
Then turning the MULT down to as low as it will go to stretch things to the max.
Pingpong loop mode would be great here I think just to try things smooth out when rapidly restarting the sample over and over.
Wish we could do this on RYTM too but as you have start and end rather than length you can’t really get this grain effect 
Also - WE NEED MORE LFOS 
Thanks for the post dude. I wanted to try it out and started with “timelocking” (I’ll call your technique like that now) a sample and build a little beat around it. It was the most fun and creative work I’ve done for months.
All this endless options and possibilities in a daw cripple my creativity, but working with limitations is such a joy. Discovering work arounds and solutions is what helps me evolve.
So thx again for re-discovering the DT
I appreciate your feedback and I agree, this method has resulted in some of my most productive and rewarding sessions ever using the Digitakt. Here’s a couple follow up ideas for anyone looking into this method:
- Try live recording the trigs instead of placing them in the sequencer manually.
- Try using multiple tracks to play back a single sample.
- Try adding slight changes per track to pitch, pan, filter, envelope, etc to create a stereo image. This makes control all very fun to use.
- Try offsetting trig sequences using FUNC + </> to find rhythmic variants of a sample.
Long story short, I think of Digitakt like Mutable Instrument’s Clouds/Beads, except there’s a whole eurorack case worth of functionality built around it by default
Woohoo!!! Thanks dude! This rules!!!
Thought I’d revive the thread to say that the new Digitakt update is HUGE for time stretching. Also there’s a subtle bugfix in 1.3 that I didn’t see in the release notes - when time stretching the LFO depth is now 60 instead of 30 to span the whole sample index range of 120. This makes more sense because 60 is half of 120 and the SAW LFO is bipolar. Also the new LFO view makes it way easier to tell what’s going on.
Anyways I’m working on a follow up tutorial series on it but for now I’m just having fun. I chopped up some breakbeats and a couple cheesy samples just messing around having fun, let me know what you think.
Lastly thanks to the devs for this awesome update 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKpc5c7PnI
Now you can use the second LFO to switch between forward a loop and reverse loop to create a ping ping mode.
Wow, can’t wait to try that out!
You could do ping pong with one LFO previously….I guess now you can do it at the same time as timestretching 
I just had a go at the timestrech after not trying it for a while,
So much easier to understand what you are doing with the new graphics
I experimented it again just after update, with depth 60 indeed. With the 2nd lfo you can modulate the “lfo on start” Multiplier !
Another approach is to plock start values.
Less clicky imho, and you can use LEN in a better way.
Same principle, a bit more complicated, let you use 120 loops! Edit, just tested with DT, 30 loops is better with pressed button (30x4 values).
MAGIC
Will experiment with it further : )
Dude this is fire!! Nice one
Was messing around with the new 2nd LFO possibilities last night, lots more potential for mangling samples…
What were your destinations?
Btw I tried with lfo 1 on start and lfo 2 on lfo 1 Multiplier, it didn’t work properly with random waveform. Normal? Solutions?
Working properly with lfo 1, modifying its Multiplier manually. Thinking about trig conditions instead.
LFO 1 assigned to Sample Start
LFO 2 assigned to LFO1’s Depth, Mode or Mult
My goal is to have a loop running normally with lfo on start, Multiplier = 2, and modulate Lfo 1 Multiplier, in order to have half, normal, or double speed, randomly but with quantized changes.
I for lfo 2 I chose random waveform and, Hold mode, depth 1.
I have the feeling that the Multiplier need whole values. Not sure.
