Resampling the Same Sound 21 times.. Woah.. // Digitakt can crank out some dust... 

I used to record drum machines such as TR606, playing at high speed and pitch, onto reel-to-reel tape at 15 ips, then play back at 7.5 ips and the effect was very cool - dark, deep, heavy. You learn to shorten the decays on all of your sounds at high speed, so that when they're played back, you get punchy sounds without too much smearing between drums. Plus you get great tape saturation.

I used to hunt for this magical hip hop snare that I always heard on Instagram. Turns out it's just my phone speaker making it sound like that.

Boards of Canada have mentioned they use this process with the internal mic of a cassette tape deck, particulary on Geogaddi. They compared the process to when you look at an image reflected within two mirrors forever, in the distance it gets darker and greener and murkier..

Click click whip chik click click whip chik Legend has it Rickey is still resampling that same loop to this day.

4:58 "So let's start jackin this thang up." 5:26 "I jacked up."

20:26 Moments like this are one of the best parts of making music. Uncontainable excitement and joy from discovery!

Bro, I love that you include your entire creative process in all your videos. All the happy accidents that every producer experiences messing with sounds & gear. Keep up the great work!

Really great video, nice trick! I'd just like to point out that I believe the signal degredation is not because of DA/AD at the resampling stage as that most likely happens digitally inside the box. It's all down to the SRC (sample rate conversion) used to speed up and slow down audio inside the digitakt. Everytime you complete one of those cycles it will have less and less information to work with to turn the loop back into its original tempo because it has to "throw away" some samples to speed up the sound while keeping the sampling rate at 48K (which the DT is running internally). Sorry if my explanation is a bit unclear, I don't know all the technical details but I've experimented a lot with SRC vari-speed type resampling inside DAWs. Excited to try it in the DT now!

This Dilla+Basinski vibe is the ultimate vibe

The danger of having a PC in your studio is being distracted by RU-vid. 😋

And that is how us old school dudes got tons of samples on old hardware samplers and on floppy disks. And for drummers do this with the Alesis strike pro multi sample import but obviously just one resample for best quality And really 1 octave makes a huge difference in sample size

Ah yeahhh it’s great to see some fresh Digitakt material! You’re the man, man.

Alvin Lucier: "I am sitting in a room". Check that out.

This is your best Digitakt video and my favorite by far!! 🙌🏽 Decided to finally get a Digitakt thanks to your videos ! Can't wait to use this technique 🔥🔥

When you use the internal resampling feature of the Digitakt your sample won't leave the digital domain. So essentially you are doing exactly the same as in a DAW (just number crunching). If you really want to explore the hardware side itself you'll need at least resample by connecting the analog outputs to the inputs to involve a D/A and A/D step each time.

the cool part about this is that it thins out the sound and makes it take up less space in a mix. there's a really great artist called thedaydreamsound on youtube, and he exclusively uses vintage samplers to make his music, and he'll use low sample rates as a mixing technique to let it sit back in a mix better, as well as picking each sampler for elements in the track based on their EQ signature instead of doing a bunch of EQing in post. hes a great source of knowledge

That mouse pad is awesome, it threw me for a loop for a second

STOP TRYING TO MAKE ME BUY THIS THIS IS NOT THE TIME RN.

20:10 lofi hiphop radio - beats to have an absolute mental breakdown to

This is the old sampler pitch-up technique, ala SP1200, used to maximize sample time when space was an issue. Nice to hear it expanded.

old scool like sampling with the "emu sp 1200" in the early days.

404 day=everyone messing on their SP. Ricky=watch me resample on my Digitakt looks like you had fun with this one. really enjoyed it

Man this was dope! MKBHD did something similar but for video but he uploaded videos to RU-vid and downloaded then reuploaded a few hundred times! Again, excellent video my dude!

this channel is so nice! Cool content, nice color grading, awesome gear and very refreshing to see a youtuber that doesn't put on an over the top personality for the camera! Subscribed.

Love this! I am always really fascinated by things which make audio quality decay, resampling, destruction loops, hell just detune and parameter shift or granular filters. I love how this sounds, and honestly the more and more videos you share with the digitakt the more I've been looking into getting one

Appreciate that you leave the cam on in the end for some jammin'

Thanks for the new workflow ideas! Looks like you were having fun!

20:43 - SUPER dope 1 bar loop! Just a little flutter. I’m spending alot of time watching your channel while I wait for my model samples and MPC one to arrive.

This technique is so Board of Canada, but on a DT. Incredible. You're the GOAT, Ricky!

Loved the end when you said ‘dude’, I get the same excitement making a cool MPC beat now and then too!! ✌️

Prime example of why I love Ricky Tinez content. Really cool stuff.

