Ten Reason to love the Elektron Digitakt 2 [ and my favorite trick ]

[@OoraMusic]

What is your favorite features of DT2? Don't forget to check my patreon to support me :) www.patreon.com/ooramusic

[@AsyncLive]

I'm trying hard not to buy it. Thats why I'm looking through all the videos about it :)

[@sock_park]

My favorite feature is the expanded ram and content space. After that, it's the stereo sound. My friend got a DTII and played me a few tracks and I was sold. Sample loading with the current version of Transfer is concerning, but I was able to load samples one folder at a time without crashing. Hope they fix that soon.

[@arjanpetersen]

@@sock_parknever had any issue with transfer at all. Perhaps your usb is crap

[@MorbidManoeuvres]

Fantastic video, i really appreciate you sharing your tricks. A great representation of the machine. thank you

[@OoraMusic]

my pleasure!

[@optoproductions]

Awesome! Just opened up my package from Thomann! I didn't have the Digitakt mk1 before, but it's amazing how hands-on this thing is, and it sounds great too!

[@jamesorvis_mixhackers]

Nice work dude! Love your favourite trick idea when you combine with Euclidean, works so well with the Acid loops :)

[@OoraMusic]

yes it is a fun trick!

[@sadlantis]

Nice overview! I didn't know that random locks in grid mode was a thing - that's cool!

[@hexwavemusic]

That's in Digitakt 1 as well when they added the new machines, it's a great feature!

[@relative_vie]

never had one. always wanted one. possibly one of the best purchases I’ve made on gear in the last 4 years.

[@OoraMusic]

Right on!

[@AhmetKizilay0]

The intro jam sounds really good!

[@Garethduffy707]

Super little video, I currently have my Digitakt up for sale and waiting on the 2 ! Can’t wait to experiment

[@sock_park]

Thank you for the video, love the "trick" at the end. I hadn't gotten to putting Euclidean sequencer patterns as trigs on the tracks, that is a VERY useful function to know.

[@OoraMusic]

You're welcome!

[@TRC_PNW]

Great video. I agree my DT2 isn’t going to replace my OT. Instead, it’s a huge upgrade to my OG DT that plays wonderfully WITH my OT. ❤

[@touchthatdial]

Love your channel. This is a great overview of the Digitakt 2. Thank you.

[@OoraMusic]

Thanks for watching!

[@1061shrink1061]

I get that these videos aren't aimed at me.... but as someone looking to get into one of these things for the first time, this looks super intimidating!

[@OoraMusic]

Yeah probably I would not recommend as first instrument, unless you can give it enough time!

[@thegreatsiberianitch]

You probly wanna start with an OG Digitakt or a Syntakt. More basic entry to the Elektron workflow. Digitakt 2 is a little more complicated. I got used to my 1st Elektron device after about a week or two of working with it a few hours every afternoon. Once you get it, it sticks though, mainreason ppl like them so much is the workflow.

[@el_dani]

I would say: Digitakt 2 is an amazing first device: can take you very far and has amazing workflow

[@tazsidney6910]

Great video, subscribed :)

[@hexwavemusic]

This is great, glad you were sent one and are enjoying it! I've been really loving mine paired with the Perfourmer running through the Empress Reverb, I feel like I can do anything 💜 (also I have the same poster from Analog Heat+FX on my wall behind me 😎)

[@OoraMusic]

I will try it with the performer soon :)

[@hexwavemusic]

@@OoraMusic This is great news 😁💜

[@noodldoodl1970]

You had me at Glitch Paradise.

[@Bezz_Jeens]

Dang dude new camera or just different lighting?!? I like this look.

[@OoraMusic]

both! I am upgrading the lights and making filming easier! thanks!

[@fabiod5879]

a little while ago I sold my DT to finance the DT2, but I won't deny that the temptation to combine an OT with my syntakt is very strong

[@Mr.Noaski]

please make a video with Digitakt 2 and Torso S4 Sculpting Sampler!!🌻

[@OoraMusic]

definitely coming ( and already did it on patreon)

[@TrueToTheCraft]

How did you sync? I thought the S-4 doesn’t have MIDI sync firmware yet

[@WalkingHeadPro]

as soon as they add a midi arp/arp, manual slicing, and or polyphony, Ill buy it.

[@ryanhursh6322]

Exactly this. I won’t upgrade until they add those features. If they don’t, they’re idiots. Every other sampler does all of the things you mentioned and more.

