Indepth Digitakt Resampling Tutorial

[@bananamozgi]

First 30 minutes are more or less straightforward and then fucking magic with piano notes which looks to me like in old drawing owl joke: 1. Draw two circles. 2. Now draw the rest of damn owl. ;)

[@IvarTryti]

Hahaha! Thanks :P. Yeah I moved a bit fast at the end there! I wanted to demo the drums together with some melody, but the tutorial was already almost 40 minutes long and I was getting tired, haha.

[@station2station544]

Wow, writing melodies by turning a dial is a unique approach. Instead of playing the notes on keys:)

[@IvarTryti]

@@station2station544 Haha, I grew up making music with a piano roll, so I'm more comfortable dialing in notes than playing them live :P

[@girlinagale]

A owl.

[@tahiche.]

Dialing notes like that and getting it right is sick!. It’s mental!. Wow.

[@DhrSchwanz]

2:27 for the hair to be blown away

[@NunyaB1s]

Back in the late 90s, I used to pay $100-$200 to get the kind of production value you've put together here. I asked myself alot throughout this video, "Why is he doing xyz... well everything after 18:24 explains why: It's dirty, very breakbeat in orientation, and what makes it better is that it was totally self-produced. Thanks for being awesome Ivar! =-)

[@lacqueredstudio583]

Hi Ivar, been following a while and recently stumbled across this clip. Can I just say, I have never before studied another tutorial video like I've studied this one. And I've seen a few. So valuable. Thank you for sharing.

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you very much for the kind words, man! I should make more of these tutorials, it's been so long :P

[@lacqueredstudio583]

@@IvarTryti So now it looks like Slices in version 1.50 has taken care of 'Recreate Pattern Steps' and 'Copy & Rearrange Pattern'.

[@neilfallon5998]

@@lacqueredstudio583 I just picked up a Digitakt 1 and was wondering the same thing.

[@alexlouismusic]

It took me a week to figure out grid recording mode needs to be active in order to copy the pattern data but I got this to work! Thanks!

[@tardot1]

resampling drum loops is a great idea. you don't need to switch between patterns, just switch between tracks with drum loops. so it just increases the complexity of the composition of the whole project up to several times. great job!

[@IvarTryti]

It's not my idea, it's something I picked up from Ricky Tinez and made my own little workflow around it. It's very handy, since it frees up lots of tracks for either more drum variations, or more melodic tracks :)

[@crimsonking90]

Jesus Christ didn’t expect to sound like that. You are a genius my man.

[@IvarTryti]

Hehe, thanks a lot!

[@crimsonking90]

Ivar Tryti also your Spotify is great, will listen to your songs!

[@mrblaschke]

With all respect to you i re-created this workflow today on my iPad and am very satisfied with the outcome. I do that as preparation to learn the techniques for the Digitakt i want to buy later this year :) So you have all my respect for showing this and making it available to learn. If you are interested you can see a part of my recreation on my channel. Thank you so much and take care! Keep up your great work!

[@IvarTryti]

Awesome! That app looks really nice. Really cool that the playhead jumps around like it does on the Digitakt :D. Thanks man, it's so cool that my stuff inspired you! I get the feeling the Digitakt will suit your workflow if you like the results you got from the app. I use mine almost daily!

[@Woji52]

Mr Blaschke hey internet stranger. I hope you were able to grab one. I love the iPad so much and my newly purchased digitakt is an amazing addition. Class compliant USB for the win! It is unbelievable using Digitech as an audio interface and midi controller and sampler. It really opens up all the great auv3s we have at our disposal. If you haven’t already, grab “Drambo’’ by beep street. Crazy ass modular playground in the Elektron work style. Too much fun

[@cosmictunes6363]

Oooh woow😮 I Love that silent Hill Soundtrack 😍👌❤️ Really nice work Dude 🤗

[@gillescafedjian1381]

Thank you very much. The DT is so powerful. I will try to use this method to make my beats now. The tutorial is very clear and the little checklist at the left help a lot.

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for checking out my tutorial! Yeah, the DT is awesome. I'm glad you found it useful. Let me know how it goes!

[@royalapple1674]

Cool workflow ! Thank you for this quick intro to your digitakt usess ! I recently got one and it's really welcome to cheer up my creativity and procees ^^ Hope your doing fine since then. Love from France

[@Fac-i1k]

A Machine writing notes on another machine... this is the future! You’re a machine!

