Thanks Jurgen ! Enjoy 2022, stay creative and stay save !!

Hey Christof, Thanks a lot my friend ! It’s a pleasure to share knowledge and create together. I‘m currently stuck at home as my partner got the Coronavirus so I have plenty of time to organize my website and update it with some new features :) I also plan some new streaming actives. Thanks a lot that we met in person and I’m looking forward seeing you soon - I really appreciated our talks ! Mat

Yo Emanuelle, I finally put together some thoughts about the OT https://www.59perlen.com/post/3-months-elektron-octatrack-is-it-worth-it

Hey Emanuelle, thanks for asking :D I wanted to post something but I'm actually not there. After I posted a Jam with the OT, I stepped back and made the OT my mixer and arranger who controls the sequences of Digitakt and Digitone for now. I'm using the OT in my latest live sessions too, sequencing the Peak with it. You can find them on my YouTube channel, especially the session from August 25 shows the OT in action. But I don't use it for sound mangling or processing for now, it's something that will come later. To make that clear, because I read this often: the Octatrack is NOT an upgraded Digitakt nor is it an extened version of it. It's a completely different system with a different approach! Digitakt also doesn't feel like the little brother of the OT, which means that I'm not passing from the Digitakt to the OT. Right now, I have the impression that it's a good but complicated counterpart and a good central machine for my setup. Is it worth it? Well. I'm currently working on some 1-hour sets and the arranger alone takes away a lot of stress, especially with a setup that uses more than the Digitakt and Digitone. Just because you can control the other gear with the arranger too. That is really helpful. Regarding sound design, I'm not there to tell you if its worth it or not. The learning curve is high because there are many unlogical button combinations you need to learn, and the data structure is far more complex than the Digitakt. For instance, parameters. Digitakt stores these TOGETHER with a pattern. That means, if you change the pattern, you change the parameter set as well. Octatrack stores these separated from the pattern itself, that means when you change the pattern, the paramater set stays the same until you switch to another paramater set ("Parts"). That alone raises the complexity of a project massively, but gives you more freedom. There are other elements like scenes, sample information and sets that you don't know from the Digitakt, and all these you need to learn first. For me, I am discovering the OT slowly now. With each new jam or set, i am exploring some of the OT features step by step. That's the reason why you have not seen a pure OT Jam until now :D I just don't have done it. I hope that helps a little :D Cheers!

Thanks Jurgen ! Have a sunny time as well !

Hey Emanuele, I got your tracks! This week was terrible and I am behind with all, i will keep you posted about it soon man! Cheers

Me too

Please don’t sent me sysex files. It must be the file package that the new transfer App provides :) thx J !

The length of your loop should be either 16, 32, 48 or 64 trigs long. If your sample is 16 trigs long, you place 1 trig and set the trig length to 16. if the sample is 32 trigs, you can either set the length of the first trig to 32 (of your pattern is 2 pages long) or you set the length of the trig to 32 AND set a trig condition „1/2“ so the trig gets only played the second time it’s passed. You can use different techniques to get the result actually, but this one is the easiest. That said, looping ONLY works perfect if the source material has the same speed than the Digitakt. That makes it totally inflexible and it’s the reason I mostly work with one shot samples and create my own loops on the takt :)

Same answer thx above to emanuels comment ! :)

Nice. I will schedule one of the next sessions for it Emanuel! Get prepared :) you can send me a track to my mail addy !

Hi Jurgen, If you want to play the imported loop 1:1, the Loops speed and the Track Speed of the Digitakt Must be the same. Digitakt has no time stretch feature that lets you adjust loops in real-time. You ether have to adjust the speed and length of the audio in Ableton or You adjust the speed in Digitakt. You can, of course, transpose the loop in Digitakt. It will get slower, but the pitch will change too and it’s difficult to get it smoothly looped. Cheers !

Miles is a Great artists and college on our Label „petite victory collective“, he makes very good videos! Thanks for the tip Emanuele !

Hi Jose, welcome to the Forum :) transitions need a little preparation. I think this could be a cool topic for a future lecture actually. A couple of inputs from my side. First one: I always stick to my grid of tracks! Like, the Kick is ALWAYS on Track 1, the snare on 2 and so on. That way, I always know when I switch to the next track what happens. Second is, using the pattern mute mode. I think this was not covered in the course. You can press function and bank twice to enter this mode, the lights of the trigs will turn purple and You can mute tracks per pattern. When you switch between patterns, the mute states will change too (when you use the global mutes, the active tracks stay active when you change the pattern). I suggest to check the manual to read more about it, I might include it in the Class as well later. But pattern mute is super helpful for creating a set! Next tip, make sure that neighbor tracks have at least 1 or 2 sounds in common. You could keep the kick sound and the hat for instance - switch all other tracks off, let these two run and than switch to the next pattern that starts with the same 2 sounds. Great way to make transitions smoother and glue tracks together. Last tip are effects! You can use long reverb or delay tails to cover the transition. Hope that was a little helpful :) if you like, you can post a link to a video and send me the link so I can give you more specific insights. Cheers and have a great weekend buddy Mat

@emanuele delbono Hi Emanuel! Good question, thanks for asking. I can tell you that - even it doesn’t seems so - my choices are more or less random. BUT! I normally curate the samples that I copy onto the Digitakt very careful and with a mood of music on my mind. That way, I create a pool of sounds that fit together, but I’m still free to choose when I produce a pattern. Example. I mostly have a rough idea of a new track when I start. That can be using a special Digitakt feature. Or a specific mood. Or a style. Or something really concrete like a progression or so. Whatever. That on my mind, I browse my sample library (or sometimes others like splice) to collect inspiration and ideas. And samples of course. Sometimes I find packs that I buy, sometimes I find Single samples that I want to use. That way I collect a lot of material that I might use. Then I sleep a night (sometimes not haha) and listen again to all samples. I mostly throw away a lot at this stage. The rest goes to the Digitakt and builds a Library of Samples. Mostly I work the way you describe. But sometimes I have a sample that I really want to use and then I build the rest around it. I think my way of working comes from my previous producer period when I created progressive house. That (and other genres too) set a very specific framework In which you can choose sounds and moods. I learned to select and create a pool of sounds First and then start to make a track (or in best case a set of tracks) with them. That also gives them something that they have in common.