[@MrVincent97133]

hi and thank you for the tuto , how to have the auto preview always activated, each time I leave the sound bank and come back to choose a sound I have to reactivate it, thank you very much

[@willswitchcraft]

awesome upload..............................rad skills

[@OoraMusic]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@2010xkr]

Thanks for the video! - Is there a way to get rid of the "clicks" at the start of sliced clips? Like fade-ins or crossfades? The clicks in your demonstration of the grid mode are quite pronounced imo.

[@chrl_nrys]

It was worth mentioning that unlike the OT slicing, you can’t set custom start and end points for each slice, so chopping things like vocal or melodic samples up that aren’t already perfectly on grid is only so useful

[@OoraMusic]

thanks for pointing that out!!

[@Aridonis]

This, and the ability to actually link two or more tracks to make samples play polyphonically, are the only two things on my wishlist honestly. But those limitations are pretty easily worked around, and I love the device so far otherwise.

[@vvcv__00]

Oora, the intro. audio clip, you did here, is brilliant! Not that i've heard nearly all of your work, but this little intro is some of your best work (for me of course). Also, just wondering if you have used it in a finished song, or if you're currently working on a piece that has the intro in it? It's simply gorgeous, man! I do, would though, really like to hear it further developed in a completed song. Please let us know if, and/or when it may be completed...my fingers are crossed.

[@OoraMusic]

Thanks mate! I am working on that track !!

[@davelee1935]

What’s ya thoughts on the digitone 2 ? It’s starting to look like my dream machine

[@OoraMusic]

would like to try

[@MorbidManoeuvres]

im also curious did you bump into any bugs ? i saw another youtube he mentioned all samples suddenly change pitch by 1 cent or something

[@OoraMusic]

never happened so far! No major issue

[@MorbidManoeuvres]

@@OoraMusic good stuff 👍

[@duketranslucent3rd]

New to the channel. Great video! DT2 is the best thing since (and including) sliced bread. You gave 10 reasons why - plus there's also the new chorus effect and I believe it also has time/pitch stretching?

[@OoraMusic]

you are right!!!

[@iszyman]

Nice video man. I love my DT and think maybe an OT would be a better addition than a DT2.

[@OoraMusic]

Especially now that DT 1 cost so little!

[@boombap08]

Exactly what I did. I bought the OT before the DTII came out but decided to keep instead cause it’s different enough and it has the cross fader/ extra ins.

[@Zsklar]

Has anyone figured out the issue with the +drive corrupting samples after around 9 or 10 gb has been transferred to the unit. It's VERY frustrating!!!!!!

[@OoraMusic]

oh that's scary!

[@anonymous_friend]

Don't be tempted to overuse that sidechain compression. Be subtle, and use sparingly! 😊

[@OoraMusic]

ahah too tempting

[@Lincoln6echoLSE]

Always interesting

[@OoraMusic]

thanks!

[@ZozillaThaGreat]

Don't know why you keep doing music and video , you should be playing the bad guyz in Denzel Washington Equalizer movies lol ;) Jokes appart , always a pleasure to watch your video and your approach ... what is crazy is that the way digitakt is used and i plan to use it is like going back to basic ij late 80 where we had recorders with few tracks and were sampling and recording everything around studios because we wanted all those sounds in one spot (sampler S950 or a recorder to mangle them later) Waiting for overbdrige to be implemnted for this and kinda scared that i will no more use my syntakt lol

[@OoraMusic]

yeah I felt the same. And I am ready to finally beat that equalizer dude.

[@ZozillaThaGreat]

@@OoraMusic Ahahaha oh yeah !!! .... so more seriously , syntakt : ya still use it now ? i wanted to grab a used digitone but to be honest the syntakt can do it close and way more .... one thing i would love also your input is samples management , if you sample stuff per project ... how are they managed , you have to rename ect .... if you rename , you lose browser link or porject link to them in the future ? still not clear for me . Watching your Moog Labyrinthe video as i type , exellent as ususal !!!

[@jean-pierremartineau4136]

Good video!

[@OoraMusic]

thanks!

[@colonelpercival2832]

Live looping added?

[@OoraMusic]

i dont think that feature is there

[@colonelpercival2832]

@@OoraMusic "page loop functionality in GRID RECORDING mode, the master playback position is now indicated by a blinking TRIG key on the top row (TRIG 1-8), and the currently played looping page is indicated by a blinking TRIG key on the bottom row (TRIG 9-16)."

