Techno Break through the Digitakt / The new feature which I needed so much

[@davidruiz4368]

I love the step by step breakdown. The music was kick ass too. The new Digitakt update has been fun to play with.

[@IhorMedia]

Thanks David! I appreciate you kicking in ✌️

[@ronsone8373]

"Yesssssss" love it when I see you get into the zone 😂😂

[@IhorMedia]

Yessss! ✌️Thanks for kicking in!

[@xvi_am]

Really like the trick with the cable inside the case from final VCA to output 1u :D

[@IhorMedia]

Hah, man, you’ve noticed it! Look, this trick looks kinda simple, but for me it so much solved the problem in the signal chain inside of the upside down Palette case, yo! I love it! I appreciate you kicking in ✌️

[@blackdownAV]

@@IhorMedia first thing i spotted too! neat. i like it. great video too.

[@IhorMedia]

@@blackdownAV thanks ✌️

[@georgesadak]

Brother man you are the real deal . You can music out of any machine keep up the great work.

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you! Glad you dig it!

[@illaarocc9469]

@Ihor I need to say thanks for the detailed patch notes and nice jams you do! It's always a pleasure! All the best!

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you for your kind feedback! All the best to you too! ✌️

[@mit136speichenumdiewelt]

The patch master is back ;-) The best time on youtube if you share new content.

[@IhorMedia]

Glad you liked it! ✌️

[@AntonShved]

Awesome breakdown, Ihor! We all like it when it's G! ;)

[@tronlake]

Subscribed. Very nice grooves and helpful explanations

[@IhorMedia]

Thanks! I appreciate it! ✌️

[@lowbias]

Lovely breakdown and insight into your process, technical and creative...and some deadly techno to boot. Thank you again, Ihor!

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you Robin! I appreciate your feedback! More techno is coming✌️

[@delacruzneili]

this is pretty much a sound design class 😁🤣

[@vertigev]

Great video man!

[@TheSmudga99]

Awesome stuff Ihor. Love Ur content.

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you! ✌️

[@kenb7540]

Love it. Really clear step through set-up and patching and routing. Great jam too 👍👏

[@IhorMedia]

Thank man! I appreciate it! ✌️

[@chadduncan9716]

Just picked up a Behringer k2, wanted a noisy squelchy synth. Would love to get into module if my pocket book stretched that far. Still trying to figure out how to get similar basslines and acid sounds with just stand alone synths. Awesome video, love the end result

[@IhorMedia]

Hey Chad! Thanks for kicking in! ✌️ Well, there are many different synths that do ACID sound. I am thinking to get Avalon or Erica Synth Bassline (module or synth) to have it just for acid purposes. But these things are expensive for sure. This particular bassline is just a square wave from analog oscillator that goes through the filter with resonance set to kinda high value.

[@22plowman]

Greetings from Iowa! I appreciate your video, I hope to one day come to Amsterdam and dance

[@IhorMedia]

Hi Josh! You won't regret coming here! Thanks for kicking in ✌️

[@edmuggles]

Thanks for another great vid Ihor. I always look forward to your vids. that new feature on the digi, is defiantly a little bit of a game changer. makes my urge to by an octatrak harder to justify... (but still justifiable :P )

[@IhorMedia]

Thanks for watching, Eddie! And I agree, -1 justification for the Octatrack with this. Man, DT became a no brainer IMHO.

[@edmuggles]

@@IhorMedia interesting, i would like the live looping would be a key feature that the OT can offer, but at 1/2 the price maybe sacrifices can be made. :P

[@IhorMedia]

@@edmuggles well, they both have their pros and cons. And also they serve a different purpose. The Octatrack certainly wins when it comes to performing with external gear. Now with this mixer in the Digitakt it also plays well, but I would say not even close to what OT offers. However Digitakt is a little better when it comes to finishing tracks, since it has overbridge, and the OT does not. And the Overbridge lets you record audio from the mixer as a separate track, I believe. But basically I can go on and on with this “look ot has this, but dt has that” thing 😁 Think of what you really need for your particular setup ✌️

[@edmuggles]

@@IhorMedia haha, I have that same list of pros and cons… but like all people in to modular… I think I just like spending money ;p

[@IhorMedia]

@@edmuggles Haha! I am always in the “I wish I had more money” mood 😆

[@cd.b.4699]

Nice work buddy, keep it up ❤️

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you! ✌️

[@peladoclaus]

you make good music!

[@mechatomb2921]

Now that’s a top tier techno groove. 🤟🦾

[@IhorMedia]

Yo man! Thanks! Groove slaps!

