Really good comparsion, Dan! Even if there are plenty other videos covering this, I think your take is a refreshing one. The reasons you prefer the Octatrack are the same reasons I prefer the Digitakt :D. The Digitakt is such a focused device that I can get going with minimal effort. The Octatrack on the other hand can do so much more, but I find it requires a lot more planning ahead to avoid tripping over your own decisions down the line. The Digitakt is also simple enough that I've gotten to know its relatively few features very well. This leads to me making stuff quicker because there's fewer things to worry about and I know them well enough that my first decisions are usually the right ones. I'm gonna have to rewatch your Octatrack Template video. The OT has too much to offer and I'm missing out by not using mine more. If I can get used to working from templates, then I imagine I'll have a better time with it :) And congrats on 1000+ subs!
I was thinking about which to get or even if it was worth it, but then i found your channel and i think i’ll chose your channel in the end, i just love it too much.
Great video dude! You totally convinced me to keep my Digitakt despite its limitations. I realized that for the things I can’t do efficiently on it (I.e. sample slicing) there are better tools for those things anyways and I can still make use of the Digitakt in those scenarios/workflows.
Thank god someone finally made this video. For me, I'm very often impressed by the Octatrack, but in 3 years, I've never once used it and thought to myself, "that was enjoyable, I had fun." Honestly, there were a few times that i would have sold it, if not for the fact that the eject button on my SD card reader literally ejected iself across the room, and was too small to find. Anyway, I've recently picked up the Syntakt and Digitone, and god damn, do I have a lot of fun making music on those boxes, without very much banging my head against a wall. (Is the Octatrack the Dark Souls of Samplers?) Despite the fact that I'm actually using the Octa MORE now as an FX processor/performance mixer/crossfaderizer for the other two boxes, now I'm just craving the shit out of that streamlined goodness, but for samples. In short, i'm probably going to join team BOTH, and also, I'm probably going to need some rad dad to help me love the Octatrack.
Brilliant, funny, and very useful monologue…Digi is my on again off again fling at this point, but I have always had my eye on the big Frankensampler. You may have convinced me to deal with my fear of commitment with the Digitakt. I do explore more ambient type stuff with it, but it has some decent workarounds. Thank you!
this guy Dan is amazing, the way he approaches tutorials and his humor and his "vibes", it's just great ! Very useful information about these machines by the way.
After almost one year, I would be curios to know what do you think of Digitakt nowadays after the 1.30 firmware which added a lot of new functionalities (extended pitch range, a second LFO, external input functionality, base-width filter, and new features on the multimode filter). For me this firmware was a DT game changer!
The Octatrack song mode is amazing!! It’s literally he best song mode on any hardware sequencer I’ve ever used or read the manual for. I use it to build songs because I can get very specific on snippets of patterns to use (like, I can use the last 10 steps of one pattern as a fill at the end of another pattern). It’s as almost as versatile as using a DAW to arrange with. It’s also fairly painless to use. I literally just sold my Squarp Pyramid because, even though it’s the literal best hardware MIDI sequencer I’ve ever used, the song mode was so miserably bad that it made the whole product completely pointless to me. It’s definitely not a con!
I'm agree with get both. But, for someone never owned any Elektron, starting with Digitakt can be a good way to jump into the spirit of Elektron gear. Very capable machine, you can't get loss with it.
i agree with this, and looking back at this video, i’m surprised i didn’t mention that i sold the first octatrack i got within a week, then fell in love with the digitakt, which gave me the courage to try the OT again. it’s a fantastic and robust introduction to elektron without feeling lost in the depths and convoluted pathways the OT offers
Man I totally get the part with 30 min / day. Hence my quest for the perfect box. I wish Digitakt had slicing. Like a second mode for chromatic that just plays various cue points. I don't even need more than 16. I had the OTs and I really understood them well but the DT is so much better UI/UX wise. I love that If you re organize the samples in the recordings it keeps track of them.
this guy was talking about tweaking compressors and saturators like that's a bad thing and i said aloud "that's pretty fun actually" and he stopped mid-sentenced and just stared into the camera for an uncomfortably long amount of time
The most honest and fun to watch video on this topic i found so far... thanks for your opinion and the little hidden „politically“ statement. Great channel = instantly subscribed 😉👌 take care!