[@tracingtheta]

Curious to know what the semi-modular synth with the white face plate next to you is.

[@OoraMusic]

its the @intellijel cascadia

[@MrWewanttheworld]

In Reason 2 you say you can import long samples and play them back as a backing track. How do you do it? Thanks!

[@OoraMusic]

using the transfer app!

[@2pandaemonium2]

Cool video! Didn’t know that the vel could be used as a mod source :) Re the slicing and random locks, was your 303 loop the same bpm as your sequence bpm (because it sounded quite in sync with the tempo) or you usually do not pay attention to that?

[@Chris-vc1dh]

Can you edit and export records?

[@el_dani]

no stem export but USB-streaming of each channel in Overbridge

[@robertgarvansnyder4665]

I just had my first proper deep session with the DT2, I'm utterly in love. Great news about Overbridge on the horizon?? Are we talking weeks until the Public Beta launches, or the full release?

[@OoraMusic]

not a clue but I heard Ricky Tinez saying that should be a matter of weeks.

[@thaiboxing1658]

Du liebst gefühlt alle Geräte😂😂😂

[@Iredidv]

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been looking at a lot of vids, and would really like one. But then I have a Maschine plus, and if I see what Maschine does vs DT2, honestly I think M+ does more. It doesn’t have a few things like choose if a note is played or not, but that’s no biggie and I can do that with M+ in standalone, controlled by reason (via midi) and that way I can do Euclidean, scales, arps, note repeat and so on. Also more fx, drum synth, better audio editor and stretching, built in synths…Biggest pro is Maschine has an arrangement/ better song mode. So what can you guys say to get me along the elektron path (syntakt is on my list together with the dt2) or should I just stay with Maschine plus?

[@OoraMusic]

it is really hard to say mate. I have M+ and obviously it can be a way more capable machine, IF you like the workflow. I am an elektron guy and to me nothing beats it to me. At this point we have lot of options and you just have to find the one that resonates with you!

[@sossa57]

Maschine is a daw . Digitakt is an instrument ( and of course , a sampler ) , It allows to increase your creativity by manipulating samples as you want and sequencing them in an infinite way

[@ianncaianni1553]

thaank you so much!

[@OoraMusic]

my pleasure

[@nagchumpalot]

If they could just make this a keyboard sampler like the old Analog Keys form factor so I would love it.. Also a bigger screen similar to Waldorf Iridium. Just bigger! Ha ha

[@iamjamessmith]

That'd be sick

[@remyvegamedia]

Maaaaan.... The perpetual struggle between getting this or the Octatrack... I've been in this limbo for the last 2 years haha. And Digitakt II doesn't make it easier because it still doesn't have transient detection or manual slicing for samples, which sort of drives me crazy haha. This thing does look really cool though. I have an MPC, which works great for synthy hip-hop, DnB, and a lot in general, but it can be really tedious to get into glitchier/IDM style sounds, which is the other big part of how I like making music... Bottom line... Elektron's gotta get the manual slicing on this thing... haha. Edit: Dang... your last point about the resampling and looping on the Octatrack really pushed me in the direction of the OT.

[@KenithCopeland]

i really miss the digitakt (i sold it after getting my octatract). i wanted live looping cause im a guitar player first and formost and realised i could only sample>same>save> assign on the digi so i got the octa and digi got sold. but man oh man i miss its straight to the point operation. if a firmware update gave the digi the ability to sample directly to a step (with possibly pre saved trigs) without needing to name/save then i would probably ditch the octa purely for the form factor being better with the DT2

[@OoraMusic]

One can hope :)

[@JuanUys]

I wonder at what point Elektron, Polyend, OXI, Deluge, etc all have software feature parity, then it only becomes a matter of what hardware you prefer to use. Something with more performance controls and I/O might win, right?

[@artephank]

The main differentiator is workflow. MPC is probably most capable box of them all and feature/price ratio is phenomenal and still Electron is way more fun and fast to use. It it was about features only, there would be no place for those boxes since DAW has more features than any of them have.

[@OoraMusic]

I agree, we have lot of great options. Each brand has a sort of "aura" to me, Elektron has been one of my favorite since early 2000

[@edjefferson9175]

I bought the MK II to pair with my Syntakt because I wanted stereo sampling. I have not touched my Syntakt in weeks...