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, hello :D

[@smithymicky]

Thanks for the link to this vid! You truly are an Elektron master, have learnt so much!

[@IvarTryti]

My pleasure, man. Thanks for watching :D

[@TotalBikeForever]

Amazing! I'm picking up a Digitakt in Tokyo in a few weeks from the elektron team. Your videos have really shown me what you can do with it and why it's such an amazing tool. Looking forward to your next pieces!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! I hope it helps you get started on the Digitakt once you get it. Your latest post on r/synthesizer was awesome, keep it up :)

[@TotalBikeForever]

Ivar Tryti thanks! Glad you saw the video on Reddit. Definitely more to come

[@OlivierSarfati]

Thanks for taking the time. Really appreciate :) I like pushing both distortion and compression.

[@IvarTryti]

I'm glad you found it helpful! Thanks for watching :)

[@domthumb2062]

I love this tutorial Ivar, I recently got my Digitakt and I have been picking teachers who have a good tone (voice) and great knowledge . Subscribed my friend 👏👏👏👏👏🙏🏻

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you very much, Tom! I'm glad you like the tutorial, and thanks for subscribing!

[@domthumb2062]

Ivar Tryti ❤️❤️👍🙏🏻

[@Post-destination]

3:38 I sure wish I had known that extraordinarily simple and obvious maneuver, probably could have saved an hour of my life manually p-locking individual trigs when I could have held them all and released one by one..

[@IvarTryti]

This is one of my favorite workflow tricks on Elektron gear! The Octatrack didn't even get this feature until 2020, hehe

[@techtalkmike4968]

I'm just getting started with the Digitakt and this has helped me greatly. Thank you!

[@IvarTryti]

I'm glad to hear it helped you! Thanks for watching and have fun with the Digitakt :)

[@davestasiukdesign]

Thanks for sharing your beat-making technique so thoroughly...lots to unpack and try out!

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for watching! I hope you find these tricks useful

[@zukonabts]

This video was pure gold! And realizing by the end you were playing Silent Hill 2 theme was the icing on the cake. Thank you, I've learned so many things watching this video, it feels like I have whole new instrument sitting on my desk now

[@IvarTryti]

Tha k you, Brosema! I'm glad the video was interesting and helpful =D! Silent Hill 2 really had an impact on me when I played it back in 2001.

[@musegong]

Nice techniques for working with breakbeats too! Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! I'd been thinking about making a tutorial for a while, and I finally pulled myself together and recorded it

[@maarzt]

fascinating, really had no idea this was a thing with the digitakt which I just acquired. thanks!

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for watching! I was inspired by Ricky Tinez' tutorial on how to resample like an SP404 on the Digitakt. Saves a lot of tracks and adds a certain flavor when it's a drum loop being chopped up.

[@maarzt]

@@IvarTryti I really like Ricky. Theres so much good Digitakt content out there, unfortunately I havent yet had a chance to do much...yet.

[@danpreston564]

Fascinating workflow. Thanks for sharing.

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for watching! :D

[@Koettnylle]

2:28 THANK YOU. Drove me nuts.

[@IvarTryti]

😅

[@n_o_]

err i have had a dt since release and learned 4 new things from this tut just skipping around for a few mins, excellent excellent

[@IvarTryti]

Awesome! I'm glad to hear my tutorial is helpful. Thank you :)

[@peterbode3005]

Very good, really very good. Thank you, Ivar!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@HailSagan_]

Brilliant - love seeing your process and thanks for sharing!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@davidgonzalo3762]

Superb tutorial! A pleasure seeing your workflow

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you David! Hopefully I'll be more comfortable talking on cam in future tutorials hehe

[@luca848stars]

great akira yamaoka rework!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! He's one of my main influences =)

[@Jegkedermigmega]

Wonderful tutorial. This easily takes the cake! Btw thanks for blowing that hair away in the start of the clip ;)

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! Hehe, I'm glad I caught it early on.

[@G0nz0uk]

This is a really interesting and clever way of using the DT. I'll certainly be trying this as it saves on tracks too. I'd love to see you do another one like this on how you create an IDM glitchy Aphex Twin type tune. Great work.

[@FunkTree]

The clicking buttons add vibe to the whole experience:)

[@IvarTryti]

The buttons are very satisfying =D

[@lfoflow]

the whole section adding the melodies may have broken my brain. crazy good.

