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Hands down the best review I have seen on gear on youtube! I'll be following you. Thank you!
Agreed. Zero BS, you jump right into the review, and super informative. Great to get such an awesome review from a person who knows their sh*t!!!
Yeah, this really helped me with my choice. DIGITAKT!!!
For anyone thinking about the two here are my comments. I had them both for some time, went with the MPC (personal preference). Digitakt is a drum machine, sampler and a great sequencer. It sounds really great, the workflow is very easy and intuitive. The LFO is really strong, lots of destinations and can work really fast. Parameter locks are really addictive and sequencing external gear is a strength of the takt. It's not a something i would use standalone. You can loop SCWF's, but can't compare it to a real synth, a cheap synth will do a better job. No song mode, no insert fx, just send to global reverb and detail. MPC Live is a mobile production studio. At first it's very simple to get a track going as well, but it can go really deep. It's almost limitless. Lot's of storage, sd card slot, hard drive slot, great internal synths, battery operation, lots of insert FX (4x per track). Real song mode, wifi, bluetooth. You can emulate randomness or parameter locks, not 1:1 like elektron but does the trick. Also don't compare 8 tracks on the takt vs 8 tracks on the MPC. You can have 16 pads playing different thing on one track and you can sequence all pads separately. Both are awesome imho.
Very helpful summary ...thank you!
Love your reviews and tutorials! I got the MPC Live and am just wrapping my head around it, but it's pretty great so far. Your tutorials are helping! Thanks!
seriously no filler just nerdy details..thank you
Elvis Suarez not even nerdy but ok
Thanks, another great video! I love your quick and straight forward way, keep the good work!
I have not used the Live much, but the Digitack with external gear is a dream. You can take a one bar loop with bunch of conditional triggs and parameter locks, and it will sound like a 16 bar loop. You can just jam on that and just keep transforming the whole thing for damn near endless jamming. If you want to turn your jam into a more composed track, just hook it up to you DAW and it's done. It's one of the most inspiring instruments I own. Great review by the way! 😀
Alonso Hidalgo did you copy paste what she said in a previous video cause the last guy was hating a little bit? Lol
Great work. I have been trying to wrap my head around the differences between these machines. Thumbs up!
Your reviews always have the right amount of technical specs, use experience, and common sense. I love them!
About the machines, I'm more excited about the digitakt, and will try to get one as soon as I can.
Excellent review, really helped me decide. Thank you!!!!!
Excellent review! I have been looking at both for my stand alone live portable rig. Since I already have a portable keyboard synth, Ableton Push and Ableton Live, been wanting a true standalone sequencer sampler with drum kits.
just the video I was looking for, great channel. Subbed
Found you randomly, then had a particular question. You answered it. Thank you.
Thank you Jade for an awesome well balanced comparison of both machines. I really enjoy your delivery and explanations. Very very helpful. Kind regards!
Different knobs on the Digitakt over the other electron machines. The "knobs" or encoders are now extremely high-resolution. This is a great improvement because you can really drill down when editing a sample or fine tuning a parameter or setting. All the Electron MKII devices coming this fall now have the high-res encoders. NICE.
Brilliant stuff! I got a 0 coast and a Behringer Neutron, and I’m going to get myself a digitakt soon.. Would you know how I could link both my 0 coast and neutron to separate midi channels on the digitakt? I’m only aware of daisy chaining midi at the moment and have a slight understanding that it can be used in other useful ways.
I have a beatstep pro controlling both at the moment but want to eliminate the beatstep pro and have the digitakt to be the main controller for both synths.
All the best
After all MPC originally stood for MIDI Production Center. Our expectations of what a "Production Center" has changed a lot since 1988, whereas the limitations ofthe Digitakt is in some ways more like the early MPCs. Actually the MPC3000, which came out in 1994 had 32 note polyphony! The Digitakt only has 8, but you can change the sample per step, but I find this a bit fiddly to use.
Had to watch this again. Best vs review. What a channel. My fav electro muso vlog is Dawless J
Really helpful thanks x
The digitakt is more instant fun. Mpc live is more for if you like taking a look under the hood, very customizable, lots of possibilities for full songs. Now has AIR effects and three vst synths. And still pretty fun to program and record on! Much more capable sampler too. My MPC Live is very well-built, sorry you got a shoddy one, Jade! I have both and like both. I use the MPC to sketch out full songs and the digitakt solely for beats.
