Digitakt Resample method for making music - Tutorial

[@wickeddubz]

Good guy Enrique: shows oldschool resampling technique, generates cool and lazy hip hop swingin’ vibes on the go, educating people. KZbin should add high five icon for channels like this one.

[@RickyTinez]

I appreciate the comment, the watch, and the love! Thanks so much

[@jacobburg7909]

Has an adult swim type vibe. Also, your presentation style is so unique, creative, and relaxing. Overall, I find your content inspiring.

[@RickyTinez]

Aye that's an incredible compliment. I've never thought about it that way but I love that channel!

[@Noizedas]

madlib has made beats for adult swim for years

[@Depuratumba]

a little trick that might be handy for you: you can actually copy a pattern into another location (ie. A1 to A2) without ever leaving A1... to do that: you hold PTN + the pattern you're in and press COPY. then press and *hold* PTN + the pattern you want to copy to + PASTE (it's important to hold PASTE for a few seconds, it will show a countdown on screen with little squares)

[@Jmdeleeuw-]

3 years after this video aired. Just got my Digitakt and made such a cool wonky, moving beat using this technique. It feels like it is alive.

[@w-h-y-]

I’ve used this method but by resampling patterns I’ve created. What I really love is bpm per pattern which opens up a lot of possibilities when creating the structure

[@he-man-music]

Incredibly explained! Hearing that loop with your voiceover makes me listen to a rap on that beat from you. Would be dope! Thanks for sharing the knowledge Ricky. Really appreciate it

[@LIvertinFE]

This helped me do exactly what i’ve been trying to do. I love testing the digitakts full capabilities.

[@MatthewMouras]

This takes me back to the days of feeling like I was a millionaire for having 4 tape tracks to bounce things down into. Going to try this out on the Digitakt tonight. Your videos are awesome! Helped me so much in getting up to speed with it.

[@crazygamingswede]

I love this video from my head all the way down to my toes! Really inspiring to see your workflow and the end result sounded awesome. Reminds me of some of those 90's Cypress Hill beats.

[@RickyTinez]

Dope! glad you found it helpful man, i love me some Cypress. Huge compliment haha

[@dastrio8435]

Why am I watching this I don’t even have a digitakt

[@thexanderboi]

Dastrio literaly me until i decided to buy one after watching this lol

[@benrichey9564]

LOL. Same. I have a feeling I am gonna be missing 700 dollars soon.

[@junglismonk4256]

@@benrichey9564 be the best 700 dollars you ever spend!

[@benrichey9564]

Junglismonk lol, since I posted that I am missing 550, found a used on Reverb, got it in yesterday! Made my first pattern. I am in love. I took it to bed with me last night until my wife threw it out of bed.

[@junglismonk4256]

@@benrichey9564 Hhah tell me about it my partner says it sounds like i`m writing my journal on a typewriter.

[@sleepyron_av]

Fun pro tip: if you hold the stop button and press play at thesame time it plays the pattern from the beginning every time. So you can do the fancy DJ queue thing or play your Digitakt as one monolithic pad no matter what you have queued up. ( PS Nice meeting you at PC last week Enrique! )

[@blug183]

Ron Sardarian I didn't know that, I'll try this soon.

[@RickyTinez]

Ron Sardarian oh dope! Thanks man, I’ll give that a try. Also, so good to meet you too! I’m sure I’ll be seeing oh at the next one haha

[@Natanelmusic]

you just changed my life dude haha so simple so effective

[@JAdeWii_]

Very interesting way of using the Digitakt! I've decided to make Digitakt the only thing I perform with if I ever go out to bars and stuff so I i'll definitely try this method out :) Cheers

[@RickyTinez]

Give it a shot! Another youtuber mentioned putting different parts of the song on different pads, that might be a fun approach. Intro on pad1 verse on pad2 etc. then you play it live!

[@mariolante3428]

Digitakt is so insane in it's own way! Nice tut man, thank you

[@blug183]

Hi, for your trick at 8:20, i would have put the trig condition on "only first" instead of lowering the tempo. Same result.

[@vanessalouzon]

can you please explain? thanks!

[@blug183]

Vanessa Louzon Well, your first trig is on the step 1 of your pattern. Hold the trig and turn encoder D for adding conditional trigs, select "first". I hope it's clear.

[@vanessalouzon]

what does "first" do though? thanks for replying btw!

[@Lauli55]

It's the 1ST trig-condition, it only ever triggers the first time the step is played within the pattern.

