OT Digitakt in the wild

ChrisG

@kobamoto said:

@ChrisG said:

@kobamoto said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=850&v=yBGITq8EJQ0

That's a dope track. I've never really cared for the Rytm as I've never had a good experience with anything using pads. Sometimes because of plain crappy and unresponsive pads, but mostly because I suck at creating melodic stuff with pads, my brain just turns into a raisin when I try. I can't shake it and, I really hate it:(. Every time I see something like the above video it obviously goes back into the "maybe one day..." casket tho:-).

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Here's a fun one, ambient soundscape with pinch of glitch (that eventually ends up glitching out the Digitakt)

Loud sound the first few seconds, lower ur volumes ppl

love this one!!!!

this is why I would kill for stereo samples on this box.... what the hell were they thinkinggggg

I've come to terms with it being mono. I was also scratching my head at first. But it is what it is. And most stuff I'm stuffing it with really is mostly mono stuff anyways. Stuff. Old chopped up drums, cuts, licks from vinyls. As for my other gear I can sample from, remove the reverbs etc and it's all mono, besides a JDXi and a Blofeld, it's all analog gear. I'm definitely not denying that I would love to have stereo without sacrificing a track, apparently it has the same horsepower as the Rytm inside, same dsp etc. So it should be able to handle it, but what do I know. I hope they at least squeeze a chorus effect in there at some point:-)

Edit: The video is all Digitakt though, there's no outboard processing besides the Analog Heat.

ipadthai

Thinking of buying a Digitakt again (getting the itch). I didn't have an iPad the first time I had the Digitakt, so I'm curious:

is there anyway to sync the Digitakt with other apps I run in AUM? I'm assuming no to Ableton Link.

stemshade

Aum has midi out now

kobamoto

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/src-transfer/id1275880971

LeeB

I've always loved the sound of the elektron stuff, especially the analogue 4, octotrack combo. I would love to own them someday.
The Digitakt hasn't had the same affect on me from the videos I've watched, even with cenk at the controls.

Will

@kobamoto said:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/src-transfer/id1275880971

Dammit.

zhoe

@ipadthai said:
I don't agree about workflow being quicker on Digitakt. I'd argue it's slower. To get a sample on there, you have to hook it up to a computer, for example. With iOS, however, I can be sitting in a coffee shop and a download a sample to Audioshare and drop the sample in an app, trim it, make it something just as weird and stuttery as in Digitakt (but even more so since Digitakt only has a few effects and features), and have a a nice loop/sound/whatever all in a few minutes.

Digitakt is not even battery powered. It's more time consuming prep-wise to start the process with a Digitakt. You basically have to be in your "studio." Sure you can lug it and the power cord but it's not the same in convenience, which impacts workflow.

Now someone like Dataline might make everything look cool and fluid and improv-like. But if you pay close attention to his and others' videos, you'll see that a lot of it is not on-the-fly mangling. A lot is prepared beforehand. I wouldn't want to be building a song live in front of an audience with it. It's not that kind of workflow.

I know the Digitakt is wildly popular but I think people have a skewed idea of its workflow. It also doesn't offer much in the way of effects - just reverb, delay, and an awful sounding bit crusher. The conditional trigs and retrigs are neat but nothing that justifies the $700 imo and they pale in comparison to what I can do with BM3 [or insert another app] and Turnado alone. I can go so much further into glitchy, stuttery, dark IDM territory with the iPad.

Like I said, I had it for a few months and just felt like it was a bit antiquated compared to what I can do on iOS. If it was battery powered, then mayyyyyybe. But even then, nah.

I don't have it, but this is how I feel about it, having watched a good number of Digitakt YT vids. I also had Korg Volca Sample, and it was fun the first couple of days. I think all we need is a good controller that will turn BM3 or some other apps into an even quicker more powerful tool. I think hardware sequencers are having a good revival at the mo, but they'll go away, soon. If, for example, Elektron were to decide to create a hybrid iOS app-hardware controller, they'd be waaay more future proof. And would probably sell more as well. Just my two pence.

SpookyZoo

Elektron announced Overbridge will now be free too.

Digitakt compatibility touted for Feb 2018.

ruggedsmooth

@SpookyZoo said:
Elektron announced Overbridge will now be free too.

Digitakt compatibility touted for Feb 2018.

I’ll believe overbridge when I see it. Wouldn’t hold your breath

Gaia.Tree

@zhoe said:

@ipadthai said:
I don't agree about workflow being quicker on Digitakt. I'd argue it's slower. To get a sample on there, you have to hook it up to a computer, for example. With iOS, however, I can be sitting in a coffee shop and a download a sample to Audioshare and drop the sample in an app, trim it, make it something just as weird and stuttery as in Digitakt (but even more so since Digitakt only has a few effects and features), and have a a nice loop/sound/whatever all in a few minutes.

