Amen, Bror - Elektron Digitakt vs. The Amen Break
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ส.ค. 2017
- Elektron's Digitakt is primarily designed as a one shot drum sampler, but with a little preparation it can do amazing things with drum breaks like the Amen. In this video I show you how I use parameter locks and conditional locks to create a vivid jungle beat with Digitakt after preparing the Amen break in Ableton Live.
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Finally I understand the pre with the dashes. Thanks! Amen break never gets old... good job 👌
thank you, this was exactly what I was hoping to be able to do with the box... sold!!
Dacci... I think everyone can agree that this is *the best* Digitakt video online. Amen :)
yess thank you so much for this!!! buying a digitakt soon and i can already feel that this video will be incredible first step.
This video just blew my mind. Thank you so much!!!!
You’re an awesome person, I’m really having fun watching!
Awesome use of the Digitakt here! I look forward to your next video dude!
I've come back to this video again....great reference for choping breaks/loops with the digi
you could use 1 sample and alter the start point , probably increments of 5 or 10 , depending on the loop.
but individual samples is easy if you want them to loop , a lot less fiddling with parameter locks
and you could load up multiple break samples and lfo the sample slot to go through them , and it'll sound mad .. advantage is that you only need to alter 1 x sample value to alter the entire break .
That sounds insane! 👍
This really helped me, thank you!
Great video...sample prep and nice technique! Thank you!
Well done! Makes me really wanting to start again with electronic music. Great tutorial!
Brilliant tutorial, thank you!
I keep coming back to this vid, it really is one of the best tutorials for Digitakt so far!.
True! This video made me want to buy one
Same. I watched this before getting the digitakt, and I'm watching it again now that I have one. So good and to the point.
Yes i too have just ordered a Digitakt after watching this. Some follow up videos would be great 😎
Coming soon! Work in progress :)
All the randomisation is cool!
awesome, very well done clear demonstration on rearranging amen chops in a jungle manner :) didn't see that on yt ever before ..
Excellent work, your videos are great!
Thanks so much, glas you enjoy :)
Great vid. Very well presented.
Awesome video!
Amazing video! really showing what can be achieved with this amazing box. You sir definitely sold me the digitakt.
+Rodrigo Laporte Thanks Rodrigo! I am sure you’ll have a lot of fun with it :)
nice video, straight to the point, thanks for sharing Amen Brotha!
This has been saved to my “Elektron Essentials” TH-cam folder!
can you make that playlist public? i would love to see what else is in there :) new digitakt user
@@newowen8090 same here:)
This video has basically made the deal for me. I’m getting one!
Great vid, thanx!
great video, thanks!
So cool man love it, I really need to get into my Digitakt :)
Little box of wonders
Nice job !
A great Digitakt tutorial and a great Amen Break tutorial....in one video!
Very informative, thanks!
Long live the breaks!
sounds amazing
jungle!!!!!
Thanks a lot mate, i ve really struggled before watchin your tutorial..
wow, thats amazing.
Nice work
I've watched this like 5 times and forgot to thumbs up. Thank you for the video.
Hit 5 times thumbs up then ;)
@@XanderEwald Amen brothor
so sick
Excellent vid, more DT please.
really nice and well explained! :)
Filip Ferferiev Thanks, appreciated!
I would love to see another video just like this one maybe doing some idm or dnb. You’re tutorials are the most informative and on point
IDM would be amazing
subscribed!! You are awesome like the digitakt!!
Love it! Thanks
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I took a go at it. Not as slick as yours Dacci. I just used the one sample and modified the start /end on different trigs
Great video! I was just playing with the Amen breaks earlier today on my Digitakt and found this, tomorrow I will bust out Ableton and edit the sample. It really does make a difference to have the samples chopped properly.
Yes, it makes it way more musical and less random. Glad you enjoy!
Could you kind of ‘fake’ chopping the break on the Digitakt?
If you had the full break, and pasted it to different notes, but shifted the start point on each note?
OMG..mind blown! I've been going about it all wrong!
THANK YOU
Great tache, great vid.