[@AdnanAlsannaa]

Yeah, my first thoughts too haha. The way he did it is pretty convoluted.. Love the video though. I will definitely try out this method when I make drum beat next. I think the hihat can come out sounding really good

[@goodpal7444]

Love this approach, man. And love your channel. You're so positive and you keep focus on creation being in and challenging. Thank you.

[@RickyTinez]

Thank you! glad you're enjoying the content. i really appreciate it.

[@justinreilly3107]

Man, great video! Great skillz. Never realize the SP202 was still something people are interested in. I just made a couple beats with my 202 a year or so ago. Love the filter on it. Still new to the Digitakt so I have seen a bunch of your videos so far! Great stuff!

[@fleximarvellous]

Thank you so much, this is eye opener for me. As you've said in the vid, this is a new approach to making music with DT.

[@akutaakgunder3704]

this is such a great and useful video, thank you, i come back to it all the time.

[@arturpasco]

Ohhh man! This is gold! This method gives me totally different perspective on how to use the Octatrack. Commitment is the key here! Thanks man!

[@TheGreekSamurai]

ricky just did the most killer beat i've ever heard in a DEMO

[@antdog4117]

Thank you for talking about the 303. I don't think anything has been as fast and fun

[@eqtdaniellarusso]

Really inspiring to see that u feel the digitakt initiv like breathing

[@buddymiles7210]

Your one of my favourite KZbinr to follow. Your content is actually helpful for me so thanks for sharing.

[@RickyTinez]

Grant that means a ton! I'm glad you enjoy the content

[@azurduy117]

I was experimenting with resampling earlier today: I programmed a drum/melody bit, then messed with the pattern length to get a new unexpected melody. resampled it, then recorded another pattern length change, then overdubbed, then resampled yet again. my crucial lesson from your vid: remembering to play live! I chopped up the long sequence into four parts then played them back manually for a final resample. that somehow made the bpm faster, but so far so good. keep up the good work.

[@RickyTinez]

Exactly! upon testing things i found a rhythm within a rhythm also. It's those moment that are so hard to premeditate on and execute.

[@maxtox3]

You inspired me to chop masayoahi fujita's performance, which I recorded last week, into the my digitakt. Thanks for inspiration! :)

[@chrisfreeq399]

Yo I'm digging your technique here, nice one with the different velocity pads on the snare! Thanks 🙏

[@malcolmgoldie]

Great vid, I like this ‘keep moving forward’ approach! It’s so easy to never finish anything.

[@RickyTinez]

way too easy haha

[@Funkbutterfly]

This is cool man! I always hate having to pick a tempo before I even know what the song is going to be like. Although this method is sort of backwards, it beats playing to a click!

[@bobz1736]

Excellent ... i didn't realise you could keep layering recordings on top of an existing trig 😎

[@v47_music]

DUDE YOUR DIGITAKT IS 2° ROTATED, MY OCD GOES MAD jk, love your content, you're an inspiring person! defenitely gonna try this approach tonight

[@chrisgalactic]

Great video! Very well made dope tips love this idea. The only flaw in creating a whole beat by resampling is when it comes to mixing it pretty much won't reach it's full potential but other than that very cool idea

[@mvcleod]

chrisgalactic Thats true and I made that mistake for many of my early beats but as I’ve progressed, I’ve learned I need to mix as I go, and not resample until I have what I’m resampling mixed just the way I want it. The nice thing is once it’s resample, it’s set, so it stops you from obsessing over mixing and other details, because well, it’s too late! Hahah

[@Towly263]

To 09:00 When i am not totally wrong: when you pressed play to start pad 7 u could directly hit stop once because the trig plays until end when it is set to inf... this way you dont have to change the bpm/pattern length. Should not stop the resampling...(?)

[@LacklusterOfficial]

this was an interesting watch. could you retrigger this using trig-conditions so that each trigger would play a different segment of the main loop?

[@darumabeats]

Hi Ricky, this video inspired so much me, I have not a digitakt but I have 2 sp404 and a mpx16 i wanna try recording a beat faster only to stretch it down and make it like 88bpm! BTW I have a question I mean I would have your opinion on: for you is better an mpc one or a digitakt for making hiphop beats and why, cuz i would buy one of those machine but I have difficulties on deciding. Thx a lot for your content

[@syncworm]

Wow! Great approach! The more restrictions, the funnier it gets! Good job!

[@RickyTinez]

exactly, and by funnier you mean unique! haha

[@ZackGeragosian]

This is sick!! Really would love to get my hands on a digitakt. For the time being, Im gonna noodle around with the PO 33 and Volca Sample though.

