Digitakt 2 Fixes (almost) Everything!

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Ай бұрын

This week I'm messing with the Digitakt II from Elektron. It is, as you might expect, the sequel to the Digitakt, a device I liked a lot but had a few somewhat glaring flaws. In my humble opinion the 2 fixes most of these and is a substantially upgraded device. I share my thoughts on this here and walk through a beat I made, then play the whole beat for you. I hope you enjoy!
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@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

If you enjoy the video please consider checking out my album “There’s Something Better” wherever you listen to music: hyperfollow.com/dylanparis

@TheJacksonscience Ай бұрын

Man I love zzounds, especially their installment plans

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

I’m extremely biased but I also agree, they’re the best

@mranalog241 12 күн бұрын

I feel the same way. The D2 solved all of the problems I had with the D1, but it’s a different set of problems! I sold my D1 due to the lack of real kits, the 8 track limit and no page looping. The D2 fixed all of this and so much more.

@remyvegamedia Ай бұрын

Okay... So, I just watched a couple more videos on the DT2... I'm really into it... haha. Just saw how you can record samples straight in with selected length while the pattern plays. This thing is dope.

@Painsoreal Ай бұрын

Dope dope dope! Mine will come tomorrow 😊

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

Heck yeah!! I hope you have an awesome time with it!

@Painsoreal Ай бұрын

@@DylanParisMusic I will 😌🤪

@CrankyOldNerd Ай бұрын

thanks! finally understand the thing a bit better. some of the videos out there assume you know so much, you going through it so straight froward madeit make a bit more sense.

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

I’m really glad to hear that! It’s fun to go from not understanding these things at all to being able to walk through them for others

@ron.h264 Ай бұрын

In your experience how is the stretching machine compared to the 404mk2/MPC? I’ve got all 3 and have found it to sound quite bad compared to either with a lot of wobbly ring mod type artifacts, especially when slowing samples down. I hope I’m just doing something wrong bc that’s kinda disappointing for 1k asking price :/

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

Honestly it seems a lot lower fidelity compared to the MPC, Maschine, or SP 404. I hope they can improve it a bit, I could also be using it wrong but I don’t have the same issues with the other devices

@aikighost Ай бұрын

Yeah I really like mine its great fun and easy to use, I really would like a proper slice mode though.

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

It seems overdue for sure, hopefully sometime soon, a grid machine with an easy chopping UI would make sense

@lextron-audio Ай бұрын

This is the easiest Elektron device to use so far.. really well designed and thought out. It’s a great sound design tool. I love it

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

Agreed!

@jonwoodcock3198 Ай бұрын

Are you having trouble with clicks and pops because of the lack of zero crossing sample editing?

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

I haven’t encountered it yet but that’s a good callout! I can see it being an issue for looping samples, will have to test

@AboutHouseMusic Ай бұрын

Are the sample transfer speeds ever going to improve? Sounds like a massive setback.

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

I don’t know if they will, I hope so! I’m not usually transferring a lot back and forth but I could see it getting really annoying if I was doing it a lot

@duketranslucent3rd Ай бұрын

New to the channel. Nice overview but DANG the continued lack of chord support is baffling, even more so with 16 audio tracks. Surely they'll add that. Anyway keep up the great work and much love.

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

Thank you! I hope they add chord support for sure!

@Farold_Haltermeyer Ай бұрын

Interesting. Mulling this one as revisited the Digi with the Mk2 and found it just as underwhelming as my first one and incredibly limiting...wondering what I’m missing and whether I shouldn’t have returned it, but I guess it’s just not for me. Hohum :)

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

That’s super fair too! No need to convince yourself you like something if it doesn’t inspire!

@Tapepusher Ай бұрын

Ye talk good, real good. I like the cut o’ ye gib. Ye gona go fa’, real fa’.

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

Thank you kindly!

@nagchumpalot Ай бұрын

Can it polyphonic midi sequence?

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

I think each midi track can trigger 4 simultaneous notes

@remyvegamedia Ай бұрын

Man, I'm perpetually drawn to the Digitakt for creating glitch, IDM, deep house, and deep tech.. At this point I wouldn't expect it to be a fully standalone groovebox/sampler especially with not proper chopping. It excels, to me, in being a drum and sample sequencing machine. I'd probably complete songs with keys/synth parts in Ableton. This really makes me reluctant to go for it because I feel like as cool as they are, they're overpriced because of how each of their devices is perpetually created to have minimal crossover, therefore perpetually and DELIBERATELY limited. There's nothing I've been on the brink of buying more than the Digitakt. It's just not in the "let me try it out" price range for me personally.

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

That makes a lot of sense and I think about that crossover thing a lot too. I don’t think it could be the only device in my kit but I could definitely imagine it being the centerpiece

@remyvegamedia Ай бұрын

@@DylanParisMusicExactly man it's definitely powerful for what it does! I'm gonna get one eventually, it's just a matter of time and saving up.

@Zsklar Ай бұрын

Haven't solved the hard drive getting corrupted! When I get past 50 percent full, all files are corrupted and can't upload anything else without reformatting the +drive. SO FRUSTRATING!

