Absolutely! I recently got back into sound designing with the Digitone and running it through FX pedals, which is a ton of fun. The results are great and I hope to release a new sound pack any time soon!
For someone like me, a complete noob who took the plunge to get one of these, these videos are invaluable. Thank you very much for doing them. I don't think I'll ever be prolific or even make suitable music, but I love experimenting with the sounds I love most in music.
Thank you so much LithiumLogica. Great for me to hear that this is helpful. And the joy of experimenting with sounds is absolutely great and if that's what makes you happy that's totally fine. 💚
@@MilesKvndra I really like the way you present things. I watch your channel a good bit. I love fm synthesis and used to have a Roland 106 … the Digitone has really made fm synthesis very approachable. I would love it if you continued this series in this format. In the future what would be the most helpful for me, would be addressing the things that go wrong. Similar to Oscillator Sinks video on “pops and clicks”…. The worst problem I have had is arpeggio’s overlapping and causing the digitone to crash. It’s the only complaint I have with Elektron is that I have asked them repeatedly why this happens and how to avoid it…. And not really gotten a good answer… other than that it seems to happen when I have too many trig locked arpeggio’s If you have more insight on “things that go wrong” …. That would be a godsend Regardless I will continue to watch all your videos. Much of social media I find mind numbing. Your channel is very humble, honest, and to the point. I find my self inspired and often creat something new with the information you share. Thanks again
@@eFeMGhosts wow this is great to hear and very motivating. Honestly big thanks, as feedback like that keeps me going. :) Regarding your point with things that go wrong that actually is a very interesting point. Maybe I was very lucky with my device but I don't get errors too often - I think during the whole time using it the Digitone crashed just 2-3 times and the only errors I stumble across (pops/clicks) can mostly be solved with different settings (eg ADSR). The only thing I had once which was annoying is that I reached the max number of trig locks per pattern and the Digitone didn't play them back properly. Before that I didn't really know that there was a limitation. But the point with arps you mention is very interesting, when does that happen and how many arps are you using?
@@MilesKvndra I am so happy to talking with you , thank you for taking the time. So I have definitely been pushing the cpu of the Digitone by having several arps all with velocity modulation and after touch, running simultaneously with the drums on one track using arpeggiated drum beats to make the most of the one track. It happened a number of times and as far as I can tell. It was when I have different tracks with multiple different arpeggios and then the scale of the track would switch between patterns ie 1x speed vs 1/8 speed sometimes with tempo variation between tracks. It was most frustrating because it doesn’t always happen. I have using less arpeggio’s in trig locked situations… but I got spooked to use to many in a live situation where my device might randomly crash. I did contact Elektron and actually went as far as to exchange my device. The new device does it less, but now I am just very cautious with pushing the cpu. Let me know your thoughts on this. I am happy to share more tomorrow it’s quite late here ;)
Hey, thanks a lot, very happy to hear that you like it. Yeah claps are definitely doable too but I need to check how to best approach them. But good idea for the future! :)
Thanks again for all these tutorials, really cool to understand better what a sound is build from. As a music beginner I am so happy to have made the good choose thanks to you with the Digitone! Would be great to have a breakdown to create a song with the the 4 tracks! Keep going !
Hey Tristan, thanks a bunch for the awesome feedback! That’s really great to hear and also that you are happy with the Synth. I have some older videos on the channel which go more into standalone music making on the Digitone. Maybe check that out! Cheers and merry x-mas
Amazing video. Thanks for sharing these techniques Miles. It does a great job expanding on techniques from people like Ivar. Can't wait for the hi hat video..
Thank you! And no, I never got to that part of the series but I’d say hihats are probably the easiest: high pass filter on a very noisy sound with short attack and decay times
I love this series, hope you keep going with it. Very helpful. I would also be curious to see your approach to navigating the sound pool in a project and loading sounds onto the trigs for p-locks. I always need to look up those steps in the manual.