When I look at that finger-painting over your right shoulder, I like to think that you're really Darth Vader, and you're living in a different timeline where you're a stay-at-home dad, and enjoy your harmless hobby of producing electronic music at home. You still have these little villain manifestations in your personality, though, and they present themselves in ways such as your black office chair and that kind of evil looking scruffy black chin-beard (in lieu of the mask.) In this world, you have a fantastic relationship with Luke, and instead of bulls-eyeing womp rats and dreaming of transmitting his app to the academy, he's just chilling out, doing mostly normal kid stuff like making you those cute as a button "Hands Down Best Dad Ever - Love Luke" finger paintings for you to display in your command station, err, work area. Maybe sometimes you look at him and wonder if someday it will come down to some awful confrontation where an arm gets cut off, but you dismiss that as just craziness, and say something like "C'mon champ! How's about you 'n me head into the galley and make us some s'mores!" Anyway, that's what I always think.
I have the DN and the OT... now I want a few more sample tracks and have exhausted bouncing down resampled sections in a few songs I’m working on. Do I go with a second octatrack or do I try the digitakt to complet the trifecta?
Getting the Octa and subbed, I like your style! That muting of FX sounds annoying.. I have a MIDI keyboard with 8 sliders, if I map them to the track volumes would that work?
That, my man, was EXACTLY what I needed, two hours after throwing money at an Octatrack. :^D Also, you didn't bury the lead on the conclusion - anyone with Taxi Driver on the wall will choose the Octa.
A comment on the sound - it is just neutral, DT hypes the sound a bit , as does Toraiz SP16 (although differently), OT can sound flat if you don’t get a good level in, and remember to turn off timestretch in attributes if not needed.
I have the Digitakt and I love it except for not being able mix the output with the inputs in stereo. It’s possible to turn on monitoring but then it’s in mono, and without effects. I’m considering the Octatrack but the workflow is so much better on the Digitakt. It would be awesome if the Octatrack and Digitakt would have a baby.
Its crazy how u had to make a seperate section for the short attention span viewers😀 Anyways, i watched,till the end and subbed, I think THIS video in particular, Helped me make my final decision. Thank you muchly 🙂👍🏻 ur a funny guy btw 👌 very class. I am also looking at grabbing heat for some SSSSSSSaaaaaaaturation.
Tsh...😄 So tough...to decide. Hey Daniel love your channel and your sense of humor. I had both, but I’m not really productive so keeping both wasn’t an affordable option. I miss the DT sometimes as all those options on the OT can really take away from the eagerness to play it at times. Not really overwhelming unless your trying to do a bunch of things your not familiar with at once. But for where I’m at with just under a year in the OT, I have the DT covered and YES! I too LOVE the crossfader, that was one of the main reasons I bought it, aside from just having all of that audio to mangle and remix from my whole collection of jams on the flash card to access and start making tracks with...which I still haven’t really done but as I get more comfortable with it I get more going at my own pace and just space out and randomly do stuff reveling in that thought that I’m FINALLY done! I got the OT and I don’t need anymore gear. Ok well maybe the analog poly synth one day but I’ll be fine with my VST’s and analog mono synths otherwise and if I could only keep one piece at least I have it now.
Thanks for your refreshing take on this topic, very helpful and enjoyable to watch! I think the Octatrack has a fundamentally different role to the Digitakt. The Digitakt primaily seems to be an instrument, and I don't mean to diminish it with the word "only", it's fantastic as a drum machine/sampler, but that is its main scope. And while the Octrack can also be a drum machine/sampler (and arguably not as good as the Digitakt in that role), the Octatrack appears to be more often used as an integrator (mixer, processor, master controller) of synths/instruments. Being stereo it can collect all the various instruments for sampling, slicing, processing, mixing. BTW, being stereo can we consider the Octatrack as having 16 audio tracks rather than 8?
