Sonic LAB: The Big Elektron Digitakt Video 

I think Elektron need to include a Cenk with every Digitakt they sell :-P He's an integral part of the OS !

so much intelligent music has come out of elektron machines over the years, it’s unreal.

This is a fantastic video. Editing setup, dialogue, improvisation.

Orbital look a bit different these days.

Very impressed by this machine from what I’ve seen so far. It’s on my wish list for sure for the future :)

This is the tutorial I needed. Nice run through. Cant wait to try out these functions. Thanks!

That Tip for clearing LFO Settings 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 OMG Thanx o lot ♥️

Love Sonic State and finally have a Digitakt on back order here in Canada. Mr. Batt thanks for all you do. Cheers from Canada.

super knowledgable both of you- thank you, just got mine and messing around today

i love mine. it really takes me back to the samplers of many moons ago, but with a TON of options!

awesome machine, the programCC stuff is huge, as in general the seq capabilities. Incredible well made work, dear Elektron :)

We need a full DATABAT live set!

Thank you Nick and Cenk for another good review !

Honest feedback from the brand, I like that !

Cenk & Nick are on another level.

great review. Loved the ending with them both jamming out, do we have a possible future collaboration to look forward to?

Great. Thank you. Nice jam at the end

Cant wait to have one!!! Hopefully in the next year. Want to say thanks to Nicks, your the best, has always, but id like to give big hup to Jenks. Man, you look happy, and proud, practicaly relieve, all at the same time. Good job!!! Long live Elektron!

Love the Digitakt. And that Sub37 sounds killer in the outro. That bass is DEEP.

The jam at the end sounded great.

Living for the jam at the end.

Fantastic video, as always! Thank you for the in-depth look :D

Amazing and very instructive review! Thanks a lot

After having the digitakt for one week, it is so helpful to watch these videos to learn the workflow to take advantage of all the features. Cenk-- It would be great to see a video solely about saving, copy/paste, and file management. It's such a fundamental part of the workflow and yet it's a bit confusing because you can access those functions in different ways.

29:30 bonus point for distinguishing polymeric and polyrhythmic! hats off!

That little jam at the end was straight fire.

11:55 .. here is voice from future, we have 2020 and still no second LP/HP filter on Digitakt :-(

really liking the interface and sampling workflow

Big Like! The Jam at the end!!

Indeed an amazing machine!!!!!!!

that jam at the end... great!

Loved that jam at the end! Want to hear the rest of the noodle lol

I love how elektron stuff talks are full of "The crazy stuff" and "Can it do that? - Yes it can" . That gear is so full of potential, even after years of owning it it blows my mind.

Best review I have seen on the capabilitys the machine has to offer ;-)

Caved in and ordered one... Now the waiting game begins D:

Every time I see Cenk rocking a Digitakt, I wanna buy one, it looks and sounds intuitive, creative and just plain great. But I think they have made one massive, dealbreaking mistake: The sample transfer is a closed proprietary system! At any given time you'll be at Elektrons mercy for being able to transfer samples to and from the computer - when those features even become fully available. You're completely dependent on their updates, or, and eventually forced to, keep an out of date computer for the sample transfer. Not to mention that despite this being cheaper than previous Elektron gear, it's still not actually cheap, and some Overbridge functions are now a paid premium. If the USB connection could be used in a class compliant mode that allowed direct computer access to the internal drive, similar to a thumbdrive, or if it had had a SD card slot for sample transfer, then it would be a complete no-brainer. But right now, imho, this spells a future without any sample transfer. Which is a crying shame! *Please add direct class compliant sample transfer in an update as soon as possible!* It was the exact same issue that killed the Korg MicroSampler! Over 1 year without a working USB driver, or any update to rectify it, meant there were no way to transfer samples to and from it - a core feature. Sure Elektron isn't Korg, but it will forever be on the horizon, closing in on that future, without that change.

