Introducing Digitakt II

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Pics & details previously posted here.

"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.

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Cuckoo: Why do I 🖤 Blast Beats so much?

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Erae II - Super Sensitivity + 24 outputs + MPE looper! #namm2024

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"Embodme is making a next gen Erae II controller. Check it out!"

4MS New Modules - Secrets! - #namm2024

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"4MS has some great new modules. One which is not formally announced, but since it accidentally leaked, they're talking about it. It's very interesting!"

The Vibe of Buchla & Friends - #namm2024 side quest

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"Alongside NAMM, Buchla shot an event for the smaller manufacturers and developers down town L.A. Buchla & Friends. For the people. I love it."

Soma Enner - Experimental Glitch Monster! - #namm2024

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MicroKorg 2 - First peek - #namm2024

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"Korg announced their Microkorg 2, a successor to their longest running production synth ever. I really like what I hear and see. Great user interface, with colourful, fun and clear parameters. I'm looking forward to dive deeper into this."

Additional MicroKorg 2 posts

#Jamuary 29th 2024 "fanks" feat @truecuckoo

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"CUCKOO slappin some slappy bass on this plate. #jamuary2024 #bassstation2 #KO2"

Korg PS 3300 FS - Analog Polyphony King #NAMM2024

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"Korg announced an insane project: The resurrection of the PS 3300 FS.
I had a chat with Korg's rep about how it came about."

Additional KORG PS-3300 posts

Mega Synthesis Tutorial

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For more info about Mega Synthesis visit https://sonicware.jp

Chapters:
00:00 intro
02:28 Hardware overview
04:14 Select presets
04:43 Velocity knob
05:38 Nice factory presets
07:49 3 x FM tracks
08:02 2 x PSG tracks, (8-bit style)
09:34 Vibrato
10:08 PCM samples
12:02 Track recap
12:16 Program a bass line
13:11 Select a melody sound
13:42 Making a track longer
14:33 About live-recording
15:18 Turning on the metronome
16:02 Recording in real-time
16:40 Poly/ mono/ legato/ portamento
17:38 Arpeggio
18:59 Muting a track
19:14 Reverb and other FX
21:52 Changing a sound in retrospect
22:13 Sound Locking
25:51 Parameter locking pan, fx send etc…
26:37 Recording drums
27:42 Mixing advice
28:41 Stutter
30:25 Don't forget to SAVE!
30:44 Yuzo Koshiro's factory presets
33:22 Design an FM sound from scratch - Edit Mode
34:55 Algorithms
35:32 Starting out a patch
36:28 Changing an Operator Frequency
36:38 The envelope generator (EG)
37:42 Mixing and tuning frequencies
40:02 Feedback
41:13 Another algorithm (5)
41:34 Adjusting Envelopes per Operator
41:58: Changing frequencies per operator
42:42 Diving deeper into the algorithm
44:45 The looping envelope (SSG EG)
46:13 Saving the sound
46:29 Make an E-piano sound with velocity
50:27 External MIDI keyboard + MIDI channels
51:48 Legacy modes
53:46 Jamming out a song

#Jamuary 18th 2024 ft. @truecuckoo

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"#Jamuary 18th 2024 ft. CUCKOO 'let's use a weird time signature', 'ok!' #polyendtracker #op1field #megafm #trippy #jamuary2024"

Jamuary 16th 2024 "Gravel dog" with @truecuckoo

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"#Jamuary 16th 2024 'Gravel dog' with CUCKOO
Can u see how fun this was?
#dnb on the #digitakt #heat #livensomething and #polyendtracker."

#jamuary2024 With Guest Captain Credible

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"Go check out @CptCredible [posts here]
He's awesome."

#Jamuary2024 - Mega Synthesis

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"I'm learning the new Mega Synthesis by @SONICWARE
Sounds like a Megadrive. If you know anything about me, you know that I was practically brought up by the Megadrive sound. So this is particularly dear to me. To have a hardware synh with Megadrive sound.
Tutorial coming soon."

Teenage Engineering Introduces EP-133, K.O.II

EP-133 K.O. II by teenage engineering - performance demo

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Update: video added. Don't miss Cuckoo's overview video below.

via Teenage Engineering

THE CHAMP IS HERE

A versatile machine with an impressive set of features, K.O.ii is the new champion in and outside the studio.

UNRIVALED BY ANYTHING IN ITS CLASS, this is the sampler you've always wanted at THE incredible price of just $299

Get ready for round 2

Meet the evolution of the world's most sold sampler. based on the legendary PO-33 K.O!, the new EP–133 K.O.II adds more power, more sampling capabilities, a fully reworked sequencer and brand new punch-in 2.0™ effects. introducing a workflow that lets you go from idea to TRACK faster than ever.