Cheers Danek! Yeah I think I will definitely continue this with hihats because there are some interesting things you can do too. And maybe in that video it makes sense to quickly touch on the sound pool too.
With your expertise, you really don't need the simplified Syntakt snare machines. I feel like they basically have macros affecting exactly the parameters you are tweaking here so in a way you have much more control. The downside is of course that you basically are limited to one track for the drums (if on Digitone only), but then again that can lead to more focused rhythms that are a lot easier to mix.
Cheers David. Yeah the Syntakt has some really cool machines that I'd like to check out and when performing standalone you have of course more tracks. But I totally agree with you that the Digitone has more in depth flexibility due to its synth engine. It's just a great tool for standalone performances. 💚
I've had mine for two years now and I think, the digitone is very poor at making percussion sounds, at least for other then dreamy dubtechno. If I try to make some minimal inspired microhouse, the only way I could use any sound made with it, is to record and layer quite a few percussive sounds, all with a similar length. The non-milisecond-based adsr makes this even harder. Other than its kickdrums, witch are powerful, punchy and clear, all the drum presets are joke. They are weak, narrow, noisy, glitchy and unpredictable. The snares and claps are unusable in a live performance, because every time a snare/clap/noise hits, it may take too many voices away from the other possibly sequenced sounds. This makes the loudness of the tracks quite unpredictable and in most cases kills any groovie dynamic. Almost all the percussive sounds are hard to incorporate in any techno or house-like live performance without them being fed into a compressor or multiband dynamics processor to make them sound good in the mix. The exception are the shakers and some of the hihats, witch are very easy to modulate and sequence with a possibility to make highly complex controlled randomness. The digitone is a cute little synth with an incredibly deep and powerful engine witch can make useful, and inspiring bass and lead sounds. The arpeggiator section is one of the most clever ones i've seen. Even without proper musical knowledge it is possible to create complex melodies and dynamic trance-like bass parts witch, if desired, could be set to constantly change and never to repeat itself as the loops goes around. Also the pad and drone presets are very useful, pleasant, inspiring and, most importantly wide and beautifully detailed. Mapping a slow lfo to a random sinth parameter can produce ever changing, dreamy or even dark and mysterious soundscapes and ambiences. I think it's a waste of time trying to make drum hits with it, just because it can ,in theory, produce them. It's not at all made for that, in my opinion. Leave the percussion to the drummers and drum machines. My personal advice and, in the same time, my request would be that you should make a video about exploring the controlled randomness capabilities of the instrument. I have figured out some workaround techniques witch can be applied to almost every type of preset. I'm sure its not only me who would be interested in your ideas and experiments. Wish you all the best and thank you for all your work, your videos have been helping me since I decided to get my magic devilbox of a sinth :))
Wow Joska, thanks so much for the detailed feedback! I have to say I really like the percussive sounds of the Digitone but I find myself using them less when I also have other options like the Digitakt available. I mostly use them when using the Digitone standalone. For me it's just a fun exercise to train my knowledge of Synthesizer engines and sounddesign in general. And most importantly: it's a ton of fun! :) The randomness of the device is really great, especially that you can randomize each page individually - love that!
This snare sounds even better than what you can make with Ableton stock synths. Quite amazing what this little box can do
Absolutely! I recently got back into sound designing with the Digitone and running it through FX pedals, which is a ton of fun. The results are great and I hope to release a new sound pack any time soon!
For someone like me, a complete noob who took the plunge to get one of these, these videos are invaluable. Thank you very much for doing them. I don't think I'll ever be prolific or even make suitable music, but I love experimenting with the sounds I love most in music.
Thank you so much LithiumLogica. Great for me to hear that this is helpful. And the joy of experimenting with sounds is absolutely great and if that's what makes you happy that's totally fine. 💚
5:08 sound would make a lovely AFX style snare.
Ohh yeah! Sounds pretty wild but I like it too
This is really solid gold. You picked up right where oscillator sink left off.
Excellent addition. Wonderful format.