[@sebastianfernandez6146]

You really got me into house music no cap. I’m having a lot of fun making it on Maschine. I’m looking at getting an MPC one but the Digitakt is superrrr compelling

[@benhall2235]

That’s my dilemma at the moment. Did you get either in the end? I make all sorts of stuff but minimal house is my current mood. I can see either machine would be fine , I’m looking for one that helps me to get ideas going fast and gets me away from the computer screen. Mpc one looks interesting and maybe more capable of doing whole tracks but I’ve a feeling Digitakt would get me making patterns faster which I could then arrange and add to in Logic or Live.

[@totaled_camry]

@@benhall2235 I just made this exact decision based on similar motivations - I get stuck in 8 bar hell all the time in Ableton, I'd rather create something 70% on DT, bounce to the DAW and touch things up. I think especially for stuff like minimal house, DT seems ideal. Really good for that kind of slow, evolving, additive groove that makes good house tracks!

[@benhall2235]

@@totaled_camry yeah I went Digitakt in the end and I’m so glad I did. The latest firmware updates have made it way more capable too. I think the mpc wouldn’t really have helped me break out of screen watching and finding happy accidents like the Digitakt has.

[@SupahDupah]

Cool! Different oldskool approach! Like it... But you don't loose your loops by putting them all on track 7 right? They are still available in your recordings folder... so still lots of flexibility!

[@RickyTinez]

Oh duh!! Man. I’m starting to like this method more and more haha. Thanks for that!

[@Jhgkgfghk7]

Great vid and extremely chill beat! Definitely getting one now

[@exitritual]

Nice tutorial! For some reason, the tune's doing something to remind me of Art of Noise's "Moments In Love."

[@evanpincus2203]

s. sturgis one of the prettiest songs of all time!

[@HarmonyMusic]

Thanks Enrique! Great history lesson and demo. Im assuming I could just implement those instructions on to the Octatrack Mk2.

[@RickyTinez]

totally can! thanks for watching

[@ftlaud911]

I like it!! Better be close on the beat if you save sample or start over from beginning. The resync with tempo was brilliant. Great series by the way!!

[@daiwalters]

Beautiful work.

[@RickyTinez]

Thank you David

[@belustigt2124]

the sound of pressing a button on the digitakt is most of the time louder then the actual sound :D

[@nym053]

Sample it! ;D

[@ThisPageIntentionallyLeftBlank]

One of my top 10 complaints about the Digitakt. For $750+ the buttons feel cheap/shitty, however, they are sturdy. I have a couple that like to catch on the way up and spring up after getting caught

[@mvsr990]

I can see how it would be annoying live or at certain times but it's one of the things I appreciate about the Digitakt. I tried a Model Samples and the spongy buttons were the worst thing about it.

[@v47_music]

nym053 i suggest you to go to a store and try them. They don’t feel cheap at all

[@huntersandell859]

M P the Digitakt has totally different buttons than the Samples. The samples are firm and spongy, but the digitakt’s are light end empty. I hated them when I first tried them, but now I like them.

[@darumaleo]

i think this is one of my fav videos

[@68bmx36]

Nice to see your approach,..I use to work this way on my old SP-808, and SP-606,...it is so creative,...Thankz Enrique,.. ;D One luv n Peace

[@hihan196]

Ricky one of the best !!

[@thibaultbois7955]

It gives lots of groovy ideas, thanks for the video it's really cool !

[@brendonsmith8025]

WAYY cool! sick beat too; you are very creative with this machine. Thank you for the tips and tricks :)

[@RickyTinez]

Thanks Brendon! glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching.

[@jbfunk3]

Dude, that was dope! Great watching your workflow. Makes me think I need to get away from Ableton a bit more and get back to playing on hardware. The Digitakt looks very cool.

[@JWolde]

Really enjoying your Digitakt series, this is my fave so far. Great to learn new ways to use the box. Wondering if you could do a video on how you approach sample chops with it, I know there's a few methods out there. Bless!

[@emokarlffm]

well done! I dont want to destroy your creative workflow which is quite cool.but all your versions of track 7 you built up one after the other are still available in the digitakts memory in the recorded samples folder. so there indeed is a way to go back if you need to, just change the sample on track 7 back to any older version!

[@skeppy8925]

Simon Burkhardt adding a “take1” “take2” at the end of the sample names can help with this. I might start adding this to my workflow

[@RickyTinez]

whoa.. how did i not realize this haha! The digitakt is awesome!