I use the cue out for reverb. I want reverb on all tracks but also want a delay on all tracks. I use a cable from cue out to an input and have a track with a thru machine listening to that input doing dark reverb. But a few nights ago before sleeping I had that great idea to not use a thru machine with dark reverb, but a external reverb box and get it back in the octatrack via direct monitoring. WOW this frees up a whole track for me! Thats worth so much! Any ideas what I should do with the freed up track? I'm thinking of setting it up as a "always resample the master and do crossfader tricks with it" thing... Thanks for your videos! Very infotaining!! Guys, have a look at my recent live performance with the Octatrack and Digitone on my channel...
Thanks so much for this video. I'm trying to figure out which is best for me and I'm having a hard time. Maybe you can make a recommendation. I have hardware synths that I want to sequence, and I want a sequencer to act as a brain for those other hardware things. I already have a Model:Cycles which is where I start my songwriting process. I need something to sequence other gear in a similar workflow as the Cycles. Inevitably I'll want to have some sort of sample-based machine to fill in for what Cycles can't do. Play some samples now and then and sequence other hardware I have. I THINK the Digitakt is what I'm looking for, but I just kinda need somebody to confirm that for me.
The Octatrack is maybe my favorite device overall, but it seems like every screen was designed by a different guy, and none of them were allowed to talk to each other. Like why are "time" values displayed in 3 completely different ways, depending on which screen I'm in? Retrigger time is fractional, and snaps to display fractional values like 1/16, but LFO speed is 0-127, but the arpeggiator speed is like "6x." 6 what? what the fuck does that mean! I'm also convinced they straight up named some parameters wrong. It sure sounds to me like the "WDTH" is Q, and the parameter they called "Q" is actually resonance. It would also be extremely nice if, in general, the parameters displayed the actual current values (milliseconds, decibels, ratio, whatever) instead of making (almost) all of them just 0-127. It's not so bad for something like mix, where 0 is just 0% and 127 is 100%, but it makes it really hard to tell what's going on sometimes if you're using like the compressor, where attack, decay, threshold, and ratio are all basically mystery values, because you don't know what the max or minimum values are, so there's no way to tell what any of the in between values are (and I don't think they're all in the manual). Also, I'm sure everyone has complained about the sampling already, but here I am saying it one more time -- I will forever by mystified as to why, in a device billed as a "performance sampler," sampling into it from an external source is so needlessly convoluted. I really hope they go back and give it one more once-over and just fix a lot of the aggressively incoherent UI issues. Or someone makes a cool custom firmware like I've heard you can get for the Machinedrum.
thank you for this comparison. I'm wondering, what about the RYTM? did you ever consider that device? if not, why do you think its redundant whilst owning octatrack?
If anyone is poor as heck and needs a cheaper alternative, I suggest buying an MPD218 for Koala (Android) or if you've got an Apple product, you could get a Korg NanoKontrol with sliders/knobs for MIDI cc mapping and your transport functions, there's also AUM + AudioShare + iPad Air 2 (iOS 14+ and has the headphone input still) which is the cheaper route is you want to multi-track record without spending close to $1000 lol
Nice to see this. Indeed tough to find comparisons. I'm on Digitakt for a few months and love it, but ordered a Octatrack to give it a shot on my own. Left out a LaCroix for 10 minutes? lol. Thumbs are tired from massaging your wife's back haha! How in the hell can I focus on the technical aspects on this machine when I'm focused now on my thumbs' preservation. Kits and parts and shits and farts!! bahaha.
but it has been done tho ;) The midlife synthesis did this a couple months before you lol. nevertheless, great video! very extensive and honest. I’ve decided to desire a Digitakt soon, once I find a good deal on one :)
i can’t tell if you’re being genuine with that first part (i’m pretty obviously joking about being the only one, i even list others near the end) but i’m glad you liked it lol
@@AtTheTableGames Hahah this was before I recognized your sense of humor (it was the first video of yours I’ve watched.) I must’ve taken you too seriously. :-)
I’m not an arpeggio guy either, never use them, I mostly see them as a shit, limited sequencer within a sequencer, however the OT arpeggiator is a lot better than most, but even so I rarely use it, the legato function is handy though I sometimes use that.
