Five Ways to Record on the Digitone

A tutorial covering all the ways to enter notes on the Digitone.

00:00 Intro
00:18 Step Recording
05:28 Quick Note Method
09:15 Track Note Method
11:09 Parameter Locks
12:27 Live Recording
14:00 Track Note Menu
18:26 Grid Recording
23:29 Track Performance
25:32 Outro

[davidfitzgerald]

Just bought a digitone keys. It's my first elektron device so this little sequencer tutorial was very helpful. Still getting used to all the button combos.

[KristianGO]

Such a helpfull video. I like that you explain it all so simple and make it understandable for a new digitone owner like me :) 10/10

[mynewcolour]

This video is so needed. The writing from Elektron is fine but pretty opaque.

[heavysystemsinc.]

Function + LONG PRESS 'PTN' (sub metronome) turns metronome active on/off parameter without having to go into the menu.

[PM-yzfx]

Excellent tutorial! Thanks a lot for taking the time to do this, very useful stuff

[Thomasabraser]

Great Video. I love my Digitone. But to tell the whole truth, I find myself watching tutorial-videos again and again even after years. It shows how capable this machine is, but also that it's not really easy to learn or intuitive. I am a father with a full time job and don't have the time to make music every day. Sometimes it pulls me more to other more simple pieces of gear in my collection because I would need learn the Digitone again.

[decreasingmass]

brilliant, that was explained really well, thanx for this tutorial, please add more ;)

[tubeMonger]

I've settled for recording with playing the keys (of the Digitone Keys) live, but your instructions help to modify the played chords afterwards.

I also noticed that when you go to the step record mode, hold the trig where the chord is, and push the up or down arrow you can transpose the whole chord in addition to just one note (you showed in the video).

Anyway, thank you for a great compilation of tips for recording notes on the Digitone.

[jellebolijn]

Thanks for the video! I think it would be amazing if we could program the internal sequencer from overbridge also. This would really help out with bring it to gigs and using the internal stuff for performing my track :)

[chickenpasta]

hey, when i press page it doesn't change the pages. all it does is glow all the buttons but it just stay on 1:4 and i can't figure out why its doing that. its super annoying when trying to write stuff without ableton. could you help me understand why its doing that? thanks

[fargoththemoonsugarmaniac]

But can I live record the ARP?! It never sounds like I play it, quantized or unquantized... This is such a bummer.

[solongyouth]

Great stuff! Your way of teaching is really easy to follow along with. Any plans to do more Digitone tutorials?

[benoitsauvage]

Eh ! Thanks for the tutorial. Maybe i've missed something, can you have a "arm recording" with the digitone. I mean, the digitone records as soon as you start to play on the keyboard. Does it have this option ?

[acidtechno]

Any live delete function for real-time recording ?

[Zenkman]

Super work ! Top tutorial Thank you greetings from Germany

[TimothyDempsey]

"Annoying as hell" LOL, I am back to learn from you. I think Grid recording is what I think of when I hear "Step" recording coming from Maschine. Thank you for this.

[dynesanddesigns]

This is a great tutorial. I wanted to clarify whether the percussion sounds were all coming from the Digitone (and not the Digitakt sitting next to it). And then was each drum sound from a different patch and does that mean you can have one sequencer track trigger sounds from multiple patches but with the limit of one patch per step? Thanks in advance for clarifying my question. The Digitone is looking like a great option for me, but I'm just trying to do my homework before getting one.

[aabe]

hm. nope. My Digitone doesn't do that at all when I try to :|

[lwpweb]

was the goal of this video to demontrate how complicate and uncomfortable this beast is, in this case yout achieved a perfect Demo. Congratulations.

[lotusreaction]

Is it possible to sample like in Digitakt? Meaning recording something directly to Digitone and then edit it?