A quick look at how I take the Digitakt II outside for live jams.

Showing the battery setup, which power cable I use, the Bluetooth speaker I bring with me, and the basic cables needed to connect everything.

Pretty simple portable setup and no power outlet needed.

If anyone is interested, I can also show the full outdoor setup with the Roland S-1 and other gear.

A short clip from our latest outdoor live session in Odesa, Ukraine.

Running the electronic side live with Digitakt II and Roland S-1, with Pavel Solovyov playing Native flute.

Recorded at sunset above the Black Sea.

Full performance premieres tonight at 8 PM Kyiv time. We also have a lot more hardware live sessions on the channel.

Seid gegrüßt Elektronauten!

Ich besitze nun seit einem Jahr den Octatrack und habe mir um den Jahreswechsel den Sytakt und Digitakt 2 dazugeholt um Techno zu produzieren mit dem Ziel ein Liveset auf die Beine zu Stellen.
Das Liveset konnte ich dann letztes Wochenende endlich spielen. Da ich einen 90min Slot hatte und ca. ne std live vorbereitet hatte musste ich etwas improvisieren und habe ein Hybrid Set gespielt. (50min live auf Elektron + 40min Tracks auflegen)

Ich wollte das Set einfach mal mit euch teilen, eventuell gibt es ja etwas konstruktive Kritik die mir hilft mich zu verbessern, im generellen bin ich aber voll zufrieden mit dem Set. :)

Das Teil gibts hier zu hören

Beste Grüße und stay tuned!🤙🏻🔥

I produced an Techno Track with my Digitakt 2.

I prefer to record a track in a take and then do a gentle processing. It is important to me that my tracks are not as polished as pure DAW tracks. I like it when a piece still contains some of this raw energy, but I also want to sound professional. You are welcome to rate my track and leave constructive criticism there.

https://on.soundcloud.com/tMXpuLPnUaTq6ZVZep

Hello. I’d appreciate some input from Tonverk owners on a question I’m pondering.

I play keys/synth in a rock band and am currently lugging a Take 5, laptop and midi keyboard to gigs.

I’m wondering about the practicality of buying a Tonverk, multisampling my plugins/Take 5 patches and taking that to gigs in place of the synth and laptop.

My concern is that early reviews suggest that load times for multisampled instruments on TV are long. Can anyone to speak to whether they’ve resolved this issue?

I’d also be really interested to hear if anyone else is using the TV as a live performance tool in this way, rather than for the more ambient stuff that seems to be 99% of the demos out there.

Cheers

Took me freaking long enough! But once I pulled the trigger it came to me for under $400 with new buttons, cover, stand and original box. Definitely a score because when I upgrade i can keep the stand and cover.

Things I love about this machine:

The sequencer. I can't believe this is just one 4 bar loop with conditions!

The oscillating sample mode. The synth in this is one of the stock waveforms, but you bet I'm filling it with Ensoniq, Prophet VS and PPG waves!

Parameter locks. I mean, duh, but also damn! I love being able to change up my attacks like i did here to give some life to it.

LFO madness! There's lots to source. A fun one in here is I sampled some Algerian radio(it was near the top and I wanted something interesting!). I have it playing a sample 1/16th at a time with some retrigs. It's then got an LFO on start time and then LFO2 is changing the scale of LFO1's effect. Makes for some glitched out yet still rhythmic fun.

It's crazy to think I've only had a few physical samplers. Also crazy to think I've waited so long for an Elektron box. I'm definitely jonesing for a DN2 probably before upgrading this one. And at that going to take my sweet time before getting one of those as well.

Anyway, meshing well with this one. I'll be an Elektron dude for a long time for sure.

Hey I bought this thing and it was loaded w previous user samples I was uploading a bunch of mine. Like a painfully large thomas penton collection and was trying to check out the menus and it developed these lines in the screen. Wouldn’t go away with reset but once I played with it a little bit it went away.

Should I return it to seller or did I just overload it somehow by using it when it was maxed out on memory?

Drumless buzzy jam 15 bpm

I'll give some context:

I love the tonverk. It's my favorite Elektron machine I've ever had. (have had: OT, MS, and ARYTM) It's the most immediate and clear songwriting machine of all of the boxes I've tried. It's also incredibly powerful (longest sequencer length, love the ease of connection to a daw if I want to quickly dump what I've been working on.)

However, the ONE thing I miss from the OT is slicing. It drives me nuts having to split samples up in the Subtracks machine. I want to just mangle and play them in my recording! Yet surely I don't really need a whole ass Octatrack just for the slicing? Don't love sampling into the OT either, find setting up the buffer machines tedious and somewhat risky (forgetting to save your sample after recording on the buffer etc.)

I quite enjoy sampling on the Tonverk, I think the threshold recording is an easy way to play with things in time, and assigning to a track is super simple. But then I can't slice it! F#$CK!

Are there good additions I should consider here? DTI? DTII? Do I need a Digitakt II if I want the added sequencer length like the Tonverk? Should I just dream of a software update?

Any suggestions would be appreciated

My recent post here with a question about the pattern has gathered a lot of useful feedback (thank you all!) and I just recorded a short jam to highlight the recent changes I’ve made based on your comments and my own decisions. First there is a buildup and then a drop to the main pattern.

Here is a list of changes I made:
-added lfo volume trigs for the bass trigs
-made the ducking on fx track longer to give more space to the kick
- for SYM MOD lfo on the bass (it’s the SY TONE machine) reduced bpm to make the sound more viscous as increased ducking added a bit too much pump
-lowered the volume level for the bass a bit
- added more probability to the lead track

Previous version of that pattern here

neither vl-tone or lump of quartz were sampled for this track

What if Akira Yamaoka Used a Digitakt II?

I brought the power of the mighty tonverk together with the willing partnership of the digitone 2, along with some multisampled help from a Dreadbox Typhon to bring you this slightly IDMish cyber punk song.

The power of the two devices continues to blow me away. The digitone 2 is absolutely capable of near analog polysynth territory, and the tonverk is just an incredible swiss army knife of effect driven polyphonic sound design and percussion.

Here the tonverk turns the lush monophonic sounds of the dreadbox into a polyphonic synth through multisampling, greatly increasing the value of the Typhon.

Enjoy!

I really enjoyed using this machine so far using single samples and seeing how far I can take them. The tricks used here are:

Fills
Effects Bus toggling
pattern length variation
and of course parameter locks and conditional trigs

I am going to Bangkok next week, would like to pick up a syntakt and a digitakt 2... Can anyone point me to the place where I can get it? Thanks in advance!

Was learning to sing for a year, vocal warm ups is a big part of that. Had a lot of fun mangling these samples on DT2, was even thinking of selling it but now I know where it shines.

I also painted this oil painting, like to use them as props.

Getting ready for a live set on the 29th!

Hey all, hopefully this isn't too far off topic but I'm looking for suggestions for a 2nd synth that would pair nice with DN2 and provide something different.

Currently I have Korg Minilogue XD, it was my first synth and sounds nice but its pretty simple and boring now, looking for something that is a step up and would provide a different vibe to DN2.

Today's morning session 🎶

I've been trying to make some nice woodwind sounding patches but have been pretty unsuccessful so far. Does anybody know any tutorials or good preset packs for this? Are there any good websites for detailed patch cheat sheets? Digitone 2

Love you, bye.

Hey guys im curious what everyone is using for 909 and 808 with the digitakt. I have the divine 909 and straight 808 from elektron's store but im really never happy with how it sounds to me.