Thanks for the video. I don't want to be a bummer but please turn off the autofocus on your video or phone, I had to watch this using the Miniplayer as it was giving me a headache.
why is the sound of the octatrack not great? where does it go wrong? does this only count for the processed sounds? in other words if I use it as mixer and route other synths through it, does it negatively impact the sound of the other synths too?
I think its a good mixer. ( when sampling doesnt sound that great but monitoering is very high fidelity ) You can Also do compression per track. Digitakt has only máster compression.
i bought a digitakt first (couple years ago) and it was great and turn on N go, loved it, but i was a little disappointed (because as you said, the OCT is better with samples) i was sad that i couldnt play my guitar and sample in a live approach. decided to buy the worlds most expensive guitar looper (octatrack) and i agree with everything you said about it, pretty sad that i sold my digitakt cause i've not been using it. great vid mate ps, i bloody wish devices here in australia are that price, the digitakt is around $1500-1800 and the octatrack is anywhere from $2600 to $3200 (shits crazy)
Ah that's the ticket! I'm a lazy af musician and the DT's are my "when I have more time and my executive function isn't playing games with me" machines. So the octa is probably not for me at this point in my life. Much appreciate!
They really aren't that comparable. Digitakt is more of a Drum Machine than a Sampler. Octatrack is a full fledged sampler and pretty close to a workstation. Digitakt is basically an Analog Rytm without the Analog engines (and a few other bells and whistles).
The digitakt is a pretty capable sampler too, it’s way more than of just a drum machine, I’m not sure why you say that it’s not a full fledged sampler or whatever. It’s got 8 midi tracks with a midi LFO each, 4 notes of polyphony, class compliant usb that you can send both midi and audio to and from, and sample from, as well as both traditional input sources.
@@AtTheTableGames just shout the answer into my ear holes as quick as humanly possible so I can move onto not fully watching the next video the algo fed me.
Digitakt as of 1.5 OS can time stretch, slice and has song mode.
Really good comparsion, Dan! Even if there are plenty other videos covering this, I think your take is a refreshing one. The reasons you prefer the Octatrack are the same reasons I prefer the Digitakt :D. The Digitakt is such a focused device that I can get going with minimal effort. The Octatrack on the other hand can do so much more, but I find it requires a lot more planning ahead to avoid tripping over your own decisions down the line.
The Digitakt is also simple enough that I've gotten to know its relatively few features very well. This leads to me making stuff quicker because there's fewer things to worry about and I know them well enough that my first decisions are usually the right ones.
I'm gonna have to rewatch your Octatrack Template video. The OT has too much to offer and I'm missing out by not using mine more. If I can get used to working from templates, then I imagine I'll have a better time with it :)
And congrats on 1000+ subs!
So glad I found this only OT vs DT video ever made! Super helpful and fun to watch, thanks!
So glad I finally watched some of your videos. Such hilarious commentary! I want you to review more than just music gear.
Instructions unclear I bought a Behringer polyD
This was hilarious, love your style dude! Awesome “one and only digitakt vs octatrack” vid👍🏼
I was thinking about which to get or even if it was worth it, but then i found your channel and i think i’ll chose your channel in the end, i just love it too much.
I have both the Octatrack and the Digitakt, but what do I use most? The SP16.
i was actually having a video about it on another window while i'm writing this...you're definitely increase my curiosity
Thanks Dan!
I’m so mad at you Dan. But not for your rants; for your stoking my desire to have both! Excellent video buddy.
Great video dude! You totally convinced me to keep my Digitakt despite its limitations. I realized that for the things I can’t do efficiently on it (I.e. sample slicing) there are better tools for those things anyways and I can still make use of the Digitakt in those scenarios/workflows.
