Digitakt 2 - Beginner's MEGA TUTORIAL

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Digitakt 2 is here! My new go-to sampler sequencer instrument.
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:10 Hardware Overview
00:02:07 The Elektron System
00:07:12 Booting it up, dynamic loading
00:07:53 Overview of the panel
00:11:43 Play a pattern
00:12:00 Stop playback
00:12:36 Selecting patterns
00:13:46 Your samples - your style
00:14:33 The power of stereo
00:15:12 One last cuckoo pattern
00:15:33 Create a new project
00:16:58 Naming a project, files, kits
00:18:00 Loading a project
00:18:49 Exit menu
00:19:17 Factory preset kit
00:19:46 Make your first pattern
00:20:37 Keep editing while it's playing
00:21:04 Keep an eye on the rec button
00:21:23 Select another track to edit
00:22:03 Preparing to live record
00:22:36 Quantising live recording
00:23:44 Metronome
00:24:40 Changing the tempo (bpm)
00:24:55 Tuning a sample
00:25:17 Setting the track level
00:25:37 Adjusting the amp envelope
00:26:05 Exploring Track Effects
00:26:56 Trimming a sample
00:27:34 Stereo or mono
00:28:03 Clear pattern, to start over
00:28:34 Mixing with the filters
00:30:27 Set Preroll for Live rec count-in
00:31:16 Remember to turn off the metronome
00:31:40 Keep fine tuning during playback
00:32:17 Add fast hi-hats in no-time
00:32:37 Modulating a hihat - predictably
00:34:06 Modulating a hihat - randomised
00:35:33 Modulating a hihat - more modulation
00:36:36 Playing the keyboard
00:36:49 Envelope modes
00:37:36 The filter envelope
00:38:40 Multiple pattern pages
00:40:56 Set pattern pages per track
00:43:21 Preview copy paste notes
00:44:30 Send to FX per trig
00:44:57 FX settings
00:47:29 Exploring the other filters
00:49:29 Conditional trigs
00:50:34 Save project
00:50:50 Selecting samples
00:51:53 Quick loading samples
00.52:44 Loop a single cycle waveform
00:53:17 Keyboard folding scales
00:55:01 Portamento
00:55:20 Longer pattern again
00:55:53 Parameter locking a modulation
00:56:53 The perform kit
00:58:04 The master compressor
01:02:46 Copy/ Paste Patterns and tracks
01:03:25 Edit All tracks at the same time
01:03:51 Queue up pattern change
01:04:26 The two mute modes
01:06:29 Loading many samples
01:07:44 Saving presets
01:09:29 Saving presets to the Preset Pool
01:10:57 Multiple presets on one track
01:15:07 Trig modes overview
01:15:44 Trig mode - Preset Pool
01:16:56 Sampling your first sample
01:19:55 Sample a loop
01:22:30 Track machines
01:23:05 The Stretch machine
01:23:42 The Werp machine
01:26:01 Sampling again
01:26:25 Changing the tempo
01:26:57 Trig-less trigs
01:28:27 Sampling for the GRID machine
01:35:14 What's under the hood

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@solongyouth Ай бұрын

I must've watched the original Digitakt Mega Tutorial a hundred times, and I was really hoping you would do one for the Digitakt 2, so seeing this makes me happy. You're number 1, Cuckoo.

@truecuckoo Ай бұрын

Thank yoU!!! I hope to make a few followups with more advanced use cases!

@solongyouth Ай бұрын

@@truecuckoo That would be great!

@GuitarsAndSynths Ай бұрын

@@truecuckoo outstanding! looking forward to it!

@FictionalScenario Ай бұрын

Same all hail Cuckoo!

@panskibinski 5 күн бұрын

OG Digitakt mk1 Mega Tutorial is my sacred video since day one :D

@borncurmudgeon 2 күн бұрын

This has got to be one of the best tutorials on anything i've ever tried to learn. Just got my Digitakt 2 last night, my first elektron box, and I was off to the races thanks to this video. 🙏

@totomhavehat Ай бұрын

6 years ago I got my first machine ever, a digitakt. i remember watching your video and learning it during the summer each day before going to work, sitting in my bed i was waking up with the sun at 4h30 and going to work at 6. I’ve watched it several times and went back to different timings to find stuff and understand the machine, the best video on the digitakt ever. the digitakt helped me survive this summer job and made me an Elektron fangirl Lots of nostalgia watching this new one ! Thanks Cuckoo 🙏 I’m already 10mins in I know it’s the best video out there for the Digitakt 2 I was about to buy the Octa… i’ll take some time to think I guess I had to sell the 1 when i needed cash, i regret selling it every day 🥲 But kits on a takt ???? I can’t wait for the next Syntakt update, this is exactly what i want 😁

@MuddyNikes 4 күн бұрын

The unit arrives tomorrow. I’ve watched this every day since it was ordered.

