First Impression of the Digitone • Is it right for you? 

Thanks for watching Jordan- glad to help out where I can-

Jealous of your set up!

Cheers! My pleasure

I’ve been notified about using the arpeggiator for drums as well which is the first thing i’ll be looking into! 🙂 Thanks for your advice!

I so want a digitakt. And thank you!! 👾

I'm still figuring out how it works within my own workflow TBH- still not sure what I think about it 100% yet. REALLY enjoying myself though and can't wait to get my hands onto a Digitakt.

The Digitone can definitely do stuff outside of the FM sphere since it has a filter and overdrive. For instance, this machine does nasty acid. I'm also amazed at how lifelike accoustic drums with velocity modulation options can get to sounding like real drums. I don't have a video to point to as it appears I might be the only one coming into the digitone with decades of FM synth programming experience, but other than the fact that I personally don't like how they laid out the FM options themselves (for instance, the TX81Z has multiple waveforms which each of the 4 operators can be assigned, the digitone calls this 'harmonics' and can only affect one of 2 predetermined voices at a time). Furthermore, it's got a 'mix' output which taps off from the routing at various places, which in traditional fm this is 'built into' the routing itself. And lastly, the envelopes in traditional FM are assigned to each operator...4OP FM has 4 envelopes. Not so with the digitone. So even in the FM department, they janked a little with how it works, but the dual filter (there's a secondary filter which is, more or less, a parametric EQ since FM often can get a little hectic on both the low and high end) which is nice, but throwing a filter on any FMey sound instantly gives it a non fm characteristic, in my humble opinion. But yes, this machine can even make a supersaw sound...I guess the best way to describe it is that it 'starts' in FM territory, but you can move it into non fm sounds quite quickly and easily. It is a machine you invest time into learning. I've had mine for about 3 months and I'm quite convinced I'm never going to run into a dead in with regards to what kind of sounds I can get if I really want them, except maybe vocals since there's not a formant filter.

@@heavysystemsinc. thanks for the input!

It’s my pleasure

You know your Digitone!

Working on another right freggin now! Cheers

My pleasure! It is similar to the opz- more so than the op1 that’s for sure.

Mission accomplished! Thank you! 🙂

I had no idea. New to this channel.

Warm welcome!

Haha really i’m honoured! ❤️

Absolutely! That’s exciting! Have fun 😊

Cheers! Thank u! 🙏🏻

That’s a good question- haven’t tried yet!

I’m sure you can make it work!

The sound design is wayyy deeper - it has a mixer as well. I find that it also just sounds better and I like the Elektron box workflows over the cycles / samples workflow to name a few reasons! :-)

Me too man...me too

Welcome :-) You will not be disappointed.

Indeed it is

I still have some exploring to do! Thanks so much for watching :-)

I also layer a lot of drums, but what I tend to do on the digitone is to use LFO or arpaggiator for some stuff like hats. You then just use it for one step and then you have all the other steps for layering. You can pretty much do this for any sound, really, by using the arp editor...i.e. if you want to use one 'note' for kicks, then just set the arp up to trigger on the 4/4. Also, you can trigger two sounds on one step by using the step next to it on a different note and then time shift it left completely. It must be a different note, though, to trigger both...i.e. kick + hat, trigger kick with C5, and the hat with c#5. It's quite possible to max out the voices on one track if you want to, but there's definitely lots of options for creative layering. It's more or less about whether you feel like doing all the extra work or not. :) I personally like getting lost in those technical details, but when I want to just 'express myself', I definitely have other gear...say with a keyboard for instance for just jamming. :) Peace!

I have some more homework to do for shizzle! I’ll be looking into all of this. Thanks!

@@LiamKillen I saw recently a 'digitone drum tips' video posted. It doesn't get too deep into any specifics, but it does a great job of running down every single obscure parameter for making sounds on the machine. I recommend it just for that fact alone! I learned a little watching it even having been using it a while, such as the phase reset options for the operators and what to use it for. That said, I think just as a drum machine, the digitone is worth the price of admission. I personally like making 'full tracks' with it for a challenge and my personal enjoyment, but using it as an 8 voice drum synth...I don't think you'll find a more versatile drum synth with these kinds of polyrhythmic sequencing options, to be honest. Anyway, here's a link to that tricks video. Definitely a great watch for any user! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eq3_2DcYB6g.html

Do you also have a digitakt?

Ayooo you know what to do!

Yiieeaahhh!!! ☀️

Maybe indirectly! Is that a band?

@@LiamKillen It´s a somewhat cult movie ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--BjfJlCDisY.html . Not really sure why it reminded me of it.

right!?

Hey I appreciate that!

I’ll be looking into those! Having to do with the arpeggiator right?

@@LiamKillen yes exactly. Saving sounds in Arp mode makes the Arp available when using these as additional trigs in your tracks

Interesting

Good question. I would say Digitakt (at least now).

It’s just so Seinfeld lol

Endless possibilities! Can’t wait to continue exploring

Wait whaaaaaa? I didn’t know you could use it as an effect processor!!! I’m so getting this!

!!!! 🙂

@@pieslice surprise micro pedal board!

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Oh absolutely lol

😏😏😏

They are sweet like skittlez

That phrase can be hard on your wallet 😅

They won’t do it lol. They want us to buy BOTH!

I want the whole lineup in one product... back from the world of dreams!

So much to explore right? Just take it one video at a time

Liam Killen I just need to be patient, I have the digitakt too though and still have a lot to learn with that!

@@mattayre7746So much solid content out there too!

@@mattayre7746 same here 😁

lolol

I’ve been re watching seinfeld lol- bubble boy is the best

@@LiamKillen Yeah Dude! Second Place: The Soup Nazi…😁😁😁 Best Show ever!

Haha yesssss

I dunno I beg to differ on that one.

If you’re talking in Modular terms then yeah but the Digitone is one of my fav FM synths

Depends on the situation i guess!

Lol

lololol

You and 80% of my audience ⚔️

All day urrday

Yup! That's where they get ya. But if you compare to something like the OP-1 that has it all...synth, sampler, drum machine, video game...it's notable these days because the competition is fierce.

Not everyone is familiar with these devices and mentioning it doesn’t sample could be useful info for some ppl.

I know right?

You’re right!

It’s a relevant criticism seeing as there are many instruments that CAN sample and also have legit synthesis- aka the OP-1 and many other instruments. Thx for watching

the digitone has no engine that would even support samples, i think you're confusing groovebox(ish) and algorithmic synthesisers with straight up synths, which are designed to be just that, specific synthesis methods. using your argument a juno, a 303 or the DX7 should be samplers as well which makes no sense at all. i would suggest a deeper dive in synthesis before making these statements, comes off as seriously uninformed.

It’s pretty damn solid! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Yeah just a totally different thing