Digitakt is not even battery powered. It's more time consuming prep-wise to start the process with a Digitakt. You basically have to be in your "studio." Sure you can lug it and the power cord but it's not the same in convenience, which impacts workflow.

Now someone like Dataline might make everything look cool and fluid and improv-like. But if you pay close attention to his and others' videos, you'll see that a lot of it is not on-the-fly mangling. A lot is prepared beforehand. I wouldn't want to be building a song live in front of an audience with it. It's not that kind of workflow.

I know the Digitakt is wildly popular but I think people have a skewed idea of its workflow. It also doesn't offer much in the way of effects - just reverb, delay, and an awful sounding bit crusher. The conditional trigs and retrigs are neat but nothing that justifies the $700 imo and they pale in comparison to what I can do with BM3 [or insert another app] and Turnado alone. I can go so much further into glitchy, stuttery, dark IDM territory with the iPad.

Like I said, I had it for a few months and just felt like it was a bit antiquated compared to what I can do on iOS. If it was battery powered, then mayyyyyybe. But even then, nah.

I don't have it, but this is how I feel about it, having watched a good number of Digitakt YT vids. I also had Korg Volca Sample, and it was fun the first couple of days. I think all we need is a good controller that will turn BM3 or some other apps into an even quicker more powerful tool. I think hardware sequencers are having a good revival at the mo, but they'll go away, soon. If, for example, Elektron were to decide to create a hybrid iOS app-hardware controller, they'd be waaay more future proof. And would probably sell more as well. Just my two pence.

And when BM3 becomes as stable as my Octatrack which hasnt crashed on me ONCE, then we can talk. For now iOS is fun and great for production and sound generation but shit for performance.

ipadthai

@zhoe said:

@ipadthai said:
I don't agree about workflow being quicker on Digitakt. I'd argue it's slower. To get a sample on there, you have to hook it up to a computer, for example. With iOS, however, I can be sitting in a coffee shop and a download a sample to Audioshare and drop the sample in an app, trim it, make it something just as weird and stuttery as in Digitakt (but even more so since Digitakt only has a few effects and features), and have a a nice loop/sound/whatever all in a few minutes.

Digitakt is not even battery powered. It's more time consuming prep-wise to start the process with a Digitakt. You basically have to be in your "studio." Sure you can lug it and the power cord but it's not the same in convenience, which impacts workflow.

Now someone like Dataline might make everything look cool and fluid and improv-like. But if you pay close attention to his and others' videos, you'll see that a lot of it is not on-the-fly mangling. A lot is prepared beforehand. I wouldn't want to be building a song live in front of an audience with it. It's not that kind of workflow.

I know the Digitakt is wildly popular but I think people have a skewed idea of its workflow. It also doesn't offer much in the way of effects - just reverb, delay, and an awful sounding bit crusher. The conditional trigs and retrigs are neat but nothing that justifies the $700 imo and they pale in comparison to what I can do with BM3 [or insert another app] and Turnado alone. I can go so much further into glitchy, stuttery, dark IDM territory with the iPad.

Like I said, I had it for a few months and just felt like it was a bit antiquated compared to what I can do on iOS. If it was battery powered, then mayyyyyybe. But even then, nah.

I don't have it, but this is how I feel about it, having watched a good number of Digitakt YT vids. I also had Korg Volca Sample, and it was fun the first couple of days. I think all we need is a good controller that will turn BM3 or some other apps into an even quicker more powerful tool. I think hardware sequencers are having a good revival at the mo, but they'll go away, soon. If, for example, Elektron were to decide to create a hybrid iOS app-hardware controller, they'd be waaay more future proof. And would probably sell more as well. Just my two pence.

Now that it’s been a few months since I’ve sold my digitakt and hopped on the iOS wagon, I feel like I miss it. It’s fun and I love the step sampler: so easy to create glitchy, stuttery goodness.

But at the same time, when I think of all the shortcomings compared to iOS, I remember why I sold it.

• no slicing
• no time stretching
• not ready for live performances because it still crashes/freezes to this day (see Elektronauts forum)
• no Overbridge still
• not battery powered
• no song mode
• cant save pattern chains

iOS in comparison is so easy: sit in bed and you have everything (mixer, samplers, DAWs, synths, sequencers, most everything is Ableton-linked, and so on).

