Digitakt 101 : Navigating & Mastering the Interface : Elektron Design Language
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0:00 - intro
2:30 - page per function
3:40 - the left side of the digitakt
4:40 - function + mute modes (purple + green)
6:26 - pattern + bankz button
7:13 - metronome
7:40 - system settings + buttons under screen + sample management
13:20 - rec + play + stop + copy / paste
16:04 - cueing / play button function
17:30 - the page-per-function-five-buttons
19:00 - the trig page
21:00 - the source page (sample)
22:45 - filter page
23:50 - amp page
25:00 - delay and reverb pages
26:04 - LFOs
26:49 - compressor / mixer / inputs
27:51 - midi brief
28:43 - the page button
30:30 - arrows and ending
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Robot optimization : Master the art of navigating the Elektron Digitakt with this comprehensive tutorial! In this in-depth video guide, we take you through every aspect of the Digitakt, the powerful sampling drum machine and sequencer from Elektron. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, this tutorial provides step-by-step instructions to help you navigate and explore all the features of the Digitakt with confidence.
Learn how to navigate the intuitive interface, understand the different buttons, knobs, and menus, and discover the various modes and functions available. From loading and manipulating samples to creating patterns, arranging tracks, and using the powerful sequencer, this tutorial covers it all. Unlock the full potential of the Digitakt as we delve into its sampling capabilities, sound design tools, and performance features.
Follow along as we guide you through creating beats, layering sounds, and experimenting with effects. Dive into the world of parameter locks, conditional triggers, and live performance techniques that will take your music production to new heights. Get insider tips, tricks, and workflow suggestions to streamline your creative process and unleash your musical ideas.
Whether you're a producer, beatmaker, or live performer, the Elektron Digitakt is a versatile and powerful tool. This tutorial ensures that you'll be able to navigate and harness its immense potential to its fullest extent. Don't miss out on this opportunity to level up your skills and create music with precision and creativity. Watch now and become a Digitakt pro! - Hudba
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This the second video I've watched from you, as a new Digitakt owner, and I gotta say, your presentation style and attitude are a pleasure to watch, and you manage to be super informative while not seeming overly technical. I appreciate this talent immensely and am subscribing. Thank you.
If you streamed yourself making a project from scratch I would watch every minute of it! Keep the good content coming :)
Agreed. You’ve got a great way of explaining concepts concisely.
I second that
Most neccesary video about the digitakt in youtube . Thank you!
I got a Digitakt this week and have only had a few hours to play with it between working and whatnot. I was really intimidated at first, but honestly everything is pretty laid out right in front of you. It's got a nice workflow and there's been more than a few times where I've said "it would be cool if it did this" then I try it out and the Digitakt actually does it. You can tell they put a lot of time and trial/error into the interface design.
If you're someone reading this and your on the fence - Just buy it. If an idiot like me can figure it out, so can you.
I have got lots of gear that I can’t use because I just don’t understand how it works. I appreciate you calling yourself an idiot but you still haven’t seen me and my workflow :D Anyway, I think I will buy one soon. Super scared!!!
I’ve had my DT for a couple of years now, and still consider myself a novice. Your video here is REALLY easy to follow and you do a great job of simplifying some of the Elektron concepts and workflows.
Excellent, perfectly paced. I struggle with coming to grips with it based on the manual, but this brings it all much more into usable territory. Thank you!
Thank you taking your time to explain everything. Most videos speed up over time and becomes confusing for me (beginner). Very helpful, need more videos like this.
Awesome video. Appreciate you taking the time to go through all of that!
I think your approach is great. Super humble and informative while having some personality to your presentation. Thanks a lot bro
Thank you for your in-depth and fun-to-follow video! I'm looking forward to more!
:') thanks for your kind words
Subbed. Such concise and clear presentation. This Digitakt noob appreciates your vids.
Goddam Wes. You’re the man! Always love talking to you and your colleagues in the store. Just got myself a DT and I’ll probably be watching this multiple times. Thank you so much for putting this out there.
Great, hilarious, useful video!
Good stuff, many thanks! Learned a few things I was looking for, and a few I wasn't but still appreciate.
Thank you 🙏🏾 I know the Dt but you gave some details that definitely help, and yes a build from scratch format may be dope.🔥🔥🔥
Best instructional video ever!!! Btw… I was in a band in high school called Naster Molume Vob
My band was Vaster Nolume Mob.
Thanks great help,I just got mine and your explanation is great
Thank you very much for this wonderful overview!
