5 whys to buy a Digitakt // It's Not Perfect.
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2018
- The Digitakt has been a work horse both in my studio and out performing live! These are my top 5 Pros of why you should consider getting one!
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Lmao turn on captions and go to 0:09
Nnooooooo hahahahahah Siri is that you?
Now the whole video is a joke 😂😂😂
I was really hoping to buy a Digitakt, but have decided with dick attack instead.
Joe Hardy hahahahaha my fucking chest
Hmm Sunday morning, Ah nice a new video! Hit play, click captions (need those).. woowzz too early for that sh*t bro!
"creativity comes from limits.." absolutely, limitations with great sound is the key
yo digging the background track here! also i don't know if it's just how all the audio is blending but sometimes it sounds like there is a reverb on your voice (in a good way haha). great shots and breakdown as always.
Lol its probably my untreated living room verb preset i live in! Thanks for the comment! Glad you dug it.
Ok I was about to say the same thing and I saw the comment of a certain Andrew Huang haha. It can be the frequency of the background music and his voice which reach the same sometimes. It makes it confusing and we have to be very focus to understand. Good one tho. Have a great day.
I need a music job, oh Jedi master hook a brother up.
What up Andrew...
ANDREW HUANG check out the shout outs! Op-1 rules!
After months of stalking around and planning my first hardware setup, this is the brain of my new small operation. Just arrive a couple weeks back, and it's everything I hoped it would be. Your channel has been hugely helpful for me!
Finally more Digitakt videos from you!!!!...... I'm glad your videos aren't the typical beatmaking videos... I like that you teach a lot on the digitakt... thank you and very much looking forward to more!
So much talent! Just found your channel. Your visual style is something else. I can't wait to hear and see more in the future!
That's not talent thats being able to afford decent equipment
Gotta say I’ve been going through your vids and I’m really digging it. Just getting into this world but you’ve been perfect guide. Give that big bro feel. Thanks for the content bro. 👍🏽
Wow really fantastic editing on this one! Love my Digitakt, such an inspiring machine. The possibilities using just the trig conditions or LFO page alone are mind blowing let alone everything else it offers
You do make good vids man, I appreciate the chill vide and deep knowledge. Kudos.
One more thing - the way you use the Digitakt, Enrique, is super amazing - and many other of your fellow music-makers and UA-camrs are also talented. I'm 43, and I think my definition of "intuitive" is different than this new generation, and that's okay. Please keep doing all this great content, I love the style of your videos, your enthusiasm and energy; sign me for being a loyal Patreon patron of yours - if you ever go down that path. Cheers!
Sold! I have to say that your videos are some of the most informative I’ve come across. You’re helping make music production completely accessible to a newcomer like me, and for that I am very grateful. Cheers.
That's the goal! Glad I helped you out, thanks for watching
damn, absolutely beautiful vid. this totally stands out from all of the other DAW/gear related vids i've been sifting through recently. this one feels professional. wonderful job on everything, this is quick and to the point.
I think what I love most about it is just how tactile and satisfying Elektron devices are. Especially the mechanical keyswitches make everything so pleasant
dude i NEED that background track NOW. its sooooo good. checked all your music out and im just blown away. such an innovative take on house. love it
I love my Digitakt, now that your videos actually taught me how to use it! Between you and Cuckoo, I learned a lot about this machine. Thank you!
same here bro, loved the breakdown series of the 5 pages!
I find that the DT has its own "groove" even fully quantized it dances! Reminds me of an old MPC-60.
Jeez, I keep watching all this dudes videos and they're seriously high quality. Super underrated how does he only have 47k subs?!
I got to the phrase spiritual transcendence and clicked off
The recent 1.30 update has definitely bring it closer to perfection.
honestly, I would buy anything what this voice is commanding me.
there's something about it, mate 🤣
Greting here from Denmark!! I like your "video-style" if thats a thing. And even your furnitures :) I learn a lot from your videos. Wondering do you make music and Dj-ing for a living?
Great video once again man, I've been looking into getting a sampler for Musique Concrete and Sound Collage work, especially for live performances and honestly you've convinced me that the Digitakt is the way to go, just looking at the thing immediately gives me ideas of how I can use it!
