Just got the DT (well, will arrive begginning of December, thx again @jcavell!) to free up the OT tracks and still got some sampling at hand.
Q: Is transferring samples from DT to a computer already a thing?
I hoped the beginning of the âCOVID lockdownâ would precede an unstoppable tsunami of tracks⌠a gushing, geyser of dynamism and creativity what with all the extra time at home.
Wrong: until yesterday I hadnât touched my music gear for over four months. It turns out, remotely doing your day job slouched in your studio all day every day while a sense of futility and dread wraps around your head like an ice cold towel does not maketh the juices floweth.
So, this weekend I decided to dust off the Digitakt, put 1.20A on it, and pull it away from the rest of my gear for a holiday by the coast.
BLOODY HELL WHAT A THING!
There are so many threads here about tech issues and so on, but Iâm here to say: this little black box is such a beast. You need to get some muscle memory going, but I canât think of any system that would better enable a rhythmic idea to turn into something better in reality than the idea in such a short time. Itâs so fun!
I love how good the factory samples are. What do you like about your Digitakt?
9 Likes
I actually got started making music with modular and a monosynth. It is a very weird way to get started but the modular thing really struck me. It is really incredibly fun and the openness is very alluring.
I got the Digitakt a few months ago and it has really opened up the modular. Being able to come up with a cool sound, sample a one shot, and do that 8 times for different sounds. It is really incredible. I also find the filter to be pretty good, and gives enough performance capability to get good variation in your samples throughout a song.
The sequencing is really incredible also. I previously had a beat step pro that I was sequencing my modular with, which worked well, but is somewhat low on features while focusing on immediate control that I found I didnât use that much. Having access to per step automation, trig conditions, and unquantized recording really gives lots of possibilities. The only issue is the timing in modular can be a little weird. Sometimes you have to delay your gate signal by a few ms for the midi cc automation to catch up.
I also really like using it as a usb audio interface with my computer. I often use my computer through my Digitakt. If I hear anything interesting or worth sampling I can just press record in the Digitakt. Makes finding samples a bit easier.
4 Likes
I sampled over 130 percussion hits from modular into my DT yesterday., I feel I need to hire some sort of armed guard to protect it now.
Itâs handy that I can just transfer those anywhere via usb as well. Would have been nice to have MicroSD.
1 Like
I just joined this unholy circle.
32 Likes
Hell yeahâŚ
Pretty awesome instrument, right? I absolutely love mine
2 Likes
Yes! Today i stumbled upon the toolbox with the waves, and using it as multiple mono synths is pretty rad, too 
like, bassdrum is square wave with pitch and filter envelope.
@Fin25 you might dig my little tune.
19 Likes
In another, much better simulation, youâre doing all the product demos.
5 Likes
Very happy you now have a DT 
Mangling samples is such a great way to make cool noise.
That YT video was awesome!
I think you did more with the DT in a few days than I did with it in a full year
1 Like
Awwww, thank you both! I just played around with wavetables i, though i did not âproperlyâ loop them, i like the result (presumably better 
):
12 Likes
I like this!
1 Like
Thanks! Two more jams today, again using the Digitakt as âââvirtual analogueâ"", digital and wavetable synth. Somehow everytime it getâs more mean
tried internal resampling (if thatâs the correct term) on this one:
and yes. makeup gain was set to 7293489283616
18 Likes
Nice.
1 Like
Badass!
1 Like
great stuff 
1 Like
scared the hell out of my cat. these are ill!
1 Like
acid jam ⌠and now itâs time for packing and off to home to unite my Digitakt with my Syntakt
11 Likes
Solid Acid Track well done!
1 Like
My (love) story with DT:
I purchased my first unit in 2017, knowing nothing about samples and sampling, thinking it was simply a digital drum machine. After a short honeymoon I sold it to finance some other stuff. I wasnât ready to appreciate its wonders.
I purchased my second (and current) unit in 2020, being well aware about its nature of a samples-based instrument. It opened my eyes on the world of collecting and mangling samples. It was a brand new world for me, being used to play just subtractive synthesis based hardware. This time we had a longer honeymoon, but after two years I understood that samples truly doesnât click with me. Playing samples itâs not my workflow, itâs not inspiring for me, doesnât make me go straight were I want to go in music. So I decided to sell my DT another time. But past week a simple idea pop up in my mind: single cycle waves. I can use single cicle waves to transform DT into a powerful eight tracks virtual analog synth. And here I am: it works a lot!!! Today I synthesized kick drum, snare and hats starting from a sine wave and some noise, with the same workflow of my analog eurorack system and with the same results! Having on the top the wonderful Elektron sequencer, compressor etcâŚ
Now DT is my preferred toy and we are in the middle of our thirth honeymoon.
What a hell of a fucking amazing, deep and versatile musical instrument !!!
Moral of the story is never sell your DT, think lateral and believe it: if love freezes itâs not DT, itâs you 
10 Likes
Yeah, when I bought it, I bought it just as a sampler. I didnât check the presets and almost deleted the factory samples. Glad I did not ⌠when I found the toolbox folder, my mind was blown!
⌠I just got carried away a bit:
6 Likes