I would say the MPC will always be a good sample masher via chopping to pads and thats where the creative process for most is. But outside that there is not much scope for mashing via retriggering or more random manipulations like you can pull off with other sequencers such as the elektron as you say (but different ways for different strays!). I have a Korg SQ1 sequencer CV'd to other gear and can really appreciate that sort of randomness, but also appreciate the randomness you get from sample chopping and tapping out random pads until it sounds good. Both lead to happy accidents :)
I'm not sure how the hip hop community feel or will take to the MPC Live, but Akais middleground with a DAW seems good to me (start on the live, finish/refine in the DAW, which many do). DAWs for me are a blank canvas (as you say) with too many options, and screen staring at blocks kills something and it becomes music by numbers and easy to get hung up on endless tweaking. I think many worry about this but I would say the MPC Live keeps its focus here.
Yeah, for hip hop its a great machine, and it's definitely a killer sampler!
Dawless Jammin' anyone notice that Elektron is pretty efficient with the updates. They just released version 1.04
yes!
I have a Digitakt and use a Vermona DRM1 MKIII and its a delight ! I couldn't say about the mpc I never tried one but I think it just depends on how you work and what you are used to. The Digitakt is really great to sequence external hardware, I use the Vermona but I also use the MFB Tanzmaus. The filters on the Digitakt are a delight ! I was impressed !
nice, thank you. Absolutely agree with the improvements in UX of AKAI... hopefully they'll implement them
yeah, they need to listen to paying customers
I think I'll stick with the MPC.
If you're not having any problems or crashes definitely stick with it! Users need to contact akai and request these simple feature updates. Maybe if enough people do it they'll pay attention.
@@JAdeWii_ Never had the MPC Live crash. Interesting statement.
Great review!
Good Vidy . . . Thanks . . . much appreciated ! Subscribed !
MPC and Digitakt are the two different philosophies. MPC has more functionality and can be a center of your kinda DAWless setup, while Digitakt is a very good part of this setup. If you pair them together and add midi keyboard you'll get complete DAWless production studio.
Nice video, good information! I personally own some Elektron gear Rytm/Octatrack/analog four/ heat some of the sturdiest stuff if not THE sturdiest stuff in the studio, the analog rytm is my go to lonely island machine at the moment as it covers soo much. I own this stuff sine its out and im still learning from it and it's functionality. The swedish really know how to get some A+++ quality going. Thinking about the price it's a lot of money, but you get insane amounts of creative stuff and sounds out of it!! One of my first synths was the Minibrute which is great to start synthing as every parameter is tweakable by knobs+faders (no menu diving).... then came the octatrack which quadruples possibilities... it was like giving the minibrute steroids and the octatrack is a piece of gear which fusions with other stuff so good. It feels like the octatrack is the best toy when you want all your gear to benefit (as it got ins/outs/fx/sequencer/sampling) . The heat by the way is a beast when hooked up to other synths... I mostly saturate stuff and it gives signals a warmth and punch and fullness. Hope I could help some people.
Thanks! You never stop learning with Elektron gear, it's crazy how much functionality their machines have.
I just ordered both. I look forward to learning how to use them together. If that seems like it doesn't work out, I will return one of them. I am looking forward to having pads so probably keep the MPC. I do have a Push 2 that I use with Ableton. Would be interesting to see how that will work with the MPC and the Digitakt. Yeah. Probably got too many toys. But keep thinking that I can get them all to work together in a creative way. One of the main reason that I got the MPC and the Digitakt is that I am afraid that my Mac might take a dump mid performance, and having a machine that doesn't depend on a computer is important.
Let me know if you have any advice or suggestions. Thanks in advance.
I'd love to know what you think now, I can't make up my mind which to get first, or at all.
@@johncaccioppo1142 Actually I returned the Digitakt. It is a great instrument, but I didn't need both, and I feel like the MPC Live although it takes a little more work to load up sounds, is more flexible, and can do a variety of different things. It is a steep learning curve, but worth it.
@@garyusinger Awesome, thanks! That's a nice confirmation of my own expectations. Leaning towards the MPC Live 2 but I may talk myself into the Digitakt because I'm a cheapskate on the fresh end of many learning curves.
Can't wait to watch this video.
I find the MPC live takes up too much time while brainstorming.
I am still in love with the sp303 from the early 2000's, due to the simplicity and functionality that was readily available at the top of the device.
