Don't Use The Compressor For Side-Chain Ducking.. Do This Instead

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In this video I share how I do sidechain ducking on the Digitakt MK1 and most Elektron machines. This is a simple and incredibly powerful rhythm and sound shaping tool essential for multiple genres. This video is meant to teach you an alternative to using the Master Compressor on the Digitakt for side-chain ducking, in this example we will be exploring the LFO and working on a per-step basis.
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00:00 Introduction
00:31 How I like to do Ducking
01:06 Adding triggers
01:29 LFO to TRIG
02:24 Setting Up The LFO
03:55 Duck These Hats
04:34 Duck The Pads/Chords
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@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

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@adamblascik7380 4 месяца назад

Is it possible to do something similar on Model Cycles please?

@Dekkie61 9 месяцев назад

I think it is important to mention that a big difference between this technique and sidechaining is that with triggered ducking, when you mute the kick, the ducking continues, whereas with the compressor the ducking stoos when te kick stops. Creative choice.

@harveytherobot Месяц назад

Definitely. In that case, I'd probably have at least two different patterns - one with the kick and the sidechain trigs and one without the kick and no sidechain trigs.

@dreamyrhodes 4 дня назад

I usually hate when the ducking stops when the kick is off. That's why in DAW I always have a sidechan running if I do ducking with compressor. Although in Ableton I mostly use Auto Pan for ducking.

@Trovarsi 10 месяцев назад

Love these fast tips and reminders! There are so many cool things you can do on the Digitakt.

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

It's my fav Elektron box for writing music, hands down!

@_B.C_ 10 месяцев назад

You can also create a sidechain compressor effect on your bass line using only midi. You start the bass note an octave or two higher than the bass note destination, but on the kick. Then turn on glide or portamento and let the bass note start on the kick and glide down to the note after your kick.

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

Cool tip! Thanks 🙏

@drconflict629 10 месяцев назад

That's also a clever one!

@vagueversatile 8 месяцев назад

But there is no portamento on DT? You use the LFO for that I imagine ? Or you mean with an external bass instrument sequenced from DT with audio into DT

@systemicchaos3921 7 месяцев назад

@@vagueversatile He says using Midi so he means with an external synth. But I still think his method is overly complicated. You can use the same method in the video but just set the LFO dest to a Midi CC controlling synth volume. Unfortunately my synth has 3 separate volumes knobs so only works with 1 oscillator.

@embazle 10 месяцев назад

This technique is exactly what I needed in my Digitakt life. Definitely gotta learn to make that Moog sound also, that bass line is amazing,

@RadekPilich 10 месяцев назад

perfectly smooth and casual tutorial to send to your creative non musician friends with an expectation of them not understanding a single sentence and being completely overwhelmed by all the technicalities 😂

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

Haha 😂

@mooniz4691 10 месяцев назад

Two years later and still finding new ways to do stuff on this little machine. Thank you, man. Great tip!

@x0d-live 10 месяцев назад

This is also a great technique with modular setups using Inverted envelopes into VCA cv inputs.

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

100%

@craigbrodhead7807 9 месяцев назад

This is the only video that shows the correct way. Thank you!

@MIkeGazzaruso Месяц назад

Very simple and useful indeed, but the problem with this is that using internal COMP, you have chance to set the internal Reverb PRE COMP, that in some context is a must have, feature that you haven't using the LFO per track. However it's really a good and surgical method, thank you :)

@unknownartist0101 10 месяцев назад

Digitakt is an instrument that everyone plays differently, it is like a sandbox of music with endless uses!

@joshuamorganmusic 10 месяцев назад

This is my fav ‘secret trick’ on the OT/DT! Really organic sounding

@J1M0TEE 10 месяцев назад

I love your long videos, but these short ones are golden nuggets! 👌🏻 Gonna try this on the OT and my Polyend Tracker.

@grigalat 29 дней назад

Your videos will earn some views, I'm sure. Because we are buying those OG digis that are priced so good today). Waiting for mine in a couple of days. Get ready, I'm gonna go deep on your tutorials. ❤

@OrbitEternal 5 месяцев назад

I’ve been window shopping for a new drum machine, trying to find something comparable in form and function to my TR8S…..while the Digitakt isn’t exactly an apples to apples comparison of the TR8S, I believe it can achieve a lot of what the TR8S can do, but in a different way. Well done tutorial, and I think this has helped to make my mind up. Thank you.

@ElectronisoundsAudio 10 месяцев назад

❤❤❤ This is HUGE for me! Been wanting to do this for YEARS! I can't thank you enough for this explanation, Matthew! ❤❤❤

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

Happy to help! 😍

@wolfensden 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much brother , recently got a digitakt and it just wouldnt techno for me... until right now that is 😂❤

@stefanoskollias Месяц назад

Thanks man!

@michaelrasmussen8590 10 месяцев назад

Great tutorial. Thanks for the awesome tip.

@playertresor 10 месяцев назад

Works also on Syntakt 🙂 Thank You 🙏🖤

@dotdaddylonglegs 10 месяцев назад

Always learn something from your vids, thanks a bunch!

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

Glad to hear it!

@MilesKvndra 10 месяцев назад

This is awesome - thanks for sharing Matt! 🙏🏻

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

It’s definitely a useful little trick!

@vojtechbalik451 10 месяцев назад

thanks! great format

@solongyouth 10 месяцев назад

thanks for this! loving your tutorials lately

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

Glad you like them!

@seekersystems Месяц назад

great tip

@othersidecoma 10 месяцев назад

what a great lesson, thank you 🫶

@michele709 4 месяца назад

Thank you!

@_c_y_p_3 Месяц назад

I feel like this should be a tool in our belt but absolutely not a replacement for a compressor.