Thanks for the short version. Really well put. Now I can sleep
Thank god someone finally made this video.
For me, I'm very often impressed by the Octatrack, but in 3 years, I've never once used it and thought to myself, "that was enjoyable, I had fun."
Honestly, there were a few times that i would have sold it, if not for the fact that the eject button on my SD card reader literally ejected iself across the room, and was too small to find. Anyway, I've recently picked up the Syntakt and Digitone, and god damn, do I have a lot of fun making music on those boxes, without very much banging my head against a wall. (Is the Octatrack the Dark Souls of Samplers?) Despite the fact that I'm actually using the Octa MORE now as an FX processor/performance mixer/crossfaderizer for the other two boxes, now I'm just craving the shit out of that streamlined goodness, but for samples.
In short, i'm probably going to join team BOTH, and also, I'm probably going to need some rad dad to help me love the Octatrack.
el crossfader es todo! gracias hermano
Great video! Just one thing the octatrack can't take as big compact flash card that you can slam into that boy, he can only take up to 64gb (1060x)!
it’s the messy desk guarantee that i’ll never fail to just be blatantly wrong about something once per video. thanks for the clarification! 💕
Cool guy with interesting perspectives and very informative... Subbed.
Brilliant, funny, and very useful monologue…Digi is my on again off again fling at this point, but I have always had my eye on the big Frankensampler. You may have convinced me to deal with my fear of commitment with the Digitakt. I do explore more ambient type stuff with it, but it has some decent workarounds. Thank you!
Ok, I subscribed.
much love, man 💕🙏🏻
This video helped me a lot. Thank you!
15:52 this is epic. Thanks for the video, thanks a lot 💜
this guy Dan is amazing, the way he approaches tutorials and his humor and his "vibes", it's just great ! Very useful information about these machines by the way.
You got me on Bearded, Subscribed...
After almost one year, I would be curios to know what do you think of Digitakt nowadays after the 1.30 firmware which added a lot of new functionalities (extended pitch range, a second LFO, external input functionality, base-width filter, and new features on the multimode filter). For me this firmware was a DT game changer!
OT has 3 LFOs and LFO designer.
Yo, you’re hilarious man. Your videos are a big help in deciding to buy Octatrack. 🙏
The Octatrack is also awesome as an FX unit, being able to stack effects on an incoming signal with parameter locking is a ton of fun
The Octatrack song mode is amazing!! It’s literally he best song mode on any hardware sequencer I’ve ever used or read the manual for. I use it to build songs because I can get very specific on snippets of patterns to use (like, I can use the last 10 steps of one pattern as a fill at the end of another pattern). It’s as almost as versatile as using a DAW to arrange with. It’s also fairly painless to use. I literally just sold my Squarp Pyramid because, even though it’s the literal best hardware MIDI sequencer I’ve ever used, the song mode was so miserably bad that it made the whole product completely pointless to me. It’s definitely not a con!
thanks for the laughs man, good video
The thing that drives me crazy about Overbridge is not being able to record individual track effects.
I'm agree with get both. But, for someone never owned any Elektron, starting with Digitakt can be a good way to jump into the spirit of Elektron gear. Very capable machine, you can't get loss with it.
i agree with this, and looking back at this video, i’m surprised i didn’t mention that i sold the first octatrack i got within a week, then fell in love with the digitakt, which gave me the courage to try the OT again. it’s a fantastic and robust introduction to elektron without feeling lost in the depths and convoluted pathways the OT offers
Bro ya didn’t even get into plays free mode on the OT. That’s like ableton session mode in an Elektron device
free mode rocks!
Thank you. I found this super useful
very well to the point. Entertaining and not too long. I will keep my Digitakt! Thank you!
Man I totally get the part with 30 min / day. Hence my quest for the perfect box. I wish Digitakt had slicing. Like a second mode for chromatic that just plays various cue points. I don't even need more than 16.
I had the OTs and I really understood them well but the DT is so much better UI/UX wise. I love that If you re organize the samples in the recordings it keeps track of them.