@Farold_Haltermeyer Ай бұрын

Seeing this a lot, have they acknowledged it?

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

Whoa!! I haven’t heard of that at all, that is not good!!

@JohnDoe-yr5tg Ай бұрын

Yes mine bricks after 50% can’t even delete files unreal

@christopherinniss3535 Ай бұрын

I had this issue and it stopped after I formatted the +drive and tried again. Good luck!

@sarahfm7291 Ай бұрын

updated Transfer & firmware, solved this

@MyNameJeff.. Ай бұрын

I used to never understand why these were so popular. But as I start to get away from maschine (now only using kk with it) and even my mpc live, and using more hardware synths and my op-1 field, these things seem awesome.

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

I totally feel that! It is definitely more on the DAWless side of the spectrum the way a minifreak and the op1 are than an MPC or Maschine

@MyNameJeff.. Ай бұрын

@@DylanParisMusic Seems pretty sweet, but only have one kidney left after getting the op-1

@edwardferry8247 Ай бұрын

AI as of right now can output this. There will have to be a realisation in the music hardware business that either these devices are dramatically simplified in terms of time to output or what they output will be so unique and different that one could not think of not using them. Generic hardware isn’t going to survive this enormous wave heading toward it.

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

Idk man plenty of us hate AI music and will gladly reject it and clown on people who use it / gear dedicated to it

@javonscott4777 Ай бұрын

Bro you need to get and go deep on the Roland mv-1 people are sleeping on this hard ware it's literally built to make songs but the only thing that sells it short is the fact you can't sound design to much but I learned how to sample properly today and can show you how to do it the right way

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

I really loved the MC 707, probably the device I regret selling the most

@javonscott4777 Ай бұрын

@@DylanParisMusic the Mc707 has similar sounds but the workflow yields completely different results, the MV -1 is comparable to the Mpc but has a more straight forward and easier workflow

@mooted5513 Ай бұрын

Musical toy

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

I’m not sure if you mean this positively or negatively cause it’s the internet, but in a positive way I agree. It makes creating music and playing with sound very fun in a childlike joyful way

@Curious_Skeptic Ай бұрын

Can't wrap my head around the GUI! Really? In 2024, so many are happy with these micro screen? Glad there are enough peeps with good eyesight to keep Elektron going.

@milk_bath Ай бұрын

Pretty clear and easy to read for my eyes.

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

Definitely fair if it’s hard to read but yeah I would agree it is pretty elegant and simple with how it presents data. Many elements are icon or glyph based and most things on the screen correlate to knobs or buttons on device as well

@christdolphin69 Ай бұрын

couldnt be easier to navigate

@Alckemy Ай бұрын

It’s pretty simple… your biggest hurdle is loading samples. A quick manual read or yt tutorial will fix that

@rtoipbezecha4257 Ай бұрын

I love this screen in digitakt. I have large color screens on my phone, computer or iPad, so that's enough.

@SergeyCoder Ай бұрын

Don't like in such machines that you not playing music, you programming it ☹

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

You can definitely play it though! Everything in this beat was played in via live recording except for the two little bleeps twinkle sounds I show in the verse

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

You hit record and play at the same time and then you can input notes in realtime

@SergeyCoder Ай бұрын

@@DylanParisMusic It’s not playing 🤷‍♂️ It’s not velocity responsive playing & no MPE support. After entering notes, you should correct each note for making it more natural & not boring. You can’t playing on it like piano, guitar, violin etc. It has more robotic & programmable workflow, not humanized & not expression based 😕

@DylanParisMusic Ай бұрын

@SergeyCoder oh, super weird take my dude!

@SergeyCoder Ай бұрын

@@DylanParisMusic Yeah. Will be cool to see next generations of DT that provide more powerful support in >>playing

@koalemos1679 Ай бұрын

Even if they put a chord machine in it, this thing needs to play chords. It's time, it's not 1996 anymore.

@duketranslucent3rd Ай бұрын

100%. Ditto the Syntakt. It's not like this would even be hard (especially on the Digi). Provide a way to set a track as the "lead" track of a chord, and provide a way to set one or more other tracks as "follower" tracks. The follower tracks defer all settings barring trig note (ie pitch) to the lead track. Voila, chords - you sound design on one track, without having to manually copy each sound tweak to each other track that's part of the chord. Elektron need to support chords soon (in some way, if not this one). The Lof-fi XT has just come out and is looking a really attractive prospect at half the price and polyphonic tracks.

@koalemos1679 Ай бұрын

@duketranslucent3rd ok, so I bought the OG LoFi 12 and tried it out. It was dope and had a very Elektron workflow. The plastic they make their stuff out of feels mega cheap though so I sent it back. If I did't plan to gig or anything, I'd buy anything Sonicware but I don't know how much abuse one of those boxes could handle.

@duketranslucent3rd Ай бұрын

@@koalemos1679 Yeah I was put off the OG Lofi for the same reason (that and only four tracks). However I've heard some good noises about the sturdiness of the XT over on the Elektronauts thread about the device. Perhaps have a read of that. Not Elektron quality but supposedly not bad. Not got my hands on one yet myself so can't confirm.