Hello, my name is Ivar Tryti, and I make music using mainly two Elektron devices: the Digitakt and the Digitone. My main genre is downtempo trip hop, though I take a lot of inspiration from video games as well, particularly from the NES, SNES era.
I generally post 1-3 videos each week, ranging from short tracks to long tutorials.
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Hey man love the song. I had a question about how your recording bass into the octatrack, I have a thunderbird with hot pickups and I'm also using a filter and a compressor on a thru machine to bump my signal, it sounds fine when fiddling around but when I listen to the recorded playback it can be barely heard and is rather weak
Thanks a lot! Ohh, I think I understand what's going on. You're using a thru-track to put a filter and compression on your bass, right? When you sample the audio, make sure to sample the thru-track, rather than the input A/B/C/D directly. The inputs will be pre-FX, hence the low volume in the sample. Let me know if I understood the problem correctly!
Yeah, everything is coming from the Digitone, and it's all recorded in one take. The drums are on track 4, with two voices locked to them to avoid voice stealing from the melodic tracks. I'm using sound locks and microtiming on the drum track to make two drum hits play almost at the same time. It's a bit of a hassle, but the amount of work isn't TOO bad so I do this for most of my Digitone only jams =) The super fast chord synth sound was done using a fast saw shaped LFO assigned to volume, so it sounds like it's playing a ton of notes when it's really just 4 notes with really long Amp release time.
Unfinished is our duty as artist nothing will ever be perfect but here such a great set ! I would love to make remix in live with them using my pictures too 😊
These both sound very finished to me :) Not every song has to be a super complex and long production, sometimes a short sweet track with minimal elements is great the way it is, like one you'd hear in an emotional scene in an rpg or something 😁 Great stuff, as always!
Thank you very much! I was very happy with the loops, but I felt the length was too short to upload as two separate tracks, so I put them together like this :D
I enjoyed listening to this anyway. My complete musical output so far has been me jamming with patterns that are basically unfinished songs that I recorded anyway. Not everything needs to end up as a completed song, I find lots of joy making music this way.
"I made two patterns on the Digitone and liked them both very much, but had trouble finishing them. So I just performed them back to back instead and called it a day" is why I eventually gave up on the Elektron workflow. It's built for making a quick pattern or two and looping them while changing mutes and knobs, and that's just not what I was aiming for in my music.
@@zbsfm Hi, sorry, I tried to answer but youtube deleted my comment. In short, my workflow and the Elektron workflow aren't very compatible, and I get stuff done much faster on a Force. I've uploaded some examples, but I don't know if I can mention that without getting my comment deleted again.
Yeah you can certainly use it that way, but that's your choice, you can make as long and complex songs as you need. But enjoy whatever you're using now! It's all about finding what works best for you, Elektron certainly isn't for everyone.
@@zbsfm The song "Easy Does It" is a style Elektron doesn't do well. I generally lay down a minute or two of melody, then go back to add a bassline, then drums and stuff, then choose samples and patches and fx and finally do mixing, etc... and that's really impractical on Elektron devices. They're built to finish a single pattern to production quality first, then loop it while knob-turning, or copy/paste it to make variations. So with 22 patterns, if I wanted to adjust my snare or mixing levels or something, I had to do it 22 times for each thing I wanted to change.
@@ToyKeeper Yep, I've experienced the same pain points when working with many patterns in one song. The bigger Elektron boxes have kits which solves that problem, but introduces different different issues for me (mainly extra book keeping on which kit is used by which pattern). The Elektron workflow really does work really well when you use it the way you described, flesh out a single pattern and duplicating it for variation and tweaking things live.
It’s a beautiful example of the variety of moods that can be created with this device! Thank you for putting out more tracks before the mk2 comes out (Digitone seems to be „sold out“ on the Elektron Website). ;)
Thanks a lot! It's all coming from the Digitone. It's a stereo recording running through a multiband expander and Limiter for a bit of compression and eq and loudness
This tutorial isnt very helpful for a beginner. You should start with the basics like to to get fl studio to recognize the digitakt. Do I need overbridge? Your tutorial starts 10 steps ahead
Hoping you will drop a guided tutorial on the Digitakt 2! You are a master on these devices and I love to watch and learn new “tricks”. Your technique and style seeps through the machines. Well done!
Your tutorials for this device are top notch. I recently received the Digitakt 2 from my brother, would you pick the Digitone over the Syntakt to compliment the DT2? I wonder if Elektron are about to release a Digitone 2 soon.
