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Jam sessions are recorded by sampling my modular :) For a beginner, Digitakt 2 could be a better option as it's a more limited and focused experience. There's still a lot to learn but you can do it step by step. Read the manual, watch some videos, experiment and have fun!

@@oscilop Sounds amazing and thanks for the reply!...might pull the trigger, I'm watching all the tutorials I can and it looks like a lot of fun.

@@simonmalmo7008 No worries! Have fun if you decide to get it. :)

Thank you! It's a very versatile machine and it can produce softer sounds too :)

Thank you!! You're one of the reason why I got it haha, love your jams!

So cool!!! Man I’m pluggin’er back in tonight. The inspiration is reciprocal.

@@jon_gee Haha I thought it's never unplugged in your studio!

Thanks! Just ALGO is used here and the output is fed into Eventide H90 for reverb :)

@@oscilop cool, good to know!

Haha thank you! 💜

I haven't checked but I would assume yes

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​@@oscilop I remember because I'm Norwegian, lol. Read all of those books in my early teens. That one really amused me :)

@@Vingul Haha that's cool! Must visit them fjords some day!

​@@oscilop Hope you get the chance, they're awesome!

Haha no worries, thanks for sharing and thanks for your comment! It's good to also learn with VSTs and then mix it up later. You can sample some of those vsts into the Digitakt as well and have fun like that!

@@oscilop Oh yea, I haven’t really done that but one of the first things I imported into the Digitakt was a single piano note that had some delay on it, before I knew it I had turned it into a wicked and versatile trance synth, lol. I had very little idea of what I was doing. Great little machine. Cheers!

haha what's that?

@@oscilop paradinas/vibert and there's that boc cover (they both sound very different and so does this but there's a vibe haha)

Two completely different machines. I haven't used Rytm so I don't really know but it has to come down to whether you are looking for a sampler that can do much more than just drums (digitakt), or you're looking at a really good drum machine that has amazing analog engines and a solid sample player(rytm)? Then the form factor and the workflow are something I'd consider too. So it all depends on what you really want and make your decision based on that. 😊

I would suggest DT 2. DT lets you create a full song, with "all instrument parts", from start to finish. AR is an extremely powerful drum machine . As always, it's about what you really need 😊

Haha close the video, save yourself!

Fair enough! I think they improved things slightly with the introduction of kits and banks for the samples so you can organise the projects better but yeah that's another area for improvement for sure. How would you improve this part yourself?

Respectfully, I feel you may misunderstand the reasons why the Digitakt and Digitakt II file management works the way it does. Yes, it requires some preparation of banks and samples, however once you've made the effort, the creative possibilities are mind-boggling and totally unique. The control-all feature on the sample choice, as well as modulation of the sample, would not be possible if these devices read from an SD card. There are lots of other devices that one can use to make music, but no other device offers the spontaneous generative fun of these ones.

There's always something that will be missing from any piece of gear. I've learned to either work with the limitations or if it really doesn't do it for me just sell it and move on. I agree on the polyphony that it will be a nice addition but it's not something that's stopping me from enjoying the box.

Feel that. I've bought so many elektron boxes and sold them. Idk why I'm watching this video. It's like I want to like the devices, but I know they're not built for my workflow. I think the Deluge is the groovebox for me.

@@FastCarsLoudMusic haha that's funny because I had the Deluge and sold it since I hated the workflow. It just shows that each person has their own preference for the gear they like and it's perfectly fine that you don't gell with the Elektron workflow. 😊

@@FastCarsLoudMusic Lol, that sounds exactly like me :) I really want to like elektronboxes and I watch every single ezbot livestream but when I use them I always get stuck. The Deluge is also my favourite, everything I do on it sounds good. The only problem I have with Deluge at the moment is performance. With the new Boards of Deluge pack 7# it struggles to handle more than 3 sounds.

Maybe consider a Digitone/A4 if you want poly - I guess it is really a individual sample player. Roll on UDO creating a poly sampler.

For anybody who cares I did a bit of research and I think I might be onto something... There's a possibility that YT calculates the integrated LUFS loudness to determine how to increase/reduce the loudness of an entire track as a whole, and because your video consists mostly of speech with quiet music below, your music examples with Jam 1,2 and 3 only represent a small fraction of your video which weighs little in the overall integrated loudness calculation over 34 minutes, as a result these musical moments appear to benefit from a massive loudness premium! If I'm right it really goes to show that the YT loudness management rules could definitely use some adjustments!

@@Silent_Stillness Hey I'm not sure I follow 100% but will try to answer. The jams at the beginning are mixed to -0.3 db with a limiter. The voiceovers are mixed around -10 to -5 range and the music behind the voice is mixed by ear so it feels nice. There's a limiter at the end of the chain of the video as well to ensure there's no clipping. I also use Shure SM7B microphone which is really nice. Hope this helps. 😊

@@oscilop Hey no worries thanks for answering! I'll try to clarify: Typically with a limiter like Pro-L 2 for example there is a loudness metering mode which tracks LUFS (Loudness Units Full Scale). This mode tracks loudness as opposed to peaks in dBs. In Pro-L specifically there are 3 ways in which LUFS are measured and monitored in parallel: "momentary", "short term", and lastly "integrated". Specifically the "Integrated" loudness meter mode calculates the average loudness in LUFS over an ENTIRE piece of music. Because it appears that TH-cam relies on this method only for evaluating whether it should lower the loudness of a video as a whole compared to a loudness of -14 LUFS (by reducing the maximum output volume), that inherently means that if most of your video effectively has audio content that is well below the threshold of -14 LUFS if its loudness was to be measured "short term"(which is definitely the case of your video), you will effectively be allowed to have moments of music that in fact would greatly exceed -14 LUFS if the "integrated" calculation only occurred from let's say 0:20 to 3:30 in your video rather than over its full 34 minutes duration. If you check my video "Jam Session #5", even though I mixed it at around -10 LUFS (Integrated) which is fairly loud, you can see that YT removed almost 3dB to my content whereas you received no such penalty and as a result your 3 Jams at the beginning sound much louder than my video. If you've never checked this before you can right click on your video and in the pop-up menu that appears you can click "stats for nerds" and will show you if your source content volume was altered in the "Volume/Normalized" line. Also, an FYI: I noticed that the YT video chapters segmentation just bugged on your video. I know that the first time I reviewed your video it included chapters/segments in its timeline but it no longer does, the easy fix for this is to edit your description by adding basically anything, (a space or a word, anything really) and saving it. It should reinstate your timeline segmentation to match your chapters. I found this out through experience because I was getting the same issue when I started making content and I erroneously assumed I was being penalized! Enjoy :D!