[@OoraMusic]

i hear you…

[@dankefurnichts]

i would have seen so badly a digitakt 2 as octatrack killer. why not make it bigger and with more ins and outs? as amazing as it is now. it still don't fit in my workflow cause i cant integrate with only 2 stereo pairs 😞

[@iamjamessmith]

It's really nothing like the Octratrack.

[@fargoththemoonsugarmaniac]

Rytm Mk2 or DT2?

[@OoraMusic]

it is tough! i guess rytm has also the sound generation part which is cool…… but dt is funnier to use…. cant decide

[@sossa57]

Digitakt 2 is cool but right now it's always in beta version . i will wait for quick samples transfer , slicing mode , and a better audio input

[@OoraMusic]

im afraid sample transfer is what it is

[@touchthatdial]

@@OoraMusicElektron know there are bunch of bugs with the Transfer app and seem to be on the case. Hopefully sample transfer will get better at some point soon when Transfer is updated.

[@warius1]

Dial the release back on that compressor. It was a bit over the top.

[@smallcarrot6970]

its a shame u cant zoom in on the wave form or have manual chops...

[@OoraMusic]

I think it will come

[@smallcarrot6970]

@@OoraMusic all I need is a zoom for long samples lol. I don’t mind p locking the start

[@chrl_nrys]

I just wish the stretch machine wasn’t borderline unusable

[@chrl_nrys]

So I suppose to add to your comparison section: the OT’s timestretch is far far better than what’s capable on the digitakt still

[@OoraMusic]

I think that octa is still better for that, but I also am not a power user of sample stretching, so for me they are both great.

[@raysubject]

those multiple clicks when you sliced that 303 loop are actually bug, they should fix it in next update :-)

[@OoraMusic]

ahah but I loved them :D

[@raysubject]

@@OoraMusic yes, sometimes clicks sre exactly what you want .. they should keep them with some optional switch 😂 Sometimes bug is actually feature - once i did beta testing for some iOS synth app and i absolutely loved FM modulation .. then dev realized it has it’s character just because of bug in code and fixed - i kept annoy him thst i want “buggy” algo back until he added it back as second option 🤣

[@Hart8]

I love how it crashes when adding or deleting samples

[@OberstMigraene]

Why buy the DT2 when e we already know they will release a DT3 few years later?

[@OoraMusic]

well, is like why doing your bed if you will sleep in it again tonight..

[@OberstMigraene]

@@OoraMusic the right example would be, the hardware is a wooden bed structure that you don’t expect to change every two years. The software (os, packages, features) is the bed sheets that you change at wish.

[@auroranamex5886]

Unlike the first iteration, I my get one later

[@OoraMusic]

fair enough!

[@Vincent-sy9sn]

Its important to point out that OT slicing allows you to choose start and end points of each slice whereas DT2 doesnt. At the moment, DT1 and 2 slice mode is still just a useful gimmick, but without the real power of a proper user choice slice ability.

[@chambre466]

:)

[@OoraMusic]

:)

[@higherself7129]

Would be cool to see the Fact sheet that Elektron gave you for this

[@OoraMusic]

they just gave me the DT at super booth, nothing more. I am not an "inner circle" collaborator, more a super fan.

[@higherself7129]

@@OoraMusic Thanks for sharing man. It was all the info about D1 that I thought was given since you didn't own it before. But then I must give respect, since you researched a machine you don't own so well. Thanks also for all your gear videos. I have new tools and inspiration thanks to your advice. All the best from Sweden

[@libtekk]

Too complex, they need to make it simple like akai

[@dkb219]

I only just got into sampling in the last year or so and my first sampler was the 1010music Blackbox- haven't regretted it for a minute, really straightforward to get up and running with and if you don't like touchscreens, just plug a midi controller in- in my case I didn't even have to do any mapping (which was fortunate, I didn't know what 'mapping' was at the time... you just don't have to do that on stringed instruments :), worked straight away with an old Akai controller I have. I still think it was a great purchase and the sound from it is beautiful. You can just as easily do dark industrial music as hard techno as orchestral arrangements. I'd still like to try a Digitakt too though as soon as I can justify the spend to myself by fully learning all the other gear I have!

[@busterbuster1641]

Gimmie an extra pair of stereo out and I'm happy. Otherwise just too limiting to not be able to process tracks seperately. Just more of Elektron crippling their own machines.

[@OoraMusic]

I mean you have overbridge no?