Fill is one of the most useful and most underused functions of the Digitakt. I love using utiming to double use one step using the fill/overlined fill function. Great for bringing some on the fly changes to your patterns. I’m surprised you didn’t talk about this in the video. Say you have a clap that you want to switch to a snare using the fill function. You overline fill the clap place a snare right next to it (with fill param) and then using utime you move the snare into the same step. So that when you press fill it changes on the same step. Very useful. I’m sure you knew about this.
Sure thing, that's a neat way of using it. I do talk about the micro timing thing in another video though but not specifically with using fill. Might be nice to do a video on abusing microtiming some time. Cheers!
Dave Mech awesome videos bud. Nice to see that Digitakt is as loved by others as it is by me. You could definitely teach a masterclass on this unit. Looking forward to what you do next. Cheers.
I realize this is two years old, but I just tried this trick and it works like a charm. Gonna try and figure out a way to work it into my live set. Cheers fam.
Can’t wait to get my Digitakt in a few days. It will be the first piece of gear i own which I can use completely without a computer, besides some synths but they sound lame without FX So Now i can finally take a machine and make music without a computer which also finally enables me to join a Jamsession :)
Dave, really really enjoying your series - realising the full potential of the DT. keep up the good work! not sure if you get this request a lot but are you able to do an internal sample management tutorial of some sort? like how to move samples in and out of projects. replacing and removing samples, around the folder structures and in general how you manage your samples? i remembered the first time meddling with it was absolutely awful!!
@@aijii it would be great. But unfortunately the DSP of the Digitakt is pretty much at its maximum. This was shared by one of the designers. They are thinking about how to add some stuff but it's pushing the limits of what the DSP can handle. Let's hope for a band pass filter as an additional filter. Fingers crossed:)
Hello Dave!! Really good solutions! I'm current playing with other gear, but I have a Digitakt! And sometimes I play a bit with it! What should I say about the amazing style you create! Its in the best of ever area and sounds amazing! I saw your DB4tricks, and the Digitakt to hear from you was outstanding! It took a long time, but now I also found my sounds and I'm glad! Really good tutorials, knowledge and music!
@@Davemech ... the way how is exemplary! I know Joris, a dutch guy! After I saw your videos I talked about you and he said he kows you! And that you live in netheriands too! Together we have an amazing passion and I'm proud to see sometimes people like you! I wish you the best, take care!
@@impossiblemusicforce Happy to share ! :) Haha yeah Joris is a friend of mine, small world eh? Thanks again for your positive reactions, makes me happy :)
Hi Dave, congratulations on what you do, you are really good. Would you tell me what you do the synth part of these samples with? Libraries or sounds that you create and then import? And if you do them with what do you do them? Thanks again
Cheers dude. The synthpart of that groove I created with Dominion 1 and further edited and mangled within DT. I create pretty much all of my sounds myself including kicks. Only some bread and butter samples like 909 hihats etc. come from libraries and an occasional synth sample. Mangled further on DT. Sometimes I record directly into dt, sometimes o have sound design sessions and create a bulk of samples :) cheers!
This was so helpful, thank you. For some reason I never realized i could just lock that one step with the sample and all settings and then start shaping another. I was always placing the new sample and then playing the sequence and waiting until it was triggered each time to hear my changes as I went. These things are such complex organisms that theres a hundred ways to accomplish the same thing, people like you are clever at finding the most efficient way. I could maybe stop smoking so much weed when I write and I'd be a little better lol
Digitakt for sure. Love the direct and fast workflow as well as how I can perform with it live. Digitone is a very close second place :) have an analog 4 and rytm at home for future videos but have to dive a bit deeper into them
thanks a lot for your videos Dave! They help me a lot. I searched all the internet and could find the answer. If i use live recording mode on DIgitakt and record parameter changes for example pitch (by turning the knob) Is there a way to only delete automation changes and keep the notes?
Great to hear! When in live recording mode and the sequencer is playing, you can hold no+ the data entry knob corresponding to the parameter you want to remove as lock. It will delete that parameter lock as the sequencer passes each trig. Cheers!
