Digitakt - How to sample (Beginner Friendly Tutorial)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video I go over how to sample using the Digitakt from Elektron. I show you how to sample external and internal sources as well as how you can use the samples creatively. Want to buy a Digitakt? Use my affiliate links:
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Good stuff man...I literally can't review any Elekton synths because they're so ridiculously feature rich that I'd get so many questions about why I forgot to cover a certain aspect that I'd go insane. Thank goodness for you! The long form is so useful for those who need as much info as possible! Keep it up. (Oh and I like the thumbnail artwork!)
Thank you for the kind words. And I feel you. I have yet to review the Analog Keys and Analog Rytm and Octatrack because there are so much to learn. But once you learn them they become life long friends. Or you realise the workflow is not for you and sell them! One new video on the Digitakt every day this week. Tomorrow is my first new song!
I'd like to think that while on holiday, Nick Batt sees this and smiles. The Digitakt looks more capable the more I watch.
Great tutorial Bo, I love Elektron workflow so much. this will be going next to my RYTM.
+Dawless Jammin' thanks you will dig it
Just picked one of these up today from my local shop, thanks so much for making these videos!!! So stoked to sample my drums with it 🥁🤓
I always depend on your reviews of these products man. You always tell it like it is! Keep doing your thing!
I'm soooo late to this party, but having only recently got my DT (late to that party too) this is a great 101. Thanks, Bo.
Thanks for taking the time to make this. It is helpful in the extreme!
why am I learning to use something that I can't afford :((((((
Save up for it!! Of course €750 at the end of the day is still alot of money, but you get alot of bang for your buck.
Sample stuff, make a track, sample the track (as he showed) into just one pattern part, and still a lot of room left for other stuff.
You could make entire tracks on this thing alone.
I believe the price is VERY reasonable for this little box :)
Compared to other Elektron gear the price is not bad. Check out AMS they have affordable payment options w no credit.
powernoid that's no excuse if you really want it enough. I've recently acquired a few expensive gadgets in just this year alone that I could never ever afford up front through one of those play as pay sites. there's a few good ones out there that are reasonable and don't charge any interest fees at all. just search for them or message me if you want the one that I use. they even do pre-orders. I'm getting the Digitakt the same way.
I am saving but at this point the money is just to cover unexpected outgoings (car repair etc) and house improvements so if I drop what little cash I have on this I think I'll catch some heat from the mrs! I'll probably just wait until I comfortably afford one. needs > wants.
powernoid I hear you bro. At this point my girl just gave up on even trying to bother saying anything about me buying new gear I don't NEED. It's addicting, but i keep seeing "one more thing" that i might be able to use and I always tell her it could be worst, at least I'm not strung out on crack, elemayo!😂 if I want it, I'm a get it.
Super useful Bo. Just got my own Digitakt this week. Time for a deep dive!
Sitting on my sofa in my beloved man cave, drinking a cup of coffee, Baloo my cat purring next to me, outside it’s cold, windy and rainy. Just a perfect day to watch BoBeats videos. Your videos bring me deep relaxation, contentment and happyness. They motivate me to tweak the gear in my little studio even more. They confirm that I have exactly the right hobby. I just wished I could beam you over from time to time, to talk shop a bit, and with that also introduce you to my Italian coffee machine and serve you some real coffee ;-)!
Thanks man!! Glad to hear it!!
Awesome video editing! Great tutorial making skills! Keep it up man!
Thank you my man!
Bo, thank you so much, your videos solidified my choice to buy a digitakt as my Elektron starter synth.
Just remember its not actually a synth. But you can manage to get some cool synth tones out of it.
yeah, I actually wanted to correct myself. I also have a Volca keys/bass/beats so should have a lot of fun and options. :-)
Awesome! You should be able to go midi out from Digitakt into Minilogue, using sync out from Minilogue into Volcas to chain them all together :)
I just wanted to thank you! I really appreciate your videos!!
+dude abides thank you!! :-)
This is the kind of tutorial although I see it for the first time , 2 years after it was published, I still have to say excellent video and a many thanks for your contribution !!!
thanks bo , this covered the waveform editor window thing I was asking on facebook about! well covered pal :)
Thanks mate!
Excellent vidéo ! Wanted to get a circuit but I've made up my mind and now I want a digitakt. Totally different mindset
Thanks for the tutorial!!! Great!!! One question, how are the samples saved in the presest folder? Greetings
Thanks! I dont quite remember exactly how and where they are saved. I believe they end up in a ”recordings” which u can access via the sample menu
really enjoying your vids man.. keep up the good work!