I like that you are really finding it out on the spot without preparing! Keeping it real!

I can’t help but drool 🤤 at all of the dopeass gear in the background excuse my GAS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🇨🇦🙏🏿😷👊🏿

Love the experimenting and thank you for taking us on the journey. You tamed that sample! Good show and enough camera angles to add to the coolness.

First of all, I really appreciate these videos. I bought a Digitakt about a year ago and I always return to your channel for some refreshers. I know you probably aren't looking for requests, but a two things that not many people cover on youtube are: controlling multiple instruments at the same time with the Digitakt midi out; and Digitakt + SP-404sx workflow/jams. Would love to see your take on those topics! Thanks for the knowledge!

I love what you did with that sample. Great video. The more videos I see of the Digitakt the more I feel like I need one in my life!

The last 3min of this video are pure Tinez gold. Love you, man.

What’s likely happening is the characteristics of the antialiasing filter are being emphasized on each resample, and since the sample is resampled at a higher pitched and tuned down, the peaks from the AA filter are gradually brought into audible range. The peaks that result are very interesting. I wonder how this might change if you were to resample at another interval, say 19 (octave and a fifth), that might make the peaks appear in different places?

Thank you for still doing Digitakt videos. Much appreciated.

An Akai S950 does this trick beautifully with 12 bits and a nice envelope swept filter. The method I use (because the s950 cannot resample its own output) is to record the loop from Akai into my DAW. then record the loop playing from the loop. If you have Recycle you can repitch the slices before resampling back into the AKAI, if you make a REX file and use the Dr Rex player in Reason you can repitch individual slices or filter them before recording back into the Akai. You can render/bounce the altered REX loop back into a single file and then experiment with playing it back at higher/lower playback speeds to resample from. TAL sampler also has some great (and accurate) emulations of classic samplers which you can colour the sample with as well. I'm probably not explaining this very well but the point I'm making is you can experiment with pitch/playback speeds at different points in the process to give different results and make use of software such as TAL and Recycle before resampling back into your hardware sampler. I've had some great results doing this.

I love this video because I like using as little gear or plug-ins as possible. Just using the device in a way maybe someone didn't intend and getting a fun result. Thank You!

Loving the JDilla loose, unquantised drum looping style. Totally digging it :)

That was so hot Rickey! Love all your videos, but this one was really great. I guess for this purpose, the worse the time stretching algorithms are on the device you're using the better.

22'05 : you should make a full track from this beat. This rocks ! As usual, such a pleasure to see you experimenting, playing, being surprised and amazed by happy accidents. Feels like in the same room with a friend, enjoying power of music ;) Big up, peace

Hello, nice video. I bought DT while ago thanks to your video. I use it everytime it's my standalone machine. I use this resampling thing a lot but you can use the trig note instead of pitch to adjust quickier the pitch. Trig go from -24 to +24 without decimal. Never resampled so many times but sound good I will try.

@RickyTinez love your style! You have a great way of bringing the watcher into what you're doing. Kudos to you sir.

inspiration for today's Digitakt workout>

outstanding stuff, Tinez. you're a 21st century gem.

always new tremendous tricks. i the mean time im a huge huge fan of this channel. much love and support from munich/germany

I'm watching this like if I know what he's talking about

My BOSS SP505 not only has a ton of options and fun to be had with resampling, but it also does the auto-save thing so you can just turn it off anytime and not lose anything.

@Ricky: RE: "the digitakt is so touchy, just gimme -2!" Push the encoder in while turning. That moves it in fixed steps.

Videos are great bro. One of the best production channels on youtube. Don't stop

That would be cool if they could bake this in as a feature where you choose an option to "stretch resample" and then just turn a knob for how many times and hit "yes" and done. Does all the stretch/resample in the background and just spits out the final product. Then you don't have to manually do it. That would be a big feature add.

That walz-3 on 4 thing , where you open up the filter , in the last 15 sec. or so , is PURE genuise ! - You son of a MOTHER ! ;-)

Sick! I have never though to make a loop like that... very different approach. I’m gonna go try right now, I think the LFO is synced to the BPM while your beat was looping while being triggered indefinitely, untethered from the sequencer entirely.

Cheers for documenting your experimentation Mr. T, and for bit head-bobbing weirdnessess. 🌿

Nice little experiment. It's always fun to crunch samples.

Nice video. In Abelton, you can keep stretching sounds back and forth, resampling them over and over again using a different 'warp algorithm' each time and you get all sorts of cool textural and granular stuff going on. Heaps of fun.

I love your videos! They really got me back into producing for the fun of it and not focusing too much on what other people think about it. It would be dope if you could walk us through your setup for recording videos, i.e. camera placement, audio setup, etc. Keep up the great work!