I just made a sweat cut up hip hop beat on my digitakt using your tech 😎
Very informative video, the first part really taught me a lot about the thought process behind slicing and importing samples. I would normally just use the digitakt to slice and fiddle with one long sample, this seems wayyyy easier. You got my sub!
Good job
Sweet! It's like a hardware version of the old HammerHead loop software. Must get my fingers on an elektron. Good stuff, thank you
Tim Gen Don’t know that one yet, got to check it out.
I have two super old beats made on hammerhead on my channel, samples exported for this program made them sound like from sp1200
Fire 🔥
cool video
still the best video in the internet
THanks!
super dope.
+GBRL Thanks so much!
Man you're good
All JUNGLE IS MASSIVE
awsome
I will only watch this video if I have not seen the video before it (which I will have only seen if I did not see the video before that) I’m which case I will like and subscribe because it’s an excellent tutorial 👍
Groovy
Nice one
Yo! Thanks :)
Damn your good
Great video
Great!!!
Merci :)
07:36 My favourite part of the video :)
This is one of the most inspiring and useful DT videos in youtube, thanks!
But after experimenting with breaks for a while I ended up putting the whole breaks single sample files instead of chopping them beforehand as you did, then I either choose same BPM for my pattern as the break or adjust the break duration with tuning in SRC (so the full length is 120 and matches the length of a bar), and then I set length to for example 7.5 and use p-locks to set start position of each trig.
I'd suggest taking a break in a daw, and chopping ot to 30 equal segments (annoyingly not 32)... you can then very easily scan through each segment via push-and-twist with the start encoder which jumps start by 4 units. I slowly worked this out when i realised the max start value was 120, not 128 (120/4 = 30). Woth loops i normally choose two beats out of 32 to cut out to make it 30... Its a great way to save on project samples for a live set (whether breaks/loops or individual hits). For breaks, you can just leave the length to max, but for individual hits, you set length to "4" for no overlap. Peas
Good video. Now I understand why the OT camp is so excited about the upcoming trig conditions.
Yes, they are a very useful feature.
you sent me back in time, when these procedures were used with the old akai samplers. I usually used a tool called "Recycle" from Steinberg: it cut and sent samples from the pc to akai via scsi. We are talking about 1996
I started making music in 1996, I used Recycle too :)
This video made me buy a digitakt 😊 can you share what sound was used for the 808 bass? Perfect 90's rolling jungle feel. Cheers
Nic Williamson Congrats to your purchase, hope you enjoy! The sample I used was probably either by Goldbaby (Urban Cookbook) or Samples From Mars (808 From Mars) - Both very recommendable.
9:16 Jungle Flavour
This was _EXTREMELY_ helpful. Never going to waste my time trying to chop a break on the Digitakt again when I could have sliced in Ableton and used parameter locks instead! Very enlightening video!
+Anthony Parks Thanks Anthony, glad it was helpful!
One thing I discovered while going through this video...in Ableton, you could take the sample, Slice To Midi...then in the created Drum Rack, each Sampler device can be Right-Clicked -> Crop Sample. The output will show up. An alternative to using Arrangement -> Ctrl+E -> (move the transport 1/16th note) / repeat -> Export. Depending on your Slicing preset, you may also use the Zone tab in Sampler to Select All and Crop. (:
+Anthony Parks Good idea, will try that!
Hey, amazing video! I am buying the Digitakt and I started chopping some breaks the way you did. But i was wondering how exactly did you bounce each individual chop from Ableton?
I selected the individual clip and bounced it. Ableton usually only renders the marked section of the timeline.
Breaking the limits
Very nice 👍 Good Teacher.
The best Break beat always used.
Would be nice if you made a video on the Digitakt using only factory samples to make the same break beat.
Thanks for sharing.
Sounds like a challenge! 😅
Dacci Pucci Ofcourse you can make it happen 👍
leg1: moves
leg2: moves
its neukölln, tempelhof...Nice Vid
Hey man, this is very useful! I REALLY hope to get my head around this asap!! Can I ask, why is it you change the bpm on the digi to 85 when it is set at 170 you say? After I chopped it on ableton and moved it onto the Digi, my bpm was just the same as it was set on ableton? I had it all set to 132, and my digi bpm is always synced with lives bpm... ?
