Remember when Cenk started? how dry he was? "Here is this feature... I will show you this now" He's really grown into his role now and makes great presentations.
I love the ability to chromatically play samples and to parameter-lock start points and see a visual representation (4:55). I'm sold. This little box is much more impressive than I initially thought. Now if only I could find one in stock...
I watch Cuckoo's videos at 1.5x speed (same as with Bob Ross videos). BoBeats at normal speed. But Cenk I have to slow down the video to 0.75x speed... sometimes 0.5x.
Elektron Digitakt - Just watched the presentation... Fun "little" machine - brings back the spontaneity, experimentation, embracing the "limitations" for more creativity... Good and different way of exploring ideas and track creation as opposed to the seriousness and limitless possibilities of the DAW. :)
This video has sold me the Digitakt and has allowed me to get introduced into it very quickly when I received it yesterday. Already making tunes!! Love it!! Thank you
Cenk is the Bob Ross of electronic music. Btw it would be nice if the loop on a sample could be ping ponged, like you could on tracker programs like Modplug and Fasttracker.
Excellent work Cenk and Elektron on the video. Very clear, very well shot and edited. I don't agree with many of the choices on this box (or the last or overbridge) but this is heads and shoulders above past videos.
what a sick video! really perfectly presented! the sound you had going just before going back into safe mode was insane, i wish you played it longer haha
This is the best I've seen on the Digitakt so far. Other videos have been impressive but confusing. Granted, he makes it look easy because he is an expert on the beast, but it's so powerful that I just might learn the dreaded Elektron Werkfloh. BTW, Swedes pronounce "digital" as "diggy-tal". Anglophones say "dijjy-tal". So to me it shall be pronounced "dijjy-takt". Because I am culturally insensitive.
Nice one Cenk! Just getting ready to sample some live sax and trombone, already have a full folder of Jomox Xbase09 drum samples that I use on most everything, well done :)
Hellcore +1 on a MIDI feature video. I think that is what a lot of us have been waiting to see. Can you use a external MIDI keyboard to live record MIDI notes/chords? It is it only step sequenced?
They can't because it's bugged, using midi tracks makes the Digitakt freeze up, happens on mine and is well documented by users but no response from Elektron yet.
that option alone of choosing function and no to return to the original settings of the sequence has been on my dreams for years, that to me is a reason to buy this machine. does this function exist on the other elektron gear?
Apologies to the many Elektron fan bois and grrls out there, I'm not try no to be flippant or hate on the Digitakt. But I just don't get it. It feels like a step back in time thirty years. To a time of tiny screens and click click clickity click to enter a file name. There's no question the Elektron sampler is the best available and unquestionably amazing. It seems to me, admittedly a layman, that a lot f R and D and dev resources (read cost) went into features that would be better performed on a desktop workstation. I get that these features make it portable, but at what cost, and how much demand is there for that use case, compared to a solely studio setting. Is there functionality that allows the heavy grunt work to be performed on a desktop then imported into the Digitakt? To me that would be playing to the strengths of each system. Again not trying to be a hater, just asking questions as someone who has been recommended to look into this device by several people now. Cheers
This machine is the musical equivalent of using a typewriter in 2020. It is vastly inferior to what any modern DAW is capable of, the workflow is slow, it’s time consuming to learn, it requires a great deal of learning and patience, BUT despite all these shortcomings, it’s beautiful, highly desirable and it has infinite charm. 😍 just hearing the clicking of the sequencer buttons makes me want to run out and buy one.
i bought one. and i can say that i make music on it more often than on a DAW before. Because it feels much better to twist knobs and push buttons, it's like a toy. i watch tv in the background while playing with digi. and 2 out of 3 times I get really nice results. THEN I out it through my DAW to mix and/or add same layers. But honestly this is my first hardware and it's amazing. The only thing is i wish it was stereo.
I repeat, dude ur a legend... ur a fuckin genius, after this video (and b4 it also) I want this product so bad... sadly im just gonna miss out on it cause its no avail yet and go for the drumbrute but damn what I really want is this... compact and can do everything... its the perfect companion
Hey! I'd like to know more about the 8 MIDI tracks, please. I know you can program up to 4 voices per step via the Digitakt's controls, but I'd like to know if the notes can be played via external MIDI input. I did not see that info in the manual.
Great Vid Cenk - can you pause the recording/sampling to create a sample chain with different devices?, i.e. you had to unplug the xbase and plug in the guitar - how was that accomplished? also does Digitakt - automatically find zero crossings? don't see the little square like the OT thanks.
maybe because I'm Australian I can't bring myself to pronounce this as dig-ee instead of didge-ee. Maybe it's 'cos of all the didgeridoo heritage. Am I alone in this? How does one pronounce "digital" in the world at large? you dig?
Because in swedish and danish (I'm a dane) the words are spelled the same way as in english, but pronounced differently to how it is in english, so I guess that's where it comes in. Usually I would pronounce the words as they are "supposed" to, when speeking one language or the other, but not necessarily when it comes to 'Digitakt'. The 'takt' part is taken from swedish, so it would make more sense to pronounce it in the swedish way actually. But doesn't really matter to me what way you do it :)
curious about midi sequencing. So many reviews about sampling... Can you play in MIDI notes with an external synth? Then, of course, have the synth playback the notes from the digitakt sequencer. So the Digitakt becomes the center of the studio much like an MPC... Thanks!
Question - is there any device that I can load a few of my own (wav) samples with - and then trigger those samples using an external midi device by sending only one midi note? I have a Roland SPD-SX and it has no sequencing capabilities. I have a kick drum trigger that fires a wav file in the SPD-SX - Since the SPD-SX has Midi out, I am trying to use the midi out note (from the kick drum) and have it step through a sequence of Wav files. I am looking for this type of device - any help would be appreciated - Thank you in advance
We need an update to the polyphonic abilities, we'd like to play chords please, this can't be that difficult of an update it already has 8 voice polyphony, please don't limit the products so that we have to use your other machines to get around the limitations b/c we are still willing to buy your other awesome devices but we'd like max functionality for all your instruments. Thank you. 🙂🎹🤘🏽🤛🏽
Funny. Have had an MPC live 2 for 6 months and never got a workflow that was good for me. Have had a Digitakt for a day and I instantly regret dicking around with my Akai.
In minute 6:37 you are adding high hats. After that you say you can record the knobs movement and parameters in realtime so to speak. Is this possible with the Digitone also? This is something I really enjoy on my circuit and hope the digitone has this too. If anyone has insight in this, an answer would be really appreciated. Thanks!
I'm looking for a machine like this or MPC one. What is the principle difference in workflow between Digitakt and MPC? Can I sample long track on Digitakt and then chop the samples and play them live by hitting the buttons as I would do on MPC? I'm interested in sampling and making music of samples, can I use all 16 buttons to play live?
When I play project first in the grid mod, tracks with samples play something strange (just noise), when grid off then everything immediately fine. Did I set something wrong?