@crimsonfancy 9 күн бұрын

Your patient instruction is so helpful to me as a new Digitakt 2 owner. My experience in digital music production is so limited and currently more a ground-floor but quickly growing hobby. With so much foundation and lexicon to learn, I've only just scratched the surface. I see many musicians at YT that create beginner-friendly tutorials for the learning of various machines. If you were to do something similar for Digitakt 2, I would be quick to purchase.

@exmalobonum1 Ай бұрын

Cuckoo, you are such a good teacher. I got very excited when you pushed the Digitakt out of the shot because I knew where it was going. This is so incredibly helpful for someone like me who's quite new to this. You KO II video was too - I've watched that dozens of times and it's helped a lot. I love these instructional videos! You should consider doing a 101 synth breakdown or something - I think that would do really well. Can't wait to finish this! :)

@HelicopterRidesForCommunists 26 күн бұрын

It sounds better than the original, and its not just the stereo. Better algorithms is helping too.

@trevormalcolm4328 Ай бұрын

I wasn’t really fussed about the OG Digitakt but the “2” seems a total beast, if it had a second set of stereo outputs I’d probably be buying one

@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked Ай бұрын

Yeah, this is far more powerful than what I've normally heard about this device with the storage space, the amount of kits it's able to hold, the + Drive, etc. :D

@charlieplatnum82 Ай бұрын

If I were to make a movie.........Cuckoo would definitely be in it!

@mekaneric Ай бұрын

True, as a bad or good, but very deeply good guy!

@GuitarsAndSynths Ай бұрын

me too I would feature Cuckoo is a live musician jamming with his band and Elektrons!

@alexanderraach6684 10 сағат бұрын

Many thanks! Very useful indeed for me as a new Digitakt 2 owner...

@pedromerino4627 Ай бұрын

I just never stop getting amazed by the quality of your videos! The best in the game

@hellf.o Ай бұрын

Wow..what a great synth era we are living in..!

@FlyingPetschman Ай бұрын

thank you - got mine today ... now its Cuckoo time :)

@joshdrift4374 Ай бұрын

Excelent teacher. An engaging style and right at my speed so I don't need pause/replay

@damooro-rv9io 9 күн бұрын

I have never learned so much in such a short time. Many thanks for that a lot

@eyesintheskies Ай бұрын

Holy mackerel , this was only leaked a couple days ago, now it’s already on the shelves. Elektron don’t mess around!!!

@marcusbyrne6633 4 күн бұрын

This is such a great tutorial, thanks so much 😊

@BiomechTB303 Ай бұрын

Great job, Cuckoo! Love your videos. This was a excellent introduction to the new Digitakt 2.

@MichaelBogaMusic 22 күн бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to do this! Just got my Digitakt II and I can't wait to dive in. Your tutorials are so precious!

@truecuckoo 21 күн бұрын

I'm so glad you like it, and find it useful! 🙏🏼

@MichaelBogaMusic 18 күн бұрын

@@truecuckoo Got your sample pack as a thank you :)

@Asyouwere Ай бұрын

I got mine on the way!! This is great Cuckoo, thanks again for another awesome tutorial.

@PaulKwitekmusic Ай бұрын

I was just gonna purchase the blackbox and this came out . awesome upgrade from the previous version. great tutorial thnxs !

@touchthatdial Ай бұрын

Brilliant overview as always. So good. Thank you. And what an upgrade, I love my Digitakt... and this is a whole other level.

@GuitarsAndSynths Ай бұрын

Nice demo and review Cuckoo! Always enjoy your music tutorials and positive happy vibe! I learned to use my first Elektron box from you :-)

@ady909 Ай бұрын

Thanks, and look forward to seeing more on this! 🎉

@vladimirussachevsky1315 Ай бұрын

Been watching you for years., always a pleasure. Can’t wait to get my hands on one!