I think I did it to get an effectively longer sequence with 32 instead of 16 steps.
Excellent tutorial. Thanks so much. Could I possibly get a copy of the Amen breaks that you chopped for the Digitakt? I am DAW less and chopping the break on the Digitakt is so very annoying and difficult!
sunil solanki It's copyrighted, so unfortunately I can not offer a download.
The Amen Break is a classic hip hop break, it has been sampled an insane amount of times, I bet if you can find any classic loop collection from the 90s on TH-cam or a tor, you will find it.
Rumor has it your a 'Wicked Operator' my Atari is interested ^^ Great vid and super box of tricks , go to 9.44 for those that want the Flavor !!
I’m kinda new to ableton could you do a more in depth tutorial on how to prepare the sample for the digitakt? Thanks
Thanks for the suggestion, I will think about it!
Was there any technical reason to half the bpm for the process to work? Thanks for the video has sparked a few ideas.
J Brown If you use the original tempo, it will take two pages to run through the loop, but give you more steps between slices. It works too and allows for more complex patterns.
Dacci Pucci Thanks! Makes perfect sense now you've explained it.
hol'on hol'on hol'on hol'on
how do you export the slices out of ableton?
Marvin Osei I render them as audio files and then transfer them to Digitakt with the Elektron Transfer app. I will do a video about the process soon! Thanks for asking.
i`m enjoying the digitakt very much, maybe too much... because i now have the idea to sell it and get the Octatrack mk2... i will try to do the same on the O mk2 should be possible i guess :)
I'm sure there is way more possible on the Octatrack. I'm gassing for it too :D
I just got an Analog Four to keep the Digitakt company, I've gone from never using Elektron products to owning two in as many months. :P
Se esse estilo já foi até do DJ marky, concerteza foi até o final da decada de 90
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Hey man this is an awesome video!!!! I don't suppose you would share the individual bounced files...I don't have Ableton or any software to do the time stretching and chopping. Im subscribed aswel man ;-]
Thanks man, appreciate it! Unfortunately I can not share the files due to copyright, but if you look around a bit you can surely find (especially older) sample libraries containing the break.
@@XanderEwald wait, the publisher is enforcing the copyright on Amen, break? When did that start happening?
I don’t know about that, but I respect copyright. If anyone wants the sample, they should buy the song so The Winstons and their families see some money ;)
campeón
nce! can I replicate this with a Rytm?
Good question! I will look into it and perhaps make a video about it.
I would prefer to see a video that demonstrates how to chop up a sample within the Digitakt, not with a DAW... but your method definitely works.
Good suggestion, I will make one!
@@XanderEwald Awesome! I have a way of doing it but i feel liked it's cumbersome... i think I'm just doing it wrong lol There has to be a better way!
Headnod tut seeeen
can you get specific about what you're using in ableton to chop up the break in the first place? i have ableton live 10 intro and i'm not sure if I have the tool you're using or how to get to it. thanks
I just warped it, probably in beat- oder re-pitch mode, and slightly corrected the timing by dragging the snares around here and there.
Why prep chops on daw? Sample and chop on the hardware!
L. A. Nolan I found chopping on DT too fiddly for this specific take, so I used Live for a faster and better result.
Das ist doch S Veddel da am Ende!
Can you post the sliced loop parts onine?
Seems like you have to a lot to get amen break goin'
The hustle is real my friend ;)
forget about the lock and remember the bars..
i really hope thats just xl kippah
Clamsnake I really hope you know this channel is about music and not religion ;)
the amen sounds thin
BreakBoy45 Perhaps the sample I got hold of isn't the best quality. Unfortunately, I don't own the Winston's record.
@Dacci Pucci
For real, this fooll don't know about real jungle, probably likes those fake-Amen DND beats, saying shit like that. And probably, as you said, never heard the actual Amen brother track. Fuck that, dudes probably listening on his mobile phone, thinking it's thin cuz your sampling technique or cuz the digitakt, lol.
so, i did this with that: soundcloud.com/jianghuspirit/scribblework-in-progress-braindance
Dokan That sounds really dope!! Send it to me when it’s finished please!