So, I haven’t gotten into resampling on my Digitakt yet. I’ve been too busy just making songs and sounds on it. But, I’m interested in resampling, though I’ve never done this on any device or software. I’ve got a couple questions related to it. I want to understand what goes on during and, more importantly, immediately after the resampling process before I try it. I think this is wise. haha
First of all, what is actually happening when one resamples on the Digitakt?
From the tutorials, I can’t really tell.
Yeah, you’re re-recording the sample, and this could be anything from one to all eight of the tracks or trigs. But, once you’ve resampled, what next?
Do you assign it to a new track? Do you assign it to a new pattern inside the same project?
What if all eight tracks are full and you resample the entire pattern (which I saw BoBeats do), what does one do with the resample? Where does it go?
Perhaps most importantly, what does this resampling process allow users to do that is not possible before the resampling?
it’ll resample whatever is playing , into a mono sample , and puts it into the recording buffer.
you can then edit/trim and save it into the sample memory where you can specifiy name , folder etc. , load it into your project like you would any other sample.
its the same when sampling from external too , its just a different option on the input (int l , int R , int L+R and external L , external R , EXT L + R )
the sample buffer is quite large and i think its separate to the sample ram used within sounds/tracks/patterns.
When you say “create new drum samples by combining multiple samples”, are you saying by combining, for instance, trigs for bass, snare and hi hat (three separate trigs)? And would you then be assigning that resampled sample onto one trig?
This helps. So, if I had four synth sequences (one for each of four trigs) that were, for example, all ambient pads, I could resample those four sequences, then assign them to a single trig and apply filters, effects, LFOs, etc, thus creating an evolving fusion of them all?
Yes , anything that can be heard being generated by digitak will go into the recording buffer.
But it’ll become a mono sample
You can sample each l/r channel to keep the stereo detail.
If you use a lot if tracks to create noises / drums / pads it’s a nice way to ‘optimize’ Things.
In the past I’ve sampled a section of a track for a nice glitchy variation during a tune , so much easier mangling one track .
Awesome. As a fan of Pet Sounds and MBV’s Loveless, I’m not too worried about mono, though perhaps I’ll try out sampling each l/r channel for stereo detail. Thanks so much for your clear and kind descriptions! Very, very helpful.
I was wondering about how to go about resampling and assumed it was going to be via routing the cables from in to out… So I searched on YouTube to see if there were any videos and happend across an @umonox video, so thought I would check that one, due to his vids always being of great quality and inspiration.
So I sat and waited for the resampling part to come on (didn’t see the link in the comments that took me to it…) and then realised that to resample, you just turn the input knob…