Im so confused. I dont understand how the midi tracks are acting like the sample trks/trgs in the first row. Mine have a different menu thats only for midi. I dont have the parameters yours are showing and I dont know why you were locking them. I guess I have much to learn
Hey! Not sure which part of the video you mean, but the midi tracks are not acting like audio tracks anywhere. The midi tracks indeed are just midi tracks and have a different parameter set. Which time in the video are you confused about? I also have a 8+ hour course for Digitakt on my website. It goes from the very basics until complex programming and touching upon sound design, groove design and mix as well 👍🏻
Loving your Digitakt vids. I don't fully understand all the LFO Dest descriptions. Some are obvious but I don't understand the difference between SAMP Start and SAMP Loop Position and some of the others, the manual doesn't explain... 😶
Hi Bobby, check the manual at the section about the sample page. There you will find the explanation of what loop position does. The lfo can modulate any of the parameter page parameters so to speak, so when you read the description of the page parameters it should clear it up a bit :)
Hi Dave, learning lots from your vids and just hit subscribe;) Have you found a way/workaround to change patterns between projects? Let’s say I want to select various patterns from different projects and put them together in a new project for my live setup. Any ideas on that? Thanks again! Keep up your great work!
Hi Steffen, great to hear you like the videos! This is unfortunately a tedious process. I do this by copying each pattern 1 by 1 to a new project. You can do this by copying a pattern, load the new project and paste it onto a pattern in that project. Elektron is going to implement project management into overbridge in the future though. Let's hope it will be soon :)
Thanks for the fast reply! I tried that but it doesn’t copy the samples to the slots. And if it did it would overlap with patterns from other projects which use the same slot for a different sound... Do you have a system how to keep your samples organized to avoid that? Or is it just part of the tedious process to load the samples again onto the slots and finding new slots for the overlapping ones? Having that solved with over bridge would be a blessing! But since we are not there yet: It would be very interesting how you work around that.
@@steffendix1895 ah yes that is the tedious part haha. For my live set I work within one project (for now, as I'm hitting the max of patterns). I use about 3 patterns per groove. I also have a spreadsheet where I keep track of which samples are used by which patterns. So in case I want to make a selection for a specific gig I have, I import all samples from the grooves I want to play I to the correct slots (select slot in project , func+yes. When there are overlapping ones, note down and change the sample slot of that pattern... I must admit I only do this with a few patterns at a time in the case I want to play a bit more relaxed set than normally for instance. Doing this starting with an empty project would be an afternoon's work I guess.
Well I guess sometimes there is no shortcut in life ;) I’ll definitely have to try the “spreadsheet-technique” Thanks for sharing your method! btw here is what I work on and try to develop on DT and some eurorack stuff: th-cam.com/play/PLlDaRU3rPPROIv8NzbMVA2snJOrkGkW-u.html
Locking all parameters on a step so I can load another sample on that track. Rinse repeat so you can use multiple sounds on a track and audition them like you would normally.
Y o Y o. ......nice Hey can I get a vid more on your audio interface / mixer / and home studio workflow along with sample processing prior to using in DTakt and also OverBridge and its role in your set up if at alll.....yeah big list...lol
Hi rustik haha, that's about 4 videos ;) check out my videos on ob. I also did a DT video about importing samples where I go over part of the processing a bit.
Holy shit. What was that? I have to rewatch this video multiple times, not sure what happened. Why were you locking the parameters down? Dang, I've been using the Digitakt for a year and I didn't know one could do that. Still dizzy from the video.
Hi Steve, it's not so much a rumour as it's actually written in the manual :P 72 locks per pattern. A parameter lock counts as 1 even if it's locked by multiple trigs on a track. So when you lock the sample slot on track one with 64 trigs at different values it just takes up 1 of 72. So that's a whole lot to work with. I have yet to reach the maximum on one pattern even with these tricks.
Hi Bostich, thanks! Yeah this series of tutorials is aimed towards intermediate users. As there are are many beginner tutorials out there already. Hope it was still useful :) cheers
Many Thanks for your Video Dave. But, this little box is the absolute horror. A lot of functions, too small display and an impossible matrix. When I work with it, I quickly lose creativity.
Ah that's unfortunate. An instrument has to click with you. If it doesn't , better to move on. Or stick with it and go passed that point of frustration. IMHO it's worth it. Once you get it and have the muscle memory down it's a magic box.