@echo_opera Ай бұрын

You sir are amazing. Can't wait to apply what I've learned from your great video to the new shiny shiny :)

@moneypits Ай бұрын

Fantastic work as usual :) Such a brilliant teaching style for all these types of videos. Nothing is overwhelming and the knowledge you've built up in such a short time gives the rest of us hope :) Love the 606 vinyl too - off to Discogs I go...

@zipnone1996 7 күн бұрын

Cool news at the end! ❤

@smguy7 Ай бұрын

As usual you have informed me, inspired me and sold me on this instrument.

@remyvegamedia 27 күн бұрын

Okay man that 5th pattern, Luny Tuna I think, at 15:16 was both humorous and completely dope haha. I love your style.

@truecuckoo 27 күн бұрын

Haha thank you so much. I’m having so much fun when creating that kind of music 😀

@remyvegamedia 27 күн бұрын

@@truecuckoo I need to let that spirit into my process. It's so enriching to be feel the fun and laughter in music as much as alllll the other emotions. Good stuff, thank you for you great work. I have been curious about Digitakt and Elektron and never until this video understood the process at all besides the basic idea of the step sequencer.

@caesarsheadache Ай бұрын

Great Mark II machine and truly a superior tutorial 🔥🔥🔥 Thank you for this 🥳🤘

@mircolange4055 Ай бұрын

Super curious about the new platform and the updates coming. Thanks for the - as always - great video! 😊

@truecuckoo Ай бұрын

Yeah I’m very curious too see where this is going too! Thank you 🙏🏼

@framlucasse 19 күн бұрын

Thank's for the tuto, it's useful since it's my first Elektron!

@JoshuaNeedham Ай бұрын

Well that's another machine Cuckoos has made me order. Awesome mega-tutorial. Next up some crazy techniques please.

@geusensdriesmusic Ай бұрын

You're the best music production teacher on all of YT! Keep 'm coming.

@144treesago 13 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for this video! 🔥

@someoneacomputer1905 7 күн бұрын

such an amazing and nice teacher (and artist, these patterns have soul :-) )

@anonymous_friend Ай бұрын

Great tutorial. I'm ready for your next one ❤

@deyoungstar Ай бұрын

Excellent review as always!

@postlex Ай бұрын

Thanks Cuckoo, super cool and helpful, as always.

@rascal_rae Ай бұрын

nice use of the golden moog knob ;)

@rascal_rae Ай бұрын

perform mode!!! dang that's handy

@ilyandilymusic Ай бұрын

Incredible as always.

@Painsoreal 28 күн бұрын

Thank you so much. It's so informative 📓

@PhilB303 Ай бұрын

this is fantastic. really helpful!

@Gerdream 13 күн бұрын

Thank you for this tutorial, really helpful!

@samhughes3527 Ай бұрын

Wow man this is like asmr for me

@MagiCarpetRide 27 күн бұрын

Dude Thanks for doing this....Something strangely appealing about how you do your videos....LOL

@P.L.808 Ай бұрын

🥇Award for Well Explained and Easy to Follow Tutorial 😊 Thank you! Much appreciated

@joserodriguez6342 Ай бұрын

Excellent tutorial!!

@planktron Ай бұрын

Wow things are moving fast :D

@gyzzgyzz8353 Ай бұрын

can't wait to see your gig in holland on may 31!!

@Polyphanax Ай бұрын

Thanks for the great introduction to the Digitakt 2. Great job 👏 Looking forward to your follow ups! Passing this beast through my Schlappi modular rack is going to be an event. Maybe some Cuckoo ear defenders in your merch is something to think about. 🦻 🎧 😙

@d3tuned378 Ай бұрын

perform mode is brilliant! i like it better than the save/recall function on the model:cycles for destroying a sequence and then restoring it

@mekaneric Ай бұрын

Great review Boss, exhaustive!!! Great work! Here is the great cuckoo! Love it, Thank you

@AntonioAlemanno_music Ай бұрын

Awesome videos as always Cuckoo! I love especially your Megatutorial! Do you know if it is possible to transfer projects via the transfer directly from Digitakt to another Digitakt?

@ManCalledMif Ай бұрын

Cuckoo tutorials are the best. KO2 tutorial also great

@bubuAudio Ай бұрын

great tutorial!

@anvitsharma4885 29 күн бұрын

THanky you for this. Was very helpful!

