I haven’t found any indication that the DT2 could do step-per-page patterns for easy management of long patterns in odd time signature.
Now that digitakt is disKontinued, how about open sourcing the firmware? Let the community go wild 
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If it can, it will be in the manual, but I’ll bet it’s hard to discover even if it is there 
EDIT: just spent 10 minutes looking and haven’t found anything yet.
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Also the 16 (8x2) knob midi cc control per midi track. I had send a request to elektron in the past to which I got a response that it would be a good idea if I remember correctly! 
This applies to other boxes also. Some of the new DT2 features are workflow oriented and I believe it would be common sense to implement across the devices, I mean the elektron workflow is 50% of what makes the boxes stand out in the first place…
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Hey, thanks for the input. I must say I got a bit lost in the explanation/exposition but appreciate it nonetheless.
Cheers!
Okay, here are my completely unfounded guesses: I think that maybe later this year (for the last time) there will be the usual big annual update for the Digitakt 1, which will somewhat close the now big gap between the -takts, so that the late adopters of the mk1 do not feel totally ripped off. Since the mk1 was sold until recently, I don’t think this is unreasonable, but of course I could be wrong. But leaving the mk1 unceremoniously behind like that wouldn’t look good either, it would feel a bit scummy.
What elektron will translate from the mk2 to the mk1 depends mostly on the remaining processing power, which I think was pretty much maxed out at this point. My guess:
- Page Point Things and Other UI Stuff
- Compressor Routing (Bypass)
- Bypass Control All
- Prepared mutes
- Velocity and retrig mode
- variable state filter/comb filter
- Glide/Glissando
- ADSR envelope
- new trig condition setup (probability and condition separated)
- maybe euclidean sequencer (I could personally do without, the other points would be more inportant to me)
After that, there will probably only be the occasional debugging update and maybe something in a blue moon or so, but all in all that is it for the mk1.
“Conditions” I like they added additional features to the conditions options, however I noticed after watching the video that it still only offers up to 8:8 to apply them. I would really like to see that number go higher to 12:12 or even 16:16 for more variability. Considering the memory upgrade will allow for longer samples and we now have up to 128 steps. Increasing that # would allow for more creativity. Thoughts anyone?
You can use different x/x trig conditions whithin a single pattern so it might take 12, 24 or even more repetition of the pattern to make a complete loop.
I’m not following what you mean. I use the Digitakt 1 and its limited to setting a trig condition to play a sample once every eight repeitions and to play a sample longer than 8:8 requires you to trigger it once then untrigger it so it plays all the way through othewiese it will just retrigger on the 8th rotation. I would like to have the option to program it to play maybe 1:12 or 1:16 or even 1:20! ; ) So now maybe after every 16th or 20th rotation it will trigger that sample again.
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In a track, a certain note that appears, let’s say at 1/3, mixed with another note that appears at 3/4… then it means it will have to play 12 times to hear the whole pattern. I use this trick to add melodic and rhythmic variations on a track, often a midi track.
An element that appears one time out of 7 mixed with another element that appears one time out of 8 will give you a 56x pattern. Sorry if it’s not too clear, English is not my first language.
I wish Elektron just released OB or something similar for the iPad.
Would love to handle all the 8 audio tracks independently.
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I’m sure this has been asked but I’m new to DT and I am not reading 5000 posts.
When can we expect DT firmware to be aligned with DT2 where possible? Things like trigger types needn’t be exclusive to DT2. That would be quite upsetting if DT owners are denied that.
It’s built on a different platform, so I would not expect most of it.
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Not most of it but some things are most obviously possible (like trigger types)
well, yes, it might be possible. As someone mentioned also, things like trigger types and other sequencer related improvements (not sound engine related) could be added at least to the other Digis in production, specially to the newest, Syntakt, and those shinny e25.
But, yeah. I don’t expect nothing else on this front TBH…
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Turns out Digitakt 2/the newer D1 OS/Octatrack OS have the solution to what I wanted this to do. I was essentially trying to build a Turing Machine on DT and now I can do it.
step 1-make a sample chain from a synth/oscillator you like. Make, say, 2 octaves in a scale of your choice, on 18th notes at a reasonable tempo
step 2-kick it over to your machine, put in Grid mode, slice appropriately.
Step 3-put in trigs according to the rhythm you want
Step 4-random locks ENGAGE.
Repeat 3 and 4 til you get what you want, manipulate as needed from here.
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I’m sure this would be better placed in the digitakt II feature requests thread but how about keyboard scale as an LFO destination so that instead of random pitch modulation, it jumps to note intervals found in the selected keyboard scale for the track.
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Just had an idea to make live recording much more fluid. Calling it “Punch-in Trig” (feel free to come up with a better name though!)
Hold a trig and press the sampling button, it will be armed for sampling in “punch-in” mode and the sampling page is opened with a temporary setting of max length. When the trig is reached by the sequencer, sampling begins and proceeds as normal, except instead of a dialog for saving/naming the sample, the sample is given a numbered name that starts with the project name or REC if none exists, the sample is saved to the +DRIVE and loaded to the pool, and the trig is replaced with a regular trig assigned to that sample, with the appropriate length p-locked, in one fell swoop.
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Maybe said by other people previously.
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Ping-pong loop of the sample, instead of just fwd, reverse loop, to reduce POP.
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ability using the slice machine to switch between pitch and slice more easily to make melody from wavetable. Right now, only slice is selectable from keyboard. Which make the change of pitch a bit more complex. Basically being able to play with the two parameters more easily could be great addition.
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