New Digitone owner here. This tutorial is freaking outstanding. Lots to learn, for sure, but great example-based instruction like this that is clearly presented helps immensely.
Tuning into your videos is a must .. where easy walk throughs .. helpful content .. and great tips are the norm to make things pop musically .. cheers to making melodious symphonies !
an easier way to do the sound pool thing is to lay down a super basic beat so it's playing the drum for you, then scroll through sounds. even for me that's a little too much clicky clacky
Thanks for your time making this. I think it's important to tell people the Digitone is not a drum machine. When you have to mess with quantization to get both the snare and kick on the 2 and 4, it becomes clear that your programming time is best spent elsewhere. I've seen several Digitone drum tutorials that don't put this front and center as a disclaimer. It's a great sound machine, though.
There's a shortcut to load up the soundpool. Use FUNC + ... and go to manage sounds. :) Also, when selecting sounds from the sound pool on the pattern, if you push YES, the highlight sound will play, so you don't necessarily have to be forced to wait for that sound to come around in the pattern playback. Sometimes it's faster to choose a sound that way, other times you do want to hear what it sounds like in the pattern. Can't wait to see where you go with your digitone. I've been to the outer reaches of the universe, hoping to take a trip to another dimension soon. Digitone goes EVERYWHERE! :D
The thing that I find annoying is that you can't switch between different drum patterns without having to switch all other tracks too. The Pattern > Track hierarchy makes it so that you have to make patterns for every possible combination of drums, bass and melody if you want to keep the flexibility of increasing/decreasing drum energy over the course of the song progression.
@@LiamKillen That said every digitone and digitakt user I see on TH-cam seem to be about live jamming and the lack of song mode seals that deal a bit. So it's a bit of a paradox that they have patterns contain all track states as if they're trying to get you into song composition mode anyway. 🤯
@@aoterou Yes the comment is 2 years old but it's still true and it's written specifically about the Digitone. I'm a happy owner of the Syntakt, where Fill serves its purpose much more neatly since there's actual space for conditional trigs. On the Digitone, I found myself needing to use all the 16 trigs per bar to build the basic drum groove, leaving no room for fills in between. Also, holding down Fill just to increase the energy of the drums isn't quite what I would want. To me, Fill is more suitable for temporary variations, not for a change of drum energy level.
This is great, and now for expert mode try multi-mapping those drums to the trig keys! (I still haven't figured this out, can only do it from an external device)
Question - if device is two note poly, can you change note on a drum hit first and then program on same block where have a different drum sound, such as kick?
Don't use swing if you're going to microtime stuff on to the same beat, for example the kick/snare sounds off because the 2/16th is swung even tho you if technically moved its on the the first beat, kinda annoying tbh
It looks like an Arturia MicroFreak to the left there. Do you ever use them together? What's the ideal workflow for this? Just run the output of the MF into the DT and through its filters?
That tricks to layer drums 👌 But that’s the major downside for me at this point that you can’t map drums around the keyboard (like the OP-Z) The Digitone’s great tho 🔥
Aha! So that’s the drum layering technique. Nice! I’m inching closer and closer to buying a digitone keys, and your videos aren't helping my wallet any.
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New Digitone owner here. This tutorial is freaking outstanding. Lots to learn, for sure, but great example-based instruction like this that is clearly presented helps immensely.
Hey Dani!
I appreciate you watching and I’m glad that this video helped your Digitone chopzzz!! 🍻
Really great tutorial so good I even subscribed 😊
I appreciate you! :-)
Tuning into your videos is a must .. where easy walk throughs .. helpful content .. and great tips are the norm to make things pop musically .. cheers to making melodious symphonies !
Thanks for stopping buy! 😃
an easier way to do the sound pool thing is to lay down a super basic beat so it's playing the drum for you, then scroll through sounds. even for me that's a little too much clicky clacky
Ouuu that is a good idea actually.
Best demonstration ever created! Thank you so much!
Thanks for watching ! :-)
so simple and clear, thanks!
Glad to help 🍻
6:15 blew my mind. I’ve had this box for 3 years and didn’t know that.
Mission accomplished! Thanks for watching
holy shit I had no idea you could put this all one track
Yeah ! The Digitone is beastly! :-)
Thanks for your time making this. I think it's important to tell people the Digitone is not a drum machine. When you have to mess with quantization to get both the snare and kick on the 2 and 4, it becomes clear that your programming time is best spent elsewhere. I've seen several Digitone drum tutorials that don't put this front and center as a disclaimer. It's a great sound machine, though.
Yeah the best Elektron box for drums IMO is still the Digitakt.
There's a shortcut to load up the soundpool. Use FUNC + ... and go to manage sounds. :) Also, when selecting sounds from the sound pool on the pattern, if you push YES, the highlight sound will play, so you don't necessarily have to be forced to wait for that sound to come around in the pattern playback. Sometimes it's faster to choose a sound that way, other times you do want to hear what it sounds like in the pattern.