And yes, your opinions weighed heavily on my selection of my Digitakt... I am only scratching the surface and it's soooo amazing.
Great job again man.
I absolutely LOVE my Digitakt! Its so much fun and the things I make with it are things Id never ever think of doing on any other piece of gear. I just really clicked with the worflow. I was hurtin for cash last summer and I sold it. I missed that thing so much. I was sad, like my dog ran away or something. I have since gotten another one. This is one box that I'll always have. Next up-----Digitone............Then maybe eventually the octa!!!!!!!
Great videos bro. Keep em comin'
Thanks so much for the vid. This was awesome! I’ve been on the fence about it for a few months now as I’m just starting out with a mini home recording setup and I didn’t know if this was overkill or the wrong way to approach it or something.
Honestly you relieved my concerns and clearly listed reasons that made dropping the cash easier. I think I will be going for this very soon.
holycowsicle did u get it.i just got mine and i regret not having this from the beginning.
This has to be the best promotional/instructional video I’ve seen. Very well done. I’m very new to music production and just recently purchased an Akai mpc black and an mpk keyboard; watching this video makes me want to invest in a Digitakt just because.
If you haven’t mastered what you own, don’t get new gear. It’s a dangerous path to go down.
What perfect timing! This video arrived the same day my own Digitakt did :) and I totally agree, I can not wait for Overbridge.
yup, digitakt and digitone are excellent and I fall in love each time I use them. they singlehandedly took me away from modular and I rarely go back.
Wow! This is encouraging to hear!
if you only had the money for one of them, which one?...I need both beats and synth...
Keep those DT tutorials coming, you have some of the best on UA-cam. Ever did a beatmaking one?
BTW it was great seeing you on Bo’s video!
Yo! Much love, thank you so much. I made a beat as if i was using it like an SP-404 here once ua-cam.com/video/NdCfp4PcpH4/v-deo.html
great videos. I know you want the Digitakt to be an Octatrack but if you remember is a drum machine and not an MPC you'll enjoy it more. We are all tempted to want more because the Digitakt does so much more than the usual drum machine. thanks for the thoughts.
Hey. I’ve been a fan of your videos for a while. Nice work! This video makes me want a Digitakt even more. Tough life decisions...
I just got mine today and after jamming on it for about 7 hours i must say that its already my favourite piece from my elektrons (OT, Rytm, A4 - all mk2's) I came up with about 4-5 grooves which could easily be shaped into finished tracks on my cubase. Highly recommend this masterpiece. Perfect for the techno I'm into and probably most other genres.
cool, definitely intrigued and if i can hook this up to my 1000, kaoss effect pad, compressor analog synth and four track cassette...along with minidisc recorder and turntable this will definitely be on my radar no doubt. great vid keep on!
Great video as always! I've been wanting one for a long time, mainly because of your videos and cuckoo's! I finally decided to treat myself with one for this christmas, it's arriving this week :D
Subscribed and notified. Keep up the inspiring work!
Clean video. You're making some of the best content out. Thanks for creating and sharing.
Jabal, thank you. that means a lot!
This is one device I don't regret splurging on. Aside from the other complaints seen elsewhere, I do kinda regret that it doesn't allow you to sample at lower bit rates. Their bit-reduction feature is more of a bitcrushing distortion than an aliasing/haze thing. Other than that, it's pretty nifty.
I'm sold. Wonderful review. Happy holidays!
Hey Ricky! LOVED your set at #FOFN. I actually bought my Digitakt partially after seeing your work. It's become the center piece of my set now. Thanks for showing me the light!
To thanks for hanging out! Good to meet you man
Sick video, I liked the background track and delivery
Hi from France, you make great vidéos and you helped me buy my Digitakt as my first piece of gear few mounth ago, thanks a lot !
So glad i could help Arthur! Hope its coming along well
Yup works for me. I bought from the first batch available in my country. The most important instrument in my current set up. 👍
Dude, I've really enjoyed your videos (also full disclosure I own and love a digitakt) just wanted to say I really liked your camera work in this one. Well done.
Thanks!! i had a lot of fun shooting this one.
