Introducing Digitakt II

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"We are delighted to announce the release of Digitakt II - Send yourself to another sampling dimension, weaving splinters of sound in stereo, ripped from the moment and brought to your fingertips for marvelous audio manipulation and beat arraying. Preserve or distort reality as you so desire with 16 tracks ready for stereo or mono samples, or MIDI. Choose from several swappable filters for each track and utilize a wide assortment of effects and modulation, pull on massive processing power, and enough memory for a lifetime of samples. And with further tasty features like a Euclidean sequence generator, an extended 128 step sequencer, kits, trig modes, an extensive sample library, and a modular workflow to play with, your sonic-montage sculpting potential will know no beat-making bounds.

Digitakt II is available to purchase from the Elektron website or from retailers carrying the Elektron range of products. Pricing on elektron.se is 999 USD/1049 EUR."

Digitakt II — At A Glance

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"Digitakt II offers endless drum collage with 16 audio tracks all ready for stereo or mono samples or MIDI, swappable filters, 3 LFOs per track, a 128-step sequencer, expanded memory and power, and so much more. Here, Risa T talks through a bunch of the awesome features on offer, and takes us all on some sweet sonic escapades."

Review: DIGITAKT II vs OG Digitakt // Everything new in Digitakt 2 // Detailed tutorial

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Timeline below.

Digitakt 2 - Beginner's MEGA TUTORIAL

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Timeline further below.

loopop TIMELINE:
0:00 Intro
1:10 New pages
1:45 KB button
2:10 Preset/Kit
2:40 128 steps
3:00 Overbridge?
3:40 16 audio tracks
4:40 Stereo
4:50 Storage
5:40 Sample pool x8
6:40 Kits
7:00 Perform kit
8:25 Stretch machine
9:55 Filter machines
11:40 Comb filter
12:30 Euclidean seq
14:10 Trig modes
16:20 Page loops
17:10 Prepare mutes
17:55 New FX
19:00 Bypass compress
19:55 Control almost all
21:00 Glide/glissando
21:25 Expression mods
22:10 MIDI learn
23:10 Name CCs
22:45 New LFOs, env
24:00 Trig conditions
25:00 Chains & misc
25:35 Pros and cons
29:00 Factory patterns

Cuckoo Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:10 Hardware Overview
00:02:07 The Elektron System
00:07:12 Booting it up, dynamic loading
00:07:53 Overview of the panel
00:11:43 Play a pattern
00:12:00 Stop playback
00:12:36 Selecting patterns
00:13:46 Your samples - your style
00:14:33 The power of stereo
00:15:12 One last cuckoo pattern
00:15:33 Create a new project
00:16:58 Naming a project, files, kits
00:18:00 Loading a project
00:18:49 Exit menu
00:19:17 Factory preset kit
00:19:46 Make your first pattern
00:20:37 Keep editing while it's playing
00:21:04 Keep an eye on the rec button
00:21:23 Select another track to edit
00:22:03 Preparing to live record
00:22:36 Quantising live recording
00:23:44 Metronome
00:24:40 Changing the tempo (bpm)
00:24:55 Tuning a sample
00:25:17 Setting the track level
00:25:37 Adjusting the amp envelope
00:26:05 Exploring Track Effects
00:26:56 Trimming a sample
00:27:34 Stereo or mono
00:28:03 Clear pattern, to start over
00:28:34 Mixing with the filters
00:30:27 Set Preroll for Live rec count-in
00:31:16 Remember to turn off the metronome
00:31:40 Keep fine tuning during playback
00:32:17 Add fast hi-hats in no-time
00:32:37 Modulating a hihat - predictably
00:34:06 Modulating a hihat - randomised
00:35:33 Modulating a hihat - more modulation
00:36:36 Playing the keyboard
00:36:49 Envelope modes
00:37:36 The filter envelope
00:38:40 Multiple pattern pages
00:40:56 Set pattern pages per track
00:43:21 Preview copy paste notes
00:44:30 Send to FX per trig
00:44:57 FX settings
00:47:29 Exploring the other filters
00:49:29 Conditional trigs
00:50:34 Save project
00:50:50 Selecting samples
00:51:53 Quick loading samples
00.52:44 Loop a single cycle waveform
00:53:17 Keyboard folding scales
00:55:01 Portamento
00:55:20 Longer pattern again
00:55:53 Parameter locking a modulation
00:56:53 The perform kit
00:58:04 The master compressor
01:02:46 Copy/ Paste Patterns and tracks
01:03:25 Edit All tracks at the same time
01:03:51 Queue up pattern change
01:04:26 The two mute modes
01:06:29 Loading many samples
01:07:44 Saving presets
01:09:29 Saving presets to the Preset Pool
01:10:57 Multiple presets on one track
01:15:07 Trig modes overview
01:15:44 Trig mode - Preset Pool
01:16:56 Sampling your first sample
01:19:55 Sample a loop
01:22:30 Track machines
01:23:05 The Stretch machine
01:23:42 The Werp machine
01:26:01 Sampling again
01:26:25 Changing the tempo
01:26:57 Trig-less trigs
01:28:27 Sampling for the GRID machine
01:35:14 What's under the hood