@EZBOT_ Месяц назад

A replacement for using it to duck on the digitakt 1 though

@Pastryarchy 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much, this was awesome

@WHATISPOLITICS69 10 месяцев назад

super useful, thank you!

@scenespin 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for being the anthropomorphized manual. You keep dropping these grail worthy tips that I've been beating my head agains the wall for eons to figure out. Now if you could do an updated Push 3 episode where we can pump the 'takt's into it without having to open a DAW... boy howdy that would be a good time.

@sgsrules 10 месяцев назад

Great Tip. I'm wondering if you could do something similar with the amp settings so you don't have to use any LFOs. You could trig lock the attack or volume in the amp settings.

@MattiasHolmgren 10 месяцев назад

Stellar tip EZBOT! ☕

@jamiemartin9340 10 месяцев назад

Great tip

@daniellewis2682 7 месяцев назад

amazing

@k-hunka 10 месяцев назад

rad tip

@Sinnersainthuman 10 месяцев назад

gonna try it on my syntakt 🙌🏻

@dreamsaremaps 10 месяцев назад

Try it on all the things!

@Sinnersainthuman 10 месяцев назад

@@dreamsaremaps oh for sure! Octa and syntakt 👌🏼👌🏼

@MrMarcLaflamme 10 месяцев назад

I thought the answer was going to be "Buy a Syntakt from Patchwerks and run the Digitakt through it" 🤣. - I just realized that the LFO T toggle is for both. Since they added a second LFO they never added multiple toggles.

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

Haha 😂 yeah sucks about the toggle being for both

@EBMZEQUENZER 5 месяцев назад

COOL 🦆🦆

@allyouracid 10 месяцев назад

Looks like I can totally do this on the Digitone, too 👌 Edit: 5:27 aah there it is :) Edit 2: did something nice to someone else, today.

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

Perfect! You've helped bring balance to the force

@necrotictrust 9 месяцев назад

you're the King

@camphabenero 5 месяцев назад

Subscribed - if you were just starting out now would you stick with the electron equipment ? Love the sounds and styles you are laying down!

@EZBOT_ 5 месяцев назад

100%, that or the Dirtywave M8

@quantummonastery 7 месяцев назад

Awesome

@Sinnersainthuman 10 месяцев назад

Meat and potatoes! 💚 nice tip Matthew

@Roboprogs 10 месяцев назад

Hmm. I need to pick my Model:Samples back up to see if it does something like this.

@genoekenfloeken Месяц назад

Beloved

@grandmasterjo1 10 месяцев назад

Very smart 👌 Short sweet effective and superbly result oriented. 👍👍👍 I heard of ugly ducklings But this this the sweetest ducking 😂😂

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Jo! 😅

@Abjure_0_ 2 месяца назад

for quantized beats is fine.

@EZBOT_ 2 месяца назад

You can go it with any beat

@dncrystal 10 месяцев назад

Get that DUCK homie...quack quack

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

Quack quack homie! Thanks for popping over Drew 🥰

@Judasz696 4 месяца назад

Why can't i do this technigue on a4 or rytm? They have also lfo and AMP volume.

@CYOMIY 10 месяцев назад

❤❤❤ thanks

@GATOVERTICAL 9 месяцев назад

So how/when do you use Digitakt's compressor, if you use it at all?

@jesse154 2 месяца назад

@EZBOT Is there a method to doing this that allows you to duck and then release across multiple triggers that are not a simple 4 to the floor kick? For example what if the kick is on steps 1 and 7, and you wanted to use those points to duck a sound and make it release from there? The trigger setting on the LFO will reset for every trig and you cant get a gradual release sound. But alternatively if you use the free LFO setting, then its phase wont sync up with the desired trig points properly. Any workaround there you can think of?

@EZBOT_ 2 месяца назад

Just select the trigger you want to have be a part of the ducking process and not ducking process. The Duck start point you lock the LFO trig on and the area you want to be duck you lock LFO off.

@Judasz696 4 месяца назад

Can't you just trig lock AMP volume decrease on kick trigs instead of making lfo do it.?

@KurtLorenz 10 месяцев назад

❤❤❤

@marcocelis2104 8 месяцев назад

EZBOSS

@pigma15 6 месяцев назад

As long as you are not using polymeters and kick has no conditional probabilities with percentage.

@eliaswarg6818 10 месяцев назад

Is that possible to do on the input signal?

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

It is not :/

@vadimzitsermusicianvlogcha3870 6 месяцев назад

Than use compressor

@joeyasaperson 10 месяцев назад

great vid thanks

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

No problem!

@lebronsinclair8012 10 месяцев назад

@ezbot when is elektron dropping a new sampler with an SD card? We know you got the inside track. Lol.

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

Haha, I honestly don’t know and I don’t think that’s on their agenda. I bet we see something new from Elektron mid next year

@red00herring 10 месяцев назад

We miss your mustache.

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

It will return in the winter ❄️

@pinheadnick8540 10 месяцев назад

your moustache :(

@drconflict629 10 месяцев назад

How would I apply this SC technique on external signals as well? Thanks for sharing EZ!

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

Not really possible on the DT

@andremmmmm2445 10 месяцев назад

Humm....Would it be possible if the external signal (synth) was sequenced from the DT midi sequencer and then use the DT midi sequencer to do something similar - controlling the Synth?@@EZBOT_

@EZBOT_ 10 месяцев назад

Yes that would be possible but dependent upon the synthesizer @@andremmmmm2445

@drconflict629 10 месяцев назад

@@EZBOT_ Damn, bummer! At first I assumed you would've used lower velocity on trig locks to make the SC effect happen. This works great as well AND lets you keep both LFO's for sound designs. Using the LFO is a bit more convenient to setup though.