I currently own the Toraiz and the Live. Because I was hoping to find that fresh 303 feeling. But I usually chop and layer sounds together from my phone with Audio Evolution.
Trying to find which device would be more closely related to the sp303, ie. digitakt, mpc live, circuit, op 1, octatrack.
I kinda like the toraiz, but always looking for input.
nice review Jade!
Thank you!
You didn't mention that the MPC LIVE love to collect the dust with its Soft Touch gummy finish that is impossible to clean and aged very badly.
Wow, if that’s the reason why not to get one you should check on your OCD fr
I think that if you already have a DAW like Ableton then getting the Digitakt or Octatrack is better option for the additional options.
Great job, Jade, as always.
Gordon Fishwick thanks for watching !
this is the debate im going through right now. i honestly dont know what do buy.
i've already got ableton push2 and love using that but like most i want to get away from the computer and just jam out. the MPC live appeals to me because its a MPC and you cant go wrong for sample based music. but since i have push2 somthing very different cant always be wrong and having somthing different might give more inspiration. portability is a component i look for, but a laptop pack can power the electron so no drama there.
current workflow is recording guitars and bass guitar and basing tracks around those samples, so MPC on first glance looks the choice. but the jaming aspect of digitakt looks fantastic
anyone have any recommendations ?
Very good explanation. So good if makes my choice even more difficult
Thank you for this video, did you update the firmware the MPC LIVE? if yes, could you pls tell us if there is any improvement? Thank you
Ghoula I ended up not getting a third one after 2 defective units
So what do you have now. Looking at one of the Maschine incarnations, Digitakt, Machinedrum etc. Would be nice to have a standalone drum machine, high quality samples are a must, analog effects obvious plus, controlling other hardware and synth gear huge plus. Thanks for the vids :)
Josh K right now I have the modular bug lol but I'm hoping to get am OT mk2 once it comes out. If you cam get a working MPC it's a good device, there's just lots of defective ones out there
Leaning heavily towards Tanzmaus or something similar, sure that will change again in a few hours ;)
Can you use the MPC Live as a multi-track? In the past, I had a Boss BR-8, that I was very productive with. It was cool except that it stored everything to a ZIP disk drive which are absolutely obsolete. It had midi ports which allowed me to sync my drum machines to it. Fast forward almost 15 years. I use Ableton Live but i decided i wanted a more linear multi-track recorder thinking maybe this would inspire more productivity. However, modern multi-track don't have have midi ports. I was thinking this might be the workflow i need. plus a a bad ass sampler to sample my modular gear into instruments. Would this be a correct assessment?
Dorian James I think it's a great 8 track recorder, check out my "mpc live sampling a synth" video and you'll see how easy it is to use it as such !
thanks for the reply and all the great videos. I think I'm going to get one but I think I'll wait a bit until I see how Akai deals with updates. if they show some dedication to it by adding new features in the next couple months then I'll make the purchase.
Great review. I would one slight negative feedback: the music is a little overly loud which doesn't make your vocal inaudible but is just a little distracting especially as you are discussing technical specs. Love your channel! Keep doing what you do. :)
Great video and like the Push.
Thanks, It's been off mostly ha. But its mainly recording and the last step of my creative chain, everything needs to get turned on more though.
Hey Dawless! Love the vlog. Big fan. Are you gonna do videos of your workflow with digitakt? It would be awesome!
Cheers!
Leon
I traded my digitakt in for an analog four, sorry!
WTF!? I guess that makes sense if you have an octatrack?
good review, Digitakt would run my old 3200 nice on midi by the looks of it, i like the randomness to it.
Yeah, conditional trigs make it really special
Hi, we're in 2020 and Akai is putting out the MPC One. Have they adressed the MPC usability issues since this video was made?
thanks for all the great info! I am looking to purchase one of these and you brought up a lot of really important things with both. I have the impression you prefer the digitakt?
barron marshall yes, but only because I now have a hybrid setup where ableton does way more than the mpc does and digitakt can do things ableton can't
hi thanks for your reply. I really looked into the electron product lines last night, and I am a bit confused about which would be best suited for me? I live in Ontario Canada so we seem to get gear almost 6 months to a year different than the usa or Europe, which is a bit odd. anyways I am trying to figure out the pros and cons between, brands, design and cost, which is also considerably different than usa or Europe. I am from the days of 4 track tape recorders and find the whole digital format really confusing. I am used to doing everything manually, which is more fun than moving my mouse back and forth. I was after the mpc live but your video has raised a lot of important issues, that I really have to think about. I am glad at having found your channel as you put things across in a way other similar channels do not. anyways sorry for the novel, I really wanted to thank you and wish you a wonderful day! have a good one!