Wait are you saying I can use any size CF card in my OT? I thought 64g was the max
Best editing yet.
this guy was talking about tweaking compressors and saturators like that's a bad thing and i said aloud "that's pretty fun actually" and he stopped mid-sentenced and just stared into the camera for an uncomfortably long amount of time
The most honest and fun to watch video on this topic i found so far... thanks for your opinion and the little hidden „politically“ statement. Great channel = instantly subscribed 😉👌 take care!
hahahahaha loved your style man and this was very helpful. now i gotta decide between the mpc2500 and the digitakt 😂
When I look at that finger-painting over your right shoulder, I like to think that you're really Darth Vader, and you're living in a different timeline where you're a stay-at-home dad, and enjoy your harmless hobby of producing electronic music at home. You still have these little villain manifestations in your personality, though, and they present themselves in ways such as your black office chair and that kind of evil looking scruffy black chin-beard (in lieu of the mask.) In this world, you have a fantastic relationship with Luke, and instead of bulls-eyeing womp rats and dreaming of transmitting his app to the academy, he's just chilling out, doing mostly normal kid stuff like making you those cute as a button "Hands Down Best Dad Ever - Love Luke" finger paintings for you to display in your command station, err, work area. Maybe sometimes you look at him and wonder if someday it will come down to some awful confrontation where an arm gets cut off, but you dismiss that as just craziness, and say something like "C'mon champ! How's about you 'n me head into the galley and make us some s'mores!" Anyway, that's what I always think.
Awesome info, u know your stuff n your hillarious. Enjoying your joy 🤙🏼
I have the DN and the OT... now I want a few more sample tracks and have exhausted bouncing down resampled sections in a few songs I’m working on. Do I go with a second octatrack or do I try the digitakt to complet the trifecta?
Getting the Octa and subbed, I like your style! That muting of FX sounds annoying.. I have a MIDI keyboard with 8 sliders, if I map them to the track volumes would that work?
That, my man, was EXACTLY what I needed, two hours after throwing money at an Octatrack. :^D Also, you didn't bury the lead on the conclusion - anyone with Taxi Driver on the wall will choose the Octa.
A comment on the sound - it is just neutral, DT hypes the sound a bit , as does Toraiz SP16 (although differently), OT can sound flat if you don’t get a good level in, and remember to turn off timestretch in attributes if not needed.
I have the Digitakt and I love it except for not being able mix the output with the inputs in stereo. It’s possible to turn on monitoring but then it’s in mono, and without effects. I’m considering the Octatrack but the workflow is so much better on the Digitakt. It would be awesome if the Octatrack and Digitakt would have a baby.
Agreed, I don’t need stereo sampling but stereo monitoring would be useful.
Really love the DT, so quick and easy to use.
Its crazy how u had to make a seperate section for the short attention span viewers😀
Anyways, i watched,till the end and subbed, I think THIS video in particular, Helped me make my final decision. Thank you muchly 🙂👍🏻 ur a funny guy btw 👌 very class. I am also looking at grabbing heat for some SSSSSSSaaaaaaaturation.
Tsh...😄 So tough...to decide. Hey Daniel love your channel and your sense of humor. I had both, but I’m not really productive so keeping both wasn’t an affordable option. I miss the DT sometimes as all those options on the OT can really take away from the eagerness to play it at times. Not really overwhelming unless your trying to do a bunch of things your not familiar with at once. But for where I’m at with just under a year in the OT, I have the DT covered and YES! I too LOVE the crossfader, that was one of the main reasons I bought it, aside from just having all of that audio to mangle and remix from my whole collection of jams on the flash card to access and start making tracks with...which I still haven’t really done but as I get more comfortable with it I get more going at my own pace and just space out and randomly do stuff reveling in that thought that I’m FINALLY done! I got the OT and I don’t need anymore gear. Ok well maybe the analog poly synth one day but I’ll be fine with my VST’s and analog mono synths otherwise and if I could only keep one piece at least I have it now.