Thanks for another great video! Finding these really helpful since I got my digitakt. What a beast. It's such a new world. So much more advanced than other machines I've had. And yet compact and not convoluted. I love your style, you're very fun and friendly. The only limitation that the Digitakt has that I think would increase its usability greatly to add is stereo samples. Even without I'm gonna keep using it and getting better with it. But I do think it would open doors.
Stereo would be the coolest in a few scenarios but i think elektron is gonna keep that feature out of reach for the DT :(
thanks for the kind words and watching !!
Excellent overview. Very useful. Thanks and 'easy peasy' to you :)
Three seconds in- Your vibe is great.
Your voice sounds a bit like a Bob's Burgers character and I love it
I’ll take it 🤪
From an absolute NOOB I am so appreciative of your TWO tutorials so far. It has really helped me. So hard to find such content anywhere. Looking forward to more...again thanks.
Best tutorial to date! Thank you for this bro! A+
Excellent tutorial! Thanks!
I would be happy if you did a "Best Practices" tutorial on samples and sounds:
- What are the differences between samples and sounds
- How to quickly navigate the list of samples and sounds
- How to quickly choose samples and sounds for a new project
- How to produce kits of samples and sounds for quick selection
Thanks!
That really helped me a lot, hugely. Great and dense tutorial. Going to watch the other one now :) Thanks! Subbed!
:’) always happy to help
wow! i had no idea you could change tempo using the arrow keys! great stuff.
Thanks for sharing!
From what I understand Elektron started as a school project. I always wanted to know how they got the idea for their workflow. Very unique. I wish they made a mini documentary and tour of their headquarters to show how it all started. Because out of all the hardware out there, it is so different.
I haven’t used old school trackers but I heard it evolved from that. Certainly the plocks etc
Very very nice tutorial, thanks🙃
Thanks a bunch for the easy pace buddy. I may actually get one now 🎼🎧🥁
Easy Peasy :) Thanks, that was super helpful!!
Thanks, really informative.
Thanks a lot for this. It really helps a lot
good review, love your vibe
❣️thank you so much
Thank you very well explain Very helpful
I would be very happy about a level indicator when sampling. Which shows me the optimal level when sampling without having to normalize it later. Also a function that allows me to get out of the DT, into for example a preamp followed by a comp back into the input of the DK. Then you should be able to mute the master and just listen to the input while the DT is playing its tracks, that would be great.
Great video! Thanks!
Thanks for your video!
Great video thanks.
very cool and helpful
Excellent review. You make education fun 🤓👏 lol
That's alotta functions Amigo
Nice to hear kermit doing the tutorials on the digitakt today. 😂
Sorry man your voice sounds exact. Aha. Good explanations and demo 👍
Thanks!
Excellent videos
awh bless
Love it!
nice!
enjoy it
came for the tutorial, stayed for the cozy personality.
we keep it cozy over here
Watching this as a UX designer. It's Interesting watching you discuss Digitakt's information architecture.
@@Hrotti 1000% 🤣
I’m a fan of the way they do things but I would be fascinated to hear ya’lls take !!
@@Hrottiyou must be a person with no skills. You can certainly watch things with different perspectives than just your professional one.
Thank you for this video Hasanabi!
no problemo it's my pleasure
great vid!!!!
We’re gervin’ 😎🫡
Brilliant
You fantastic thz much.. I just got this thing with a swamp... And didn't have a clue how to work Now Do Thz To U!!!
Thanks for the tut! Would love to see you go through an A4 Mk2 with a vid like this.
“Page per function” - sure, that’s clever and all. But what gonna stick with me is “just say no” 😂. Great video!
yeah! project from scratch would be great
I already have a tr-8s and would want a good sampler to go with my setup. Should I go with Digitakt or Octatrack or Sp-404 or something else?
i would probably recommend the 404 if you already have the 8S ! the 404 has all those effects and is a lot more open ended of a sampler which might be a good pairing with the sequencer and performability of the TR-8S
Octatrack is great but there's a steep learning curve and compared to the 404 these days... it's a lot more neck and neck if you ask me - and workflow is KEY ! !
easy peasy!
lemon squeezey
We (all) need you to make an intellijel Rainmaker video. You’re the only person who makes any sense on here! ✨🙏🏼✨🧡
hahah oh man i wish i had one! Maybe over on the Perfect Circuit channel some day !
@@soffter yes PLEASE!!! Let me know where best to place my suggestion
Very good video. I have a question; i have synths. Minilougu xd for example. Can i record a whole song into Digitakt with drums and samples from DT and pads and other stuff from external synths?
