Is it sigificantly better than the old Digitone?

very very nice... hadn't realised how many times round the loop I'd gone!

Hi you have the same master track length on all the machines ? I'm curious 🤔

Awesome video thanks! By any chance do you know how to make horn sounds on the digitone 2? Or any reference videos.. thanks

Excellent comparison, nice one! Love the new animated logo!

great info!!! 👏👏👏

Nice Channel full of good Informations 👌🏻

Great breakdown

track 12 is very good for non hat percs and filter pings. ping the filter and get heavy on the plocks and then run it thru the fx track while you lfo the delay. being able to lfo delay and verb parameters is the big stand out for me on syntakt. i wish fx parameters could be lfo'ed on digitakt 2 or dn2. i am running dt2 and st. syntakt sounds heavily 80s imo and digitone sounds 90s-2000s

Hey great channel! I’m the proud (ab)user of my Digitone II and let me tell you…

Great video, I feel the same way about most of these points but I think your comment about the analog cymbal track is a bit misleading. You still get a choice of 12 machines on the analog cymbal track including impulse and a noise generator and this track can also be a midi track, it's not fixed only to be an analog cymbal. Despite that, I agree with you that track 12 is still lacking and would be a lot better if we could assign more tonal machines to it

With 16 tracks and the fact each of them can be any of 4 machines, it's kind of a bummer to me that the Digitone can't use any of those tracks as dedicated FX tracks. Having so many tracks all share the same reverb, delay, and chorus feels limiting. It felt more reasonable on the Digitone1 with just 4 tracks, but on Digitone2 it feels unbalanced. I would love the option to give up some audio tracks to use as route-able FX tracks in order to stack delays or use independent reverb settings on different sounds or something.

Here's something I don't see much talk about: The original Digitone, Digitakt, and Syntakt were designed to work with and complement each other. Do you feel that this is still the case with all of the new additions on the Digitone II?

Do you expect the Syntax 2 in 2025?

The only thing the syntakt has over the digitone 2 is the FX block track, other than that the digitone 2 blows away the syntakt in terms of sequencer, filters, polyphony, sound design, and arpeggiation. Personally I'm sticking with the syntakt.

Great video. I'm thinking of selling my Syntakt and getting a Digitone 2. Love my Syntakt but I have a Rytm and think the digitone will offer more

Great video once again! Regarding USB midi hosts, there are different solutions: -Some devices have one built-in (MPC One for example) -Arturia's minifuse audio interfaces have one too. 2 other affordable dedicated USB hosts worth checking out include: 1)Behringer's new midi go USB host (under 25 euros) 2)CME H4 midi WC: I got one for 50 euros and I really like it. It has 2 midi ins and 2 midi outs. Plus they have a dedicated Windows app that lets you configure it very easily (mapping the ports, filtering midi messages),

I think you should give track 12 another chance , I like the hi hats a lot , best hi hats I ever had , the digital hats are bad , but the tr12 is ace.

Schöner Vergleich 👍

They’re like Pokémon, u gotta catch ‘em all

I would choose op-z. And amount of money that i save i will spend on drugs…

please man, use time line chapters. trying to figure out the novation midi connections

Getting good kicks out of digitone 2 is certainly doable, especially with layering. The thing with it is that it is so flexible that finding the sweet spots is difficult. I agree that right off the bat something like syntakt makes better kicks. The master distortion on DN2 helps a bit set to a very low setting. But DN2 just has a very neutral sound, kicks on DN1 were already a bit less cutting than syntakt and I feel like DN2 has an more subdued sound character which makes it even harder to get mix cutting kicks. One thing you can do is route one track of DN2 out via USB to process in an iPad or some hardware effect and then route back into the DN2.

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Nice overview comparison of the two devices! If you were forced to keep only one of them, which would you keep and why?

I have the Digitone 2 and the Digitakt 2. Aside from Overbridge that's STILL missing from Digitone 2 (should be a release day feature....) there's one thing, that i really don't like about the Digitone: I'm just completely unable to create good kicks on the Digitone 2. I'm talking about non-distorted, but still very, very hard, punchy kicks that cut through anything. Think Techno, Dubstep, hard bass music. It's probably a skill issue on my end.... But i can not, ever, get the kicks i want to have. They always sound weak and hit like a wet poolnoodle. For sound desing, basses especially, (metallic) Percs, etc it's perfect. Especially with the "randomize page" feature, that EZBot has shown in a video. That's what i use the Digitakt 2 for. And while that's a very good device too, i have to say that i don't really like using it that much. Reason is that Sample Management is absolute trash. It's incredibly annoying on PC too, in my opinion... But when you have to menu dive all the time to achieve things you do o PC with 3 klicks in 5 seconds, it becoems almost unbearable, lol. But luckily i'm a hybrid type of workflow person anyways. So once overbridge finally comes out, it'll be great creating in ableton but still having the hardware to sound design. :)

Solid groove! I love how you broke it down so clearly, Ill be taking some tips onto my set too!

Very nice, especially when the acid-ish bassline comes in around 8:00. I have to admit my Syntakt has seen almost no action since the Digitone II came out, but between the analogue voices, the analogue overdrive and the FX track it should have enough differentiators to keep it relevant.

Ein track from scratch oder ein track breakdown wäre wirklich geil. Allgemein wäre es eine wahre Freude, wenn du deinen workflow zeigen und dabei erklären könntest, wie du deine gear einsetzt, um diesen sound zu kreieren. Sozusagen eine studiosession recorden und die einzelnen steps erläutern. Und wenn nicht danke trotzdem für deine super videos. Grüsse aus der Schweiz ❤

Super!!

Wow, loved it! Especially that Kernkraft 400-Style bassline in the last part.

Awesome 🙌 Impressive one-box-jam H! And so smooth transitions🔥

came in to check how ST holds up going solo, and definitely, you did an amazing job 🔥

super nice! very fun set!!!

Groovy 😎

This was awesome dude! Ready for the dance floor! Kept it interesting and energetic throughout, really helped me clean my house 😅

Yeah 🫶🥳💃🎵♥️

So tasty :)

Incredible video ! And I join you on the equalizer on an other page proposition, a single more plain filter without envelope shaping with more than juste one pole would be perfect feature that the digitone miss terribly today especially if you use it as your only playing machine ! Thanks for making this video, keep up the good work !

Great video, and great jam! Really like what you pulled off with this! Glad you're enjoying the jamuary creative madness!!

Hello Heiko, thanks for the very detailed tutorial. How do you archive a transition from one to the other track, so it soundsgood and don’t break the flow in the live set

Nice demo!

Massive!

Lovely, thanks for the shout out my friend! See you next year and all the best for your channel !!

Congrats on your positive changes and PVC rocks!!!

A good collective is made of good people… and you’re one of them 😃💜 maybe you could be a part of next years line up at Strøm På Roskildes summerevents? 🤔

Very nice wrap up video my friend and all the best in 2025! Been enjoying your output here and was great to meet you and your wife together last month :) Keep the positive vibes and great ideas flowing!

Greetings my friend, lot's of milestones and life changing decision this year, can't wait to see where this will lead you! Using YT as a diary to share your process, music and thoughts is a very nice approach. I will be looking forward to more from this side of the internet in the new year. Looking forward to see you soon again in the real life! - Berlin's calling ;) ! Btw: thx for the kind shout-out to the fam!

Oh thanks for mentioning me 💜💜💜 you are great , thanks for the sharing this with us 💜💜💜

Keep up the great work, and thanks for the knowledge 💜 a great year for you my friend 💜