Thanks! I hope you find whats right for you! If you like the 4 track recorder style, consider the op1 for a all in one workstation!
do you have a video on it? I will look it up so thanks.
Nice ! Good review! I say if you making the investment get both both of them have had amazing os updates recently!
Can i ask what type of music r u guys making on ure sample units?
Can You do a video on the MPC Live vs the IPAD. 2 Apps on the ipad in particular Beatmaker 3 and iMPC 2
Sorry Im not really into ipad music stuff
Imagine the power of them both combined...that wud b a a instrument to push the limits fo sure BANG!!
BOTH!
like to see a mpc live vs. octatrack comparison. am particularly interested in loop loading, bpm detection (or what steps there are), what you can do with loaded loops on each. i dont see much on these topics. the rest seems pretty straight forward for samplers and the YT vids. oh, maybe also using each as a master for external gear in live situations, and using the sampler / pads / screen / live at the same time. thanks for vids DJ.
I'm hoping to get my hands on the OTMK2 and be able to do a comparison of two, they're such different beasts!
that'd be great. :-)
not so sure it's worth the extra cash for most people, but the new line is looking good.
oh yeahhhhhhhh, gray bus!
💯 Nice comparison video! Spot on!
The digitakt can do long sample if you know how to do it ... what I do is get a long sample and hold the button with a long sample to like 4 bars or two
Really helpful video, thanks for making. And that duration of 8:08 can't be an accident, surely?!
Hi! I was very convinced to acquire the MPC Live but lately I have read many comments of problems with crushes and bugs, and I started to worry and I do not know if it will be good to buy or not MPC Live. What do you think about it? Although I understand that it is just coming to market and have to update the OS and fix the corresponding bugs, will it be good to acquire it at this time? Have you had any problems with him? If you had to choose between Octatrack and MPC Live, what would you choose and why? I like the Digitakt but I think it does not have song mode and for me it is fundamental. I know that I ask you many subjective things but I hope you can respond and I hope to help a little with your opinion.
Greetings from Chile!
It's really up to you, like I said, theyre very different machines so it depends on your needs. MPC is great for arranging, but the song mode lacks better interaction. Regardless its good though.
What do you mean that the song mode lacks a better interaction?
aNGRYFACe check out my song mode video and you'll see what I'm talking about. they could implement the pads to do things that you have to do on the touch screen.
I get it. Thanks for answering.
Octatrack is a pain, MPC Live is smooth. Its a DAW in your lap that you control with your hands! it feels awesome. Octatrack..... Im still just playing samples (simply) with it, Midi is awesome though...and the sequencer is better. MPC Live for creating beats/grooves with Samples-Clips / Octatrack for more of a Sound Design-Midi control Analog Synths-Warp/Shift Samples into new sounds etc.
Hey Jade, what setup you would recommend if you want to have the digitakt workflow but not having the sample-time-limit of 11 min oder 127 samples?? I would like to record a synth and percussion sounds via microphone into the digitakt, but that would mean that you need to leave out a lot of free space in the project-folder for the new samples. can the octaktrack do that? Please dont tell me the maschine or MPC Live, straight analog ;)
Octatrack is kind of a pita but if you put in the time it can be rewarding. Digitakt is a sample mangler and sequencer, good for one shots. you dont want to listen, but Maschine + ;) Maschine is the most "work station" out of all the ones you mentioned, and the new Maschine is completely Dawless, SO THERE'S THAT!
Hell no, I'm kindof done with the maschine. I worked with it for too long and I just dont like this pattern & scenes concept. In the digitakt each pattern is completely independent, so you can add as much details as you want. In maschine you need to duplicate a scene, then a pattern, then another pattern and so on. you will not do that just to add details. Just doesnt feel organic to build up an arrangement out of scenes and pattern. Plus the digitakt worklfow is just beyond! I think I will go and try the boss rc202 or 505, you can sync it with the digitakt (at least I think you can..) and there you can add synths, microphone-stuff and everything that the digitakt cant really do like recording something with overdub ;)
I would say get both as they are apples to oranges. If only can get one, then MPC Live. I think that you ideally want both and a synth like an OP-1 then have DAWless setup. Not bad because a good Macbook Pro laptop with Ableton Live and Push 2 controller actually costs more $$
I have both the Digitakt and MPC Live. And I agree with your comparison. As a Hip Hop artist, I prefer the Digitakt because its straight to the point and has an old school charm in a new school workflow. Akai just feels overrated and too stuck up of a company to support. I thought they turned a new leaf, which is why I bought the Live but its the Ren 1.0 all over again. Good thing is my Live never caused me any problems or crashed. Akai prints features on the box but you get a coming soon message, lame.
