5 creative sequencer tips for Elektron gear | Digitone & Digitakt Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Hey friends,
The Elektron sequencer has become something like a trademark in the electronic music world for very good reasons: It’s very versatile and you can change nearly every parameter of a sound per step which makes it a powerful tool for creative music. So in this video I want to share with you 5 things that I like to do in the sequencer to keep my music interesting - hope you find it useful!
Thanks for watching and stay creative,
Miles
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Tip 1: Programming polyrhythms
3:00 - Tip 2: Using polyrthms on hihats
4:37 - Tip 3: Make sounds play one octave higher in FILL mode
6:31 - Tip 4: Turn your sounds into risers in the sequencer
10:36 - Tip 5: Create interesting percussive progressions
12:41 - End
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Hey friends, one quick note on terminology as some of you mentioned it in the comments: Tips 1&2 aren't real polyrhythms but triplets on top of quarter notes (kick/bass) and accented rythms (hihat). Sorry for mixing this up hope you still enjoy! :)
It sounded super cool! and how it sounds is the only thing that matters in Music. Thank you very much for this!
Miles you make it seem so simple but it isn’t - you really have mastered this insanely deep sequencer and produce outstanding work. Every day is a school day as they say - I’m still learning.
Hey ageezz, thank you so much! Really appreciate the great feedback - and you're right, everyday definitely is a school day as there's still so much to explore about these devices. Cheers! :)
I came here to learn some tricks for the Digitakt sequencer...now I also want a Digitone.
Hey Teodor, I know this too well haha. Won't talk you out of it though, the combo is great. :) Cheers and happy weekend!
Love the riser effect!!
Thanks Eckie!
Thank you Miles ! Very good job.
You’re welcome! Appreciate the good feedback 🙏🏻
After owning the Digitone for about 8 months, I went ahead and ordered myself the Digitakt today as I feel so much more comfortable using the Elektron workflow than I did when I first started. We appreciate these tutorials that you put out for us, they help a lot! 💪
Hey Jake, that's great and congrats! I think I used my Digitone also standalone for about the exact time before I pulled the trigger on the Digitakt - absolutely no regrets, they are a great team! :) Thanks for the great feedback and have fun with the new sampler!
That is some sort of level 60 elektron wizardry here. Thank you very much for these tips!
Thank you so much for the great feedback! Improving on these wizard skills. 🙂🙏🏻
Incredibly talented to make these boxes sound like Afterlife's style
Hey Supergermain, wow that is a big compliment, huge Afterlife fan here! Cheers 🙏🏻
Definitely can confirm that these tips transfer to other Elektron gear like A4 and also sequencers like the OP-Z. The use of polymeter is really crucial to getting the most out of it and I like the way you simplify a few concrete things to try with the elektron seq as it can be too overwhelming for people when they try to tackle it all at once. Nice one! :)
Hey Ryan, thanks so much dude! Really appreciate that from you and thanks for confirming for the A4 and the OP-Z, that was actually the synth I had in mind when talking about non-Elektron gear. And polymeter is the right term (always mix this up with polyrythms) but I remember Andrew Huang explaining this in a video. 😁 Cheers buddy!
Is that a Burial vinyl in the background? What an incredible album. Wish he released another one.
Hey brodykauff, well spotted! Untrue is one of my favourite records of all time. He recently released an EP (more in the ambient direction) which was really good!
Thank you so much for these tips. I now have both a Digitone and a Digitakt, and your tips help a great deal.
My only suggestion is please, please keep them coming.
Thanks a lot David, that’s great to hear!
Came here from instagram, fantastic content!
Heyyy, glad that you made the way over here and enjoyed the long version! Appreciate that very much and happy Sunday 🙏🏻🙂
So good! Can’t wait to try each tip 🚀
Cheers Seth! Let me know if it worked :)
So hugely educational. I wish for more Elektron content from you but I see you may have moved on. Cheers and thank you much for your content
Thanks a bunch! There might be more in the future as I still use the devices and thinking of building a new DAWless work stream in my studio for sound design, have had a lot of fun recently with that. :)
@@MilesKvndra Great to read that more dawless could be in future programs! Thank you /cheers!
@@MilesKvndra I watched again tonight and really love the sounds you're creating here. ➕➕➕!
Thanks for this, these are really great tips !
You're welcome, jolieuke! Very happy to hear that they are useful :)
Excellent video.
Thank you sp!
Thanks for share it!!!!
You're welcome, thank you for watching! 💚
Great tips! Thank you a lot...
Thank you a bunch for watching! Appreciate that you like the tips :)
Excellent tips! Thank you for sharing your creative ways with us. Much grattitude!