Nick, I wish you had longer version of the jam at the end of video uploaded on yt

Great demo, really interesting and feature packed bit of kit with some surprising features! But whatever it is I just cant get excited by it - dont know what it is perhaps just a gut thing. Will perhaps look at it again when some of the software stuff has matured a bit. Thanks Cenk - thanks Nick!

Nearly missed the Nick & Cenk duo at the end! excellent. Love my Digitakt - it has become the core of my setup

That looks really awesome and he's presenting it super well. But I know my brain would explode within a minute of using it

"And these are velocity sensitive pads, right?" "Unfortunately they are not, no ... and no aftertouch either."

Right Said Fred have let themselves go.

Great video overview. One note: you can program mute states and bpm per pattern in the arranger of the octatrack.

max bar length of a pattern? and you append patterns together light 1987 yamaha rx5?

Nick digs it.

I bought this and it blew my mind. Waay cooler than all the other gear I have. My only complain is that it is a bit buggy and I managed to freeze it a couple of times too when controlled via USB, which might be a windows driver thing. Also that OverBridge is not ready so you can't record it track-by-track in a DAW which would be the ultimate goal.

It'd be cool to invite Data onto SonicTalk. He'd be a good guest I think.

Best Digitakt review ever, thanks

Superb demonstration and play out. You two gel so well it's uncanny. When will you start a band and what will it be called?

I’m curious to hear what Cenk & Nick have to say about the Syntakt when they review it. Great work as always guys.

I'm guesing there's a mixer off screen for the audio from the synths?

hi Nick looking for the video where you suggest using one of the korg electribes for sampling stuff... thought it was this one but just keen to hear ur thoughts on the older electribe sampler.. just trying to look at cheaper alternatives etc.. would appreciate it if you could point me towards the video or maybe comment with the model u liked.. thanks very much Gareth

pads are not velocity but does it record velovity via midi?

ugh, dream machine

hi , im thinking of buying and drum m/c -sampler to play live with my MainStage i use loops in MainStage , would you recommend the digitakt or the circuit ,will they play in time with my MainStage on my laptop ,thanks love the videos

I want more nick and cenk jam sessions.

I am a big fan of Elektron instruments, even though they are a little difficult to come to grips with. I wish I could spend a weekend with Cenk, working with him.

I love my Digitakt. Will love it even more when it stops crashing when using MIDI tracks and when they, hopefully, add an arpeggiator and some timestretching ;-)

About 16 mins in, patterns. Can patterns be sequenced via DAW? C0 etc. or midi cc.

MORE NICK AND CENK JAMS PLEASE!

Great to hear they're working on the backup functionality. Really, I've been using my Digitakt like a "field recorder" to sample something off my other gear whenever I stumbled across some good sounds. It's just so much faster than setting up a computer+audio interface. Would be great to get those recordings off the machine so I can use it somewhere else as well.

Will you guys be covering the Digitone ar some point?

I get velocity sensitivity when controlling DT from a midi controller but when i record that same part in, its gone on playback... why cant it be recorded if it can be played???

This thing is so good, my most favourite piece of gear ever. I sold 4 samplers and a beatstep pro when I got this, they're all redundant to me after getting this

What a completely fabulous demo :)

That jam at the end!

well done guys....

Is the Digitakt a different variation of black than the Analog Heat, Rytm mki and A4 mki? In this vid they look different. Also great demo as usual. I think Im going to pick one up...

Love your reviews, Nick. Cenk is always a fountain of information as well! But PLEASE when are you going to review the Monologue???

I'm loving mine. I've had to relearn a few things coming from a Korg universe into an Elektron universe, and it's missing a few really stupid things, like track solo, but it's great fun.

