haha, its so nice to see cenk evolving over his videos... i remember him standing there talking like a robot while listing features of the different machines and then saying "and i'm going to show this to you now" as he presented the versatility of the machines he was working on without even noticing how he left people like me astonished and thrilled by the possibilities... well, job done quite perfectly, i'm a heavy elektron user by now :)
yeah, everything we love actually ;-) Not new for us Elektron users, but a great overview for people not knowing our beloved Instruments. That Video Part killed me man! :D Never thought about such application. Really great idea, need to find out if this is possible with a regular Computer too. Thanks for that hint - GREAT idea !!! .-)
Would you know how I could link both my 0 coast and neutron separately with midi? As I have a beatstep pro controlling both at the moment but want to eliminate the beatstep pro and have the digitakt to be the main controller for both synths. All the best
I can not trigger a chord playing the Midi Buttons. The chords work when recorded in a sequence, but not when triggered manually. Anyone know how to fix this?
How does Cenk map out the OP-1 midi out to the digitakt like that? i have the kenton usb host but cant figure out how he got those chords recorded in live mode! thats a game changer for me!
Nice way of explaining. Can you choose which midi channel is going through HEAT or all audio goes at the end through HEAT? In this setup what are you using as a mixer?
This was the video that convinced me to get the Digitakt, and I haven't looked back. I've always wanted to ask, though - would you be willing to provide a link to the device that controls the physical drum "sticks?" I'd love to emulate that approach with some physical percussion instruments I have at home. Thanks again for the inspiring videos!
That arm trick was dope!! What kind of midi interface are you using? I struggle with setting up midi interfaces without a computer which has kept me away from octatrack and now digitakt.
got a brain buster for ya'll, just made a 64 step bassline via midi.. how can i link the same riff but have transpose up after it plays round once and then they loop from 1 transpose to another ?
Daaaamn. This thing is a monster. Regarding the video distortion events, does that work for any video feed, or does the Digitakt generate its own video for effects?
Is it possible to control multiple synths in Logic using the MIDI tracks? I tried assigning 1 2 etc. but I always only controls the active instrument track in Logic
The LFO on the toms & bong sound amazing! Great demo Cenk. Now i will definitely have buy myself a Digitakt to play with my Digitone! (polymetric stuff & video midi !)
It's about time you add a song mode or at least the possibility to save pattern chains. And where is live recording of retrigs? And how about the extra filter from Digitone?
Yeah, I was wondering that too. I did something like that in college with Ableton and Max for Live. But, I am not sure if he is just that straight into max, or something else.
Can I make retro/synthwave with this or is it geared more towards modern styles? I'd like to bring in classic drum machine samples and run vintage synths with it.
I'd like to know what you used for link more than one sinth. I'm asking you because I'd like. to don't waste time to understand by my self because as I learn, electron world it's a little different with my chain synths workflow, thank you
Sounds like some streets of rage or something from sega haha. I've never seen that thing before playing the bongos....if only I could get something like that to play my guitar/bass parts for me haha
I tried it with Roland synth , but midi loops happened , then change the Roland to Local off ,but no Roland synth hear now .I would like to know the setting detail.
will it ever be possible to shift recorded midi notes all at once. like shifting all notes up/down a few notes or octaves? I don`t get it why this elementary function isn`t working, or am i just to stupid to find it. This would be my most wanted feature of a future update. Can`t see why this wouldn`t be possible.
Nice! One problem for me though. Each MIDI track is limited to 4 notes per track. For Deep House and Contemporary Jazz, I need something that can handle 9th chords. If you guys at Elektron are able, please upgrade the MIDI note count per track to 6. After thinking about it more, if 2 or more of the MIDI tracks are set to the same MIDI channel, does the MIDI note count bleed over to the other tracks? Example.....I set MIDI tracks 1 and 2 to MIDI Channel 1 so that I have 8 notes of polyphony on MIDI Channel 1.
A Nord Lead 4 can handle the load (5 notes per part with 4 parts.). As long as the Digitakt is able to handle 9th chords in some way, I'll pick one up.
Awesome video, Cenk. It really shows how versatile the Digitakt's sequencing can be. I got mine yesterday and have been having a lot of fun with it. That said, it feels a little disingenuous of Elektron to put this out while MIDI functionality is so unstable on the Digitakt. It's really crash-prone and that kind of sucks. I'm hoping we see a 1.04 update soon.
You controlling the Digitakt via the OP-1. The OP-1 has no Standard-MIDI - Can the Digitakt get the MIDI via USB or are you using an external MIDI-Host solution?
Is there any way that Elektron could help in making a Digitakt sequence a Waldorf Blofeld? I've got both machines on the same MIDI channel, and there is no sound. Would be awesome if instead of a video showing the Digitakt doing multiple things via MIDI at once, Cenk boiled things down to their basics with the Digitakt controlling one synth. Just one.
To get multi layers of sound , he is using multiple instruments - hardware because he is in a studio and lots of gear is available. And it looks ''cooler'' - ( to coin a very stupid over used meaningless word) your Blofeld is multi timbral which means it can play lots of different sounds at once - 16 in theory. I have a Blofeld also. Therefore no need to use many different synths. There are lots of cheapo ''boutique'' synths available on the market but not many are multi-timbral , like the Blofeld , another example is the Virus ti series , 16 channels of midi if you want them but less trendy , older, expensive and not ''pure'' analogue in the nature of the sound producing method. Simply put , having a load of hardware synths around and all connected also falls into the trend these days of getting away from Daw vst's and the like and towards the ''hands on'' tactile nature of hardware knobs and sliders whilst making people lust after more gear as a side effect, otherwise known as G A S.
So idk if im just stupid or what but like, how do you take a sequencer that only has 2 MIDI outs but it has 8 MIDI tracks? Would have been nice to see how everything is hooked up since i can't seem to find a single video explaining how people do that with this thing
J Michael B agreed this also baffled me, hoping someone can explain!? My best guess is a midi splitter with midi out from Digitakt to the individual synths, or chaining the synths with midi thru, each set to listen on a different channel for the Digitakt. I’d also like to know how as a user your know what parameters the cc effects on the hardware..maybe you just need to read the manual. Can’t wait to get my hands on one!
MIDI signals can control several instruments at once if you daisy-chain the instruments by using midi thru ports. Each instrument only listens to the channel it's set up for and ignores the others. (You can even hook up midi-thru from the last device in the chain to the midi in of the first one and send messages all the way around the loop.) Second, USB-MIDI is also very powerful and can connect a lot of instruments together, but I'm old and don't fully understand it. Now get off my lawn!
A single midi out port can send to 16 midi channels. That's the very basics of midi. So you either use a midi splitter that splits one output into multiple outputs, or you daisychain your machines (most gear has a midi thru port that outputs what comes in, so you can send it along to another machine)
Hi Cenk... Rob here from Storm Studios We just purchased our first Elektron device The Magical Digitone. Will you be doing the same type of instruction for the Digitone? Cheers Rob
