Elektron Digitone Tutorial | 6 Tips for smooth transitions in your Digitone (Techno) Jams
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- Hi Friends,
In this Elektron Digitone tutorial I want to show you 6 tips and tricks for smoother transitions for your Digitone jams when changing from one pattern to another. All of these sounds are from my Digitone Techno Jams here on CZcams that I’ll release as an EP on all major music platforms on NOVEMBER 20! You can already pre-save the EP to your Spotify here: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/mil...
Hope everything gets clear and makes sense, if you've any questions regarding setup or workflow feel free to ask in the comments - I'll try to help!
Stay safe and creative,
Miles
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:36 - Tip 1: Muting Tracks and Making Use of Volume Controls
1:37 - Tip 2: Making use of FILL-trigs
5:51 - Tip 3: Using Control all + Reload Pattern
7:36 - Tip 4: Delay Feedback Loop
9:01 - Tip 5: Reverb Decay Drop
10:30 - Tip 6: Using LFO Risers
13:50 - “Bonus tip” and end
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Amazing! Thank you!
Thank you for watching, Timur! I'm very happy to hear that you like it :)
another useful one! great tutorial!
Glad to hear you find it useful, Filip! Thanks a bunch!
Great stuff! Thanks.
Thank you for watching, Spookyzoo! Happy to hear that you like it 🙂
Great video thanks for the tips and the time you're taking to create and share these!
Appreciate the feedback Adi, you're very welcome! To see that the videos help others is a huge motivation
Excellent tips, Thanks!
You're welcome, Axel! Thanks for your feedback
Nice tips, thank you!
You're welcome, Alexander! Thanks for reaching out ✌️
So useful! Thanks!
You're welcome mate! Thanks for the feedback :)
These are amazing bro! Keep it up!!
Will do! So many thanks for your support 🤙
Awesome tips man thank you!
You're welcome! Glad to hear you find them useful
So useful! Just exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!
Thank you, Nikita, you're welcome! And that is so cool to hear :)
Another amazing tutorial. I'm looking forward to your spotify release, and have followed you. Thanks again for such amazing content. Every day I have more reasons to love the Digitone!
Thank you so much! Cool to hear that some people from CZcams switch over to my Spotify as well, really happy to share the jams soon. And your love for the Digitone will from this point on only increase. :D Great box to get creative with!
super helpful video - thanks a bunch!
Cheers Yavor - so happy to hear that. 💚
Thank you so much for sharing this, Miles. Transitioning tricks are exactly what I've been looking for! Much appreciated.
Hey Robert, thank you so much for the lovely feedback. Great to hear that you found what you were looking for and keep on jamming! All the best 🙏🏻
Thanks for this, I will try this on the Digitakt also
Hey Andy, great to hear! Some of the tips should work there as well :)
Beautifully subtle! Really good friend! 😎
Cheers buddy! Happy to hear that, keep your jams comming! :)
Thank you for sharing! Subscribed.
Thank you, Sean-Lee! I really appreciate the sub 🙏
Thank you, your work is very inspiring. I looking forward to listening to your album next.
You're welcome Giri, thanks so much for your feedback! Happy to hear how you like the EP
Very berry berry good information!! Thank you
You're welcome Juan! Thank you for the great feedback.
Thank you soooo much! You increase the love for my Toné x1000!
You're very welcome and I thank you for watching! So great to hear that my videos increase the joy in your tone! 🙂
Just got my Digitone, your vids are really helpful thank you ! And your jams are dope 💥
Fantastic to hear, Damien! Many thanks for your feedback and enjoy your new synth - you'll love it! 😎
Thanks for the contribution. Your making my life better.
Cheers Alexander!
Super helpful! Subscribed.
Thank you Sean and welcome to the channel - I appreciate it! 🙏🏻
Intensely helpful for a beginner! Wish I had made time to go through this before my last video! Thanks as always mate :)
Cheers mate, thanks for your feedback! I'm really happy to hear that it's also useful for people starting out with the Digitone! Looking forward to watch your jam this evening when I get home! Excited to see what you get out of this box :)
Sooo cool thank you!
You're welcome thanks so much for watching!
Wow. Danke miles für diese gems..
Sehr gerne, Jacob! Freut mich zu hören, dass es gefällt 🙌🏻🙂
Very interesting! Can’t wait to try the lfo trick
Great to hear that! And enjoy trying it, it's great fun! :)
These digitone masters are using sorcery I'm amazed at how this machine sounds
Hey Kose, thank you! Yeah the Digitone sounds amazing on it's own and it is both a great standalone tool but also to use in a setup with other devices. Cheers!