Thanks a lot Ben! Yeah that was exactly the plan, to dive a little deeper with this series - so this is awesome feedback. 🙏🏻
@@MilesKvndra I really like the way you present things. I watch your channel a good bit. I love fm synthesis and used to have a Roland 106 … the Digitone has really made fm synthesis very approachable.
I would love it if you continued this series in this format.
In the future what would be the most helpful for me, would be addressing the things that go wrong. Similar to Oscillator Sinks video on “pops and clicks”….
The worst problem I have had is arpeggio’s overlapping and causing the digitone to crash. It’s the only complaint I have with Elektron is that I have asked them repeatedly why this happens and how to avoid it…. And not really gotten a good answer… other than that it seems to happen when I have too many trig locked arpeggio’s
If you have more insight on “things that go wrong” …. That would be a godsend
Regardless I will continue to watch all your videos. Much of social media I find mind numbing. Your channel is very humble, honest, and to the point. I find my self inspired and often creat something new with the information you share.
Thanks again
@@eFeMGhosts wow this is great to hear and very motivating. Honestly big thanks, as feedback like that keeps me going. :)
Regarding your point with things that go wrong that actually is a very interesting point. Maybe I was very lucky with my device but I don't get errors too often - I think during the whole time using it the Digitone crashed just 2-3 times and the only errors I stumble across (pops/clicks) can mostly be solved with different settings (eg ADSR). The only thing I had once which was annoying is that I reached the max number of trig locks per pattern and the Digitone didn't play them back properly. Before that I didn't really know that there was a limitation. But the point with arps you mention is very interesting, when does that happen and how many arps are you using?
P.s. I like that you post your albums on Apple Music. I love the latest “home” project I listen to it at work and everyone enjoys it :) good vibes
@@MilesKvndra I am so happy to talking with you , thank you for taking the time.
So I have definitely been pushing the cpu of the Digitone by having several arps all with velocity modulation and after touch, running simultaneously with the drums on one track using arpeggiated drum beats to make the most of the one track. It happened a number of times and as far as I can tell. It was when I have different tracks with multiple different arpeggios and then the scale of the track would switch between patterns ie 1x speed vs 1/8 speed sometimes with tempo variation between tracks.
It was most frustrating because it doesn’t always happen. I have using less arpeggio’s in trig locked situations… but I got spooked to use to many in a live situation where my device might randomly crash.
I did contact Elektron and actually went as far as to exchange my device. The new device does it less, but now I am just very cautious with pushing the cpu.
Let me know your thoughts on this.
I am happy to share more tomorrow it’s quite late here ;)
This snare sounds so great! Thanks for this tutorial. I´d love to see a tutorial of a good fm clap.
Hey, thanks a lot, very happy to hear that you like it. Yeah claps are definitely doable too but I need to check how to best approach them. But good idea for the future! :)
Thanks again for all these tutorials, really cool to understand better what a sound is build from.
As a music beginner I am so happy to have made the good choose thanks to you with the Digitone! Would be great to have a breakdown to create a song with the the 4 tracks! Keep going !
Hey Tristan, thanks a bunch for the awesome feedback! That’s really great to hear and also that you are happy with the Synth. I have some older videos on the channel which go more into standalone music making on the Digitone. Maybe check that out! Cheers and merry x-mas
Great format my friend 🙏 I always enjoy watching your process and experimentations with the engines 🖤
Cheers my brother! Happy to hear that you like the video, appreciate your feedback 💚
Amazing video. Thanks for sharing these techniques Miles. It does a great job expanding on techniques from people like Ivar. Can't wait for the hi hat video..
Cheers Jake, you are welcome! Appreciate your nice feedback - hi hat will definitely be up next, just need to find time to shoot it.
Great tutorial. Thank you so much!!
Thanks for watching and for your support Don!