Thanks for the great feedback and you are very welcome! Happy to hear that you like it :)
Very cool Miles. Interesting technique with the risers!
Thanks a lot! Yeah I really like the riser, it's great fun 😁
Awesome tips , awesome video quality :D
Thanks a bunch Loïc! Yeah I continuously try to improve on this, glad that you noticed! 😁
Great tips mate. Really love the riser trick. I will check that one out for sure :)
Hey Kevin, that's great to hear! Yeah I like that trick too, great that something like that is possible in the sequencer! :)
nice tips,thanks for it!! greetings!!
You're very welcome dude! Cool to see you around and thanks for the feedback. Cheers! :)
Thank you my friend for these tips! Got a few ideas to try now!
That's great to hear my bro! Appreciate your time watching and your content is always a big inspiration too! 🙏🏻💚
vernal set & vibes, Miles! 😍☀️
Yeah! Spring is around the corner ❤️
thanks bro excellent work as always ,keep it coming,blessings to you :)
Cheers Omni and thanks a bunch for the great feedback! Will keep it up, you too! 🙌🏻
Well done great tips cheers
Thank you! Appreciate it so much
Cooles Video! Danke.
Danke dir fürs Feedback, Mutlu! Mag deine Jams sehr :)
@@MilesKvndra Dankeschön. Ich höre auch immer wieder gerne bei dir rein. Mache Techno aber höre und liebe alles was mir gefällt.
Excellent video. I really appreciate it.
Thank you so much for the feedback! Glad you dig it 🙌🏻
Thank you for your generosity in sharing this! Excellent tips and amazing sounds, thanks again.
You're welcome Damien! Thank you for the great feedback :)
Basically a tutorial of my favorite jam of yours! Thanks a bunch, really inspiring
Hey ciavattas, that's great to hear and happy that you like this jam! Inspiring other musicians with my stuff always is the best thing. Thanks a bunch 🙏🏻
Great video brother! Love the LFO riser trick. I'll use that for sure! Keep up the great work!
Thanks a bunch Eric, appreciate you mate! And yeah love the LFO trick - the sequencer opens for so many cool possibilities. Cheers and hope you are well! :)
Lovely info delivered with your usual effortless style. Thanks.
Thanks a bunch, TNC! Really appreciate the good feedback. 🙏🏻
This is pure gold. I'm relatively new to the Digitone and these are all game changers. THANK YOU!
Hey deeve, thank you so much! Super happy to hear that the videos were helpful for you - cheers and enjoy the new synth! 🙂🙌🏻
The beauty of this superb tutorial is the sequencing principles can be transferred to multiple sequencer platforms, software or hardware. You have provided this community with wonderful knowledge :))
Hey Fin, what a great feedback - really appreciate it! Yes, I was hoping that some folks would also try it on other gear or in a DAW as I think it can be transferred very easy. So thanks a bunch for that feedback, wishing you a great day! 🙂🙏🏻
Thanks for the video, good stuff in here. Tip number two also works supernice, when you use an open hihat sample instead of more decay on every third step
Very good idea! As you can switch samples from the pool per trig this can also work very well. Thank you! 🙌🏻
Thx for sharing :) Cya mate
You're welcome! Hope you found it useful, see ya around! :)
I definitely need to try the LFO riser trick and your workflow with the snare as well!! Thanks for taking time to share those tips with us buddy 🙏 So much value 🖤
Hey G thanks so much for watching, always great to see you around. :) Let me know how the riser worked for you! 🙌🏻💚
Sweet !
Thank you!
Hey Miles, danke für die tollen Tipps, sehr informativ und motivierend. Habe meine Synths dank dir wieder in die Hand genommen!
midlife synthesist hat recht! The Proffessor
Vielen Dank dir Adil, das freut mich extrem zu hören. Wenn ich Leute mit meinen Videos inspirieren kann und sie deswegen wieder Musik machen, ist das wirklich das beste Kompliment. :) VIELEN Dank dir!!
So useful thank you very much! And great music your getting out of these boxes - really cool! Are you playing some festivals around germany this summer?