This is what i was looking for
Great to hear that! 🙌🏻
thank you for the tutorials. i really enjoy them. keep 'em going...
Thanks Philipp, appreciate that! Will definitely do that 😎
@@MilesKvndra ow and i forgot to mention that i also really like your jam sessions
@@philippwae awesome! Always happy to hear from people that like both, the jams and the tutorials :)
Thanks I'm trying to apply this to Model Cycles. Great tutorial
Thank you, Shawn! Great idea, let me know how this works! :)
Nice tutorial! Subbed!
Thanks Don! Really appreciate it :)
Great!!!!
Thank you Paul!
excelente video saludos desde Baja California
Thanks a bunch San Pler! Happy to hear that you like the video :)
The 5th is amazing thx! Didnt even know there was INF on decay time.
You're welcome, Damien! Thanks for the feedback. And yeah, the infinite decay time on the reverb is great for creating some kind ambient pad for a break and then going on from there. Really like that technique!
Nice tutorial! Diese Triks sind auch für den MC praktisch. Ich hoffe, dass dein nächstes Tutorial die Erstellung eines Songs sein wird. Auswählen und Arrangieren von Elementen, wäre echt cool! keep it up bro
Danke dir! 🤙 Freut mich zu hören, dass die Tutorials auch für Model:Cycles anwendbar sind. Ich sammel tatsächlich gerade Ideen für kommende Tutorials und hatte überlegt, einen Breakdown für eine meiner Jams zu machen. Aber ein Video zum Arrangement und Aufbau einer Jam wäre auch eine Idee!
@@MilesKvndra cool! Also einen Breakdown wäre echt Nice, Ehrlich gesagt das ist der Punkt den ich üben möchte. Habe den Eindruck dass mir Elementen fehlen oder den song etwas leer ist. Bis dahin beschäftige ich mich mit diesen Tutorial. Habe zwar nur einen lfo und keinen Filter aber ich lerne mit meinen limitationen umzugehen. Liebe Grüße.
@@aroundhere3476 Freut mich zu hören! Dann packe ich das mal mit auf die Liste und mache demnächst mal ein Video zum Arrangement - hatte ich eh geplant :) Und das mit den Limitationen kann ich gut nachvollziehen, die Digitone hat ja auch nur begrenzte Möglichkeiten. Aber wenn du lernst damit umzugehen und Workarounds findest, kann dich das im Gesamten extrem weiterbringen. War zumindest bei mir so
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Very useful tutorial! I wish there was a way to have fill act as alternate trig locks too, so you could for example have more delay on a drum when in fill mode, while still playing that same drum but with less delay when not in fill mode.
Basically while in step sequence mode, you would hold down a trig and the Page button simultaneously to reveal the Fill specific trig locks.
Thank you David! And you really have a point here, I miss a feature like that. This way you could also program an automation where for example the filter is opening in FILL mode without the need to do this by hand. Would make a good feature request! :)
I fully agree on this one. Same thought 👉
Super inspiring even for a non Digitone owner. Will try a few of these ideas on the Analog Four. Thanks for sharing! Awesome tunes by the way 🙌😎
Hey Andreas, thanks so much for the awesome feedback! Let me know if that works on the A4 - and glad to hear that you dig the tunes! 🙏🏻🙂
@@MilesKvndra listening to your tunes on soundcloud 👌
@@AndreasRoet awesome Andreas, thank you! Haven't uploaded SC in a while, the more recent stuff is on Bandcamp and all the streamings (Spotify etc). :)
@@MilesKvndra seems it's time for me to get a Bandcamp account 😊 will definitely check out your stuff, man! Greetings to the Friedrich-Ebert Platz 🍻
@@AndreasRoet cheers Andreas, appreciate that! All the best back from Cologne 🙌🏻
This is a great tutorial, really cool and creative use of techniques! Given your system of having one song per bank, would you consider giving tips on nice transitions between banks/“songs” as well? That would glue the live set together 👌🏼
Thank you velvetpearls, glad to hear that you like it! That's a pretty good idea for an additional tutorial and it gets a good slot in the "ideas for future videos" list :D
Just briefly what I like to do: As I only use about 6-8 patterns per jam about half of the bank is free for transitions to the next song. So I try to take elements from the current jam away and add elements from the upcoming jam. This works great as all my Digitone jams are in the same key (C minor). So each pattern introduces more of the upcoming jam and combined with the techniques I showed in this video you can some really smooth transitions.
@@MilesKvndra That's peculiar! All your songs are in C minor? Thanks for a great tutorial!
@@sinewaymusic Cheers David! That statement is a bit outdated haha - meanwhile I have some in F minor as well! 😁 But these two keys are currently my favourites
Damn brooooo
Great tips, thank you! Transitions are under-valued in dawless performance but so important.