Bull. How often does your digitakt crash!? not even close of a comparison.
Kind of similar to Elektron and Overbridge
I say it all the time, the MPC Live work flow is kinda quirky and takes time to get used to. Many tasks that you do in the Live should have links or buttons that take you to the next obvious task.
What video is that, with Cenk operating Digitakt + an OP-1?
There have been several FW updates, so may I assume the crashes are non existant anymore?
I'm buying an access virus TI for a really low price. I'm planning on pairing it with a Moog minituar and digitakt for live shows, is this a dream team?
Alex Overcast Sure sounds like it !
Dawless Jammin' The virus TI sale fell through unfortunately. This is the dilemma I have now... Digitakt is only 16 bit but upconverts to 24 on the output. Also supports over bridge (huge timesaver and makes it useful in the studio). Octatrack doesn't support over bridge, making it hugely inefficient in the studio but excellent at the center of a live rig. This is what stops me from buying gear usually. My plugins in the studio and how I've set up my work flow make it easy to get great results with the DAW, but it seems I have to compromise too much to bring it on the road, unless I bring a sampler or print stems to augment a DJ set.
Very nice comparison Jade. I'm selling my MPC Live because I bought an Octatrack. It isn't that the Octatrack beats it -- it's that the MPC Live was so much like my DAW that it didn't feel DAWless, which is what I'm going for in a sampler / sequencer. I considered the Digitakt but wanted a deep machine at the heart of my live rig. SPEAKING OF LIVE RIGS -- when do we get to see / hear one of your shows? You have a ton of sweet kit and I'd like to hear your music. Cheers.
Surprise suprise, im purchasing an Octatrack today! haha It's such a great performance tool and im getting it mainly for that, so you will be seeing some live performances soon :)
Thanks . With Digitakt , MPC are we able to control 8 external midi channel \ synths ?
Any chance to export also the midi files data to a DAW for further editing ?
Yes to the first question, no to the second
Thanks
I have the digitakt, thinking of getting a dsi
tempest. Have you had any experience with one ?
Not any personal experience but GAS for one yes haha those things are awesome. I had the Tetra and that uses the same voice structure.
Great review but a more accurate comparison in reality would be to compare the MPC Live to the Octatrack. Both are about the same price and have similar features. Choosing between MPC Live and Elektron Octatrack is much harder because of the features that the Octatrack has missing from the MPC Live in terms of better analog functions.
First mpc, love it, never use it with daw never look at piano roll! Brillant for hardware stuff, think its unfair to compare digitakt, maybe octotrakt?
Hi Jade, Big thanks for this! You said it was coming and I'm really glad you did it as it is what I have been wanting to see for ages from someone. It really gives me a good idea of what I should go for! If you were me, an abstract artist that wants to create abstract soundscapes, sampling from one piece of gear at a time, creating a large array of samples from the one piece of gear and then creating a multi layered soundscape from it what would you choose? Maybe this is a bit of a weird question because rather than using it as a straight out musician, I want to use it as an abstract artist that will then paint to the soundscape, this is what I do www.edwardball.co.uk
I think the digitakt is good for making weird abstract sounds, mpc is more of a recorder and sampler
Dawless Jammin' Thaks Jade, that is what I was leaning towards, thinking those conditional trigs would really help a creative flow with the ability to randomise. I think it is the sequencer that swung it for me. What I really want is an Octotrack with its large sample capability but with the ease of use of the Digi! Can't have everything!😊
Hey Jade. Did they ever address your concerns with the MPC Live?
Anarchosyn nah, gonna try out the ONE and see what’s changed since I made these videos!
I like this channel and I like your tunes. How did you get into this.
Got sick of making music on a computer with a midi controller and started researching how not to make music with a computer and here i am haha
Dawless Jammin' you're going to be a bright music producer. Im getting into your music... a lot.