If I had unlimited funds, I’d have a digitakt in the house. Right now I don’t feel like I can justify $600 on it, although some days I have it in my Musicians Friend cart with a coupon applied ready to pull the trigger. Honestly I might buy it today now that I think about it. But then again $600 is like an entry level PA system or a 65 inch tv. Do I really another sampler, especially when it comes with hassle of being hardware? Of course I do It’s easily my favorite piece of hardware I’ve ever bought. And the inability to save chains is not as big of a deal because of conditional trigs, which can make the 64 steps a good bit longer, if that makes sense.

zhoe

@ipadthai said:

@zhoe said:

@ipadthai said:
I don't agree about workflow being quicker on Digitakt. I'd argue it's slower. To get a sample on there, you have to hook it up to a computer, for example. With iOS, however, I can be sitting in a coffee shop and a download a sample to Audioshare and drop the sample in an app, trim it, make it something just as weird and stuttery as in Digitakt (but even more so since Digitakt only has a few effects and features), and have a a nice loop/sound/whatever all in a few minutes.

Digitakt is not even battery powered. It's more time consuming prep-wise to start the process with a Digitakt. You basically have to be in your "studio." Sure you can lug it and the power cord but it's not the same in convenience, which impacts workflow.

Now someone like Dataline might make everything look cool and fluid and improv-like. But if you pay close attention to his and others' videos, you'll see that a lot of it is not on-the-fly mangling. A lot is prepared beforehand. I wouldn't want to be building a song live in front of an audience with it. It's not that kind of workflow.

I know the Digitakt is wildly popular but I think people have a skewed idea of its workflow. It also doesn't offer much in the way of effects - just reverb, delay, and an awful sounding bit crusher. The conditional trigs and retrigs are neat but nothing that justifies the $700 imo and they pale in comparison to what I can do with BM3 [or insert another app] and Turnado alone. I can go so much further into glitchy, stuttery, dark IDM territory with the iPad.

Like I said, I had it for a few months and just felt like it was a bit antiquated compared to what I can do on iOS. If it was battery powered, then mayyyyyybe. But even then, nah.

I don't have it, but this is how I feel about it, having watched a good number of Digitakt YT vids. I also had Korg Volca Sample, and it was fun the first couple of days. I think all we need is a good controller that will turn BM3 or some other apps into an even quicker more powerful tool. I think hardware sequencers are having a good revival at the mo, but they'll go away, soon. If, for example, Elektron were to decide to create a hybrid iOS app-hardware controller, they'd be waaay more future proof. And would probably sell more as well. Just my two pence.

Now that it’s been a few months since I’ve sold my digitakt and hopped on the iOS wagon, I feel like I miss it. It’s fun and I love the step sampler: so easy to create glitchy, stuttery goodness.

But at the same time, when I think of all the shortcomings compared to iOS, I remember why I sold it.

• no slicing
• no time stretching
• not ready for live performances because it still crashes/freezes to this day (see Elektronauts forum)
• no Overbridge still
• not battery powered
• no song mode
• cant save pattern chains

iOS in comparison is so easy: sit in bed and you have everything (mixer, samplers, DAWs, synths, sequencers, most everything is Ableton-linked, and so on).

If I had unlimited funds, I’d have a digitakt in the house. Right now I don’t feel like I can justify $600 on it, although some days I have it in my Musicians Friend cart with a coupon applied ready to pull the trigger. Honestly I might buy it today now that I think about it. But then again $600 is like an entry level PA system or a 65 inch tv. Do I really another sampler, especially when it comes with hassle of being hardware? Of course I do It’s easily my favorite piece of hardware I’ve ever bought. And the inability to save chains is not as big of a deal because of conditional trigs, which can make the 64 steps a good bit longer, if that makes sense.

Interesting. It somewhat reminds me of a couple of hardware sampler seqs I sold back in time. I even had Yamaha RS7000 15 years ago. I am that old. So, If you had unlimited funds you would buy Digitakt again? You wouldn’t buy Oktatrack instead? Or some other gear? I am honestly waiting for someone to make a hardware controller with iOS in mind. Would it kill Elektron to create an app that would extend their Digitakt, Oktatrack features via Bluetooth or whichever way? Do not get me wrong, I love hardware stuff. I love the quickness of it, the actual hands on experience. But one of your points is that Digitakt often crashes so it is not good as a love tool. That’s very important for me. No slicing? Another one. No battery mode...I can live with but also a no. No song mode? Unexplainable to me in this day and age.

Heiliger_Bimbam

Ordered a Digitakt 2min ago. So exiting

kobamoto

there's a small 5/6 hour battery that you can get for 50 bucks on amazon, I'll find the clip..... in the meantime some clips of interest below

ok here's the battery he's using for these vids

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Inepo+GM312+Mini+UPS

digitakt has slicing, just not automatic slicing....... why no transient detection slicing, or chop shop? because that would make too much sense and make every digitakt owner happy , except those users that feel like transient detection would ruin this sampling drum computer....huh?...... imho with out implementing stereo samples they could have at least added more slicing features but hey it's still beyond useable.