Sod it I’ll just buy both
Thanks for your refreshing take on this topic, very helpful and enjoyable to watch! I think the Octatrack has a fundamentally different role to the Digitakt. The Digitakt primaily seems to be an instrument, and I don't mean to diminish it with the word "only", it's fantastic as a drum machine/sampler, but that is its main scope. And while the Octrack can also be a drum machine/sampler (and arguably not as good as the Digitakt in that role), the Octatrack appears to be more often used as an integrator (mixer, processor, master controller) of synths/instruments. Being stereo it can collect all the various instruments for sampling, slicing, processing, mixing. BTW, being stereo can we consider the Octatrack as having 16 audio tracks rather than 8?
I use the cue out for reverb. I want reverb on all tracks but also want a delay on all tracks. I use a cable from cue out to an input and have a track with a thru machine listening to that input doing dark reverb.
But a few nights ago before sleeping I had that great idea to not use a thru machine with dark reverb, but a external reverb box and get it back in the octatrack via direct monitoring. WOW this frees up a whole track for me! Thats worth so much! Any ideas what I should do with the freed up track? I'm thinking of setting it up as a "always resample the master and do crossfader tricks with it" thing...
Thanks for your videos! Very infotaining!!
Guys, have a look at my recent live performance with the Octatrack and Digitone on my channel...
Thanks so much for this video. I'm trying to figure out which is best for me and I'm having a hard time. Maybe you can make a recommendation. I have hardware synths that I want to sequence, and I want a sequencer to act as a brain for those other hardware things. I already have a Model:Cycles which is where I start my songwriting process. I need something to sequence other gear in a similar workflow as the Cycles. Inevitably I'll want to have some sort of sample-based machine to fill in for what Cycles can't do. Play some samples now and then and sequence other hardware I have. I THINK the Digitakt is what I'm looking for, but I just kinda need somebody to confirm that for me.
The Digitakt is a good choice for what you want to do (Sequence other gear and sampling). ..did you get one ;-) ?
Dopest review, I only own the dt but believe you every word haha...
The Octatrack is maybe my favorite device overall, but it seems like every screen was designed by a different guy, and none of them were allowed to talk to each other.
Like why are "time" values displayed in 3 completely different ways, depending on which screen I'm in? Retrigger time is fractional, and snaps to display fractional values like 1/16, but LFO speed is 0-127, but the arpeggiator speed is like "6x." 6 what? what the fuck does that mean!
I'm also convinced they straight up named some parameters wrong. It sure sounds to me like the "WDTH" is Q, and the parameter they called "Q" is actually resonance.
It would also be extremely nice if, in general, the parameters displayed the actual current values (milliseconds, decibels, ratio, whatever) instead of making (almost) all of them just 0-127. It's not so bad for something like mix, where 0 is just 0% and 127 is 100%, but it makes it really hard to tell what's going on sometimes if you're using like the compressor, where attack, decay, threshold, and ratio are all basically mystery values, because you don't know what the max or minimum values are, so there's no way to tell what any of the in between values are (and I don't think they're all in the manual).
Also, I'm sure everyone has complained about the sampling already, but here I am saying it one more time -- I will forever by mystified as to why, in a device billed as a "performance sampler," sampling into it from an external source is so needlessly convoluted.
I really hope they go back and give it one more once-over and just fix a lot of the aggressively incoherent UI issues. Or someone makes a cool custom firmware like I've heard you can get for the Machinedrum.
i felt this so hard.
Can the inputs be used as 4 seperate mono inputs? Or just 2 stereo pairs?
thank you for this comparison. I'm wondering, what about the RYTM? did you ever consider that device? if not, why do you think its redundant whilst owning octatrack?