Thank you Dave for your answer. I really appreciate that. Yes, certainly, this little magic box can do a lot. But I think I'm too old school for such new digital stuff. I've been making music for 35 years and grew up with the Berlin techno scene. Electronic music is produced differently these days and it's fascinating to see that. But these new digital magic boxes are a headache for me. Greetings from Berlin. 😊✌️
Oh I know these synthesizers. The DAFM with OPL 4 chip sounds like the Yamaha DX9 or FB01 and the Pulsar23 is an absolute beast with fantastic sounds and intelligent matrix. 👍💪
I released a video course for Digitakt! Buy here: davemech.live/store
This looks good i shall watch it with a coffee and a after eight mint at the weekend.
5:42 ”There we gjöou”
awesome video my man!!
Cheers Simon :)
Thanks for all the great tips for the digitakt. This machine has rocked my world.
Geweldig Dave door jou geniet ik steeds meer van mijn digitakt..
Fill is one of the most useful and most underused functions of the Digitakt. I love using utiming to double use one step using the fill/overlined fill function. Great for bringing some on the fly changes to your patterns. I’m surprised you didn’t talk about this in the video. Say you have a clap that you want to switch to a snare using the fill function. You overline fill the clap place a snare right next to it (with fill param) and then using utime you move the snare into the same step. So that when you press fill it changes on the same step. Very useful. I’m sure you knew about this.
Sure thing, that's a neat way of using it. I do talk about the micro timing thing in another video though but not specifically with using fill. Might be nice to do a video on abusing microtiming some time. Cheers!
Dave Mech awesome videos bud. Nice to see that Digitakt is as loved by others as it is by me. You could definitely teach a masterclass on this unit. Looking forward to what you do next. Cheers.
Great tip! was trying to find a way to do this but did not think about microtiming. Awesome!
I realize this is two years old, but I just tried this trick and it works like a charm. Gonna try and figure out a way to work it into my live set. Cheers fam.
Can you microtime steps to be exactly on the same step? Or only „almost there“?
Dave Mech, you rock man, you are such a big inspiration to me, cheers bro!
Wonderful ideas!
trick after trick after trick, subbed with quickness
I recently bought a digitakt and watched a lot of tutorials but your videos are among the best ! Cant wait to see whats comming. Congrats !
Thank you for the big compliment Adrien ❤️
very good!
So inspirational as always. I'm gonna have to watch this a few times as you're soooo quick on the keys. Keep them coming 😎
Cheers Bobby :)
Very interesting- good work
Can’t wait to get my Digitakt in a few days. It will be the first piece of gear i own which I can use completely without a computer, besides some synths but they sound lame without FX
So Now i can finally take a machine and make music without a computer which also finally enables me to join a Jamsession :)
Enjoy David ! It's a wonderful piece of gear :)
Dave, really really enjoying your series - realising the full potential of the DT. keep up the good work!
not sure if you get this request a lot but are you able to do an internal sample management tutorial of some sort? like how to move samples in and out of projects. replacing and removing samples, around the folder structures and in general how you manage your samples? i remembered the first time meddling with it was absolutely awful!!
You should put in a feature request for "LOCK ALL PARAM" shortcut.
This was cool. Some fun, outside the box, thinking.
This!!!
That would certainly be nice!
@@Davemech you should make a video about the features you miss the most in the digitakt
While you're there elektron, an EQ per track would be good...
@@aijii it would be great. But unfortunately the DSP of the Digitakt is pretty much at its maximum. This was shared by one of the designers. They are thinking about how to add some stuff but it's pushing the limits of what the DSP can handle. Let's hope for a band pass filter as an additional filter. Fingers crossed:)
Amazing tutorials bro! Thank you for the inspiration!
Great to hear Vasiu, cheers!
Hello Dave!! Really good solutions! I'm current playing with other gear, but I have a Digitakt!
And sometimes I play a bit with it! What should I say about the amazing style you create! Its in the best of ever area and sounds amazing! I saw your DB4tricks, and the Digitakt to hear from you was outstanding!
It took a long time, but now I also found my sounds and I'm glad!
Really good tutorials, knowledge and music!
Thank you for the super kind words Klaus and great to hear you found your sound ☺️
@@Davemech Hello Dave! Its your attidute to all what you do here! And I really appreciate that you share what you know! And the waY
@@Davemech ... the way how is exemplary! I know Joris, a dutch guy!
After I saw your videos I talked about you and he said he kows you! And that you live in netheriands too! Together we have an amazing passion and I'm proud to see sometimes people like you! I wish you the best, take care!
