Is sample management better on the DT2? Is it possible to copy samples directly to the +drive using Transfer?
It’s the same as dt1 … yes , you can use transfer to drag and drop samples onto plus drive
It’s never been difficult .
Thank you very much for your answers. I haven’t managed to access the +drive directly yet. I always have to take a detour: first into samples, then into a project, and only from there into the +drive. Did I misunderstand something?
Ideally, I would like to copy my entire SAP library directly to the +drive.
The +drive is a storage area, it’s where any samples you load to the machine will be kept. From within a project you can then access the +drive and load samples into the project, but they were being stored on the +drive and technically still are being stored there, as the sample you load is unique to the original sample, so changes are nondestructive.
If we’re understanding your question correctly, you want to know if you can load samples straight to the digitakt 2 storage area via transfer, the storage area being the +drive, and the answer is yes, that’s where they’ll be after you drag and drop your samples into transfer.
If you dump a large amount of samples at once, like your whole library, it could take a long time. The transfer program is not known for it’s working speed.
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To repeat what others have said
The plus drive is basically the hard drive where you store samples .
This is where transfer puts stuff … into folders the same you would on a Mac or pc hard drive
And just like old samplers or ableton etc … the sampler has memory to put this into in order to use it … like the old akai’s had 16 meg or 2 meg etc … or a pc / Mac has ram to put things into in order to use it ( assuming we ignore the but where data can be streamed off hard drive )
… this is basically why the samples are put into sample space / loaded into a project for use .
So in many ways it no different to akai’s from 39 yrs ago , only those samples were often loaded off floppy disk / internal hard drives / cd’s . Whatever they’re store on you are still needing to load them k to a project
A game console is the same - games are on cartridge / hard drive and are then loaded into the memory of the console to run … there’s a fixed amount of memory to run things in … like c64 up to switch2 etc .
You can copy your sap ( whatever that is ) to the plus drive assuming it’s a normal audio format . Then load in the individual samples you want to use into the project .
When I open transfer, I click on ‘explore’ and the +drive sample folders are there right away.
When you say ‘detour’ what is your starting point ? Transfer ? Or are you talking about the Digitakt now ?
It took me a while to realize that you can just drop whole folders directly in the +drive. I would always just load them into the “explore” page which loads them into a new folder named “transer81825” or whatever.
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