Completely amazing demo - it kind of answers 1000 questions in ultra rapid so I guess I'll have to watch it for another... um 996 times ... to learn how to use mine. Two of the nicest guys in this industry - lovely when some features creates a big grin on Nick - the tech savvy legend with all his intricate questions. Cenk truly knows the ins and outs of the machine so he's almost too fast - yeah that function you're mentioning was just what I did there but let's move on to another pattern... Ultra rapid really. :-) Wonderful and extremely impressive. (I am sorry some people are too lazy to follow and too familiar on how to press on thumbs down; that's not fair guys. This deserves many more thumbs up.) As a seasoned Reasoned guy I can see the amazing power Elektron has come up with here - and this machine will be able to free me a bit from the computer. For the first time since 2000 really / been stuck in Reason since then!!! I am thinking of setting up Reason and my (mine) WBF R2 sound bank as a sound module and see what can be done here, mixing in about 15 hardware synths. The power is in this box. By the way: for the Program change trick I made a track that way in Logic many many years ago controlling a classic Juno 106 and it really was VERY responsive - so this "limit" of 8 tracks truly isn't so much of a limit really. Since Elektron's tracks are a completely different thing compared to anything else due to all automation. No 106 left in my garage nowadays (sold the last one I had for €500 and now they're up at €1700!!!) .... but I will put my .... around €500 DM6 to test tomorrow. ;-) All in all THANK YOU for this fantastic tutorial deluxe. Love! And! The swedish nod at the end of course warms my heart a little extra! ;-)

I dig it. The poly sequencing is weird, though I think it would work for the most part, and being able to set triggering percentage or triggering every given number of repetitions... Well that is just rad. I'll have to give it a several-hours try in-store.

how about mapping cutoff knob on the bass station 2 or DSI mopho...NRPN possible to be mapped on them 8 midi cc# thingies?

Has device back-up been updated yet? Back-up for me is more about security of material than accumulating loads of materials.

my biggest complaint about the digitakt is that's it's not in stock!! Ordered mine 2 weeks ago can't wait to finally receive it.

Wow, this is the best video that I've seen on this product so far. I'd love to try one of these out. Even though it samples in mono that's not a deal breaker for me. I think it's priced really well too ($649). That seems cheap to me.

Things Cenk mentioned that might be coming soon, but have yet to happen: more filters, some from of song mode, FX applied to the audio inputs. Still hoping!

All I want to do is sync sample playback via midi with my squarp pyramid... can it do that?

The price went up? it says 679 USD on the website, which is 578 euros.

I like the filter. Much more affordable than their other range.

No midi fx afterall??? I was of the opinion we'd have a reverb and delay as midi fx as well; did it miss out on something in the video..?

uhhh yeah I'm gonna have to take a second look at midi.....what I just saw I can for surely use!!!

Have they fixed or added all the things he said they were going to do?

FUNC + Knob turn = quickly return to 0 setting on a parameter Parameter button + clear = return all settings to default on a parameter Thanks Cenk!

The best bit was the end jam!!!

Finally, after watching zillions of vids, I figured out, midi track is essentially an Arppegiator & not a full fleged midi track.

So next level... !

As a standalone instrument for performance, the Digitakt is great. I'm sure I am not the only one wondering, will Overbridge open up the capabilities of the Digitakt when connected to a pc/mac? Unlimited sample length (gb or tb of hard drive storage), stereo mode, etc??? as a budget audio interface and daw can do this and the Digitakt isn't exactly cheap.

What was the app shown on the iPhone around 6.26?

Getting my Digitakt delivered tomorrow! .., Dumb question- but can a sampler like this Digitakt sample(record) directly from midi input or can it only sample audio coming in via analog(1/4 in cable connection etc)-?? Thanks!

In this video, Did u use the moog at all with the digitak ?

Best video on the Digitakt. If I would not already own it I would buy it LMAO

Waiting for Analog Keys/Four MKII with new screen!

How do you record theMoog sounds? To the digitak

13:27 - Oh, that's nice

The way I use the Digitakt midi is to connect just one unit from Digi midi out to ext midi in and then use different 8 midi ch Fr different voices. I seen Cenk connect three ext midi gear to his Digitakt. Does he daisy chain the units ? Or could anyone tell me the midi connections. Thanks 🙏

i need one!

Pad 1 is sticking down when I press it. Anyone else have this problem?

I will only have my life back again when I get mine and it's coming!! The Roland tr8-s refund is real for me!

DATANICK at the end!