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, thank you very much, man!

[@ArkaHtun]

Brilliant , inspiring , mad skills on the melodies , thank you .

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@mikeyfisher]

Great work flow never thought of this approach

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for watching, man :)

[@slakk5093]

Top tutorial man.. very nice demo. Thanks for taking the time to explain your workflow

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! I hope someone finds it helpful =)

[@pablojimenez1423]

This is a great technique, thanks for sharing!

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for watching Pablo, it's my pleasure =)

[@messer21]

Thanks for taking the time to do this.

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for watching, Jerry =)

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

Thanx Ivar - youre videos are gold to a digitakt´N Tone freakazoid like me ! :-)

[@IvarTryti]

My pleasure man, thanks for watching!

[@korberd]

Magic :o Thx for this video!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful :)

[@marvinyl]

this is solid gold! thank you!

[@IvarTryti]

I'm glad you like it! Thanks :D

[@Fac-i1k]

Watching this over and over I actually think this tutorial video link should printed on a card and shipped in every single sold DT box!!!!!

[@PandaBeaniesYT]

Monster 👹 I have the itch to get on to DT again. Nice video

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, thanks! If you think it suits your workflow, it's definitely worth considering. The Digitakt is still my favorite piece of gear, and I have the Digitone and Octatrack to compare it with.

[@PandaBeaniesYT]

@@IvarTryti I know you can't remember all ppl but cuz of your vids and chatting with you I got DT a good while ago. I keep discovering new stuff all the time.

[@howardanderson3061]

Thanks so much, this was very very helpful and eye (ear) opening, the drums sound so amazing! This is such a powerful This is such a powerful workflow. It makes sense that you have to put some time into making a great sounding track I like your structure, drums 1-4 and melodies 6-8 approach. Really Cool, thanks again. I will be living and working with this Tutorial....

[@IvarTryti]

My pleasure man, I'm glad you found it useful! I think it's a really fun way to jam, having drums on one side and melodies on the other side. I'm more comfortable finger drumming and stuff with my left hand so I have the drums to the left, but it would just just as well if you swapped it and used your right hand for drums.

[@howardanderson3061]

@@IvarTryti It make so much sense to me now that one of the reason you create such great music is that you clearly are very structured in your work flow. Thanks again this gem of info is very liberating and gives me hope to do the same. Tonight I'm going to set up the drum on the first 4 tracks

[@vadykk]

Awesome channel and content. Thinking about picking up digitakt.

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! It's a pretty expensive box, but it's really fun to make music on. It's definitely been more than worth it for me! If you get one, I hope it suits your workflow.

[@mtsolmusic]

so many great tips to try out. thanks for this

[@IvarTryti]

Hey man, I'm glad you found it helpful! Thanks for checking it out :)

[@dankaiser4608]

Fantastic tutorial. Wish I could "like" it more!

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, I really appreciate it! I'm glad you found it helpful :)

[@wbfortyone]

Check his bandcamp link.

[@hank10111111]

This is wild I just got a Digitakt and didn’t even know this was possible

[@telegraph_hill]

Really interesting technique! Thank you!

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks, man! Glad to hear it was interesting :)

[@naught101]

Your handwriting is super cool

[@IvarTryti]

Hehe, thank you very much! It helps that I'm using a brush pen.

[@philmakesnoise]

You forgot to collect 200 when you passed go. Saving this to watch next time I work!

[@IvarTryti]

Took me a while, but I got it! It's okay though, all the buildings are mine

[@nomadvideogame]

well this is a nice Tutorial! Just 8 min into it ;) thanks!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! I hope it was helpful =)

[@docshadrach]

More tutorials like this! Please!! 👍

[@IvarTryti]

Hey man, I'm really glad you like my tutorial! :D

[@_Dogstar9]

Some great tips here. Thanks and subbed.

[@IvarTryti]

I'm glad you found it helpful! Thanks for the sub :)

[@josefk5659]

This is very helpful. I just got a digitak and I have a much better idea how to navigate the workflow. Thank you.

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks man, I'm glad to hear it helped you!

[@martinlubitz3171]

Very helpful video. Thanks 👍

[@IvarTryti]

I'm glad you found it helpful!