DID THIS GET RELEASED AS A TRACK!?!?!?!?! Man this gave me heart palpitations it was so STONKING

I loved what you did with the LFO. Really took it from lo-fi hip hop to psychedelic quick.

Dope!! Nothing like finding a way to add some good crunch without external gear! My homie had shown me a technique similar to this a little while ago and it got really good results really fast. What you do is pitch the sample up and resample, and then instead of slowing down and resampling, you pitch the sample up again and resample. So you start off pitching up 12 semitones, then you resample and pitch to 24 semitones, then resample and pitch to 36, etc. after you’ve pitched up several times, I’ve found 36/48 semitones to be the best, pitch the sample back down and resample repeat until you have the original pitch, by then your sample should be CRUSHED. And it’ll work in 6-8 resamples instead of 10. I haven’t tried it on a digitakt but on the MPC1K it destroyed my samples. Hope that helps! 🙏🏼

Nice one! I got the Digitakt cause of your videos. I love that thing!

Thanks for the vid ricky, smooth as always. Stay healthy man

Now you need to resample "Yo Digitakt can crank out some dust"... 21xs. Awesome video and very inspiring bro

That's "playing" beats... Have fun, experiment and let yourself be surprised and share this... Thank you, Sir!

Man, once you started meddling with the LFO, it went full-J Dilla in an instant. Mega.

When it makes you laugh you know you're doing it right.

Instead of pitching it up two octaves, then back down for every resample, you could try pitching it up, then up again, then up again (as many times as you like), then back down. That should get you a more extreme degradation of sample quality (like, in a good way).

Great video Man. Just was thinking about something, so assuming "perfect" sync between the sampler and the sample, if you quadruple the speed so +24 semitones, you loose 3 samples out of 4, but the fourth is still pretty clean. If instead you sped the thing or slowed by a funky amount that had to really interpolate the sample like +5.21 semitones, the effect would supposedly come much faster. Plus if instead of speed up then slow down, you did the opposite, like slow down then speed up, the cruching would also look quite different.

absolutely in love with your videos man, keep up the good work!

Just discovered this channel. Love everything about it. Thanks for your content

My new catchphrase... "Yo, this can crank out the dust."

Just found your vids today and I think youre real easy to watch and make great tunes while having fun, cool to see all the gadgets you use. Was thinking of getting a AMS Hydrasynth to compliment my Kross2 soon as it has a great arpeggiator, but now I am split after watching how good this bloody digitekt is ugh

This is the coolest thing I've ever heard.

That looked like so much fun! Thanks for the great content

20min in is where I feel like I'm having the best worst acid trip

My whole sample library has new meaning after buying digitakt. Btw, i willbe setting up a sample server soon, it has over 1tb of samples, and is alll my own quality samples.

This was dope! Great to see u gave the DT a spin again!

22:00 onwards, I’ve been quarantined too long music 🤣

Love this video! I do this alot with the octatrack and running things out of cue to mutable instruments clouds and back in. Sometimes we try to expand horizontally too much, more gear more parts more sections. Instead of vertically. Where you can take 1 sample 1 piece of hw and still have a large palette

Sweet, gotta try this with my deluge

This is awesome man! Im about to order a digitakt, cant wait to try this!

I used to speed samples up by 2x and then load them into the electribe es1, which if im not mistaken is 12bit sampling. Sounded dope. Also did that because of limited sample space back then

I’ve been doing stuff like this on my tape recorder lately, fun and gross.

You can do so much with that thing. I want to pick a digitakt up this year but I'm worried we're going to see an Mk2 of it soon.

Im still waiting on the Ricky Tinez sample pack though 🤔

Super inspiring! Pushing gear can be really satisfying.

This is great. To a similarly grungy effect, I've repitched long loops to fit them on the Korg Volca Sample since it maxes out at 4 MB. A bit of work but the results are worth it.

That ending was fucking cool!

Resample is a beautiful thing.

This method with Tape and an S950 💪

I’ve been following your channel and ig for a while. There are many things to appreciate about information you share. Like you say” knowledge is power” but one thing i really enjoy is your lighting. I know you talk about music, but what kind of camera and lighting are you using, it’s obvious you’ve put thought into it. And I’m mainly referring to the gear on the wooden table.

This is begging for automation. Ask your boys at Elektron to make a lofi resample mode that does that in one go for us. ☝🏻

on 21:50...... i can't describe it... the magic

Super super dusty and gritty in the best of ways. This is a neat trick for sure.

11:34 lol Ricky, i know the pain

I feel this is essentially like audio magnification of the sample. I think you hear that delay after so many times because it was already present in the original but not as noticeable.

i am sitting in a room watching youtube