+OrdioSoul thank you sir!
LOL I remember in a recent Sonic-Talk Nick Batt went on to recognise that "he seems to have become the PWM guy", greetings Bo
Yeah he is a living meme :)
Holy cow, that tiny screen interface reminds me of a Commodore 64. Nice groove you ended up with =)
Thanks mate! =) the screen is wicked. Probably the best new feature
Nick needs a song dedicated to his love for PWM. what a hilarious pick, Thanks BoBeats tossing one up for nick. it made me laugh
Thinking about buying a digitakt and I’m debating whether octatrack is worth the extra money. Does the digitakt really only have 33 seconds of sample memory? That’s not even more then the PO33 KO
Thanks so much for this video it's just what I need!
+Blade Lover glad I could help!
Inspirational as always, Bo.
lmao!!! you sampled nick batt!! awesome!! good video too by the way!!
=D
died at pulse width modulation 😂
I've been using a Ronald SP-404-SX for my sampling and I love it, but the one thing it's missing is midi sync out. I've been using an Arturia Drumbrute to sync my loop pedal. If the sequencer on this thing sends a reliable midi clock, I could just sample my drum sounds into the Digitakt, sequence them on there, and have a much smaller set up. I'm looking forward to the rest of your videos. This looks like a piece of gear i'll need.
Thanks mate! Atm the Digitakt is having some midi issues (its detailed over on Elektronauts Forum) so atm its not super reliable as slave at least. Works better as master. Had no issues syncing up the Circuit Minilogue and Moog Mother 32
I'd be using it as a master. I'll check the forum out. I'm enjoying your videos man! keep it up.
Epic video, thanks for making these. A quick question, what cable did you use to connect your phone to the digitak to get the samples? Thank you.
Bob eats sounds like an interesting Channel as well.
Great and really helpful tutorial. Thank you!
So nice tutorial! 👌🏻
Thank you mate!
Would like to see someone use an Elektron Digitakt or Akai MPC Live or Pioneer DJS1000 or Toraiz SP16 to sample from live instruments directly using a di box, miked cab or guitar amp modeller or pedalboard or via a mixer like the QSC Touchmix 16 e.g. guitar, bass, acoustic drums, synths, dj setup - cdjs and turntables, electronic drums and use those short sampled clips as stems. Basically a hardware solution to play and perform live vs using an audio interface and daw for recording in a home studio. Sophisticated live looping setup for a one man band, lol.
Great tutorial! So unlike the Octatrack, you can't record a perfect four bars of music through sheer automation? In other words, you're *always* going to need to visually examine the sample and trim it? (Not that it matters to me -- I could never get that feature to work on my OT!)
+schepler2 thanks mate! Yeah no record trigs. You can however set a threshhold and if you record something that is synced up or internal you will get an almost perfect loop
Thanks man, great video!
Great vid, Bo. Can you tell me if the encoders are push down-able like on other elektron gear?
Yes, you can press them. I always say wrong and call them buttons, but thats because they ARE buttons too :D
Sonic Lab.....the show i watch when I'm bored as fuck lol....your vids too...haha
Its really an impressive piece of gear and your video rocks man! Congrats
Do you know if Overbridge will let you record separate audio tracks easily on the DAW? NI Maschine is really hard to use on any daw's...
looking for a replacement.
+Carlo Corrieri overbridge will support recording multiple tracks, but its not out yet (software)
Seems pretty straight forward great review reminds me of a little Mpc how much sample time does it have & hold in its memory
gosh I don't know, definitely not 33 seconds...
On the next tell us what you think about the New encoders compared to the older ones. Ya?
They are more sensitive, you can do fine adjustments better, but they are also more "flimsy" in the sense that you sometimes have to be super careful not to change from say midi channel 1 to 2, because 1 step is so "delicate" if that makes sense. Other than that not much to say =)
Thx Bob!
Hi there! Thanks for the vid! I was wondering if I could sample my guitar directly with a SM58 (guitar->pedalboard->amp->SM58->digitakt). Or is an interface/soundcard/preamp mandatory?
Thanks a lot!
Digitakt is an interface itself so you can do that. No extra equipment required. Maybe some speakers or headphones
Second question: are the 1-16 buttons hard plastic like the previous Elektron machines? They look like soft rubber in pictures and video, yet they "click" like the hard plastic buttons.