[@illicitgraphics1]

More like this, please. Thanks

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for watching! I'd like to do more of these, though I have to put together a list of tricks I like to use first

[@keenra]

lol crazy how distracting a single hair can be... when one is on my keyboard it drives me insane til ill swipe it away and hit a wrong note lol. Thanks for the video, you have a very soothing voice.

[@IvarTryti]

I'm glad I noticed it early =P. Haha, I had to rerecord an entire track once because there was was a hair on the Digitakt. I'm glad you found the video useful, and thank you =D

[@crimsonfancy]

🤯 Thank you very much.

[@stmemusic]

Brilliant tutorial!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@strangersun7721]

Great video. Thanks for sharing your process. I'm going to take some ideas from this.

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! Glad to hear it helped =)

[@forbesy8568]

great stuff ...very helpful

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks, Forbesy!

[@misiek080]

Well since it's all interesting I watched almost half just out of curiosity, and then suddenly at 18:00 my jaw dropped: so that's what all this hassle was for!!

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, yeah it's a bit of a process, but working with drum loops is super convenient. It's also the reason I make drum loops in bulk, as opposed to every time I want to make music.

[@davidkempmail]

Nicely done ✅ 👍🏼

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks!

[@planetduh]

Thanks for this ivar, perfect timing as I got my digitakt at the weekend. Out of interest what would you get to accompany digitakt, digitone or syntakt? Keep up the good work!

[@goolobungi2943]

great tutorial!!!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@aaroninky]

great stuff, subscribed.

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you!

[@lakaskad]

Very useful thanks

[@cristianruiz2509]

Excelente ,felicidades !!

[@Dwali17]

Very satisfying getting rid of that hair - thanks!

[@IvarTryti]

Yeah, glad I caught it before minute 3 :D

[@TheRealJustinMorgan]

I was it too... I was wiping my screen thinking it was my computer.. LOL

[@djtekitizi]

Was just about to comment on that haha... was driving me mad

[@tahiche.]

I can hear the “blowing hair off” moment at 2:27. Unfortunately I can’t see the freaking hair. So the hair is driving me mad for the wrong reasons... where is it???

[@christianhellesoy]

HAHA. I was about too stop the video, and then he blew it away..

[@justinkitchin105]

Jeezzuth This process is very heavy with programing I'll say im happy to have gotten mpc over dt even with the bugs That said you're expert with this workflow though

[@Skiddoo42]

Plans for 2020: 1) put this video on my desktop 2) buy a Digitakt 3) learn how to music 4) never sleep again

[@IvarTryti]

Hehe, thank you very much!

[@fen4554]

I've got steps 1 and 2 down. 3 seems to be happening on it's own and 4 was never a factor to being with lol.

[@arjanpetersen]

@13:00 .... why is the sample so fast on the new track?

[@IvarTryti]

I'm resampling at higher speed for two main reasons: the sample will take less space on the +drive, and it will be lower quality, or more lofi. I like this a lot for hip hop and trip hop, but the lower quality doesn't suit every genre.

[@benoitdewandel]

Thanks a lot !

[@IvarTryti]

My pleasure, I'm glad it helps =D

[@BedouinRecords]

Alessa's Harmony

[@station2station544]

I have a theory question: (Im familiar with sampling - been sampling, pitch shifting, truncating, chopping since the emulator days). 10:15 My question, what was the purpose of speeding up your pattern to 120 and shifting up the pitches before you re-sampled the pattern (loop), and then dialing it back down. To save space? To add filth since you will revert it to slower?. I might dig if I watched it a second time. Great content on your channel. I own a Digitakt and just picked up a Digitone which is one of my favorite purchases in the last 3 years and I can't say good things enough about it. Thanks for your work. Subscribed.

[@IvarTryti]

Hey, thanks for watching! I think recording things sped up was done to save space on older samplers, and that's partially why we're doing it here too (1GB to work with). I think you can get the same effect by tweaking the right parameters, but when you speed up the BPM and raise pitch, some things stay the same, like reverb length and compressor attack and release. When you pitch it the resampled loop down, these things get stretched out. I haven't double checked this, but I think the bit reduction sounds different on a sample that was bit reduced at a higher pitch, THEN pitched down. That said, if I can get the same results with fewer steps, that would be better! The Digitakt is really fun to use, and I'm really interested in the Digitone, too. Thanks again for checking out my stuff!