Thanks a lot, mate! Absolutely agree with you on your dawless transitions point. They can have a really huge impact on a performance!
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Great tutorial! Please more of them. Is it possible to use the arpeggiator only on a specific note, and to play the other notes in the same track without the arpeggiator? I don't get this to work. Thank you for your help! Wish you a nice week! Bye Fightclub
Hey FightClub, thanks for the feedback! Hmm good question. I think this would only be possible if you save a sound with arpeggio to the soundpool and then add it via sound lock to the track where you have the same sound without arp as the track sound. Cheers and all the best!
Super content den du da machst 💯👌
Welche Impedanz haben denn eigentlich deine beyerdynamic?
LG aus Wien
Hey Bettina, lieben Dank dir und Grüße nach Wien! Meine sind die Standard mit 80 Ohm, aber ich nutze mittlerweile eigentlich primär die Neumann NDH 20. 🙂 Cheers aus Köln!
Great tips Miles. Not sure if you know of the Fill latch trick but if not, it should free up some fingers in your performances. Pressing [YES] + [PAGE] will latch Fill for the entire pattern only and [PAGE] + [YES] and then release [PAGE] before releasing [YES] will latch Fill until you press [PAGE] again to unlatch.
Hey Marc, happy to hear you like the tricks and thanks for reaching out! Yeah I know the FILL latch trick and I've used it a couple of times but I somehow prefer to have more immediate control over the FILL mode so it works better to press it and keep it pressed. Just a matter of taste but I have the feeling that I have more control, especially when I trigger steps with a lot of delay on them. But it's great that it is possible to use the FILL mode in both ways!
@@MilesKvndra ah okay. I saw your fingers reaching a few times and thought you might not have see it.
Didn't know about this one. Great tip 👍
Really usefull! Thanks a lot :)
Little question about your live process : do you prepare these tricks in advance or do you manage to program them live ? Or a bit of both ?
You're welcome, Matthieu! :)
Good question, it's actually a bit of both. The more I get comfortable with the Digitone, the more I try to make these transitions on the fly. Takes some practice but you can also be more spontaneous. But I prepare some tricks that need parameter locks (like the LFO trick) in advance, just because it's easier. :)
@@MilesKvndra ah I see ! Your video made me think that it would be so cool to have a shortcut to enter trigs with fill mode. For instance, when we're in grid recording mode, it could be so nice that by pressing the page button + a trig to have directly a trig with fill mode enabled
@@MatthieuPoup that's actually a pretty nice idea. A way to enter fill trigs and reverse fill trigs would be so cool!
Noice
Thank you Lyon!
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Bin ein paar Tagen auf deinem Kanal unterwegs und finde deine Videos sehr interessant.
Leider ist mein Englisch sehr schlecht.
Vielleicht kannst du mal die Digitone auf deutsch vorstellen.
Bin am überlegen ob ich mir die Digitone kaufen soll.
Vom Sound her gefällt sie mir sehr.
Dein Beat ist auch super...
LG aus Heidelberg
Moin und danke dir für dein Feedback! Ist ein guter Punkt, vllt mache ich das in Zukunft mal. Gibt ja tatsächlich keine richtige Review auf Deutsch bei CZcams, wobei ich eigentlich nicht so der Review-Dude bin 😁 Aber mal schauen. Ansonsten gibt's von dvdlernkurs glaub ich Videos zur Digitone auf Deutsch, schau mal, was du da findest. Ich kann definitiv nichts schlechtes über den Synth sagen :)
Cheers nach Heidelberg aus Köln!
n the last lfo trick, how do you set the trig conditioning so that the lfo effect works when you press the fill button?
Hey Sebastian, on the trig that has the LFO settings on I just set the condition to 'FILL' so that it only triggers when I'm in FILL mode.
Do you know a way for filter to affect the whole track, including p-locked sounds? When I for example low pass a track, only the main sound gets filtered.
Excellent question that I would love to have an answer to as well. I think the Control all function only works on that track sounds and not on the p-locked sounds - and I hope that Elektron will change that soon. As I tend to have all my drums on one track it's super annoying to have only the kick being affected by these changes (as you can hear in this video as well). You really have a good point here.
@@MilesKvndra Yep, super annoying it is. Thanks for the tips, very useful, I'm using a few of them in my jams with Digi and Virus.
@@Melanholix cheers mate! Would love to see a jam with the Digi and the Virus together
@@MilesKvndra Check out my channel, I just made public one of may latest jams..
@@MilesKvndra And how does it sound to you? czcams.com/video/Sm1vjTXazIs/video.html