[@krism6279]

you ruined it all! lol...

[@xVinceCx]

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[@arttu2666]

here from the more recent Digitakt resample video, 202 doesn't have resampling btw! Or a sequencer, people who use it mainly have it for pitch-shifting cuz it's the only one in the series that has old-school pitch-shifting (as in it just speeds up or slows down the samples, rather than applying an effect)

[@ekofarm]

Dope. Just convinced on getting this puppy

[@goodboid]

Lovely. I have to try this. Enrique, could you make a video on the LFO section on the Digitakt? It's a complete mystery to me.

[@buddymiles7210]

good boid yea Mee too. I use the frequency mode a bit. But as for what does what I'm a little lost. I just play with it until a sound I like appears. Over that I have no clue about how to use the LFO section

[@andriebayuajie7801]

Me too

[@timlaing8674]

LFO vid would be sweet

[@RickyTinez]

wow! i didn't realize this was worthy! thanks for the idea Good boid!! I'll probably work on this this weekend.

[@tomfurstyfield]

you can do some insane things with the LFO

[@tubeMonger]

Thanks for the method. Not sure if I will be using it though.

[@robertsyrett1992]

I spent the last week playing nothing but the ocktatack and I am kind of missing the simplicity of the digitakt's pattern and sampling. But I know that when I go back to the DT, I'll be missing time stretch and bpm calculating.

[@RickyTinez]

They honestly both have their places when it comes to speed and flexibility. I use the digi on one shots and chords, and the OT on stems/loops

[@alfredschnozzenstein1657]

This looks pretty difficult to learn. I don't if it's because of my ADHD, but I struggled learning the Akai MPC 2500. I find this very interesting, and would love to learn it, but the learning curve seems pretty tough.

[@05Benjamix]

I got one recently, and it looked overwhelming to me at first, but Enrique helps explain quite a few features in depth, and Cuckoo also does a nice tutorial on the Digitakt. I managed to get to grips with the basics within a day, just by reading the instructions, playing about on the machine, and watching tutorials. The thing is, it's a lot of fun to learn which helps, and it does start to make sense quite quickly once you give it a go.

[@burn_after_reading]

Really good, I need to dig in to my digitakt quite a bit to see how this all works but the video is well inspiring. Can't wait to try!

[@RickyTinez]

Give it a go and let me know how it is! Glad you enjoyed the video

[@Hhyperspace]

So this is how we bounce 😁. I never had an SP404 so I didn't know it had difficulties. Setting play points at different steps with some reverse and reloop condition trigs on that loop would flip it.

[@RickyTinez]

exactly! flip your flip of a beat haha

[@H4NDCRAFTED]

Great take on this machine, like your presentation as well, subbed.

[@MattWarb2]

I'm going to use this method on my OP-1. Very nice.

[@NicleT]

Basically, the destructive approach is more often used with looping than with sampling as I can see. First time I remark this.

[@yourordinaryme]

Did you intentionally time the tapping with the end of the bar in the music @ 0:29?

[@agguth7]

Hey Ricky, great work! Questions: 1. Coming form an MPC/Maschine background, I like to record my drum beats finger-drumming hats, snare and kick all at once and I don't quantize. Is this possible on Digitakt? Pretty sure that I read somewhere that clock resolution is 1/384 ppq so maintaining a live unquantized performance should work great. 2. If the above is possible, is there still access to the trig functions? I assume they would all be quantized to the 16th note grid. Yes? 3. Say I was doing a Dilla type beat with a lot of unquantized swing in it. Will the trigs conform to a quantized swing setting? That would bring the trigs more in line with the unquantized beat I'm thinking. I hope I'm being clear haha. Thoughts? Thanks, man!

[@AdnanAlsannaa]

Just found your vid. Love it. Well shot, and well edited. Subbed!!

[@maxmartinez6430]

never thought of using it like this...Dope !!

[@futureperfectmusic7746]

Great video! I'm gonna try this with my Digi now ✌🏻

[@RickyTinez]

Let me know how it goes! any sound examples?

[@maleev_music]

This is a really cool and helpful video man! Thank you. Very inspirational

[@DOSputin]

Nice camera work ;-)

[@gmreynoldsjr]

Chemex + Digitakt squad represent

[@hazhaus]

Hi! I'm a music producer from Korea. Just wanted to say your videos are amazing! I recently bought a Digitakt and I'm half confident and half doubtful about the quality I can get out of this machine. I was pondering heavily on whether I should buy the Arturia Drumbrute or the Digitakt. I personally loved the distortion sound on Drumbrute but because of the fact that I can load my own samples on Digitakt, I thought in the "long run" the Digitakt would be better for entertainment. Do you mind sharing a little bit of your thoughts about these two drum machines?