Just got a feeling that Squarp Pyramid is a Digitact without audio, but with unlimited midi tracks... Because as far as I understand Pyramid has pretty much the same conditional trips and fx.
Please correct me if I'm wrong - I'm trying to decide which box to use in my dawless setup and these two are just in my price range.
It's been a year. Which did you end up getting? I recently got a Pyramid, and it's a dream machine. I'm still thinking of getting a digitakt just for jamming, looks like a fun piece of gear
well explained
Elektron is perfect step sequencer for programming beats vs mpc live is perfect live recording sequencer for live playing with human feel. Two very different workflows as a owner of both, they both have different mindsets to use.
On the digitakt, can you tune each step just like on the rytm?
jay yes
I love the way you say "Digitakt"!
If you use automatic subs it also gets funny, because it doesn't have it in its library, so it becomes: ticket act, dig attack, dick attack, ...
Lol, me too.
Seems more reasonable to compare MPC Live vs OctaTrack (or MKII when you can get one) as they have similar prices.
Since i first saw it I've been misreading it as Digikat... like a cat. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
captainjaneway3000 For years? This thing just came out...
bahahaha sorry I meant since i first saw it
This video pushed me toward the Digitakt. The MPC Live seems so much like a DAW; why not just go DAW on a laptop?
Portability and internalized connections, plus the potential for a more fluid design that doesn't conflict with the bloated architecture of the non-specialized pc. In theory...
It needs to be said that the Elektron file system is annoying. The notion of starting a new project, then having to get samples from the +Drive over to the working pool, then arranging kits from the temporary "pool" is a royal PITA. By the time you get going, your ADD kicks in and you are turning the unit off. I get a lot of my inspiration from the synth side. SO I need to lay down a quick fundamental groove, so then I can go work on the synth side. The MPC can do that. Then later you can go back and modify the kick or snare, or add hi-hats to suit.
In my opinion for someone doing hip hop the Digitakt is more comparable to the SP404a .
Whit the Digitakt You get a step sequencer, midi sequencer, some nice trig tricks, LFOs and visual feedback of your waveform and also it sounds good....
but you lose the sp404 fx, the stereo sampling, built in mic, sd card input, battery power and that sp lofi sound.
The MPC Live and the Digitakt are just wayyyyy to different to compare them... Also it has a lot to do with your style of music and what type of equipment that your using....for people to say that the MPC is too difficult is crazy.... It has wayyyy more features so you have to put your time into it and that goes for both of these machines to get the most out of them. If you’re rocking a turntable and vinyl and a synth..... the MPC is hard to beat. That’s why I got the Digitone👌🏿
Also if you want to make a full track with the Digitakt you’ll need a DAW for song mode..... and that’s not DAWless , no time stretching, no pitch shift no warping.... Octatrack is more like the MPC
Joe Bond What is your opinion on the digitakt and sp404sx combo?? I’m in the market for a live or digitakt and have been looking for more reviews about it
Can you do a MPC live 2 vs Analog Rytm II, please? 🙏🏿
Have't messed with the Live 2 yet, hopefully it makes its way into the studio at some point!
Oh I meant to say that alessandro cortini (NIN) travels the world with an MPC live, he was sampling rare synths with it and composing some really beautiful stuff on it.
Oh and he replaced the octatrack with it because he said you have to think like elektron to use their stuff, and if he left it alone for a month he'd forget everything and have to start over. Which I totally agree with, it's nice to hear a professional feels the same way as me about elektron!
haha yeah i totally agree with that! i love the sequencer though
Exactly. Plus Digitakt freezes all the time, I was robbed by Elektron.
Not going to plug another channel here but there's a guy who turns a random sample into a DX7 on his mpc live!
source?
These are complimentary machines, not contrasting. You absolutely need both - they stimulate waaaay different creative energies.
MPC is an entire production studio. It's the closest thing to a DAW in a box you're going to get. The Digitakt seems like a trimmed-down version of the Octatrack
with upgraded features. If the Octatrack MKII has the the same improvements as the Digitakt, I'd say wait for that to drop next month.
As far as sampling manipulation, which has more depth?
Digitakt or Octatrack?
Octatrack 100%
@@JAdeWii_ Thanks!!!!
you can play a different sample every step of any pattern, so you're not limited to 8 one shot samples.. anyways, great video
Ok im getting MPC live first because I can use 2.0 as a vst as well.
