Introducing Digitakt II

Whoa, good insight

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Will use it as Midi CC LFO machine to support AR :wink:

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also very interested in the wavetable setup, must check the manual

EDIT … word ‘wavetable’ not mentioned in the manual.

So expecting this folder might be sample chains of single-cycle waveforms.

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DT2 caused price drop in octatracks as well (not only DT), or so it seems:

Last time I checked there weren’t so many (24!) esp not Mkii and all were above 1000. But I don’t check that often.

(But 73 DT, only few offered below 500)

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Anyone who purchased directly from Elektron get theirs yet? Just curious. Thanks!

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A Sharctotrack seems a distinct possibility

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My OT’s not going anywhere :slight_smile:

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I’m waiting for Sharctotrack II. That one is supposed to have analog fins and stereo teeth.

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Sound quality is probably dubious though…

Can I just say, thank you Elektron! Thank you for all the goodies in this machine.

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DT2: Befriending the new filters (by using some AR tricks) - Base drums mainly consisting of BPF resonance, LFOs modulate base frequency and other stuff, later playing around with envelopes. Headphones recommended.

DT2: Getting warm with new features. Kind of techno track.
BD, many LFOs, BRR, SRR, filter resonance, FX
(lots of transients lost in the mp3 - browser version :confused: )

HD (set video to 1080p):

Edit: clicks are intended/welcomed and no sign of malfunction.

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Any insights as to whether the 66s recording time is a hard limit hardware wise? Or is it feasible that this could be extended in a FW update?

We disabled the MIDI DIN ports and tried again, but it didn’t improve the transfer speed.

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I think (= speculation) it is more a numbers play. Double everything. Tracks per track (mono >> stereo). Tracks as a whole (8 >> 16) . Recording limit (33 >> 66). It is said to play back longer samples it received via transfer.

For a DT I can absolutely live with that. (Remember to try out if resampling patterns is as easy as with the SP-404 mkii). I like it more as a classic DT (although it can do much more right now than 2017).

bit of a click coming through there - stereo proving a challenge for silent chop loop entry?

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Ha, I can’t live with that. It’s a crazy decision to make when we finally have stereo sampling and a 20gb hard drive. It artificially kneecaps it in so many ways.

Encouraging that you didn’t spot anything at a hardware level that would mandate that tho!

I am no hardware expert. But I doubt DT2 will get its recording limit increased during the next 18 month. Let’s see what Tonverk will be like or an OT III. (They could have merged DT and OT and obviously decided against that idea). Would love to see and hear a make-everything-a-double-OT. :slight_smile:

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I know, I just read your reply on Youtube :slightly_frowning_face:

I calculated that they’re probably using MIDI for the sample transfer. I hope they can change that.

Details

MIDI DIN or USB MIDI 1.0 is ~4kb/s
USB MIDI 2.0(not to be confused with MIDI 2.0) is ~192kb/s
That’s as fast as MIDI will go without going to the new MIDI 2.0 protocol.

A normal file transfer protocol(as in normal USB disk behaviour) would be very helpful here.

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No, that’s just the style. Clicks and Cuts and Rock’n’Roll. :slight_smile:
(The reverb emphasises the clicks, that’s intended.)

The loop is mono. The DT 1.5/DT2 werp causes clicks in many settings (I understand werp sonically as a mixture between chopping, time stretching and part looping - changes behaviour depending on setting 8/16/32)