Sounds vs Samples | The Sound Pool - Digitakt Tutorial - Part 6

[@crimsonfancy]

I'm very new to Elektron and your relatively quick demos are very helpful in translating a (so far) unfamiliar lexicon I'm reading in the manual. What felt overwhelming at first is soon becoming much less intimidating. I believe in Elektron and foresee an endless amount of exciting learning potential for years down the road. Thank you for your time in putting all of this together! 🍻

[@MkUltra612]

Love the idea of a sound design project! Sometimes you just want to play with making sounds without cluttering another project.

[@braintree56]

Totally!

[@chrishewitt97]

Thank you so much. I had the exact same confusion over sounds and samples. You my friend explained the difference perfectly. Confusion gone!

[@braintree56]

Thanks. I think this is the #1 point that most people get confused about.

[@ajdooom]

Love these videos. So straightforward and helpful.

[@braintree56]

Thanks!

[@husnushepherd]

I've watched a couple of tutorials and jams but I've never seen this feature in a lot of videos and it blew my mind once I discovered through your channel. Thanks!

[@AlwaysInThePocket012]

Thank you so much for this series! I have digi and am a drummer but have absolutely no experience with sequencers/samplers. I need these vids to learn exactly what to do, because I am dumb!

[@braintree56]

The Digitakt is a great place to start!

[@theleastsignificantbit4794]

Well done!

[@braintree56]

Thanks! 🙏:)

[@RabidCycler]

This is an excellent tutorial! Thank you for making it. My only suggestion is to perhaps slow down a bit while navigating through the menus.

[@braintree56]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@awpMusic1]

Great video - very helpful - just had mine 24 hours.

[@braintree56]

Thanks!

[@mikevanderheiden]

Getting mine today. Not looking for thx but I bought it through your link. Thanks for making these.

[@braintree56]

Awesome! I'll thank you anyway - thanks! :)

[@vinyltheif]

Perfect break-time sized vids, I much better than other longer videos. ;-) When I first bought my Digitakt 2 months ago I spent weeks playing around with just the Delay, that things on steroids!! ;-)

[@chk_yt3345]

Love your series of digi videos. ❤ Many thanks for making them up and sharing

[@braintree56]

Thanks! Glad you're finding them helpful! There's a lot more on the way. :)

[@karl.weaver]

Thank you!

[@braintree56]

Thanks so much man. Really appreciate it! :)

[@karl.weaver]

Finally got it, thank you!

[@braintree56]

:)

[@romeopopescu]

Very clear, thank you!

[@richardeasel]

Thank you so much

[@braintree56]

Thanks for watching!

[@kalanbriggs4617]

excellent tutorial, thank you 🙏

[@braintree56]

You're very welcome!

[@karl.weaver]

Thanks

[@braintree56]

:) Thank you!

[@JamesBermingham]

Great video. I’m new to Elektron and have syntakt and Digitakt. Subbed 👍🪄.

[@braintree56]

Glad you're here!

[@bobz1736]

I like your explanation, but for my music creation i like to start fresh for each project so i create new and unique sounds each time and avoid the unnecessary complication of creating sounds, loading to the sound pool etc.. Each to their own 👍

[@braintree56]

I can see that. I find I'm doing that a lot too... But... This feature is there so figured I'd cover it! :)

[@bobz1736]

@Braintree56 - understood. Keep up the good work. I'm watching all your other DT uploads. Had mine for almost 5 years and with the amazing and regular updates I never get bored of it and will never get rid of it. 🙏

[@higherself7129]

Bro clean off that digitakt

[@saardean4481]

Thanks so much for this series. Very helpful! If i may offer some feedback, when you are using the cursor buttons like at 1:14 i find it tough to follow sometimes as i realised you use your fourth finger (dunno how its called. The one next to the pinky) so with the top camera it is hard to make out what you are pressing. Thats about it. Very thankful for these series and superb channel as always

[@braintree56]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll keep that in mind going forward! :)

[@Ericuf]

Last question on this topic: I understand the sound pool, but is there a sample pool?

[@braintree56]

That's a great question. I was a little confused by this too. Elektron doesn't call it a Sample pool, but it works in kind of the same way. You have Samples that are loaded to the +drive and you need to load them into the project before you can use them. Once there, they can be used across the project in the same way the sound pool can. I'm not sure why they didnt use the same language for both... But... I think it works the same.

[@TheSharivari]

@@braintree56 how can you delete unwanted samples from the project ? thanks for the video! < 3

[@ukbloke28]

ive never used sounds, only samples. what happens when you do ctrl-all, do the parameters within each sound change or are they locked? is it possible to change Sounds with cc messages in the same way you can do it with the SRC list of samples?

[@braintree56]

The parameters would change in the project, but the Sound itself in the bank would stay the same.... It's really confusing at first. It would be like if you brought a photo file into a slideshow - did all sorts of manipulation in the slideshow. The photo would look different in the slideshow, but if you brought the same file into a different slideshow, it would look like the original... (Unless you save the changes to the sound). You are essentially making 'sounds' right now when you are working with samples. Saving them as sounds just lets you save those parameters for recall in different projects. Yes! You can use CC in the same way.

[@ukbloke28]

@@braintree56 thanks for elaborating - ok so that's a little different to how ctrl-all normally works? I thought if you had plocked any settings then they were locked and ctrl-all couldnt change them - I will experiment with this. Re- changing sounds using cc - I looked in the cc chart and couldnt see it in there? what I mean is you can cc control the SRC for each track and thus move up and down the sample list - I'd love to be able to do this with Sounds too - do you know what the cc number is for it please?

[@xtinacoolan]

Great video! Complete noobie question but do you have to buy samples to upload onto it to get a specific sample tou want?

[@braintree56]

All the samples I used in the video series comes preloaded. (Unless otherwise stated. I use some loops that I loaded in the Machines part). Many people will buy or make their own samples and upload them. But they give you a lot to get you started and you could spend a ton of time with just those.

[@klfaregonnarocku]

Very cool to have this simply explained, wish I'd had such a logical tutorial available 2 years ago! But I still don;t rly get the Sound Pool feature. Maybe the menus always confuse the hell out of me...how would you use those?

[@braintree56]

Yeah, I think Elektron made it overly complicated with all these titles and talking about them like features... Here's an analogy that might help explain it. Imagine you cooking a big meal. You look at the recipe and get all the ingredients out of the fridge and pantry and put them on the counter. Now you can focus on cooking rather than gathering ingredients. The sound pool is the counter. +Drive is the fridge and pantry. Why does the sound pool exist? It helps manage the small amount of storage. If you have a ton of samples and sounds, it could help make it faster to quickly find what you need when you are actually making music. There are some creative ways to use it. One of the presets does this. Where you could have an LFO change the sample from the sound pool. Hope that helps.

[@libassimusic]

A thousand thanks! just a question. How can I load my samples into SoundPool (A,B,C etc..)? Not the ones I created as you explain in the video. I would like to put my samples so I don't have to go in and out of the menu. Thank you!

[@braintree56]

I think you would have to use your samples to create a sound... Then load that in. Elektron is kind of funky in that way.

[@karl.weaver]

Thanks

[@braintree56]

:) Thank you