I really want to get a Digitakt and Digitone. I've had several Machinedrums, Monomachines, Sidstation, etc... and this really seems like a solid step forward. It's not "cheap", but compared to what a Machinedrum was new, it's a steal. Still never getting rid of the MD, but the Monomachine and Sidstation are just memories now.
Your videos are the best man. I really dig your channel
Enrique you should do a video on Overbridge now that the beta is out. This thing the center of my set up whether Im doing a total hardware set up, or combination of hardware and DAW. It just integrates into anything flawlessly. Its inspiring and everything I do in it has a unique "new" thing to it. The results are nothing like what you get out of just a DAW.
Hey Enrique, I'm loving your tutorials covering the Digitakt, they are so helpful...Thanks
Thanks Howard! means a lot
Thank You! You are so welcome.
Nice video, I love how you quickly went over why the machine is amazing. I love my Digitone for the same reason...you just want to play it!
exactly!
Accidently paused at 3:29 and nearly dropped my phone amidst the confusion 😂😂😂
i think the only thing lacking on it is time stretch and individual outs like on the MPC live and Toraiz SP-16.
Closed captioning @:10🤣😂🤪
You're such a trooper for surviving all of those attacks...positive vibes heading(
haha my life is ruuinneedd!!! Jk, i already get Siri pulling that fast one on me in text messages..
Yoh know really how to make nice videos, always so beautiful your light, the scenes and the nice tunes. Thx and puhh, I got to keep myself under control not to buy this thing immediately, I like it for a long time but to see your video was good to make a decision. Rytm or digitakt, analog, digital but in the end they sound both nice and the functions of the digitakt are huge.
Don't forget to mention that the Digitakt can be transformed into an amazing sample-based monosynth!
its perfect for both occasions, great vid!
Digitakt and a midi to cv converter is another way to control modular synths. I've been using the digitakt's midi lfo as a clock divider and clock source. I used the midimuso as the midi to cv converter.
On connectivity: A handful of CV would make this tiny box quite epic.
Great video. This thing looks awesome!
I think for me the literal only thing missing from this that would make it as good for me as an MPC one or Live would be controlling external synths in scale mode. I'm a guitarist, not a keyboard player...it's always a complete chore for me to have to use a keyboard to sequence my hardware synths. One thing I love about both Maschine and MPC is the ability to use the pads in scale mode...choose the key...and the only pads available to me to use are in the proper key. This may be cheating, but it greatly improves my ability to get tracks and ideas down without playing the wrong note 100x on a keyboard.
Until I can do this with a Digitakt, I just won't buy one.
doesnt the electribe 2 have that?
This is why I loved the ableton push 2 but it never can “control” other machines without using the Daws crappy send system (I hate latency)
I didn’t even think machines like this could be played in key? Does this machine do well with synth sounds? I’m mainly looking for a drum machine with intelligence (like dubbing, sequencing, stacking, etc)
I use my Digitakt for almost everything these days. It's great having a drum machine and midi sequencer I can compose songs on. However, it would be a lot more useful to me if it implemented standards-compliant USB audio and USB storage interfaces. This would provide the main features of Overbridge, but in a way which is far more compatible and future-proofed.
I recognize that Overbridge was previously intended to be a paid separate product which added extra features. But the popular response to that idea was so negative that Elektron cancelled it and went back to a free-only approach. That's great, except that their hardware is still artificially limited in ways which no longer have any commercial reason behind them. Instead of making those features work automatically with every current OS and every foreseeable future OS, Elektron designed their products so the extra features are fragile and proprietary and only work with very carefully-selected hardware and software from a particular time period.
So instead of the Digitakt being a massively versatile sampling multitool and multitrack audio interface, I can pretty much only use it as a drum machine and midi sequencer. I can't transfer digital audio data to or from the device because those features are locked behind proprietary software I can't run. It was a bad technological decision and a bad business decision.
Aside from that though, it's pretty awesome as a drum machine and midi sequencer.
Would you recommend another device?
Thank-you taking your time to write a well thought out review.
Thanks, but it's more of a rant than a review. :)
I got a Digitakt despite these issues because it's still the best at what it does... but it could be so much more if Elektron hadn't crippled it.
