ELEKTRON DIGITAKT II - All new features and Comparison  

Thank you! :) It is, it just sounds so great ...

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Yes! Great demo! Instant subscriber!

@@SIAKPHDLIVE welcome! :)

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Thank you! Have fun! ^_^

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Thank you! Yes, soon :)

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Thank you! :) Yeah it's awesome and feels like freedom (that and the 16 tracks)

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Thank you! I love drum machines. I use everything as drum machine, even my Hydraysynth :D

@@CatenationIndustrial everything's a drum! (machine)

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My three year old was well into it, said the stripey banger lady was her favorite.

@@nomasters awwwwwwwwww lovely

Thank you! Let's see! But yeah hearing my "Creamtory Machine" samples (that was the snare in my Sonic Collage jam) in stereo without having to add effects is just glorious ^_^

:D thank you :)

But adding an analog drive (like a FX block) is double pleasure =)

@@knob_agency Then once again a box would be dangling off of a box ... I sold DT + AH+FX because I couldn't stand it. But now I'm happy :D

@@CatenationIndustrial Oh yes a question! Do you know if the master overdrive will apply to external input as well? That would be nice

@@hexwavemusic Hi, yes everything goes into master overdrive. It would be amazing if there would be the option to take out tracks from the master overdrive, that'd bring it in similar sound design excellence territories such as the Syntakt. Nothing beats Syntakt ;)

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Thank you! Yeah, the DTII replaces for DT, OT and AH +FX altogether! I'm really happy with it.

@@CatenationIndustrial Im super excited to get one! The comb filter on the dt2 is especially exciting for me 😆

@@jayddded Have fun ^_^

LOL! But I presented this thing only because I love it. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered ;)

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Thank you! Love your music btw ^_^

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Thanks! I'm actually able to quickly fill the ram and all the 16 tracks but that's me haha :D

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thanks, glad you like it! :)

Well, it isn't analog, but the digital master overdrive still sounds great and makes all the difference for me.

I got it to represent it sonically in the "Digitakt II Sonic Collage", and this review is not sponsored! However yes, I can keep it and there'll be more crrhhchckk and wrrmfmffmmm :P

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Yeah, that would be great ... I started to miss them on the Syntakt! But Syntakt is still my favourite ;)

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Hi! As far as I know it only responds to Clock, Start, Stop, Continue. The manual does not mention SPP, just as with the other Digis.

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Thank you! I sold my DT and AH +FX long before I knew DTII is coming because I disliked so much to have to attach a box to another box for it to sound good. And with DTII, that is solved for me - it sounds great just out of the stereo outs. Haven't paired it with ST yet, but should be great ;)

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No, or not yet. It's just the beginning for this device ;)

DTII > OTII > DT in my opinion! DTII Master Overdrive sounds better than what can be done with the OT's Master Track. Track Overdrive on the DTII/DT doesn't go as harsh as on the Octatrack, but it also hess less problems with low frequencies and the Master Overdrive really compensates for that. If that counts for you, it's 48 kHz instead of 44.1 kHz (personally I don't care). The new DTII Filters are great sounding. And so on ;)

Hehe! It's all digital. I have no news about Syntakt, but maybe you've seen it, many months ago Elektron wrote more machines will come to the Syntakt ;)

Thank you ^_^ All Digis (including DTII) can send out up to four notes each Midi Track. You can also send multiple Midi Tracks to the same Midi Channel, to have eight, twelve or more Notes send out to a Synth at once. From what you are describing, DTII sounds pretty perfect. I wouldn't recommed Octatrack unless you really want to use all this live resampling/performance mixer stuff - and/or send out Retrigs/Ratchets via Midi. I love Analog Rytm MK2, but mostly for it's synthesis. It doesn't have slices for example, so it's much less capable in the sampling departement. It does sound great though, but DTII also sounds great ;)

@@CatenationIndustrial this is the info i needed to pull the trigger. DT2 here i come. Thanks!!!!!! Have a nice day.

@@9000knobs Thanks, have a nice day as well :)

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ah missed it. no retrig. nice video, and: best conclusio ever! :D

@@gekkonier thanks :D share it with your friends :)

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check my channel and playlists, tons and tons of hard music from hard techno to industrial to gabber and more ;)

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Hi, this might change in an firmware update ;)

@@CatenationIndustrial thank you

No, but you can use one-shot mode and p-lock start points.