[@digitaly26]

Nice video Ihor. 👍💪

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you! ✌️

[@tothefinlandstation]

Is there anyway to send LFOs or trig conditioners to the external audio mixer, for example to do autopan, or only have some steps have delay/reverb?

[@IhorMedia]

I don't think it is easily possible. Most probably if you do some MIDI messages mapping into DAW... But I am not really sure.

[@murmurelamusique]

thanks lhor, great :)

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you! ✌️

[@murmurelamusique]

will try it this week end. does the compressor of the digitakt treat the in signal also ?

[@IhorMedia]

@@murmurelamusique yes, it goes through the compressor too! I had it on my list for this demo, but as usually I forgot 😝

[@murmurelamusique]

awesome. thanks for your time.

[@wwlittlejOfficial]

Proper lights down techno! Damn damn damn. but what I don't understand about going hardwarer is not having the convenience of daw features lol ke effects on every sound; some u may or may not use , like eq. I notice How well this sounds, is that purely coincidence? I always get lost when taking a sketch like this and making it a full mixed track, and that's with plenty of tools in my daw. How dies this souund so good yet little to no mixing or sound sculpting?

[@IhorMedia]

First of all thanks for your comment! I am glad you liked the tune! ✌️ Well, I don’t consider these tracks as fully finished. Rather sketches or jams. Why they sound good? It is not coincidence. I think it is all about trusting your ears. My personal opinion, if you wish: people started overthinking music production. People stuck with all these endless “should I tune my kick” and “how to eq your snare” videos. Instead of making music. Instead of playing music. Especially when it comes Techno. How was Techno made back in the days? Right! 909, tape and synths. Raw and dirty perhaps. Detuned and without any western music scale. This is how I think of it. It must be minimal. It must flow. It should slap your ass! What inspires me to do that on hardware vs daw - is exactly those limitations of the hardware boxes. DAW is kinda too heavy for this. At least for my taste. Hope that makes sense. And I am not against the DAW by any means. To make a good track I’d sketch it on hardware and the take it into the DAW to finish. And utilize all the benefits of eqs, filters, effects and stuff. I am actually planning some DAW content on this channel too! Stay tuned!

[@spacejens]

Tried to click a like, but accidentally hit the dislike button. Please ignore 🙂 Nice and inspiring as always!

[@raysubject]

the fact you need trigger something to enable efects for audio input is not bug.. it's same on digitone (and i think on octa and other elektron machines too) so i guess it's something deeper in whole firmware architecture which has some reason and it is not possible to "fix" ...

[@IhorMedia]

It is kinda weird. Might be the firmware architecture indeed. Thanks for your comment!

[@raysubject]

@@IhorMedia it may be something with CPU optimisation - to save CPU when pattern is not playing .. i am developer too, so i can imagine it's some bad decision from early stage of firmware development, which is now ultra-complicated to change without large code re-write

[@ElectronisoundsAudio]

NICE!!

[@andreasdamberg359]

Awesome Chanel my friend!

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you! ✌️

[@Hrotti]

the reason why the effects aren't activated unless there's a trigger is because the effects get turned off when you double tap the stop button. Since they're send effects they just behave the same as the rest of the digitakt ... so it's not a bug, I'm so sorry

[@IhorMedia]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing this ✌️However from user perspective I would expect effects to work without trig, but at least when I hit play button.

[@Hrotti]

@@IhorMedia it's the same UX as with long samples so in that way it makes sense. Double pressing stop is a hard mute

[@IhorMedia]

@@Hrotti yes it is, and I have no issues with that hard stop. But if I press play again - the effects still wouldn’t work until I engage any trigger. And this seems like a bug to me for sure.

[@romeopalijan8485]

Excellent stuff as always. Your channel convinced me to buy a Digitakt myself (and maybe soon a octatrack). Damn you ;-) @Ihor Have you found a way to duck the bass coming into the external input triggered by a kick from Digitakt? Sidechain compression only for external input? The new 1.30 sidechain compressor is a master compressor only 😞 Been researching all day already

[@IhorMedia]

If you find the way - tell me please! Since there is a master compressor, there is no straightforward way. One way I can think of is to exclude the kick drum from being routed to master (in DT settings), set the master compressor sidechain to listen to that kick drum and "duck", then multitrack monitor/record via Overbridge. In that way you can get your kick drum back as a separate track. Thanks for your kind words! I appreciate you!

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

No one watching this video jumps to 7:44 to skip over the patching. :-) How are you liking the bigger palette?

[@IhorMedia]

Haha! Thanks for your kind words! On the Palette I have some mixed filings. It might be the batch, but I find it a little worse quality that 62hp. Mults for example. They are not the same quality that were in 62hp. However having a little bigger case is good and I find myself not changing it that much anymore. I am planning to record a few tracks with it at least without putting modules out.