As for other devices which might be worth considering, the Synthstrom Deluge is the main competition that I'm aware of. It's not as intuitively designed, but its feature set is more powerful, more compatible, and more open. I had a really difficult time deciding between the two, and eventually the tie was broken by finding a good sale on the Digitakt. Well, that, and because the Deluge didn't yet have a song arrangement mode at the time. I may still get one eventually, but for now what I need is a good polysynth module like the Novation Peak or Elektron Analog Four.
Anyway, it'd be hard to go wrong with a Digitakt or a Deluge.
@@ToyKeeperGreat, thx, for you help. I'm looking to get something like this in the future. We will see.
I want to thank you for this video... I recently purchased a Roland TR-8S, which has many, but not all of the features of the Digi... really, for me, the reason was that back in the day I had Roland gear, so I was more familiar with the interface. I can't imagine I'd ever need a second drum machine, but I must agree with you - the Digitakt is absolutely a beast of a machine, and yeah, for the money? Like the man says "When you smoke it, you will know where that extra money went." :)
it's so funny I've slowly come to realize that all my older vintage gear is basically all Roland. Back in the day they must have had a really strong grip on the whole market!
@@RickyTinez The saddest day of my musical life was when I had to part with my TR808... I mean, I have about fifteen albums by artists that use that machine almost exclusively... notably Cabaret Voltaire during their early 90s minimal period. Now that I have the 'Trace' I don't feel so bad.
Just subscribed to your Chanel. Not sure how I stumbled upon t but I really enjoy your content so far. I am having mental struggles with pairing old gear with new gear right now and I feel like if I watch enough of your videos I’ll figure it out with either a couple purchases or a couple lessons in some time. 👊🏾 good work bro thank you!
Hell yea! Good luck man! Any gear in particular you working with??
Enrique Martinez Music yeah I have the Roland boutique Tr-08 and the VP-03, I have a Yamaha Motif, a proteus 2500, a Panorama P4 (just a controller I use for my DAW which is Reason by propellerheads), a new M Box Pro, and I’m trying to get them to all work together. I also have an M-Audio midisport 8x8. I have a couple analogue mixers chained up to at least be able to hear everything at the same time but...yeah you can see why I’m really interested in what your doing. I don’t see a lot of people playing with Midi and I have thought about documenting some of these things myself, if only to catalogue them you know?
My thoughts summed up perfectly! THE beste best best hardware I have!
LOVE this video. I’m trying to figure out a DAWless set up to play shows and am torn between this and the analog rythm 2? I’ll be syncing it with a korg minilogue too. Any suggestions?
Hi Ricky, I'm following your tutorials, reviews for the digitakts since some time which are really great and thanks a lot for the same. I know you like the device and also pointed out some limitations, issues as well. For me, I first purchased model cycle and Roland TR-6s together(I know those are FM synths and not sample based) and after watching the various videos regarding DT, I returned both the devices and bought the DT and its barely couple of weeks I'm with the device. I have no doubt that DT is awesome and Elektron is really way ahead in terms of power of sequencing and parameter/sample/sound locks etc however not sure why I feel like I really miss the model cycle and not sure if I can make a good use of the DT. Could you please suggest? I'm really getting confused.
I really like the look of this video. I am also a Sony user (A7iii) and although I realise that colour grading is specific to each video, I'd be really interested to know which picture profile you used to shoot the video? It looks really soft but the detail is all there. Great job on the grade too obviously - did you use LUTs or all your own work?
the Beta of Overbridge for the Digitakt is freakin amazing. Just tested the RYTM new Overbridge and its killer.