I sold mine, too ;) (I was sick of "Parse Error")

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Syntakt is still my absolute favourite of any musical gear i ever owned ;)

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@@CatenationIndustrial look forward you to making more brutal tracks from it \m/

Uh, but I know how many will use my affiliate links :P (0️⃣)

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Although the KO2 is seriously the most beautiful piece of gear I ever saw, I could fight of the gear acquisition syndrome :D because I knew I wouldn't use it. Even thinking as a sketch pack - DigitaktII is still a really small box, and when I put a sketch down on it, it's already finished and ready to be polished further ...

there were tons of rumours.

i think faster, judging by how quickly my new projects are up (and how i use a bazillion of stereo samples)

Oh, and wish there were more FX types.

@@user82938 This is just the beginning for this device :)

@@CatenationIndustrial Awesome!

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I just need Round Robin to be 100% happy with it ;) I do tons of workarounds to get rid of the machine gun effect (Chains etc.) ...

they should implement a chord machine : you choose the numbers of notes you want on a single track and automatically it assigns neighboors tracks (on the right of your current track) to your current selected track depending on the number of notes you want to play simultaneously (ex: i'm on track 1, i want to play four notes chords, i choose the chord machine, automatically tracks 2 to 4 are assign and locked to track 1). Since the Digitakt 2 is 16 notes polyphony, it won't be a problem for the user to sacrifice few tracks to have at least one or two kind of polyphonic tracks. Also, they absolutely need to add an ARP. I don't understand why it's still missing, moreover with the fact that Digitakt is also a sequencer for other devices. It will be a crazy creative tool on this device! just this and ratchets for midi and a way to reorganize patterns in a folder list for example, cause it really sucks do it by copy/pasting erasing,etc... (and i'm sad there is not two more inputs, it would have be so great!!!) And thanks so much Catenation for your music and videos, and for not giving a fuck!

and add a real slice engine, with just the ability to move the start point of each slice

@@nicocroissant4988 Thank you ^_^

They aren't, as I laid out in my review. Rytm's Kits are a pain, on the DTII you have freedom.

@@CatenationIndustrial I must have missed this, my brain had info overload yesterday. Well that’s amazing then, excited to finally have kits work in a way that fits my brain 🙌🏻 BTW purchased via your link, hope you get some 💰

@@floralissa Awwwwwwwww thank you so much!!! ^_^ I hope this Kit system comes to Rytm, A4 and Octatrack. I have a cemetery of Kits on my Rytm and I'm always in fear of losing some of my settings, it's makes it quite a bit less enjoyable than the Digis :\ still I love my Rytm and wouldn't part with it. Actually, I have a complete Acidcore album coming this year, done entirely on the Rytm standalone ;)

@@CatenationIndustrial I loved the Rytm for the pads and analog kicks, but coming to it from Digitakt the kits were confusing for me. I hope my brain can make the connection this time around, so I can fully utilize the feature. Would be killer to make Machinedrum sample kits, and just be able to quickly pull them up in an instant.

@@floralissa I really think the implementation on Rytm, A4 and Octatrack is just bad. It's not our fault. That the DTII does it better underlines that ;)

8-Bit century?

@@CatenationIndustrial yeah my Amstrad has more memory than this thing

@@8bitBarry1 Which one is it? I always lusted for the Amstrad CPC 464, I saw it in the wild back in the day branded as "Schneider CPC". It looked like the coolest thing in the world. I had a C64 in the later, more Amiga-like case at that time.

@@CatenationIndustrial Amstrad PC1640 - dual floppies, 8 MHz Intel 8086 processor, VGA output... unconditional triggers in the last update were a big feature

Takes me 8 seconds max on a bad day

Tell us how

The Trigg probability (A/B) where you can have a sound triggered 3 times but not the fourth could already be done by using "PRE" on a ghost note. Things like that forced you to think. Having 16 audio tracks is like having cheat codes to a game 🎮. Having 16 or even 12 makes thing a little too easy. You don't have to use your brain as much as you would with only having 8 and using trigger locks. Don't get me wrong, people who might have been turned off by the limitations of the original Digitakt will go nuts over the mkii.

@@ILLUDIUM_Q_36 You don't have to use those features and everything you are suggesting I did and do on all my Elektrons in excess.

thanks, english is not my native language

No, it's 20 GB of Ram ;) Edit: I thought you were refering to the number. Spec Sheet doesn't mention the word "RAM" at all, if we want to nitpick.

@@CatenationIndustrial 20GB of +Drive (flash) and 400MB of RAM is what the official spec sheet says. :)

True, it's NVRAM, just that in the common tongue people usually refer to RAM as the "runtime memory", whereas Drive+ acts like a "non-volatile storage"

Maybe some day you'll realise people are different. I grew up with computers and they were all I had to make music. I fly on Elektrons and am super productive, and I make banger after banger. Calling this "menu diving" is a joke considering what Roland does :P Using computers for creating songs is bleh to me, unenjoyable. Did I mention "bleh".

It is awesome