How I wrote an album with Elektron Digitakt, Digitone, & Octatrack

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Creating an album seems like a big task, and it certainly is! But it's important to keep in mind that it's a process that can unfold over time. In this video, I'll share some general tips and give an overview of my process for writing songs and albums on the Elektron Digitakt, Digitone, and Octatrack, and sprucing things up in Logic Pro, my DAW of choice.
0:00 Intro
0:49 Song Approach/Example
5:14 Be Patient with Writing
6:04 Embarrassing myself in a DAW
8:32 What Next?
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[@classic_mistake]

Thanks for sharing. It gives me some hope for my workflow. I also try and mix everything perfectly in the digitakt, I then use overbridge to record a single wav of the main out. Done. The part that’s holding me back is the mastering.
Your album sounded really good, I’m happy to know you’ve mixed it in the box like me!

[@SlowHaste]

Thanks so much, I appreciate that! Yeah it’s really not a bad workflow, it helps you commit to decisions and really juice the capabilities on these devices.

[@cwehden]

Great content thanks 🎉

[@SlowHaste]

Thanks for watching!

[@tonesmith6406]

Crunchwrap and a Quesadilla. I've always enjoyed your videos.

[@SlowHaste]

Gr8 order, thanks for watching :)))

[@ffu-jf1ph]

Thanks. I've been struggling to flesh out full, structured songs using my hardware and even though the gear is different, it is helpful to see how somebody else does it.

[@SlowHaste]

That’s great to hear, I’m glad you can apply it to your own gear!

[@design8r]

This is so great!! Congrats on the album! 👍👍 I sold my digitakt to get a digitone and now I want both haha..

[@SlowHaste]

Thanks so much! They really do work great together :)

[@FuZZbaLLbee]

Regarding the muting I found that music also does a lot of automated filter opening. But you can indeed do that as a separate transition scene

[@SlowHaste]

Absolutely!

[@robertsyrett1992]

My taco bell order is a hard normal daddy by squarepusher with a diet coke.

[@SlowHaste]

Diet Coke gang

[@Calamindir]

Thanks for this overview. What do you then do with your albums? Are you able to generate money with them?

[@SlowHaste]

Very little! Tbh I make more from the channel than from my released music. Making good money with music is unfortunately super tough these days :/

[@Calamindir]

@@SlowHaste Thanks for the insight. Have you tried performing you album live as a ticketed event? We have a few Ambient ticketed events here in the UK that splits the revenue between the artists.

[@SlowHaste]

@@Calamindir I haven’t yet but I’d really like to now that I’m living in a little city. I’d have to re-program some stuff to make it work live, but it’s doable.. I just need to… actually do it hahah

[@Calamindir]

@@SlowHaste Yes. It will always be a little different from the recorded version, as it will be each time you play.

[@_lukaszbugajski]

Hi! On Digitakt I can switch samples from sample pool quickly. And new sample takes on all the actual settings and trigs. Does this work the same way on Octatrack? What if the sample is sliced?

[@SlowHaste]

Yes, it will retain all of the track’s trigs & settings. Slicing is handled a bit differently though, since it effects the actual wave form - it wouldn’t retain the slice info, but I can’t recall exactly how that would behave/ultimately effect a new sample in that slot (it would likely just get rid of the slice info)

[@_lukaszbugajski]

@@SlowHaste Thank you! Making a slice grid like 4/32/64 also makes a new waveform?