Hey all! Still very new to digitakt but having a blast playing around with it. I’m curious if anyone here has used it for something more in the Rock side of things. I had heaps of fun recording some simple guitar strums and chucking them on the DT2 with a beat.
Would love to see/hear some stuff you all have made for inspiration.
Here is a short clip of a track i started working on if anyone is interested.
I have yet to see someone use the DT2 in this way. Not that I’ve seen every DT2 video made, but good on ya!
Nice! Looking forward to hearing the finished piece.
I used my Digitakt and Digitone for the backing tracks in my last band, which was a post-punk / goth thing. I was on bass, so didn’t play them live, just had them on Loopy Pro with a click track for the drummer. Heres a couple of our tracks:
lovely!
Thank you!
Thanks!
DT and DN were both v1. I do have a DT 2 now (and I suspect I will shortly have a DN2 as well!), but I left Norway last year so not in the band any more. I do still do some mixing for them though.
Wow this is super nice. Love it. What gear did you use?
Damn nice tunes dude! Reminds me of interpol
Thanks a lot! I played some guitar loops which I then processed for a bit for texture and arranged on the og digitakt and then out through a meris mercury X reverb pedal into a zoom recorder. Digitakt is doing the heavy lifting here and I guess the meris pedal is adding some depth to the sound.
Awesome! Some sort of effects unit is definitely on my list to buy at some stage.
You know the digitakt effects are not bad for a bit of color, but they aren’t particularly expressive unless you parameter lock them, and then they can be interesting. By using parameter locks on send effects, you can have a single step, or steps in a predetermined rhythm sent to delay or use reverb to accentuate.
It’s never going to be a dedicated effects unit, but at the same time you can play with what’s there and get a feel for what it can do before spending any additional money.
Thanks mate! And Interpol was exactly the vibe we were going for!
I‘ve used DT II in my band, but pretty much like you‘d use a DT. And the others played guitars, bass and live drums. I can still share some stuff when the album is done.
I can see how recording several bars of a guitar or bass line with some slight variations and then use slice grid with random locks could be pretty cool. But with „real“ instruments, there’s just nothing to replace you playing and interacting with other people in a room imo.
I agree that there’s nothing like the interaction of a band playing together, but this dude here made his entire album in renoise and I think it sounds pretty good.
Not saying that a DT is renoise but the results are probably equally scaled to a person’s level of skill and overall vision for a project that determines how that project turns out.
I’ve heard, played with, been in far worse bands where everyone played their instruments. Not necessarily the kind of music that I listen to here but still I think most would agree that the results are somewhat reasonable.