@@impossiblemusicforce Happy to share ! :) Haha yeah Joris is a friend of mine, small world eh? Thanks again for your positive reactions, makes me happy :)
Helpful as always!
Awesome as always! Would love to see you do your thing building a song on the digitakt in a live stream!
Hi Dave, congratulations on what you do, you are really good. Would you tell me what you do the synth part of these samples with? Libraries or sounds that you create and then import? And if you do them with what do you do them? Thanks again
Cheers dude. The synthpart of that groove I created with Dominion 1 and further edited and mangled within DT. I create pretty much all of my sounds myself including kicks. Only some bread and butter samples like 909 hihats etc. come from libraries and an occasional synth sample. Mangled further on DT. Sometimes I record directly into dt, sometimes o have sound design sessions and create a bulk of samples :) cheers!
Talk about squeezing blood from stone. What a machine! (The producer, not the sampler). Good stuff.
Lovely comment haha. Cheers aijii
dammit that groove slays. would love to see how you got that going
Thanks Salome. Big part of that sound is a sound I designed with the dominion 1
This was so helpful, thank you. For some reason I never realized i could just lock that one step with the sample and all settings and then start shaping another. I was always placing the new sample and then playing the sequence and waiting until it was triggered each time to hear my changes as I went. These things are such complex organisms that theres a hundred ways to accomplish the same thing, people like you are clever at finding the most efficient way. I could maybe stop smoking so much weed when I write and I'd be a little better lol
Haha cheers Woodsi . Yeah this way works much faster
Great stuff, thankee!
Clever 😄😄.
What’s your favourite Elektron Box ?
Digitakt for sure. Love the direct and fast workflow as well as how I can perform with it live. Digitone is a very close second place :) have an analog 4 and rytm at home for future videos but have to dive a bit deeper into them
thanks a lot for your videos Dave! They help me a lot.
I searched all the internet and could find the answer. If i use live recording mode on DIgitakt and record parameter changes for example pitch (by turning the knob) Is there a way to only delete automation changes and keep the notes?
Great to hear!
When in live recording mode and the sequencer is playing, you can hold no+ the data entry knob corresponding to the parameter you want to remove as lock. It will delete that parameter lock as the sequencer passes each trig.
Cheers!
Im so confused. I dont understand how the midi tracks are acting like the sample trks/trgs in the first row. Mine have a different menu thats only for midi. I dont have the parameters yours are showing and I dont know why you were locking them. I guess I have much to learn
Hey! Not sure which part of the video you mean, but the midi tracks are not acting like audio tracks anywhere. The midi tracks indeed are just midi tracks and have a different parameter set. Which time in the video are you confused about?
I also have a 8+ hour course for Digitakt on my website. It goes from the very basics until complex programming and touching upon sound design, groove design and mix as well 👍🏻
@@Davemech Thanks for responding. I'll check out the tutorials.
@@neonpop80 👍🏻 can find them here: davemech.live/shop
I wish I could buy you a beer; cheers, Mr. Mech.
Cheers J, if we meet I'll take that beer for sure ;)
Great tutorials. :)
Cheers Brian!
Loving your Digitakt vids. I don't fully understand all the LFO Dest descriptions. Some are obvious but I don't understand the difference between SAMP Start and SAMP Loop Position and some of the others, the manual doesn't explain... 😶
Hi Bobby, check the manual at the section about the sample page. There you will find the explanation of what loop position does. The lfo can modulate any of the parameter page parameters so to speak, so when you read the description of the page parameters it should clear it up a bit :)
@@Davemech cheers Dave, I'll check it out 😀
... I've also dusted down my old Korg ESX-1 (been I'm a cupboard for 5 yrs) to see how it pairs with the Digi... so far so fun 😀
Hi Dave, learning lots from your vids and just hit subscribe;)
Have you found a way/workaround to change patterns between projects?
Let’s say I want to select various patterns from different projects and put them together in a new project for my live setup. Any ideas on that?
Thanks again!
Keep up your great work!
Hi Steffen, great to hear you like the videos!
This is unfortunately a tedious process. I do this by copying each pattern 1 by 1 to a new project. You can do this by copying a pattern, load the new project and paste it onto a pattern in that project.
Elektron is going to implement project management into overbridge in the future though. Let's hope it will be soon :)
Thanks for the fast reply!