+schepler2 they are hard plastic
Bo.. What is the sample storage organization like on the Digitakt? Seems like 2000 samples will be hard to scroll through? This would be a good idea for a short tutorial for you.
Sample storage is a bit cumbersome yes, at least for the samples you record yourself. But when you import samples you can make folders and sub folders with the transfer app. A good idea for a video for sure =) thanks
in your oppinion wich is the best for music production : teenage engineering op-1 or digitakt? :)
man that is hard Stefan... OP-1 is more all around... Digitakt has more options in terms of using it with a bigger system. If I would just use one of them and NOTHING else I would go for the OP-1
BoBeats I understand and thanks for replying 😊 i tought id ask you since you have them both and know very well how to work with them 🦁
When I play project first in the grid mod, tracks with samples play something strange (just noise), when grid off (just play mod)then everything immediately fine. Did I set something wrong?
Is there any time-stretching capabilities?
Nope
Digitakt! Looks a lot of fun you are having today Bo. Is it 33 seconds mono or stereo
All samples are mono, so 33 sec that can be sampled in one go, but 64 mb total ram per project
Hey Bo so I guess because it is mono it doesn't matter if you record from the left or right or both inputs the sound quality is still the same, is that correct?
I havn't really noticed any big difference but I assume that a stereo source can yield a little different results depending on panning and such if you just record L or R and not L/R.
hi again bo: I think I will have to watch this a few times as I missed a few things that you were doing. I am mainly wondering how do I find all the sounds, drum kits, samples, etc. that are factory presets. so I am still confused just not as bad as I was before... thanks once again for all your hard work for us all.have a good one!blessings to your family!peace!
+barron marshall go to the src page, use the D knob (4th one) to get a list of sample splots. Select empty one. Press yes or maybe func+yes and you should see the sample directory on screen. There should be a folder called factory samples or similar. Go there. Select a sample but simply selecting it by pressing yes. Preview a sound by func+yes I think :-)
thank you for the help bo! very good of you! I did read about a third of the manual...so far. hopefully I will figure this all out soon and know it as well as my sp 404 sx? but I do sincerely thank you for your help! I wish you and yours all good things! please have a great day!
lol Poor nick. But he does love his PWM lol. Another informative video.
Hey Bo, thank you for your videos. I know that as a Swedish Viking, you won't say anything derisive about the Octatrack, but would you say that the Digitakt steps on the Octatrack's toes or do they occupy different spaces entirely? This question comes from a guy who still working through the learning curve of an Octatrack--alternating between wondering why I bought it instead of a drum machine and being extremely happy with the crazy sounds it comes up with.
+Chris Anderson thanks mate! Its a difficult question. Yes they can do similar things. Yet the fader, the scenes, the much deeper sampling simply makes the Octa something very different. If you value a quick workflow and do not need all the depth of the Ocha then maybe the Digi will suffice.
Great! Then it's settled, I'll take both when I can afford it :o
This was a fun Vidgeo
Hey there.. question.. am I able to connect this to my tascam DP 24 to record beats on the tracks on the tascam?
How can I hear what I’m sampling into the digitakt. Like let’s say I am sampling a drum machine... how do I hear what drum I’m sampling into the digitakt, while sampling. If any can answer that for me that would be amazing
You just have to turn monitoring on. Its under the sampling menu ♥️
BoBeats bless your soul
Can someone tell me how this is better than Logic Pro? I can record, edit, and save samples in Logic faster than you could name a file with this thing... and I'm not limited to 8 tracks, or 64 MB sample storage...
What about simply sampling your midi synth tracks? Is there a way to start sampling when you hit play?
Can the line inputs provide phantom power for condenser microphones? Or are you only able to use non-powered microphones for sampling?
No phantom power!
Cool video. At the begining when you say there is 33 second of sampling time, the display shows up 33'00"...it looks like there is 33 minutes not seconds,Im I wrong?
Oh now I see how the counter works,indeed its the sec measure...Thx for the video!
are the effects inserts or sends? Im wondering with overbrdige if you'll have access to just the send channels if there are any....
They are send effects. My guess is that you wont have affects available in Overbridge.
Speaking of effects....Do you have any hardware effects that could be controlled via midi? It would be interesting to see more of the midi capabilities/possibilities when it comes to that. Ive only seen a few vids on it....