Great video as always - here are my 5 reasons, however, for selling my Digitakt: 1) No Timestretch - to me, you can't call yourself a "sampler" if you don't have time-stretch. It's a ubiquitous feature of nearly every decent "professional sampler" from the late 90's / early 2000's - and I find that quite unforgivable. 2) Pitch-shift. Same as before, if my 20 year old Emu Systems sampler can do this, why the heck can't the modern Elektron Digitakt do it? Just to be clear, I mean pitch-shift without changing the tempo. 3) No Song Mode. Yeah, I still like linear recording. I like building up a song with a verse, bridge, chorus, and it annoys me that I have to pay more money for Analog Rytm 2 or Octatrack to get this obvious feature. 4) Loading sounds/projects isn't intuitive. This is a general Elektron complaint of mine, it just seems a bit long-winded and tedious. My favourite gripe about the original MachineDrum was that I would save a beat and then after power-down/power-up it would keep the beat but it will have assigned a different kit to my beat. To not keep those two things combined is absurd. It's like I cooked a meal and then the next day, I want to cook it again, but my Girlfriend has bought completely different ingredients. If I'm going to be weird and wacky, then let me do it by choice, not by force. Elektron force their way of working onto you. Digitakt isn't as frustrating as MachineDrum, but the folder structure still seems clunky to me. 5) It's size. Why does everything have to be so small nowadays? It doesn't have to be a LinnDrum size .. but for all the reasons you mentioned that you love it, I find it too small (small screen, knobs close together), and I prefer boxes a bit bigger - less crammed - and one-knob-per-function. The Digitakt, I was hoping, would be a compact sampler - but without Timestretch, BPO-matched slicing / beat chopping and Pitch-shift, little RAM memory (only 64MB! and 1GB of +Drive) no individual outputs, no stereo samples, ...it's not a sampler .. it's a little drum machine with a cool sequencer and some sampling/playback features.
I know this box isn't for everyone but you can, through a really fun and weird work around, time stretch and or adjust pitch. It takes some creative use of LFOs assigned to the start play head on a grain length sample, so yes, it's a bit time consuming, but it can make everything from fairly normal sounding time stretch to absolutely bizarre noises. I totally agree that it's a bit of a beast of complexity (the whole Swedish to English mentality broke my mind when I bought a monomachine way back) but they've made huge improvements and personally I love it.
Try tr-8s
Can the Octratrack do all this stuff? I went for the Digitakt because the Octatrack was so much more expensive, so I don't know.
@@VictorSteiner Yes
IMO octatrack is more useful than the digitakt.
nice video, cool DoF and color grading. Well done!
Fast machine for getting loops and ideas for sure , takes up little space I just want a breakdown box for hitting the mixer , o wait that's OB let's hope its at Namm 2019
Good work, great voice for this, impressive
All those and reason 6: VESA mount on the bottom. I picked up some nice mic stand VESA mounts for this and the Digitone for live. Works like a champ!
Oh Man... that 303. Love it Boss Samplers for days
man what cameras, video recording gear do you use! Your stuff is so clean!
Great video! Im very new to music production. I sing, play some flutes, and some percussions. Im looking to fuse my live instruments with electronic music, I wanna be able to perfom solo, be self-sufficient, and weave in and out within the electronic realm with my live instruments. But I also wanna be able to do without my instrumets, and just play music just through my electronic device. I guess I'll keep learning, and changing, and adding things to my set-up, but for now I'm trying to decide on my first major gear, and I'm inclined towards hardwares rather that a DAW( since I dont have a computer, among other reasons). Would you recommend getting the Digitakt (or the digitone), as compared to the MPC, Novation Circuit, or Sp404A? I would really appreciate you advice.
Complete DAW-less beginner here. Been looking for an "all in one" groovebox kinda thing for my first piece of gear. Will be mostly fooling around in ambient/drone/melodic idm kind of stuff. Have pretty much narrowed down my choices to either a Deluge or Digitakt. Both seem like great boxes and are priced right, but Im having a touch time of deciding which would be better for me. Anyone feel like offering up some wisdom or advice on this one? Im open to all opinions. Thanks in advance.
Gonna show this video to my wife. When Ricky Tinez tells me to get a Digitakt, I have to obey.
2:54 the greatest description
That voice man, subscribed!
Yo put the caption on at the beginning. It says "I've had my d... attacked for some time now" LMBO. It got me here 😂
HAHAHAHAHA
It's ok, you can say dick on the internet. You won't get locked up.
Who made the instrumental playing in the background? Its really dope.
miss mine big time, bad for full song productivity but still miss being able to bust out a little demo super easily
What happened to it?
