What's New With the Elektron Digitakt II? Should You Upgrade?

#digitakt #elektron #sampler

The new Elektron Digitakt II has caused a stir in the music production community, with its upgraded features and improved functionality. One other consequence of this release? A steep drop in prices of the original Digitakt.

[ferencmolnar]

I bought it last week and sold the DT1. I wanted a DT with 128 steps seq and bigger memory so I am happy now.

[TheSouthernAccent]

Strech was not available on the OG Digitakt

[voodoohex]

is there only one FX buss for 16 tracks?

[abletonflow]

I wasn't expecting another opinion. You have to sell more

[allgoodisdead]

I’m really looking forward to new firmware updates. For example having polyphony per channel - with it stealing voices from other channels like on the Digitone, it would be perfectly doable I think. A new machine like a granulator would be amazing. Also having recording trigs would be useful.

[evianxlucy]

watching these videos until mines come in next week 😭

[GameRelated]

So digitakt 2 can only sample in stereo? so if you want mono smaples you would have load therm in as you can't sample in mono anymore only stereo? Is this correct?

[joshualane]

I wonder if this gear supplier’s video is going to suggest we buy gear. Let’s see what happens…

[PharoahsKingdom]

Wish they would bring back Analog Keys

[BrandInman]

Excellent work, sir! Never seen an Elektron device demoed so simply and casually. Hope this helps a lot of people cut to the chase and get the facts.

[nalaeel]

Elektron digitakt, look at that. I like a little hooded rat, and that’s a fact

[Solersoler]

No, you shouldn't. Not being able to properly slice your samples in 2024 on a 1k machine it's just a plain joke. Specially when OT has that feature and it's a plus10 years old piece of gear.

[HelicopterRidesForCommunists]

Now Elektron needs to update the Syntakt. I see those dotted lines in the shape of a square. I see those empty spaces. You can fill those in, Elektron, dont lie. Give it that chorus. Expand the sequencer to 128 steps, just change the led to a different color on the second half or something. I bet you could throw a global LFO on it and give it parity control all functionality too.

[jm]

And yet all I hear are the same 4 on the floor generic bullshit all over YT. Makes me wonder if the Digitakt appeals more to people with little if any musical talent who like the feeling of being clever for understanding it’s idiosyncratic workflow. All these tiresome fake ass gearfluencers with their crappola little jams…zzz
I’m curious about this machine, but it’s seems unclear what it wants to be.