Thank you, Miles! This video helps me. Snare is magnificent, sounds like real
Cheers Dmitry! That is awesome feedback, glad to hear that the video helps. Keep it up!
great to see this and learn more about how kick and snares are made. Was there ever a high hat video too? Really great stuff
Thank you! And no, I never got to that part of the series but I’d say hihats are probably the easiest: high pass filter on a very noisy sound with short attack and decay times
@@MilesKvndra ah yeah of course, thanks so much 🙏
I love this series, hope you keep going with it. Very helpful. I would also be curious to see your approach to navigating the sound pool in a project and loading sounds onto the trigs for p-locks. I always need to look up those steps in the manual.
Cheers Danek! Yeah I think I will definitely continue this with hihats because there are some interesting things you can do too. And maybe in that video it makes sense to quickly touch on the sound pool too.
Very good tutorial! +1 for laser beam sounds!
Cheers buddy and yeah those laser beams are best! :)
With your expertise, you really don't need the simplified Syntakt snare machines. I feel like they basically have macros affecting exactly the parameters you are tweaking here so in a way you have much more control. The downside is of course that you basically are limited to one track for the drums (if on Digitone only), but then again that can lead to more focused rhythms that are a lot easier to mix.
Cheers David. Yeah the Syntakt has some really cool machines that I'd like to check out and when performing standalone you have of course more tracks. But I totally agree with you that the Digitone has more in depth flexibility due to its synth engine. It's just a great tool for standalone performances. 💚
estoy esperando esa clase
Muchas gracias! Hope it will be useful for you :)
Is that a Minitaur?
Hey Tiffán, the synth on the right is a Mother-32. Cheers!
I've had mine for two years now and I think, the digitone is very poor at making percussion sounds, at least for other then dreamy dubtechno. If I try to make some minimal inspired microhouse, the only way I could use any sound made with it, is to record and layer quite a few percussive sounds, all with a similar length. The non-milisecond-based adsr makes this even harder.
Other than its kickdrums, witch are powerful, punchy and clear, all the drum presets are joke. They are weak, narrow, noisy, glitchy and unpredictable. The snares and claps are unusable in a live performance, because every time a snare/clap/noise hits, it may take too many voices away from the other possibly sequenced sounds. This makes the loudness of the tracks quite unpredictable and in most cases kills any groovie dynamic. Almost all the percussive sounds are hard to incorporate in any techno or house-like live performance without them being fed into a compressor or multiband dynamics processor to make them sound good in the mix.
The exception are the shakers and some of the hihats, witch are very easy to modulate and sequence with a possibility to make highly complex controlled randomness.
The digitone is a cute little synth with an incredibly deep and powerful engine witch can make useful, and inspiring bass and lead sounds. The arpeggiator section is one of the most clever ones i've seen. Even without proper musical knowledge it is possible to create complex melodies and dynamic trance-like bass parts witch, if desired, could be set to constantly change and never to repeat itself as the loops goes around. Also the pad and drone presets are very useful, pleasant, inspiring and, most importantly wide and beautifully detailed. Mapping a slow lfo to a random sinth parameter can produce ever changing, dreamy or even dark and mysterious soundscapes and ambiences.
I think it's a waste of time trying to make drum hits with it, just because it can ,in theory, produce them. It's not at all made for that, in my opinion.
Leave the percussion to the drummers and drum machines.
My personal advice and, in the same time, my request would be that you should make a video about exploring the controlled randomness capabilities of the instrument. I have figured out some workaround techniques witch can be applied to almost every type of preset. I'm sure its not only me who would be interested in your ideas and experiments.
Wish you all the best and thank you for all your work, your videos have been helping me since I decided to get my magic devilbox of a sinth :))
Wow Joska, thanks so much for the detailed feedback! I have to say I really like the percussive sounds of the Digitone but I find myself using them less when I also have other options like the Digitakt available. I mostly use them when using the Digitone standalone.
For me it's just a fun exercise to train my knowledge of Synthesizer engines and sounddesign in general. And most importantly: it's a ton of fun! :) The randomness of the device is really great, especially that you can randomize each page individually - love that!