Droning away on the Digitakt 2. With stereo sampling and longer sequences this is slowly becoming my favorite piece of gear. In this jam I didn't use the sequencer. I find this workflow excellent for any ambient endeavours.
Very nice work! You’d be good to ask- considering the digitakt mk 2 for sample mangling especially vocals and reaching granular-ish synthesis. Your thoughts on that?
Thank you! I think Digitakt can definitely handle this. It doesn't have a granular engine but you can mess around with the lfos to get a granular like effect. If you're looking for granular particularly, I think there are better options out there probably. Where Digitakt shines is building tracks fast and live performance but the sample mangling capabilities are there with effects, distortion, bit crusher, different filters etc.
I just got my Digitakt II. I have an ambient yt channel that is growing, ide love to mess with this. Did you upload these samples to the digi? would like a little insight into the workflow of ambient on it
Good luck on your digitakt journey and thanks for stopping by! So how I did this is I made droning loops elsewhere and uploaded them on the Digitakt. Then with the release at infinite and play mode on looping forward triggered them on and went on to tweak things. You can use pretty much anything for this and you can also record samples straight into digitakt. Or use the stock samples and single cycle waveforms. Sky's the limit. There's a lot of ways to go about it. Can also just sequence stuff.
@@DawlessAndBibleBlack nice, love that. looking forward to messing with loops i create and upload. Ive been producing for a long time, but im currently trying to mess with our outboard gear. im thinking of a synth to compliment it, im not sure. digitone? korg opsix mkII, theirs a few others, but i like the way the digitone looks next to the digitakt lol
The good part about a sampler is it can sound like anything you want so the way you end up using the digitakt and the sounds you choose to use will dictate which synth will accompany it well. That being said I have the digitone and it's a really good pair. Seems to be popular amongst Elektron users. It's true that they fit well together aesthetically but they also take so little space and both have the Elektron workflow so it's super smooth to use both together. You might like the syntakt better though, or any of the Elektron boxes? Who knows. FM synthesis is fairly specific but I think Digitone does it well.
Thanks for the input. yea ive only dabled a bit with digitone. is the syntakt considered analog? i know its a drum synth but does it do drones/bass/synth well?
It's analog yeah so the tonal range is simpler and more limited compared to the Digitone but it's a flavor preference thing. Don't have the syntakt but it sounds fantastic too from what I've heard.