Thanks man mich appreciated! Don’t have any upcoming but I will definitely try to get some shows booked in for this year. Currently getting my new setup ready but once this is done new shows are definitely planned :)
Great ideas thank you. Had my DT since they were released and its the only sequencer I have where it's workflow sticks with me even if I don't use it for a month or so. Can't say that for some of my older Korg gear 😅
Hey Bob, I definitely hear you haha. The sequencer to me seems also so intuitive and it is great fun to use! Elektron did a good job here 😁
Tips 1 & 2, neither of these are polyrhythms (or triplets either), they are accented rhythms. The ‘every 3rd trig’ trick would/could be loosely classed as a polyrhythm if it was 3 beats long and looped. Polyrhythms are great for hihat patterns, you could use the same method but make your final step for the HH’s on beat 5,6,7, 9 or 11, etc, and it’ll continually shift its place against the beat. Your tips themselves are cool, btw, just wanted to point out the terminology. 👍
Hey Carl, thanks for the hint and you have a good point here. I have to admit that I'm not so deep into music terminology and use some terms very loosely (including polyrhythms). So thanks for the correction!
@@MilesKvndra that’s cool, Miles… I’ve studied music theory for 30+ years and some terminology still confuses me! But, hopefully my point will help you to look more into polyrhythms at some point in the future. The same for triplets… they don’t fall easily into the Elektron sequencer because it’s generally set up for 16th note division, but you can shift/offset trigs to give you 8th note triplets which can sound great against regular 4/4 and 16ths. 👍
yeah was wondering the same, the first tips are not really polyrhythms, more like accents :) very interesting tutorial nevertheless!
Another nice thing about the bass note every 3rd trigger is that this way you never have the problem of the bass hitting at the same time as the kick. I find it groovy also cause kick and bass are always punchy with no overlaps. This results in a clean low end before you even start EQing things :)
@@fabiosussetto6864 hey Fabio, you're right and very good thought! Getting punchy low end on the Digis without having the possibilities you have in a DAW can be tricky from time to time but that is a good tip. Cheers! :)
Superb!!! Love the riser and I’m sure all do.
Perfect justification to two fantastic machines 👌👌👌
Why can’t the Digitakt or Digitone not accept midi cc 10 or 8 from an external synth on the elektron midi sequencer.
It affects the cutoff and other parameters but not pan or stereo balance. Why ?
My inserts are dual mono.
Pls help
Hey Jo, thanks a bunch! Regarding your question I never tried the Digitone's inputs but I think when you're in dual mono then it is not possible to use panning as the inputs need to be set to stereo.
@@MilesKvndra absolutely correct. 👌👌👌. You have to be in stereo mode.
Thanks again
Great! For polyrhythms, how can you start from 2 or 3 step? What’s the difference with cutting to 12/16 the pattern length?
Thanks Dave! When you put down a trig every 3 trigs, it makes a slight difference in rythm if you start with this on trig 1, 2 or 3. Then you can choose what works best for your tracks. :) And yeah I tried it with 12 or other odd pattern lengths but it get's a little messed up when I play them together with patterns that have regular length settings (16/32/etc). So I rather stick to the regular length patterns
@@MilesKvndra would 48 steps make any difference? That would be 4x 12 step pattern length for the bass/hihats (with trigs every 3 steps) and 3x 16 steps for the kick drum (trigs every 4 steps). I haven't tried this but I think it would give you a 3/4 over 4/4 polyrhythm?
Note that you'd need to set the bass/hihat pattern length to 48, drums could potentially just be 16 I think (or any multiple of 16).
@@jamesabbott1413 hey James, yeah I think that could work as well. Need to try that sometime. Cheers! :)
On your video time mark about 8.45 mnts in I notice that on the Digitone the tempo is slightly changing itself by a very small increments. Is this possible in the digitakt? I would love this 😊
Hey Andrew, this is due to the fact that the Digitone is receiving clock information via MIDI from the Digitakt and these are not always 100% accurate. So it's rather a glitch than something I set up on purpose. But agree that moving tempos would be a cool thing for experimentation 😁
a polyrhythm is not the same as triplet notes or offbeat , it would be by example a 16 step sequence together with a 5 step bass
Hey, yeah you're right they're rather accented rythms in this example here. I used the wrong term. Cheers
@@MilesKvndra nonetheless , great work and music
@@vestarecords3882 thank you, appreciate it! Just pinned a comment to the video to clarify it :)
@@MilesKvndra its not a big deal but for new producers it could be a false start with polyrhythms that s all, doesn't make your video less superb and professional executed!
@@vestarecords3882 yeah totally agree that's why it's important to clarify. Many thanks for the hints and the great feedback, really appreciate that (and I learned some terminology from that as well 🙂). Great day to you!
Are those really triplets tho?
Hey man, good question! Don't quote me on that as my music theory terms are quite bad. :)
I really enjoyed this video!! Do not waste your time > P-R-O-M-O-S-M!!!
Thank you Jesse!
Monomachine Mk2 and Machinedrum Mk2 UW+ is waaay more powerful than this
Hey Dee-Shaya, yeah possible but DN+DT is a great and fun combo to make music with! :)