i feel the same way about the MS… just love it… the DTOG is wonderful, but the DT2 is wonderful too… you really cannot go wrong imo
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I thought about upgrading to DTII, but its too expensive for how much time I make music with it in a year tbh. So I’m sticking with the OG and focus the little time I have to finish and release music.
Maybe I’ll make some money with it to eventually get the DTII 
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i see you Bargen
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I have to say I got a DT2 in a really good trade, type of thing where I wasn’t really looking for one but the trade was good so I did it. Kind of struggling to find huge use cases for the added features with how I like to use the DT. Tempted to trade it on maybe for a nice mono or something, I still have my OG DT. Granted I was never crying out for stereo samples… I did really want glide though and that’s there. Workflow is mostly intakt I suppose it’s impressive that it didn’t get much more cumbersome with the new options but it still is a little more cumbersome.
Curious to see what updates come but seems hard to recommend a new DT2 compared to the 1 unless your dead set on stereo.
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i love all of the new features, waiting on the editing to be refined and that’s about it… kept my dt og as well but I will never let go of the dt2
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Yeah I feel I maybe fell quickly into my old digitakt work flow even if I hadn’t used the OG in a year, kind of hard to kill old habits and embrace the new. Especially when I have other projects on other gear calling to me. I’ll definitely give it a few more spins before I move it along.
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I’m never letting go of the og dt either 
no freakin way…
but now with stereo samples etc… the dt2 has made certain that I will never buy another sp-404mk2… the dt2 is my 404 mk2, but imagine if your 404 had an digitakt inside it 
I love it!!
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I’m still sticking with my OG DT. Quite literally, I stuck a bunch of stickers on mine — this way, it looks cool and unique, but also would be a pain in the ass to sell because I’d have to scrape those stickers off and deal with the leftover goo, ugh. I’ll just hang onto it.
I think the DT2 upgrades are fairly significant. I wish I had the expanded banks of project sounds (I sometimes find myself chafing against the OG’s 128-slot limit). I want those sweet comb filters. I want the 8-bar sequencer and the extra LFO. There’s a lot to love on the DT2. Having 16 tracks is immense, especially when you can resample at will. It’s an endless music-making machine.
But I also have a fondness for the limitations of the OG DT. It feels like a very cohesive instrument, it has a personality. It’s not the most powerful or precise, but it’s fast and inspiring, and I don’t think those qualities will ever go out of style.
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I sold my og a couple of years back, and always planned on picking one up again, so I bought a digitakt 2 but if I already owned the og I’d be waiting to see what else they put in it. The digitakt 2 price is very high for its features and if I wasn’t already familiar with the og I wouldn’t be taking a chance on the DT2.
If you use the og with other gear it would be even harder to justify as using midi doesn’t sacrifice tracks like the dt2 and external gear can cover whatever the og can’t do.
I do really like the DT2 and won’t be replacing it anytime soon, I’m just speaking about the value compared to the og as it’s nearly doubled in price since I got the og a few years back.
I find the SP404mk2 has been the ultimate companion to my OG Digitakt. You can trigger stereo samples plus mess with it’s FX over MIDI and automate it all on the DT’s superior sequencer.
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I did the same thing with my Yamaha P121 and MOXF6. Also marked them up with fingernail polish to make it easier to remember which button does what. I should probably go all in and decorate my OG DT and DN.
We are officially musical Apes for hodling strong!
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this is what I got the dt2 for… it’s like an sp on crack when it comes to realtime tweaking of full beats or stems, transitions, cntrl all shenanigans etc…
I have never controlled anything else with the digitakt, I’m a self contained fiend when it comes to beatmachines, and I use my og digitakt together with an mpc but only for sampling and mangling back and forth… never sequencing one with the other…
but now that I’ve got the dt2, i think I will experiment on some of that goodness you’ve got going on… it’s not easy, I can’t use more than one app at a time on an ipad either I just love using one thing at a time I guess,
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I sold my DT2 because I prefer the sound that comes out of the DT1. Making ambient/experimental music is great because of its limitations (you have to resample), but also the fact that the samples are in mono allows space for the reverb in the stereo field.
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I’ve wondered as I’ve noticed it seems like I’m getting ghost notes when I live record playing samples. I don’t know if that’s the case or the buttons are re-triggering as it’s usually when I’m rapidly tapping the buttons.
It’s weird as some times it just randomly hits at times in-between. Makes me think in the moment, am I back at the beginning and I stop playing for a moment only for there to end up being a gap from stopping. I think I’m on the current OS, I 1.52.
When you say ghost notes do you mean like the traditional meaning of notes which are lower in volume or velocity which leave accent notes on either side of them? Or are you saying it in the sense of like, phantom notes I guess where they are retriggered in places where they are not supposed to be appearing, so it’s as if you hit the trig twice when in actuality you only hit it once? I haven’t had that problem with either, but my only suggestion might be to try live recording while fully quantized, then fully unquantized and then somewhere in between and see if the problem is any greater in one direction or the other.
I know that DT2 was having some issues with double triggering, but I haven’t really observed anything like that with DT1 so if it persists, I might check for hardware type issues in the actual physical mechanics of the buttons, so like pressing trigs from different angles and seeing if any of them are slow to return to their baseline positions. I would imagine a momentary delay in the actual return of the button to a neutral position would have the potential to create a second trigger which might be read in live recording as a phantom note input.
I’m not 100% sure what to check other than to see if it only happens in a certain project or if you can duplicate the issue in a fresh project because that might tell you more about the issue as well. You could also run the error check in the pre-boot menu just to be on the safe side, but I doubt it will register as a software error.
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I was mistaken in terms, yes, it is ‘phantom’ notes. I was thinking it had something to do with the fact it generally happens when I’m rapidly tapping a trig, but it does just randomly happen when I’m not. So it may be that the button isn’t reset or it’s firing off twice by accident. Just didn’t know if it was a noted occurence for anyone else, but thanks for your reply and insight. If it persists then I’ll do the error check.
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