[@station2station544]

@@IvarTryti Let me say this about the Digitone. Most FM synthesis keyboards from the 80's like the DX7, etc, have the expected sound, and remind you of crap that came out in the 80's like Steve Winwood solo, or Whitney Houston. Not the Digitone. It has a more dark and haunting tonality which reminds you of Violator and such. Your content is excellent and I think if you joined the Digitone in your works it would sound like more than the sum of two devices. Thanks again!

[@Thwap23]

Very cool

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks!

[@xc3n]

I am calling the Function button "Funk" from now on

[@IvarTryti]

Yeah man, press that funk button!

[@Unaqer]

some sensei level shit

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, thanks man :D

[@G0nz0uk]

Am in right in thinking I could record a beat I like off KZbin for example and use this method to resample and build it back up? Then I have the option of altering the beat too.

[@IvarTryti]

Yeah, that should work. Since the digitakt doesn't have slice mode, p-locking the start point on trigs is the next best thing.

[@EZBOT_]

This is awesome! Get yourself an Octatrack and do this in 1 minute :)

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! I want an octatrack :(

[@domthumb2062]

Ivar Tryti well, you’ve got one now and don’t you deserve it.. First class teacher, thank you 🙏🏻

[@invgvrbo3051]

Great tutorial ! Thanks! I got to know smth new about my digitakt. Though I don’t understand how do u set samples on the lower buttons field, the midi one. Whenever I try to do it, they are mute.

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! The lower row of trigs are the midi tracks, and can't be switched around for a normal sample track, sadly. The midi tracks don't make any sound on their own, they just send note info to other gear and stuff. If you have a DAW, you can control plugins with those midi tracks.

[@markus6409]

The melody is familiar to me. Sounds like it is out of an eminem beat.

[@IvarTryti]

Now that you mention it, it has the same chord progression as one of his tracks. I made a cover of "Promise (Reprise)" from Silent Hill 2 by Akira Yamaoka.

[@ronnytorkovic]

Thank you for this. I've had my Digitakt for a couple of weeks but have not been able to make something good yet, this will surely help me a bit on the way. I was following along pretty well with this tutorial, but there were some parts in which I must have made some mistakes because everything you did wasn't working for me, however I found other ways to tackle that. My biggest question still stands though, as I have no idea how to explain what you are doing at 36:00 for example, how are you changing what's being played without muting any tracks? I thought you had to hold down FUNC and click on the things you want to mute, but here you are just looping the song and simply clicking the things you want to be played or not. It also looks like the "BANK" button is lit up, which mine is not, does that have anything to do with it, or what mode are you in to be able to play it like this?

[@Woji52]

Hey Heidis. I’m a noob myself. So this video is blowing my mind lol. He’s hitting FUNC+BANK which gives you ‘’mute mode’’ In this mode you don’t need to hold func the whole time. If you hit the FUNC+BANK key combo twice it will toggle between global mutes and pattern mutes. I think... I’m still down the rabbit hole myself. Buying this was the stupidest thing I could have done for my finances. But the best thing I did for my brain in months. Cheers!

[@IvarTryti]

Hey man, thanks for watching! Press FUNC+BANK to enter mute mode. It'll basically be as if you're holding down FUNC to mute. You're right about the BANK button being lit, it does that in mute mode. There are two mute modes though, if you hold FUNC and press BANK multiple times, the tracks will switch between glowing green and purple. Green mutes is the global mute mode, where the mute states carry over to other patterns, and the purple on is pattern mute mode, where the mute state is saved per pattern.

[@ronnytorkovic]

@@IvarTryti thanks a lot, that also explain the purple bit, I thought it was just some cool mod that some people had on it lol. I'll try it out next time I'm working on my Digitakt!

[@fen4554]

A little green over here, can someone explain the compressor step? Is this like normalizing the tracks so you can hear them all evenly?

[@IvarTryti]

That's the gist of it, yeah. It takes the peaks and lowers the volume on them. How fast it kicks in and how much it lowers the volume depends on your settings. The result is that the dynamic range is narrower: there is less difference between the loudest parts and the softest parts. This lowers the overall volume though, and you can compensate for this by just increasing the volume (make up gain). Hope that helps!

[@fen4554]

@@IvarTryti It does, thanks so much for posting your tutorials!