You couldn't sample the audio of an entire song into the DT because it doesn't support such long samples (unlike the SP404 MkII, for example). You could plug the synth's audio into the DT's input (one stereo or two monos), mix it with the DT's audio using the DT's inbuilt mixer, then send the mixed output of the DT to a recorder like a Tascam, etc.
I like my model: cycles but it took me awhile cause I couldn't tell which buttons they were multitasking to get around ? I don't have slow motion tv feature 🤔 but thanks for taking it easy
Are there any space bats in this?
good.
I have a Digitakt question, is there a way to reset an encoder after you tweaked it right back to its original value before you moved it. Kinda of like a back (pad menu) button on the model cycles? Aside from temp save? I know you can hit FUNC and fine tune but is there a way to reset it? I hope I’m explaining myself correctly. TIA
so i'm not sure if you can do it for a SINGLE encoder, but if you do a temp save and then hold the page you're on, and hit NO while holding the page button, it'll reset to the state that it was at when you did a temp save - so kinda ?
It's like reloading JUST the page, to the temp save state, I just played around with it and i cant see a way it would work for a SINGLE encoder, but that's about as close as i can get
No lie. Elektron's desgign reminds me of something from Ridley Scott's Alien, and Alien isolation. The nostromo had a similar vibe. Very modern, very mechanical. If you look at photos of Alien Isolation, you will understand. The Digitakt and model samples looks like a medical device you would find on a space ship. Weird, I know. But still cool.
I like that comparison. There are curiously retro aspects like the mono display and the simple boxy geometry but then it also feels futuristic. I love retro futurism, what people thought was futuristic in the past.
@@ukbloke28 It has a very clean, and playful aesthetic to it. It looks like something used for a science experiment or a toy to teach children how to learn. Probably because the designer was a huge fan of Nintendo and trackers. That explains the pictures of dice, wrenches, etc. One thing that made Alien so realistic as far as the design goes, was it was designed by the same guy who did the millennium falcon. They used real parts of bomber planes, and real computer monitors, etc. They wanted it to feel real. The uniforms were inspired by the skylab crew from NASA. But yeah. Elektron has that fun retro style. I hope that evolves into more interesting designs in the near future.
@@nomad1517 That's true. I had a Japanese electronic kit when I was a kit called Gakken EX-150. it wasnt the same visually but it did have that same combination of technical with toylike. I think these devices are - or should prob always be - designed to appeal to the inner child! Toys for big people.
could you be so kind as to breakdown your hit spotify track "station_typo"? i am big fan and im curious what you mde it on and how
Can I sample from mic natural sound like voice etc and create my owns voice insrumemt etc and create a track without. Drum
Yup, it’s a proper sampler so you can do a whole lot of things. You might need a preamp or mixer to get a mic signal in, but you can record it wherever and import it too, plenty options.
Yeah a mic by itself isn't enough, the DT expects a line level signal. I just use my Tascam DR-05X (which I usually use to record my tracks) as a mic; simply plug its output into the DT's input and arm the DT-05X for recording; the DT-05X then acts as a mic plus preamp.
I'll allow it.
I suppose you could sync the Mod: Cycles to control with DIGITAKT?🤔
you certainly could! it would be hella powerful!
Discord?
the link is in the description come on down !
The brother of Napoleon dynamite 😅
Don't get me wrong the content is great but I couldn't help but think of kip 😀
So it’s not just me noticing that!
Nope not just you!
And then 1.5
time will make fools of us all !
Not going to lie, looks pretty complicated and is kind of scaring me away from buying one
Imagine how silly you must feel posting this just a few days before the major firmware update. Bet you feel like a silly goose.
The Elektron workflow is ridiculously complex. You need hours and hours of free time to get anywhere, and the hobby user generally doesn’t have this time. They could learn a lot from Arturia.
The complexity is all under the surface of a clean and stupidly easy to use sequencer. Simple use but complexities bundled under the hood incredibly efficiently. Most functions of the digitakt I did not need a manual to immediately work with effectively.
Why is this dude constantly caressing this piece of electronics. Super creepy
If you owned one, you'd understand! 🙂
I never understood why it didn't auto play the samples when scrolling through the lists. Pressing FUNC and YES to preview them is just ridiculous to me. Really great video man!
I’m literally crossing my fingers hoping you have an instruction video like this for the Octatrack mkii - if I could upload pics to the chat I’d take a picture of myself doing it