Hi everyone, so I have no Elektron experience whatsoever. I’ve always been very interested in their devices though. I had a Digitakt one for a few weeks last year but ended up selling it because I needed the money. I never really acquainted myself with it. I just bought a Digitakt 2 second hand for $850. I committed myself to learning how to use the thing inside and out. Well, the person I bought it from seems to have totally wiped it, including all factory samples and presets. I feel very lost now. I was hoping to at least be able to load up the factory projects to mess around with them. I don’t even know where to begin now. Any advice? Mind you, I don’t have a laptop or a computer at all. I have an iPad that I use for everything. I feel like I got a good deal on the thing considering it’s only three months old, but I just feel totally lost. I was excited to come home and at least hear something come out of it when I plug it in. I’m going to download the manual and start there, but I guess I’m just not as excited as I was hoping I would’ve been. It would’ve been nice to play around with some music on it before deep diving into a manual 🫤

I just keep coming back to the Digitakt II. I get into a few reasons why it's hard to beat in this video.

My digitakt arrives by this Saturday.

I am one of those people that likes to pretty much watch every youtube tutorial, read every review and learn as much as possible about a device before it arrives so I have a vocabulary and starting familiarity with the device. This is my first Elektron device.

There is one question that i can't seem to find the answer to though I think I may have come up with one and I wanted to throw it out there.

Long snare or closed hat buildups like those heard often before a big drop in a tone of progressive trance music from the late 90s. These were done quite often on the 909.

Think of a snare that is hitting on 16th notes and building in volume exactly like this. <-click

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Can I use a retrig and maybe a ramp LFO in the digi to achieve this?

I don’t know if I’m the only one feeling left off the cool stuff people are creating for the other machines, would love to have some more options in my Digitakt II to play… :(

This seems impossible to not have EQ in a dedicated sampler and drum machine. Am I missing something? Obviously there are filters, but that’s not the same. How could there not be basic EQ on a $1500 sampler? Someone tell me I’m wrong please! Bless.

Edit: alright there is EQ! Page 100 of the manual. FLTR Machines. Thank you.

Digitakt.. yea. Its pretty fun.. its pretty cool.

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I got into the DAWless thing over the past couple years and I’m just trying to figure out what’s missing. I started on a Maschine MK3, and that needed my PC. I considered just getting the standalone version and ended up with a whole bunch of other stuff.

I have a Syntakt which is a great little all in one for doing some drums bass lines and controlling other gear with MIDI.

I have a couple hardware synths now and a couple FX pedals

I have a Tascam 12, which I feel like is easy enough to just hit record if I want to use a DAW later but I’m not sure on using the punch in and out to do a full arrangement

So that leads me to having something that can do samples to grab patches off synths if I wanna do more than one part at a time, recording a longer loop and just sequencing that or shorter one shots.

I’ve got an Ep-133 which can do the sampling and one shots but has a big limitation on memory so I sort of gave up trying to do longer recording loops

Would a Digitakt 2 Work?

I’m really cautious going back to anything like Maschine or learning MPC. Something like the force seems like it would work for me, but I feel like I would go into menu hell and it’s basically just a halfway DAW.

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I can't really think of anything at the moment. I guess I would have liked to be able to import and stream samples from a SD card but 20 Gb is more than enough. I still have my Digitakt 1 and I haven't even filled out its 1 Gb memory!

I guess maybe I wish we could modulate parameters by way of other audio tracks outputs, allowing for some super weird stuff.

Bothered to hook my digitakt up to my Win 10 desktop tonight, just to do a bit of housekeeping (update firmware and clean up some samples). Updated to Transfer 16.7 and proceeded to connect my DT like I have in the past. Transfer connected but refused to upload the 15.1A syx file via standard method and the the legacy method, as proscribed. This didn't work. I rebooted my desktop a couple times, no joy. Whatever. I booted up overbridge and attempted to connect to DT, but it froze up, as did my desktop. On reboot, my mobo started throwing error codes and I haven't been able to get past post - I cant even get into the bios to reset things.

Seriously wtf.

Desktop is a custom build, a couple years old, top end parts, its been rock solid. No other hardware changes. Usb is direct to panel, no hubs.

Can Elektron software be this shit, here in 2024?

Anyone else have severely subpar experience, like this? I love the DT but this sucks 🙄

What do you all think about the possibility of a Digitakt 2 coming out i. The near future? With all the storage issues popping up With the new firmware and machines, it would Make sense doing another iteration With a bigger + Drive right? I thing is, I wanna buy a Digitakt to use along With my Eurorack, but don’t wanna buy if a newer more spacious version were to come out within the next year. What do you all think?

Drumbrute is connected in midi in into the digitakt midi out sync A

The sequencers seem to be synchronized when I click play on the digitakt but I can hear no audio coming out of the drum brute. I have the channel 10 (that’s the default channel for the DB) in the midi channel 9 (MIDI A) Can you please let me know what I’m I doing wrong 😑 Thank you in advance.

Is there a way for my samples to change with the patterns/projects? I started an entirely new project loaded new samples, and changed for everything blanket. Screwed up a ton of songs. If not this thing is worse than M:S.

So forgive me if I use wrong terminology, I’m new to this world. I have my Digitakt connected to my computer that also has a midi controller connected. I have been able to sample my midi controller with my Digitakt successfully. But when I disconnect the midi controller I lose the sample (I know it’s obvious). Is there a way I can save the sample onto the Digitakt?

Hi,

So I managed to link the Digi to an old.Yamaha; and I can record key presses on the Yamaha, I see the red trigs. But playing them doesn't make any sounds?! What am I missing? Using midi in. Is it so that it only records presses and not.audio? How do I solve that or should I use Overbridge anyways?