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

@@IhorMedia nice to hear. I've been looking at this one for a while. Between this and the Make Noise 3U skiff. I'd like the 62hp palette but it's just so much money for the size.

[@IhorMedia]

@@MrMarcLaflamme yeah, it is kinda expensive, hence I have an expectation of a top noch quality. While this expectation was fulfilled completely with 62HP, it wasn’t as much with 104HP. However I still think that it is a good case! ✌️

[@martintaylor9205]

Another Ace tutorial with another Pallette case, are u running modular via Midi from DT,can u use Sequencer in DT and send to modular as well as having a Drum as backing from DT ???? I’ve now got Mimetic and Steppy in small Pallette but not UMidi 1U as new one is different to old UMidi which had Run missing on new smaller UMidi??? I need something to do resets , not many modules have reset out, plenty with inputs, only 1UMidi and PamsW/O 2 and my Polyend Poly 2 dosnt do resets??? Your advice invaluable as always Cheers Ihor your friend Martin

[@IhorMedia]

Hey Martin! Thanks for watching! Q: Can you use DT MIDI Sequencer to send to modular as well as having drum tracks? A: Of course you can! There are 3 different things you send into modular: clock, transport and notes (pitch and gate). Clock and transport do not even require any track or channel for that. To send MIDI Notes you have to use one of the MIDI tracks (9-16) which are separate from audio tracks. Q: MIDI 1U misses the Run output A: It has either run, or reset on the same output. You can reconfigure it easily by connecting to a computer and running their configuration app. Q: I need something to do resets A: I use steppy for resets. Clock the Steppy. Grab one of the 4 channels, set 1 trig at the beginning of the sequence. Done. You can even change how often reset happens. Maybe you want it every 12 steps? Sure! Q: Polyend Poly 2 dosnt do resets? A: I didn't even know that! But you can do something similar. Grab one of the gate outputs and and do same thing I described above about steppy. The only difference that you have to now send that 1 first trigger from the one of the MIDI tracks from DT. Cheers! Hope that helps!

[@zenthronin5077]

u are best!!! plz make more content!!!!

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you! ✌️

[@dimi703]

Another great video, Ihor! Did you ever thought about another synth, for example Digitone? Or did you just go modular from the beginning?

[@IhorMedia]

Hey Dimitrij! Thanks for kicking in! ✌️I actually do have other synths as well! Minilogue XD was the one that got me into hardware actually ;)

[@effiksmusic]

What patch cables are these short black ones?

[@IhorMedia]

Some Erica Synths, some Black Market. But they are exactly the same ;)

[@effiksmusic]

@@IhorMedia thanks.

[@MONSIEURLANCEDRAKE]

Digitakt update vs octatrack? Routing, fx, ease of use… Opinions?

[@IhorMedia]

This one is a tough question, Lance. Long story short: even though it seems like DT overlaps with OT nowadays I still consider OT to be "Ableton of Dawless setup" with live performance in mind, while DT is an extremely capable groovebox / sampler. DT overall is way much easier and straightforward, while OT is much more complex and much more capable. OT has more effects, DT has better quality effects. DT has a few performance features, OT is made for performance! And I can go on and on. Might be a good idea for a video tho.

[@MONSIEURLANCEDRAKE]

This would be a great video. I have the OT. And as you know, its a powerhouse but I find myself not using it to its max level (flex recording etc) and possibly something more straight forward - now that it has the input control might be all I need. All the other routing gives the OT an extreme advantage tho.

[@IhorMedia]

@@MONSIEURLANCEDRAKE I agree with you 100% that the OT is a powerhouse and it has many advantages over DT when it comes to audio routing and recording. I think of the OT as end of the chain in the setup, you know. While DT is a part of the chain. And now having mixer on it helps to be that part of the chain. But not necessarily the end of it. Hope that makes sense.

Yeah! 🔥

[@IhorMedia]

✌️

[@MennoHoman]

Very nice :-)

[@IhorMedia]

Thanks ✌️

[@studio48nl]

A Metropolix ánd a Digitakt... I know the Metropolix is a bit more easy to 'dial in' a sequence, but when you don't have one, a midi to cv/gate module could give you the same result and do the sequence on the Digitakt.

[@IhorMedia]

Yes 100%! MIDI sequencer with an LFO on the Digitakt is dope! I love it! Metropolix tho is just yet another way ✌️

[@serhiidmytruk6800]

Man, are you from Ukraine?

[@IhorMedia]

Yep 🇺🇦