@@Silent_Stillness Hey, I know all about LUFS but thanks for clarifying :) If you see TH-cam's loudness guides they say you should aim for around -14db integrated and around -9db momentary. So there's no need to go any louder than that as your sound will be pulled down which will make it sound less loud because you've already squashed it a lot and when you tame it down it loses the perceived loudness. I think what you can learn from this is not to go overboard and aim around -9, -10 momentary, and -12 to -14db integrated loudness ballpark. My jams are around -10db momentary and -12db integrated loudness with a true peak limiter to -0.3db.

@@oscilop OMG that's a great point! I was completely unaware about the momentary number, I was only aware of the -14 LUFS, I'm so glad to have had this conversation because otherwise I would have never known about the -9 LUFS thing as I haven't stumbled upon that info with the research I did after writing my original comment. I'll inspect the audio in my source content for Jam Session #5 and I'm sure I'll find momentary peaks that are louder than -9 LUFS, anyhow thanks so much for the info! Also I see that your chapters segmentation is back! Edit: after inspecting my loudness over that Jam Session #5 video, what I found was that to my surprise I never exceeded -9 LUFS momentary (except barely for 1 peak) but my integrated loudness was definitely at -11 LUFS, which coincides with the -3dB penalty I got. After that analysis I'm concluding that my initial assessment of the situation for your video was unfortunately correct, which is that having prolonged times of low loudness in your video enabled your Jams 1-2-3 to sound louder.

Thanks that's lovely to hear! I love both Digitakt 2 and the Push 3. Both have their own strengths and weaknesses. Digitakt 2 has a really fast and quick workflow, it doesn't have too many features, and the best sequencer in the game with all the trig conditions and stuff. On the other hand, Push 3 is so powerful. I especially love the standalone because you can just move away from the computer and you basically have everything you need. It's also an amazing extension of Ableton Live when they are hooked together. If it comes to box + other gear I'd prefer Digitakt. If it comes to push 3 on it's own, or push 3 with ableton then this would be they way I'd use them. Hope this helps. 😊

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looking at the set up and it looks like just the db01 is going into the zen delay

@@acidbat4441 yea, thanks, makes sense, I also see the clock going from LXR to DB and DB taking midi out into the Zen.

@@Heavycap the LXR02 goes out with the analog clock in the DB01, then the DB01 goes with a midi clock to Zen Delay. In terms of sound, LXR02 goes out separately, then DB01 goes into the Zen Delay and the Zen Delay goes out to the audio interface. 😊

@@oscilop Why do you have the DB01 going mindi clock into the Zen Delay, how does the Zen Delay use the clock of the DB01? Thanks, still love this session so much. sound is amazing!

@@Heavycap I use it so the delay is clocked and then the time becomes a multiplication of the clock instead of free tempo. This way the delay is in sync with the db-01 and the lxr. 😊

Thanks, glad you liked the session! The night sky and blackhole are reverbs though, not delays but they are a very nice reverbs indeed. The Zen Delay is definitely a good hardware delay option. You can also check Vongon Polyphrase, which I play to buy sometime in the future. 😊

@@oscilop thanks for the help, just getting into this world. The Vongon Polyphrase looks awesome as well. I will need both a good delay and reverb hardware. I also really like the Soma Cosmos, what would you classify that as? Do you think the Zen Delay is somewhat comparable to Soma Cosmos?

@@oscilop loving that Vongon Polyphrase, are going to buy the Vongon Polyphrase as a replacement for your Zen Delay? or they are different from each other?

@@Heavycap Soma cosmos is a bit of a weird one, but very cool! I would classify it as a meditative reverb/granular pedal/looper haha. Best to watch some videos and see how you like what it gives back. If you like to have both reverbs and delays in one pedal then Eventide H90 is the best one but it's a bit expensive. I have it and its totally worth it for me. You can also consider the older H9 which is still great but the only downside is that you need a phone or an ipad to be able to run it correctly.

@@oscilop what do you think if I go with Strymon Volante for delay and Strymon night sky for reverb? The Volante sounds really nice and I can get the pair from across the street from me. Do you think the Vongon Polyphrase is a better purchase then the Volante. so many pedals, hard decisions

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Sorry to hear that

I've no idea, best to check with the dev on Patreon.

Yeah, it's definitely limited and not a synth that will suit you if you want control. This one is all about experimentation and see what comes out.

Whats the closest vst to fors opal but for any daw? Thx

​@@333_Tarot Thump-One by Toy Box is a great free option for making FM oriented one shots

​@@333_Tarot This doesn't answer your question but for hardware it would be Digitakt or Digitone. Which can of course be used with any DAW.

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Thanks for your lovely comment! It gives me inspiration to keep this going as I struggled with time in the past period but I definitely plan to make some new videos soon. Very happy to hear you are in love with making music again as that's what it's all about! Enjoy your new plugins! ❤

enjoy it!