@MrVincent97133 Күн бұрын

Big thanks for the tuto , it's help a lot

@JoeyJordis0n19 Ай бұрын

Mega good video, Cuckoo is the GOAT!

@truecuckoo Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

@pawekopacz593 Ай бұрын

Love Digitakt 2 , Cuckoo👍👍👍👍👍👍🤓😁

@hristuppiteitinu Ай бұрын

love this channel ❤

@o3rMeNs 7 күн бұрын

I think I just flew over the nest while waiting for my DT2 to arrive. Hopefully the second update will have solo option in mute mode similar to the AR.

@claystephens8522 13 күн бұрын

man you are the absolute goat. goated for eternity. thank you so much, Cuckoo.

@JUSTO33344 Ай бұрын

legendary sequel video

@strangestrains. Ай бұрын

HE LIVES!!!

@zorglub69ification 29 күн бұрын

Thanks you very much. Its so helpfull.

@Noname7401 Ай бұрын

Dose it not have the hardcore time stretching stuff that the octatrack can do? Dose it allow you to modulate every parameter? The warp time ect with probability?

@ECHOS_OF_NE0N 29 күн бұрын

Thank you ❤

@pierremarty5056 Ай бұрын

Great tutorial, thanks Cuckoo ! does the digitakt 2 normalise samples automatically or does it leaves you choice to do so ?

@warrenmusic Ай бұрын

Hi Cuckoo, insane tutorial and amazing work. During the section where you are sampling the 606, I had a question. How did you know the four bars of your vinyl loop would fit the project temp you already had? Was the vinyl sample also at the same tempo to begin with? Or did stretch it to the project tempo when you told it the length of the sample in bars? Also, do you think the Digitakt II could work well as a live audio and MIDI looper?

@ugood8023 Ай бұрын

Thanks Cuckoo - great vid as always. But oh how I wish it was pressure sensitive and could do manual slicing!

@tenaciouscj Ай бұрын

Manual slicing is more viable than in the past, although it’s still a work around. The Trig Preset Pool at 1:15:45 - just save each “chop” (start + end point) as a preset, play/record them into your track, voila

@dush79 Ай бұрын

Is there a separate track for the inputs to the mixer... is it possible to use volume & fx only for the stere input while direct monitoring?

@YISHENG-xr9er Ай бұрын

Hello Cuckoo thanks a lot for the video i am wondering something i see with the pitchbend, breath control, velocity , mod wheel ,aftertouch MODS an opportunity to get PERF mod like the rytm.... Midi out in midi in and then use a midi track to control them but i am wondering if the four parameters that you can assign could be over different tracks or only one ? (i read the manual but cannot figure it out). Cheers !

@bjamminsincebirth3494 Ай бұрын

I really want to see how the midi keyboard 🎹 works. Does it give you velocity sensitivity? Can you play chords?

@ljs8888 7 күн бұрын

Beautiful tutorial, thanks Cuckoo! Btw, what’s the model of your mini record player?

@vincentalaphilippe5191 Ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for your incredible tutorials. Quick question : Is the data structure explained in the chapter 3 similar to the one implemented in the Digitakt 1 ? It looks quite the same to me. But I never fully understand this area.... Best regards !

@truecuckoo Ай бұрын

It’s basically the same structure in all Elektron machines. But the memory is heavily upgraded. And the flexibility of the 16 tracks improved. 8 banks of sample slots instead of 1 etc.

@loathe4116 Ай бұрын

omg the digitakt 2 is real

@truecuckoo Ай бұрын

miau 🐱

@demazy 29 күн бұрын

Hey! Super great videos! Even for someone that is not into music production. But a tech nerd for sure. Great explanations that are mesmerizing and that box is so beautiful. But below beginner’s level question: what is the difference between this and your syntakt then ? Thanks!

@truecuckoo 28 күн бұрын

Thanks. The Syntakt is generating audio through synthesis. Both analog and digital synthesis. But it can’t play samples/ recorded audio files. The Digitakt series is playing samples only. It doesn’t have any other synthesis on board.