Query: you can synchronize OP-1 with MPC live with USB, you can also send signals midi to IPAD with USB? thank you very much. !!
cant send midi to op1 over usb to mpc
Oh, what a shame so great. I thought it could finally be done. With IPAD tried?
geronimo frezzini sorry I haven't
de esa forma lo uso con mi MPC 1000, pero devido a que la nueva mpc tiene usb host, pense que podrìa eliminar todos los artilugios intermedios :)
creo que todavia necesitarias el ipad camera kit.
Err Jade...opening statement is incorrect...mpc does not have eight tracks????...so sampling it has 64 with up to 8x16 individual samples ON EACH TRACK ..with fx...on each sample......plus 8 audio......just saying...hey I love my digitone though.
How many samples can Digitakt play at once Is it 8 looking to buy this or Mpc one
8 and they're all mono. I'd go for the Live 2 if you can save a little more. The speaker and built in battery take it to a new territory.
Thanks I only got the cash for Mpc one 😂👍
What do you think of the mpc one as I got the money for that I don’t need battery or speakers I have monitor s babe
Had to return my mpc live too much work, but digi. No song mode can't do it , chain mode turned me off from electribes.
Mikepepp2 so neither haha you got your eye on anything ?
Dawless Jammin' Did anyone update theirs yet. I see 2.03 is out
Yeah, i've heard a lot of people have updated but haven't heard if they addressed these features.
so mpc 2.03 is now out, thats good, but didnt u say the unit itself (MPC LIVE) is just 2.0....i dont understand this, surely like the other mpcs u would upgrade the hardware as the new versions came about, till they got it right (fukin numark smh!!) .... i miss the S950 and windows 95, trust me... will we be able to upgrade the MPC LIVE unit by formating it or somthing idk....all my past units never needed upgrading versions were at there peak when purchashed , )apart from the MPC Studio i bought from scratch, what a nightmare)...someone help b4 i burn the bastard (pardon my french Miss Dawless Jammin)
PS, Mike epps the 2nd, what was ure issue with the LIVE, u say too much work , how so?,what was the main issue to YOU that u found too much work,?
Hi I just bought my MPC live. I have no idea what the hell I'm doing. I'm 23 years late in buying a piece of equipment to make music. I see people really love this MPC live . most of the stuff you talked about in your videos might as well be a foreign language to me because I am so green. Trying to figure out how to shorten my learning curve
cahnrad no such thing as shortening your learning curve. Learning is a life long journey. Turn it on everyday and you will see Improvement. Only go online to search specific things you are trying to do
@@JAdeWii_ thx hun for the response. It makes sense and I cant lie I'm feeling myself since I keep using it!
can you use them together ?
sure
@@JAdeWii_ is it worth it or its better an arturia beatstep pro ?
MPC 2.3 ALLLLL DAY!
Emergency!!! I was about to buy the Digitakt but the Roland just came out with the TR8s. Help your thoughts?
haha Well if you need to sequence external gear this is still a better option. TR8s is fun though, I'll be reviewing it soon
Thanks! Your voice is helpful to all
Jay Carrion So i brought the digitakt. OMG the conditional trigs and p. Locks are amazing. I may may sell my MPCx since I rarely use it. I think with Live and a digitakt you can really do everything you need to. It been a while since a piece of equipment has stimulated my creativity. Thanks.
You know that Akai just released a new update?!
so can the new update be uploaded on to the actual MPC instead of just the software on the computer???
On the MPC!
You can somewhat mimic the conditional trigs on the MPC Live - th-cam.com/video/uJNhcs8HNVQ/w-d-xo.html
Have both!
Mpc live vs mv8800 --------???
Overbridge 2.0 finally is coming. Definitely getting a Digitakt.
I got the MPC ONE, sister....
I am trying very hard to resist the Digitakt as a hardcore Maschine user!! BUT..... all these positive reviews and demos in every type of music makes it hard not to give it a go. I love creating ambient/soundscape stuff and any type of sample mangling along with conditional trigs makes this sound very tempting. Thanks very much for your excellent reviews on the Elektron products in comparison to close competitors. My interest in the Digitakt stems a lot from working within its limits. I am trying to get rid of more gear, using less vsts and working only with my own recorded sounds. Very inspired by Robert Henke"s lecture on creating music within limitations : th-cam.com/video/iwOaYxSJGqI/w-d-xo.html
so basically the digitakt is to jam and the other is more to compose songs....... i think i prefer jamming .......