Ricky: “you should buy the digiakt!”
My broke ass who literally can’t even afford a volca: o-o
Things’ll pick up
I'm seeing as new unwanted Christmas gift-type Digitakts on sale, a month old and half price!
@@lundsweden lmao man whereeeee
Love to see a comparison between a Digitakt and a Deluge. I own a Deluge myself and love it, but I'd love to see some critical comparisons to other popular "do it all"-boxes. Enrique, do you still plan to get yourself a Deluge?
I would like to know this as well.
The biggest thanks is for your voice!!! Every review or vblogger or any video for products and anything nowadays includes some guy yelling and feeling very overly confident but you. I like your voice would say love but you know I am a guy we don't do that unfortunately... we are strong and hide our feelings...(no). Anyway You should be the good guy in any cartoon with this voice. And by the way thanks for the reviews ;)
Always enjoy your content. A big one for me is the videoquality, what camera are you using to shoot your videoes? and do you use a lot of lighting equipment? post-editing?
would love to know!
It looks so cute next to the SP303😍
Sold my mpc1000, electribe esx, AND arturia beatstep pro and replaced them all with the digitakt last year...couldn't be happier. I have a waaaaaay smaller footprint in my setup that I take to gigs, it's much lighter, and uses less cords and power since it's just one unit versus the 3 interconnected to the rest of my setup. The only thing I honestly miss is that dirty tube overdrive from the esx (although I don't miss how hot that unit got with it activated)!
i ll start making something with the esx... have you made any house on it?
Would love to see a video with your thoughts on the model samples
The sounds the keys make are worth sampling...love mine.
Some limitations that suck for me are:
- monitoring external audio stops when you record it
- you can't apply effects to external audio in (though overbeidge can be used for that). The digitone can apply fx on the other hand but then it can't sample (I read since The digitone has 2 cpus or something)
- no time stretching :(
- 33 second limit on samples
33s limit on sample recording length, not samples in general
Great video ! I wish it would have polyphony the digitakt
i love this channel, i watch everything aye, please would you just keep making content. P.S would love to see more educational content.
Thank you Grant, i really appreciate the kind words!
Have had my Digitakt for almost 6 months and have hardly used it..which I feel so lame for after watching this. I buy too much gear and never fully learn how to use all my equipment. Gonna spend some time really learning my Digitakt
I need to get away from my MAC, I lost creativity using just Logic X all the time - but I can't decide what will let me get into DAWLess world - Digitakt, MPC One, Circuit Tracks!! Any advice?
Great video Enrique. Had I not bought one already, I would now, after watching this. And I agree - the form factor here is absolutely amazing. One thing that I just can’t get over is that it’s MONO. If it was STEREO I could easily call it the best unit there is.
pretty much the main reason I went back from one to the Octatrack. Both are brilliant machines though. Love them!
@@damiensmith371 I still hope they'll address this in one of the firmware upgrades further down the road. It does have two inputs, doesn't it?
@@SoundQchannel As best I know it's not something they're able to alter with upgrades, believe it would have to be a hardware alteration for a future version update like a Digitakt mkii, but I'm not positive. Def still a beast of a machine no doubt about it.
@@damiensmith371 Let's hope it's doable, cause the speed with which this thing lets you come up with new ideas is just unbelievable.
@@SoundQchannel It's a beautiful machine for creating. amazingly smooth and intuitive work flow once you get into it for sure.
Very cool how you explain, thanks.
What would be the best way to record a quality sounding video coming straight from the headphone or output 1 to the android?
It really sounds amazing, but as an mpc1000 ex user (really miss it and your videos are GASing me so hard to get a 1000) my question is: this or your 1k? I've never seen an user interface as friendly and a sequencer as powerful as the mpc's one either 2kxl, 1k or even the 2k. simply love it. what is this workflow compared to the mpc?
btw: tried the mpc one yet? i'd love to hear for your opinion on that one also!!!
Hey Ricky wasa, I love your music and tutorials, which one would you recommend to buy a so 404sx or a digitakt?
so I just voluntarily watched 5 minutes of what's basically a commercial brochure
you got a link to that beat playing in the background? shit is dope