[@TristanBaldi]

Hi Ivar, what's funny is I don't own a DT, but watched your video from start to finish. Very well put, very informative. There's something I don't get tho, it's... Why do you resamble your beats? Why not just add compression and drive and bit reduction, reverb & delay and then go with it? I guess it's tied with the other question : why pitch samples up and resample it before pitching it down again? Does it give the sound a certain touch? And is it why you actually resample the whole thing? Thanks a lot for your answer!

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks a lot man, that's so cool to hear :D There are a few reasons to why I resample beats, and the main one is to free up tracks for other things, like drum variations or melodies. The reason I like to resample with bit reduction, reverb, delay, compression, an drive is to to intentionally make the sample sound dirty. Sampling at double speed and pitch makes the whole sample more lo-fi when you pitch it back down. This saves space on the Digitakt, too. When a drum loop has been heavily processed like this, you get a pretty cool sound when chopping it up and rearranging it. You'll get a snare with the ending of a kick in it, a kick with the tail end of an open hat in it, a hihat with a hint of snare, stuff like that. Also, the sound becomes even more intense when you apply compression, drive, and bit reduction to a sample that's already been compressed and overdriven, but this time you'll be compressing the baked in reverb and delay, too :)

[@TristanBaldi]

@@IvarTryti Another long, precise and very cool comment. I cannot thank you enough Ivar, using the different tips you gave me on the use of your plugins and such, I just successfully mastered a track I recorded using the SOMA samples on the Deluge (I saw your remix, great job). It's really inspiring and forced me to get back to understanding multiband compressing, bits of EQ, and limiting. Thanks a bunch, I really appreciate the time you spend to answer all those comments. Cheers from Paris!

[@eduardomorciano4074]

Hello Ivar, really loved this video. Just a quick summary, to make it straight to my clogged brain. Tell me if i'm wrong. You make the drum pattern in 80bpm, then speed (130bpm) AND pitch up (+10), then record. Then paste into a new pattern with old bpm (80) and tune down to get back your pitch (-8.00). Am I right? Because I did this and didn't work out. I guess I'm missing something.

[@eduardomorciano4074]

Ok, one thing that I've noticed is that you didn't mention (if i'm not wrong) that you are in PATTERN TEMPO mode, and not in GLOBAL TEMPO mode. In this way, you did not turn down tempo back to 80 bpm, because you change pattern. This made my brain go crazy for a while.

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks a lot, man! Since this video, I've simplified my process a bit. I usually just double the tempo and set the pitch or tune one octave up when resampling. This makes it a lot easier, since I can then press func and turn the tune knob and it will instantly snap to -12, which will make the loop play at the correct tempo. Hope that helps!

[@nocallnoshow6878]

@@IvarTryti, I truly love your videos and your music. I can't express how much I appreciate them, and what joy you've helped me to derive from this machine--However, I feel a little stupid asking: Why speed it up, record it, and slow it down again? I don't understand the purpose of this step. I've seen others do this on a sampler to minimize sampling time, but that seems unnecessary on the Digitakt. Am I wrong?

[@warpigs330]

@@nocallnoshow6878 I know people do this classic samplers to get a lower fidelity. Effectively you are reducing the sample rate.

[@charlieashby9561]

I probably missed something essential, but why the pitching up and back down step? And why record with the reverb and delay baked in? I may have to watch again, octatrack owner eyeing up a digitakt!

[@IvarTryti]

The pitching up to sample thing is done mainly to save space on the Digitakt, but also because it makes the sample more lofi. It not useful in all genres, but it suits trip hop very well. I like to bake in the FX so that when I'm slicing and rearranging the drum loops, you get a very cool chopped up effect: kick with the tail end of an open hat in it, a snare with a bit of kick in it, a hihat with the reverb of a snare in it stuff like that.

[@willernst]

I was looking for just this comment! I stopped after the pitch down, trying to figure out what was happening.

[@prodbycatalyst9949]

Insane

[@steveambrose1734]

Ivar im stuck. I am at the recreate pattern stage. I have set all start points and trig lenghth to 1/8 but it wont play past the the first start point of 15 it just keeps looping there please help

[@woutervandam1645]

fantastic video :)

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks a lot!