I was thinking of doing something with Digitakt + Analog Drive that can be used via midi =)
dude...you stole my idea! lol go check their drive vid on youtube i just commented about that lol hope you do it! could be very cool. good marketing too ;)
Bo, you just invented a new dictonary! 🙂
elektron -> English
Haha how is it pronounced in England?
You make complex logic comprehensible. 👍
thanks =)
Please let me know what you used in min 6:45? Thanks
PO-32 ?
Tomas Barta its not the 32, i cqnt remember the nr but its called arcade
You can Record / Plug a Microphone directly to the Digitak ? Is it a Condeser Mic ? Waht about Phantom Power ?
You can use a dynamic mic but the volume might be low. This is an elektret mic which means battery powered condenser: röde nt3. Works super
@@BoBeats Great Thanks :),,,i also thought that a regular condenser /dynamic without battery could not work .
When I use the knobs to adjust the start and end of the sample, the bar moves very slowly. Why? Thanks!
Can you sample stuff by playing live on the go? Like looping style playing?
no you cant live loop, octatrack can do this
@@BoBeats thanks for answering!
Im just wondering whats best fpr a live set. I have the arturia drumbrute, minibrute 2s , some guitar pedals and midi keyboard + guitar. I dont know what sequencer/grovebox to add for this setup. Any suggestions?? I appreciate your videos and tips very much 😊👌
Is the capacity 33 seconds total for all tracks or 33 seconds/track?
daikuone 33 seconds are always available for the sampler. Then you have 64 additional mb of ram for the samples that you load into the digi. So the 33 s is for recording samples and 64 mb is for loading samples that you actually play
So, to be clear, with trigs, could I switch samples on the fly/ track, and play thru the whole 64mb of memory. Do you know the capacity in minutes of the 64mb? As a guitar player, want to understand my limitations for long samples.
Trigs are programmed per step, so you can change a sound per step basis to another sample. But you can only trigger 8 samples at one time since it only has 8 tracks that you can actually trigger live. But in a pattern you can program changes. I do not have any data on how long samples can be played
BoBeats so would it be correct to say that each 8 audio tracks can have a 33 second sample on it? Or is it a total of 33 seconds for all 8 audio tracks? Also Bo, can the samples play freely of any type of master loop length? Thanks!
foggydrifty Did you ever figure this out?
Nice. This is pretty interesting machine. What are the weakpoints of it?
Oh there are several =) mono samples, no song mode, limited sampling capabilities etc..
damn that's a great tutor bro, and what microphone did you use?
Thanks! I think I was using the Röde Nt3
Dumb question, but can you sample the midi data from external synths with this?
It does not seem like it on the current OS
Is it possible to normalize a saved sample?
It’s automatic
You are hero
Can we have a metronome while sampling a guitar loop or bass?
Yepp
How is it possible you connect a microphone directly to the Digitakt?
I just connected it using a cable :-) and this is a powered mic (röde nt3) but it works with a sm58 as well
BoBeats late to the party, but to connect a shure mic do you only need a xlr to 1/4 adapter?
Peut on henrengistrer l audio pendant la lecture du preset
No sample chains....
I made soooo many for the Octatrack. :(
+Iq Nill i think you can use that, no?
Then I'd have to set starts and ends for every hit individually...
Probably easier to cut them up in software and dump into the Digitakt as sounds.
probably!
Drop that synth!
Hey, I'd love to drop this synth from approximately 100 metres up. These synths are huge, heavy and cool.
Peace ✌️ out people
L+R --- is it stereo?
No, it records L and R to a mono track
cool
i wish this unit had the headphone output on the top plate
Alan Watts..... Nice.
Hilarious that Elektron can't bring themselves to have a simple "record" button on their sampler like everyone else on Earth. They can't help making the simplest things confusing in their interfaces.
A simple "record" button would limit how it could be used. Digitakts workflow isn't confusing for the sake of being complicated like you could argue the octatrack is at times, its just the simplest way to get all of the features crammed into a small box with as minimal buttons as possible
Midi tutorial please. I'm struggling.
murahachibu today at 12 CEST so in about 1.5 hours :-)
BoBeats You read my mind. Woo hoo.
murahachibu i hope it helps you out. If there is something else you want me to cover just leave a comment on that vid
BoBeats Thanks so much. I'll definitely let you know!
If i buy anything i will just tell my wife Bo made me do it.
Bob eats
Sounds good, but to much button pressing to get little effect , not a very well thought out device at all.
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