I tried that but it doesn’t copy the samples to the slots. And if it did it would overlap with patterns from other projects which use the same slot for a different sound...
Do you have a system how to keep your samples organized to avoid that?
Or is it just part of the tedious process to load the samples again onto the slots and finding new slots for the overlapping ones?
Having that solved with over bridge would be a blessing!
But since we are not there yet:
It would be very interesting how you work around that.
@@steffendix1895 ah yes that is the tedious part haha. For my live set I work within one project (for now, as I'm hitting the max of patterns). I use about 3 patterns per groove. I also have a spreadsheet where I keep track of which samples are used by which patterns. So in case I want to make a selection for a specific gig I have, I import all samples from the grooves I want to play I to the correct slots (select slot in project , func+yes. When there are overlapping ones, note down and change the sample slot of that pattern... I must admit I only do this with a few patterns at a time in the case I want to play a bit more relaxed set than normally for instance. Doing this starting with an empty project would be an afternoon's work I guess.
Well I guess sometimes there is no shortcut in life ;)
I’ll definitely have to try the “spreadsheet-technique”
Thanks for sharing your method!
btw here is what I work on and try to develop on DT and some eurorack stuff:
th-cam.com/play/PLlDaRU3rPPROIv8NzbMVA2snJOrkGkW-u.html
@@steffendix1895 Nice!
I don’t get the highlighting part. What is that for?
Locking all parameters on a step so I can load another sample on that track. Rinse repeat so you can use multiple sounds on a track and audition them like you would normally.
Y o Y o. ......nice Hey can I get a vid more on your audio interface / mixer / and home studio workflow along with sample processing prior to using in DTakt and also OverBridge and its role in your set up if at alll.....yeah big list...lol
Hi rustik haha, that's about 4 videos ;) check out my videos on ob. I also did a DT video about importing samples where I go over part of the processing a bit.
Dave Mech thanks and great job!
Holy shit. What was that? I have to rewatch this video multiple times, not sure what happened. Why were you locking the parameters down? Dang, I've been using the Digitakt for a year and I didn't know one could do that. Still dizzy from the video.
Clickertyclick. I'm a bit energetic sometimes.
its one of the most defining features of any Elektron box. And the only way to make music as complex as Daves with only 8 tracks to work with
i got my digitakt yesterday - so for me it is still a little bit to fast ;-)
I understand:) my Tutorials are indeed aimed at the intermediate and advanced users. Hope you'll find them useful after a couple of weeks of using it!
Same here lol:)
I heard a rumour that there is a limit to how many parameter locks you can have per pattern. have you ran into this problem with this method?
Hi Steve, it's not so much a rumour as it's actually written in the manual :P
72 locks per pattern. A parameter lock counts as 1 even if it's locked by multiple trigs on a track. So when you lock the sample slot on track one with 64 trigs at different values it just takes up 1 of 72. So that's a whole lot to work with. I have yet to reach the maximum on one pattern even with these tricks.
This is an intermediate tutorial because, as a newbie you're going way too fast. I'll need to playback at .5x Sweet though.
Hi Bostich, thanks! Yeah this series of tutorials is aimed towards intermediate users. As there are are many beginner tutorials out there already. Hope it was still useful :) cheers
@@Davemech Its was inspirational.
Many Thanks for your Video Dave. But, this little box is the absolute horror. A lot of functions, too small display and an impossible matrix. When I work with it, I quickly lose creativity.
Ah that's unfortunate. An instrument has to click with you. If it doesn't , better to move on. Or stick with it and go passed that point of frustration. IMHO it's worth it. Once you get it and have the muscle memory down it's a magic box.
Thank you Dave for your answer. I really appreciate that. Yes, certainly, this little magic box can do a lot. But I think I'm too old school for such new digital stuff. I've been making music for 35 years and grew up with the Berlin techno scene. Electronic music is produced differently these days and it's fascinating to see that. But these new digital magic boxes are a headache for me. Greetings from Berlin. 😊✌️
Ahh I understand :) maybe check out DFAM? Or Pulsar23 :) (are in my wishlist too)
Oh I know these synthesizers. The DAFM with OPL 4 chip sounds like the Yamaha DX9 or FB01 and the Pulsar23 is an absolute beast with fantastic sounds and intelligent matrix. 👍💪
Yeah awesome instruments. One day!