@demazy 28 күн бұрын

@@truecuckoo Oh different source material, different freedom, different limitations… but why not making 2 in 1 ? Or am I missing a core logic in your culture ? Like it has to be separated modular boxes somehow ? Too confusing, complex ? Power limit? Jack of all trades ? Limitations facilitate creativity ? Thanks for your reply

@KenithCopeland Ай бұрын

if this eventually got a update to do live looping, man, game over for me for every other piece of kit i own. i sold my original digi to buy a octatrack for live looping and regretted it ever since (love the octa but the digi is special fantastic video as always

@ady853003 Ай бұрын

plus one for a live looping feature - now with stereo samples, being able to somehow record a loop and have it inserted in the sequence's sample slot as soon as it's done recording would be so nice for instrumentalists. Triggering that process via midi would be a special bonus.

@KenithCopeland Ай бұрын

@@ady853003 im a guitarist first and foremost, then got into ableton and then some hardware (mainly elektron) i tried the newer MPC's for live looking, hated their workflow, no guitar loopers at that stage (2015) had the ability to preset loop lengths so i got a digi then octa which i controll via midi foot pedal. the form factor and directness of the digi is amazing, the octa is great but the digi is just straight to the point. it would be a hell of a machine to have midi foot controllable live looping

@ady853003 Ай бұрын

@@KenithCopeland 100% agree - also a guitarist, went through octatrack, aeros loop studio, weird ableton setups & max4live devices - never was fully satisfied, there was always some hidden menu or feature. I also think that the sampler of digitakt is straight to the point, always worked. Triggering the start & stop recording via midi and having the recorded sample transferred to the current track's sample slot automatically would probably finally end my search. Then the sequencer with already-placed triggers would start playing it back :D I'd pay 1k euros for the new digitakt in that case.

@KenithCopeland Ай бұрын

@@ady853003 that would make a lot of my dreams come true. most of my guitar playing is at my desk now days so i've toyed with the idea of just using ableton and a midi pedal but i do like portability for when i go on holidays (i tried taking my octa with me, just that little bit too big) with the new update for the sp404 mk2 that live looping is now possible i've been looking into that, but man, the elektron workflow is just something else (and much more intuitive for me)

@dspmusik81 Ай бұрын

I would probably watch these even if I wasn’t a musician. Even if only for the electronic mouth noises and FPV mirror. It’s the little things.

@emos1978 Ай бұрын

Thanks

@ortostudio9283 16 күн бұрын

Thanks for the great work!! One question: I am an octatrck user but I am now thinking to get a Digitakt 2 cause it looks like most of the stuff an Octatrack can do, the DG 2 can now. Am I wrong? does it make sensate to sell the OT and move to DG 2? I love to have your honest opinion..thanks again!

@spzcero Ай бұрын

Hola C! Pls, one question! If I want add at the pattern beginning the default "Preset 12" sound, like sound the entire sample during all the 4 pages, how I can do? Because right now, I add the "Preset 12" sample into "1 Button" but, the sound don't stay reproducing the entire Page. Do u know what I mean? Thnx in advance for your a.m.a.z.i.n.g constant work ;D

@spzcero 15 күн бұрын

Hi C! In the second 51:54 once you select a sample to this "A 017", how I can unload from this menu once I select one sound. U know what I mean? I don't want delete the selected sample from my +Drive, I want unselect and unassign this selected sample from "A Bank". U know? Thnx in advance :DD

@fredsavagegarden698 Ай бұрын

I want it!! Gimme! Lol I just heard about it and you guys got the. Lol naw I know we need your vids cuckoo 🎉

@Saturn_uk 11 күн бұрын

I have a bit of a problem with sampling from the Moog Sub 37 to the new Digitakt II. There is only one (single connector) output, and the manual says it uses an unbalanced cable. When I connect this single cable to the Digitakt, it only records the left or right side. Is there anything I can do to record both sides? Thanks

@Camoutlaw Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@truecuckoo Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 🙏🏼

@cleareyes4032 Ай бұрын

jag älskar dig cuckoo

@truecuckoo Ай бұрын

Åh vad härligt att höra Cleareyes ❤️

@vazio8813 Ай бұрын

Muito bom !! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@alejandrokuha2728 Ай бұрын

How compatible will the new DT be with the DN since they have a different step length?

@jonathonkiner7415 Ай бұрын

I'm just gonna sit back and wait for the new Octatrack.

@atommachine Ай бұрын

same

@GR1MMDJ Ай бұрын

I’ve had the rytm for a few years, and it can def sound cool by processing samples with the analog engines. I’m interesting in mainly getting more interesting unique textures / fx out of my drum patterns and samples to compliment my tracks in ableton. Can anyone that has owned both recommend if the digitakt might fit my workflow more than the rytm?