Answering Digitakt II Questions! // Live Dispatch

It’s time for another Live Dispatch on Digitakt II! Join us and ask questions you may have about the device while we dive into some of the feature goodness it holds.

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00:00 Intros
02:10 External Midi Sequencing and Program Changes
05:55 Sidechain sources and sidechain tips
09:26 Enrique's Favorite Compressor Settings
12:50 Trig Mode Tips!
17:42 Preset Kits into the Preset Pool?
19:10 Using the Preset Pool to Slice Samples
21:55 Can Trigs be Controlled with an External Controller? YES!
23:56 How do I slow down the speed of a sample?
33:17 Song Mode doesn't have to be just for songs.
37:16 Copy paste song mode rows
39:05 Page Loop tips
43:45 How to Sidechain to the Kick and have the kick be "muted"
45:45 How to Start a Song halfway through on Digitakt II
47:09 Mario and I MIX between Tracks
50:25 Transfer Digitakt proejcts to Digitakt II
53:18 Some last minute questions

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[relative_vie]

1️⃣ Allow Transfer App to make kits.

2️⃣ Allow Transfer App to tag sounds so you can easily find a vibe and organize it into the sound pool.

3️⃣ Allow Transfer App to reorganize samples, such as dragging a sample from one folder to another.

[touchthatdial]

Got to have adjustable slice points, it's a must have for chops. Hoping this comes soon. Also automatic zero crossing snap points when nudging sample start times, can't always rely on the Amp envelope attack to deal with clicks if the transient needs to be exactly on the beat. And please add the ability to zoom into samples that are already in the sample pool (i.e. not only samples that have just been recorded), in a longer sample finding the right start and end point by ear alone isn't enough, we need to be able to zoom into the waveform.

[Alckemy]

2 things in looking forward to,

Manual or transient slicing

Overbridge.

That’s all it needs

[el_dani]

Zero crossing detection, poly machine, Midi arpeggiator - later: granular machine, more track fx, record machine

[jacobthewinner]

Thanks to Elektron team for fixing a lot of things in 1.02. DTII is excellent.

[alecsbuga]

21:33 Oh. Great idea slicing a sample in preset pool. Nice!

[nikolafeve]

Here's my suggestions:
Feature to link several tracks to play in polyphony
Arpeggiator
A function to generate random note+trig (in scale)
There's a possibility to preview presets with the keyboard without loading it, but not with the samples from the +Drive, why?
Add a row to activate the Fill per line in the song view

[tovermoran]

That ghost-compressor technique totally works on the Digitakt too, compressor SCS to kick track, yooo. Thanks Ricky!

[micemincer]

making manual chops with presets also gives option to add effects, filter etc - everything that comes with the preset - unique for each chop

[jaffasplaffa]

Just got my Digitakt II today and bought a Analog Rytm and a Digitone a few weeks ago.

And tomorrow my Syntakt will arrive too ;)

Cant wait to play with all of them :)

Great video btw ;)

[cooksoni.a]

"there's no slice machine on here 😏 just the grid 😜" i knew they were working on a slice machine the moment i saw they changed slice machine to grid lol

[JMotion]

Super!

I think we need polyphinic sequencing and the possibility of having different fx parameters per track (not only dry/wet)

[bubuAudio]

thank you, guys !!
much appreciated your tips !!

[inkajoo]

Polyphony, proper slices, and arbitrary step length in the recorder!

[DanielSanNinja]

I'd really also love to have an optional "send MIDI out" for sample tracks as well (like AR does)

[DiegoFuego]

Instant buy for me the moment Overbridge drops, it’s a workflow killer for me without it. Hope we don’t have to wait too long!

[drubadix]

super nice session, thank you guys! what i‘m missing most is the global function for mixer, compressor and fx. this comes so handy in longer live sets with external midi devices. as i understood you are working on it to bring it back? ;) i would appreciate that so much!

[hlrwwwo]

Excellent Q&A on the Digitakt MKII, thanks! 🙏 It would be great if we could parameter lock / automate the tempo per step to create interesting grooves, swing and dynamic patterns. This is possible in software music trackers and also on the hardware Polyend Tracker. Considering the Elektron machines sequencing appears to be somewhat inspired by trackers it would be very cool to see this implemented into the Elektron ecosystem. Unless this is already possible and I have missed it somehow??

[LamontStigler]

? I would love to have the Digitone Arpeggiator on both the Syntakt and the Digitakt 2.
Is this possible??

[stiglau]

If you want to Ignite the GAS of a DT1 owner, do a session on playing a DT2 chains to a DT1, either combined or djing between them 🥰