Can't wait to see where you go with your digitone. I've been to the outer reaches of the universe, hoping to take a trip to another dimension soon. Digitone goes EVERYWHERE! :D
That what it seems like. Thank you!!!
Thanks for this man! Finally digging into my Digitone!
Love to hear it! Cheers
Dopee, thanks for showing this!
My pleasure
Bookmarking for later - been meaning to futz with the Digitone more. Such a cool box
Absolutely! Loving every moment with it 🙂
Nice to see you getting into the Digitone more and more. Would love to see how you go on melodies as well :)
I really like it! :-)
Melodies are still something that I need to explore more for sure.
Thank you for this tutorial
It's my pleasure.
The thing that I find annoying is that you can't switch between different drum patterns without having to switch all other tracks too. The Pattern > Track hierarchy makes it so that you have to make patterns for every possible combination of drums, bass and melody if you want to keep the flexibility of increasing/decreasing drum energy over the course of the song progression.
Yeah it’s more of a song writing format rather than like a dj approach. The mc 707 is perf for what you’re describing
@@LiamKillen That said every digitone and digitakt user I see on TH-cam seem to be about live jamming and the lack of song mode seals that deal a bit. So it's a bit of a paradox that they have patterns contain all track states as if they're trying to get you into song composition mode anyway. 🤯
Yeah i see what u mean
@@aoterou Yes the comment is 2 years old but it's still true and it's written specifically about the Digitone. I'm a happy owner of the Syntakt, where Fill serves its purpose much more neatly since there's actual space for conditional trigs. On the Digitone, I found myself needing to use all the 16 trigs per bar to build the basic drum groove, leaving no room for fills in between. Also, holding down Fill just to increase the energy of the drums isn't quite what I would want. To me, Fill is more suitable for temporary variations, not for a change of drum energy level.
This is great, and now for expert mode try multi-mapping those drums to the trig keys! (I still haven't figured this out, can only do it from an external device)
i’ll look into that i’m doing a digitone feature in july maybe i can fit that in.
@@LiamKillen awesome, it's driving me crazy so great if you can :)
🤝
You can preview trigs with hold the trig + pressing yes. So you havent to wait until its played
Noted- thank u!!
its nice but not for after sound processing when you want separatle kick from other different sound frequency spec
You can bounce separate tracks into DAW- but yeah I know what you mean. No gear is perfect lol
Question - if device is two note poly, can you change note on a drum hit first and then program on same block where have a different drum sound, such as kick?
If i’m understanding correctly you’d have to use two tracks to do that.
Good tutorial, thx 🙏
Pleasure 🙂
the button isn't called "save project", that is the secondary function of it. it's just settings if you aren't holding FUNC.
Gotcha! Thanks for the input!
I switch from facebook to youtube app just ti give you like for the drummer joke.
Haha i appreciate that extra effort
Excellent ! Merci.
De rien.
Good tutorial!
Thanks for watching ! :-)
Thanks it was helpfull
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My god Elektron gear seems so unnecessary complicated…great video
It's not once you get the hang of it!
Don't use swing if you're going to microtime stuff on to the same beat, for example the kick/snare sounds off because the 2/16th is swung even tho you if technically moved its on the the first beat, kinda annoying tbh
I like it 😏
Sometimes I like to tear those beats apart a lil
Bruh? I need a skull like that. Please post a link. Is it on Prime. Needs it now.
I got it from a local boutique stone store 😊
I’m sure there’s one in your area
It looks like an Arturia MicroFreak to the left there. Do you ever use them together? What's the ideal workflow for this? Just run the output of the MF into the DT and through its filters?
You’d have to do some midi syncing and ideally 2 inputs so you can separate the audio
That tricks to layer drums 👌
But that’s the major downside for me at this point that you can’t map drums around the keyboard (like the OP-Z)
The Digitone’s great tho 🔥
Oh yeah that's one advantage of the OP-Z for shizzle.
You can do that. Multimap.
I want that flannel
Got it from Topman. My most fall flannel yet lol
@@LiamKillen yea and of course its not in stock.
Yeah i got it like 2 years ago limited edition yo
@@LiamKillen those were the days
lol
Thanks for solving the issue where sound is cancelling/muting the previous sound. That one has really been bugging me. 😀 More of this pls!
Absolutely! Cheers
thnk you!
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Aha! So that’s the drum layering technique. Nice! I’m inching closer and closer to buying a digitone keys, and your videos aren't helping my wallet any.
Mission accomplished lol- Also! Finance! I’ve do e that with a bunch of gear recently
This dude is going to fucken fast i need a tutorial where someone is going slower
I feel you- i've actually played other people's tutorials in slo mo which actually does help if you need- you can play at .75 speed.
The hi hat sounds on digitone are not good
It’s an acquired taste they’re quite dissonant for sure
You bought the wrong one. You have to use digitakt
Subjective- also:
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