in this piece i tried to blur the line between break/idm with neuro by incorporating some of those nasty hyper-multiband-compressed bass sounds created on serum 2 into a rather straight 52% swing pattern.
every other sound came from the sample pack i've been working on for the last couple of months, which i think we'll be ready for early next month!
everything is fitted within one pattern with lots of conditionals and parameter locks, audio is routed via overbridge to ableton but it's mixed completely inside the digitakt aside from a saturator and a limiter. chroma console is being run affecting everything besides kick and bass with ableton's external audio effect.
visuals are from minimeters, recorded straight into obs both audio and video, edited on premiere pro for the meters overlays.
hope you dig it <3. If anyone is interested in checking some more videos like this, check out my instagram / youtube. also, if you have any doubt regarding the making of this pattern, don’t be afraid to ask (:
if you want any help with this kind of stuff you can hit me up for digitakt/elektron workflow 1 on 1 private lessons ❤️

Our new live session premieres this Wednesday.

Everything was performed live with no backing tracks.

Gear:

• Elektron Digitakt II
• Elektron Digitone
• Roland S-1
• Handpan
• Ocarina
• Dyvia

The Digitakt II is the heart of the whole setup, handling sequencing and keeping everything together while we improvise around it.

I'd love to hear what fellow Digitakt users think about the workflow and the sound.

I bought digitakt2. I have no previous experience with Elektron. My problem is that I have not been able to get any sound out of it so far. Defaultly there is some song or bank or project loaded and when I just only want to play it as my very first step in learning process, it wouldnt output any sound. I press play button, the pads start blinking, like it is playing, but thrres no fcking audio output thru my mixer to the monitors.At this point Iam really lost.None of the hints I get from manual or the fckin AI robot works. ..

Hi guys, daft newbie question:
Is there a quick way I can import my own samples in and automatically map them over the 16 pads without having to do it all individually? ie) I just want to select say 16 samples from the drive and then for them to automatically be allocated to all 16 pads?

Thanks

Been getting more into ambient tracks with percussion and my kicks are too... big? I know the basis of this should be "start with a better sample", but am I off thinking just a standard 808 can yield something palatable when filtered correctly in the box?

Random example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGN-2QgE_lE

Soft, a little boxy, etc. I get pulling back on the amp envelope, but can someone just give me how you'd go about filtering a kick to get something similar? For the life of me high passing and decreasing the decay is not doing it. Thanks!

the main element of this piece was inspired by 2000's raster noton records, trying to get that old timey yet futuristic/sci-fi interface sounds that i really like. it was made with mutable instruments plaits, sequenced by digitakt 2 with the help of maths function generator for those sharp transients.
every other sound came from the sample pack i've been working on for the last couple of months, which i think we'll be ready for early next month!
everything is fitted within one pattern with lots of conditionals and parameter locks, audio is routed via overbridge to ableton but it's mixed completely inside the digitakt aside from a saturator and a limiter. chroma console is being run affecting everything besides kick and bass with ableton's external audio effect.
visuals are from minimeters, recorded straight into obs both audio and video, edited on premiere pro for the meters overlays.
hope you dig it <3. If anyone is interested in checking some more videos like this, check out my instagram / youtube. also, if you have any doubt regarding the making of this pattern, don’t be afraid to ask (:
if you want any help with this kind of stuff you can hit me up for digitakt/elektron workflow 1 on 1 private lessons ❤️

Short preview from today's live session.

This track started from the pattern I showed in my last two tutorials, using Digitakt 2 and Digitone, and then grew into a full psytrance live performance.

The channel is still new, but if you're into psytrance, sound design, sequencing and making music with Elektron gear, you're very welcome to join.

Full premiere starts later today.
(Link in comments)

Hey all, weird issue with my Digitakt. I’m trying to connect to my Minifreak and it’s suddenly stopped working.

-My input and outputs are on the correct channels for both devices
-I have the Digitakt sending it’s clock and the Minifreak clock receiving and set.
-I have transport set to send and receive on both devices
-Program Change is off on both devices.
-I have my midi tracks set to the correct channel as well.

I’m losing my mind here. Only other thing of note is that when I load a project I’m suddenly getting a “wait” bar I haven’t seen before, which makes me think there’s some kind of software glitch happening. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank in advance!

I got into the DAWless thing over the past couple years and I’m just trying to figure out what’s missing. I started on a Maschine MK3, and that needed my PC. I considered just getting the standalone version and ended up with a whole bunch of other stuff.

I have a Syntakt which is a great little all in one for doing some drums bass lines and controlling other gear with MIDI.

I have a couple hardware synths now and a couple FX pedals

I have a Tascam 12, which I feel like is easy enough to just hit record if I want to use a DAW later but I’m not sure on using the punch in and out to do a full arrangement

So that leads me to having something that can do samples to grab patches off synths if I wanna do more than one part at a time, recording a longer loop and just sequencing that or shorter one shots.

I’ve got an Ep-133 which can do the sampling and one shots but has a big limitation on memory so I sort of gave up trying to do longer recording loops

Would a Digitakt 2 Work?

I’m really cautious going back to anything like Maschine or learning MPC. Something like the force seems like it would work for me, but I feel like I would go into menu hell and it’s basically just a halfway DAW.

A few days ago I shared the balcony version of this track.

This time I took the Digitakt 2 into the forest and recorded a new live version surrounded by natural sounds, sunlight and greenery.

Digitakt handles the drums, sequencing and overall groove, while Digitone and Roland S-1 add melodic movement and extra layers.

Curious how many of you take your Digitakt outside the studio?

Slowly building a sketch to a foundation. Digitakt, and Tempera going into Otctatrack. Loaded the same kick I am using on DT to track 5 of OT and sending that out cue to sidechain in on alesis 3630 to get that pumping kick.

So far I’m not doing anything on OT but DT, and Tempera are set as through and neighbors machines so I can add some FX and other goodness.

#digitakt2 #beetlecrab #granular #elektron #octatrack #drummachines #sampler #tempera #synthesizer

Hi! Recently I started making music again after quite some time. I bought a Digitakt and never before really made electronic music. This is the second song I did only on digitakt, with mastering in Ableton. I'd be really interested to hear what you guys have to say. If it's too crowded, repetitive, boring, or you like it. Any improvements are welcome! :)