The rytm mk2 is just a better sounding digitakt with no midi out sequencing
If anyone is poor as heck and needs a cheaper alternative, I suggest buying an MPD218 for Koala (Android) or if you've got an Apple product, you could get a Korg NanoKontrol with sliders/knobs for MIDI cc mapping and your transport functions, there's also AUM + AudioShare + iPad Air 2 (iOS 14+ and has the headphone input still) which is the cheaper route is you want to multi-track record without spending close to $1000 lol
Nice to see this. Indeed tough to find comparisons. I'm on Digitakt for a few months and love it, but ordered a Octatrack to give it a shot on my own. Left out a LaCroix for 10 minutes? lol. Thumbs are tired from massaging your wife's back haha! How in the hell can I focus on the technical aspects on this machine when I'm focused now on my thumbs' preservation. Kits and parts and shits and farts!! bahaha.
but it has been done tho ;) The midlife synthesis did this a couple months before you lol. nevertheless, great video! very extensive and honest. I’ve decided to desire a Digitakt soon, once I find a good deal on one :)
i can’t tell if you’re being genuine with that first part (i’m pretty obviously joking about being the only one, i even list others near the end) but i’m glad you liked it lol
@@AtTheTableGames Hahah this was before I recognized your sense of humor (it was the first video of yours I’ve watched.) I must’ve taken you too seriously. :-)
I’m not an arpeggio guy either, never use them, I mostly see them as a shit, limited sequencer within a sequencer, however the OT arpeggiator is a lot better than most, but even so I rarely use it, the legato function is handy though I sometimes use that.
having both is not a bad choice :-)
Good shit, this was informative and funny as fukkkk
Thanks for the video. I don't want to be a bummer but please turn off the autofocus on your video or phone, I had to watch this using the Miniplayer as it was giving me a headache.
You my fav octo papa
Nice ....
The first of its kind? But, I, um, well okay.......
listen, i won’t tell anyone if you don’t, tim
So I want a octatrack MK3.....
why is the sound of the octatrack not great? where does it go wrong? does this only count for the processed sounds? in other words if I use it as mixer and route other synths through it, does it negatively impact the sound of the other synths too?
I think its a good mixer. ( when sampling doesnt sound that great but monitoering is very high fidelity )
You can Also do compression per track. Digitakt has only máster compression.
is the octatrack roadmap getting overbridge 2.0 support with individual tracks like the digitakt?
i bought a digitakt first (couple years ago) and it was great and turn on N go, loved it, but i was a little disappointed (because as you said, the OCT is better with samples) i was sad that i couldnt play my guitar and sample in a live approach. decided to buy the worlds most expensive guitar looper (octatrack) and i agree with everything you said about it, pretty sad that i sold my digitakt cause i've not been using it.
great vid mate
ps, i bloody wish devices here in australia are that price, the digitakt is around $1500-1800 and the octatrack is anywhere from $2600 to $3200 (shits crazy)
Want both so bad!
I Sanjay C what you did there
As some1 who owns both, ill help you, 🤫whispers...."just get 2x digitakt".
Or...buy a rythm, but the pads suck...
I love you
U funny. Btw the fact nobody else has a cross fader is nsane
You just cost me $1650
Ah that's the ticket! I'm a lazy af musician and the DT's are my "when I have more time and my executive function isn't playing games with me" machines. So the octa is probably not for me at this point in my life. Much appreciate!
Yeah... Octadad is making me consider selling the Octa and going back to having the Digitakt as my main brain :(
They really aren't that comparable. Digitakt is more of a Drum Machine than a Sampler. Octatrack is a full fledged sampler and pretty close to a workstation. Digitakt is basically an Analog Rytm without the Analog engines (and a few other bells and whistles).
The digitakt is a pretty capable sampler too, it’s way more than of just a drum machine, I’m not sure why you say that it’s not a full fledged sampler or whatever. It’s got 8 midi tracks with a midi LFO each, 4 notes of polyphony, class compliant usb that you can send both midi and audio to and from, and sample from, as well as both traditional input sources.
Only took until t=1015 to give the real answer :D
what is peoples obsession with the swiftest delivery of information
@@AtTheTableGames just shout the answer into my ear holes as quick as humanly possible so I can move onto not fully watching the next video the algo fed me.