[@NiallC]

HI .. thanks for this. Quick question tho, for the life of me I cannot change the BPM of my track, nor can I switch from Global to Pattern on the Tempo. Its just stuck on 120 and not moving. I've factory reset, disabled all clocks apart from the Clock Send yet still have the issue on new and existing tracks Any suggestions would be most appreciated

[@steveambrose1734]

Im new to this and just got the digitakt. My question is why resample and not just save the beat, what is the benefit and what am i missing. Thanks so much

[@IvarTryti]

Congrats on gettin ga Digitakt! The main reason is to save space. The Digitakt has only 1gb of space, and by increasing the speed and pitch (double speed and pitch to make it easier), you're basically reducing the file size by half. The other reason is that you'll get more of a lofi sound to the drums, since the quality is literally degraded. The latter is more of a personal preference thing, and doesn't always suit all genres or styles of music.

[@steveambrose1734]

@@IvarTryti thanks for the quick reply. Now i get it. A steep learning curve but loving it. At the moment im making some fun noise the music should come soon lol

[@LoveMeBack]

Impressive handwriting…

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks! My handwriting only looks like that when I write with a brush, which takes ages :P

[@chsm72]

So clever

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks, Christian! I hope it was helpful :)

[@symbiosis07]

My understand is that you do this drum protocol to A.save tracks B.have easy control on drums as freq groups(lo\mid\hi). Am I right? Then my question is why you pitch them up, sample, then down? Is it to make it more lo-fi and gritty, something I missed? Thanks! Great stuff here.

[@IvarTryti]

You're right! Pitching up to record then pitching back down makes the sample more lofi, but it also literally makes the file size smaller so I can fit more stuff on the Digitakt, since it only has 1GB of space. Thanks a lot, man :)

[@maracuder]

Thank you for the detailed and inspiring explanation. But why is that step to pitch up, sample to then pitch down again useful?

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for watching! Glad to hear it was helpful =). The main reason to pitch up and then sample is to save space. The DT only has 1gb of space and no storage, so doing this early on can save you some headaches cleaning out your samples. The other reason is that it basically lowers the quality of your sample, so you get a natural lofi sound on it. You can skip this step if you want cleaner results, but they will take up more space.

[@maracuder]

@@IvarTryti Thank you! Okay, so it's the way, I imagined, I forgot about a possible storage issue and thought could downsample or reduce bit depth right away. Still an elegant way to work within the given limitations. Keep it on, I really enjoy it!

[@IvarTryti]

@@maracuder my pleasure! And thanks again, man =)

[@ZinnZinnP]

Hi, thank you for the video. Love your uploads! With the whole tempo up pitch up and then down again I have a question. Why are these exact numbers, why to 130 bpm and not higher? And why pitch up by 10? Also I guess if I want my drums tuned for the rest of the thing this approach doesn’t really work. Really trying to make sense of the whole thing in my head :)

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for watching, Roni! The idea behind these numbers was that I didn't want them to be exact. That way I'd have to approach each drum loop completely differently from each other, which I thought would be inspiring. Lately I've been doing things more straight forward: double the bpm and go an octave up in pitch. This takes a lot of the guess work out of using the loops which is faster, but I gotta say that the way I do it in this tutorial made me consider each drum loop more carefully when using them. Which was good for learning and for experimenting, but can be slow if you just want to make music.

[@ZinnZinnP]

@@IvarTryti so it's all about adding more color and wanted missperfection . Thanks brother!

[@tahiche.]

Great video, topped by an equally great owl joke in the comments.

[@IvarTryti]

Hehe, thank you very much!

[@blueberry2a]

sorry to ask but where did you found this "fragile piano" sound is it a sysx ? from which bank thks if u can help me cause deep interest for my own composition

[@IvarTryti]

Sure thing! I sampled it from FL Studio Mobile's piano preset. The sample itself is just a normal piano sample of the note C7. Any piano sample will do; just make sure to sample a high note and is played relatively softly. High notes that are pitched down sound better than a low note that is pitched up.

[@blueberry2a]

@@IvarTryti Hi thks for the tip and most of all tks for your what i will NOT call the rgood work you make BUTt tks for your art its very very inspring. Ia m a huge fan of your videos. your very last composition the usual is a true masterpiece. On digitakt track 4 and 5 its seems you use drums fills to give a brak time before the base drums sequences. How to you manage and made those short fills have you made a tutorial i fogot to watch ? This track sounds fantastic close from MASSIVE ATTACK ambiance..... just great