Hi just downloaded a lot of samples to my pc and they are all keymapped foe other samples ie akai…do I just download the ones that are in C note and discard the rest?.
Does the digitakt default to C with the base sample?
this is up to you really - shifting the pitch of a sample using the Digitakt (i.e. by speeding the sample up) will not be the same as using individual samples per note, especially if you pitch shift a long way.
sometimes that’s the sound you want, sometimes it isn’t.
eg; lots of old house producers sampled chords. When they pitch shifted them in old samplers, the chord stayed with the same intervals even when they “shouldn’t”. This sound immediately sounds like old house/hardcore records now.
You can always go half way too and take one or two samples per octave or similar.
edit - oh and I think the answer to the second bit is that if you load a sample that is C, then all the C’s will be C’s. On the other hand if you load an A, all the Digitakt’s C’s will be A, unless you change the source pitch.
i usually grab the c’s , maybe f# i think.
but i try to keep the use of the sample fairly close to the main sample , not only to keep the pitch sounding ok but also the length / decay of a sample .
most of my sample chains (for digitakt/octatrack) feature c2,c3,c4,c5 as i dont know proper keyboard chord/scale stuff so most of my tracks are probably based on the root note of C
and its 4 or 8 notes so its easy to select the relevant sample start/loop position .
That’s how I always coped. It’d be a pain in the arse in s live scenario but in the studio I just reworked the notes in my head from loading a non C sample.
You can at least rename the samples to keep track of them if you want to use parameter locking to use individual samples…
multisamples is one of those things the Digitakt probably isn’t really designed to do as such though I guess.
Thanks for the replies …maybe a future update would let you load a sample to it’s root note.
At least chromatically
i wouldnt wait for a firmware update to do that.
it loads a sample , it plays it back. you choose how its used. you can always load in lots of individual samples / a simple sample chain and use the sample specific to a note. that can be done today… no need for any firmware change. if you are very particular about it sounding exactly correct (no stretching , pitching issues) , just load up all the notes and step sequence them.
digitakt hasnt got any sort of scale modes , key groups , methods to overlap samples based on pitch or velocity , its designed more for trigging one shots/loops , not trying to emulate a piano / multi-sampled thing… i’m sure a £50 yamaha a3000/ old akai might do it and could be easier to use and sequence from digitakt if you want to head in that direction.
i know i may sound a bit blunt , i’m all for requesting bug fixes and some generic drum sampler functionality , or revisions to ui/work flow , but also working with what is available now and not waiting for a potential firmware fix . most gear i have needs some form of firmware fix and i’m tired of it , i’m just getting on with things and more productive that way.
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all im asking for is the digitakt to assign the sample to its correct root note on import.
…in digitakt is all free willy when it comes to chromatic rootkeys…and all repitching will affect the play speed of that sample, too…no way around this…
and as mentioned here already…u better double check the akai sample mappings for sweet spots…
because if u just pick one root, any charme can be gone already once u repitch only 3 halftones up or down…while others gain way more charme a whole octave up or down…or even way more…
u never can tell before…so decide upfront which of the samples u like and check across all the mapping to pick at least two or three from different octaves…
All of the elektron boxes that utilize samples use c3 as their base note for sample assignment to chromatic mode. This is the way it is. Knowing that going in, the user can adjust accordingly.
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…take each single sample, whatever it is or might contain , as a c3 for default in first place…to nail this clearly…
Just take the C’s and maybe a few E’s
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