[@richardwilliams1310]

Makes me want an Akai MPC Live or Akai Force

[@brianmakesnoize9689]

I think you just sold me on the digitakt.

[@mikelogan2909]

Wow, man that was awesome. Thanks so much, very helpful .

[@vanessalouzon]

Very cool! How come when you copied the pattern to pattern 3, (at 15:00) suddenly that high pitched note played? It seems that pattern 3 is the same number of steps than 1 and 2...

[@vanessalouzon]

Oh I think I got it, it's because you removed that second trigger, so the pattern played all the way instead of retrigging?

[@RickyTinez]

exactly that. I got excited about it too and then decided to make it its own pattern :) Good catch!

[@jurassicpork765]

Because it's neat af! That's why.

[@KseniiaKo]

thanks a lot for inspiration!

[@RickyTinez]

Anytime! haha, glad you found it useful. Thanks for watching

[@bashenko]

Way too quiet on my iPhone, mate. Had to watch it again with the desktop. But the technique is amazing, going to try tonight. Thanks.

[@RickyTinez]

Yo Bashenko, thanks for that input. I've been boosting the volume since this comment. I'm always afraid it'll be too loud haha. Over-cautious i am.

[@providief]

would the tap tempo function be an easier/quicker way to work out the rereresample bpm?

[@RickyTinez]

Huh that’s a good idea!

[@Deadstarable]

+1 for your Digitakt being the only one that is dust free

[@AndrewJohnClive]

Really good video man!

[@DamianoPistoia]

HI Ricky, I see you are a really affectionate Elektron user. Many people say Elektron gears are hard to use, I don't think so, but I think it's not so easy to understand what kind of product they are : sampling drum synth machines? Why not a video about their classification so everyone could understand what kind of gear really need. Regards

[@stefanie_m466]

it needs a tuner, so you can see how close you are to a surten tone hight you are actually playing or recording or some kind of, or does it tune that automatically when it triggers the specified NOTE (tone hight)on the TRIG PARAMETERS PAGE?

[@omermesci5090]

Very cool! But can we mess with the individual instruments later to possibly mix the whole track and have a finished song? Everything here is recorded on top of each other so to me this can only remain as a cool demo track.

[@vadykk]

Only mastering

[@mikhailsladkomedov9037]

Hi Ricky, thanks for sharing such amazing videos! Does Digitakt have reverb and delay per each track or a single send bus for all tracks?

[@jeremysmith5921]

did a credits screen appear when you clocked the digitakt?

[@neilk4862]

Still waiting for the day that Ricky plays the deluge. He'll destroy it 🤙

[@yahtzeeeuook3193]

Ty sensei Tinez 👍

[@Synthsound]

thx man, that was a cool tutorial.

[@BinxKnight1488]

So instead of internal, my dt is only sampling from the machine when i set the sound source to main. I bought it used but was told it had the latest firmware, could this have something to do with it? Thanks ricky

[@JLozdrummin]

My brain hurts following ur instruction. This is crazy complex for me but I dig it a lot.

[@sbookholt]

Very cool idea! A drawback is that everything becomes mono right? Still sounds good though.

[@mrcanisters]

does anyone know if it's possibly to record notes etc when in chain mode? just wondering. interesting vid-got me thinking

[@DamianGDI2012]

What was your learning curve on this, lol you're like a pro with this thing. So many buttons clicking here and there 🥴

[@koitka2037]

Nice tutorial :)

[@Metroplex313]

can you use the metronome while resampling? or could be the metronome also recorded?

[@BIGBIGBIG]

I love this technique man but doesn't it mean you're now locked into the sounds, like you can't edit the drums individually afterwards?

[@providief]

excellent vid. how unquantised is it when recording live playing into the sequencer? i know there is microtiming and limits to how many trigs per step but is it audibly noticable when it moves the beat you play to the unquantised step? i hope that made sense.. i mean will it replay the trig pretty much exactly where you hit the pad?

[@RickyTinez]

It’s honestly not that noticeable. I just love the process of keeping everything locked into one thing

[@DexterPiano]

Whaou that's crazy thank you... I wish I had more time to explore the digitakt :)

[@RickyTinez]

Give yourself 30mins - 1hr everyday to music. You'll be blown away by what you do in one week.