It's pocket operators gone pro.

Knock out features

9 projects each with 80,000 notes

projects contain 4 groups, each with 99 patterns

patterns have 12 TRACKS for samples and MIDI

variable pattern length per group (1 to 99 bars)

12 mono / 6 stereo voice polyphony

use groups to mix and match patterns on the fly

record and automate all 12 fader assignments

sequence in free time or quantized with swing

assign any pad to one of 16 MIDI channels

loop mode from OB-4 with length AND slide

12 pressure and velocity sensitive pads

instantaneous timE correction and erase

slice samples LIVE OR AUTOmatically

stereo / mono sampling at 46.875 kHz / 16-bit

punch-in 2.0™ effects (PRESSURE SENSITIVE)

arrange quickly using the instant commit feature

32-bit float signal chain, 24-bit ADC / DAC

SYNC IO FOR EXT. GEAR. 8TH, 16TH NOTE OR SYNC24

6 built-in send fx and a master compressor

drag and drop samples using the sample tool

Get started with the new EP-133, K.O.II by Teenage Engineering (Tutorial)

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:58 Hardware overview
02:19 Assign sounds to pads
03:08 Navigate sounds by typing
04:01 A quick glance at the "menus"
04:33 Live recording a beat
04:52 Setting pattern length in bars
05:16 Start recording from any bar
05:34 Recording "free" unquantised
06:20 Erasing a track
07:05 Quantising an unquantised recording
08:12 Step sequencer
08:54 Edit sound envelope
09:27 Edit sound amplitude
09:46 Replace a sound
09:59 Sample from the built in mic
11:23 Trim a sound
12:01 Punch-in record
12:13 Sample a vinyl form the line input
13:01 Chop a sample
13:47 Groups
14:20 Layers
14:35 Play chromatically with Keys mode
15:18 Edit sound play mode
15:48 Use a MIDI keyboard
15:47 Record a longer pattern, unquantised
17:32 Punch-in quantisation
18:13 The fader
19:52 FX
22:30 Punch-in FX
25:00 Looper
25:47 Setting the tempo
26:03 Having fun
26:20 Patterns
26:56 Commit and duplicate "scene"
27:48 Edit a duplicate pattern
29:08 Getting lost in the music
30:44 Recording the fader - jamming on
31:00 Jamming on…
31:36 The KO 2000
31:49 9 Projects
32:17 MIDI sequence an external synth
35:47 Looper affects MIDI out
36:19 Yeah!

Synplant 2 - Industry Game Changer

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"Sonic Charge has worked hard for about a decade. Now you know why! In an interesting talk with top developer Magnus Lidström at Sonic Charge, he's taking us through his brand new and upcoming Synplant 2, and all of the insane details that took him and his neural network so long to make."

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:08 Planting seeds and dragging branches
03:11 The joy of sound
03:50 Manual DNA editor
06:13 100% Backwards compatibility
06:44 Next gen modulation
08:48 Play Modes and Modulation
09:53 Smart Sync feature
10:54 The Oscillators
12:59 The Filter
14:38 The New Reverb
17:53 Panning
18:18 Clipping adjust
19:20 Introducing Artificial Intelligence
20:43 Genopatch: From Sample to Synth Patch with AI
24:18 Developing and Training the AI
28:35 Challenging the AI
32:46 Randomising branches
33:50 Testing the AI on Microtonic (Teaser)
38:39 Microtonic still going strong 20 years later
39:42 Beatspace, Patternarium and AI
42:50 The PO-32
45:19 Developing and training neural nets
55:40 When will Synplant 2 be available?

https://soniccharge.com

The Wiggler II & The Truth about Super Booth 2023

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"Taken from the @AudioPilz @superboothberlin 2023 coverage:"

The Truth about Super Booth 2023

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"Welcome to the AudioPilz SuperBooth 2023 special. Will it provide The Truth about Super Booth 2023 ??? Including Borat - like encounters with Tatsuya Takahashi of Korg Berlin, marketing-meetups in the Teenage Engineering bus, my failure of getting a Yamaha representative in front of the camera, my lost Elektron brother, we will find out about how Polyend deals with trolls, whether Arturia people actually like the Drumbrute, there's plenty of meme goodness and I will jam on all the synths that I'm otherwise not allowed to put on Bad Gear. Finally and most importantly: does Nick Batt of Sonic State know about all the memes about him?

@superboothberlin @sonicstate

00:00 Introduction
00:16 Bad Gear???
00:20 Teenage Engineering 1 (TE TP-7)
00:45 Nick Batt #1
01:01 Tatsuya Takahashi (Korg Berlin) #1
01:51 Nick Batt #2
01:57 Arturia #1
02:30 Nick Batt #3
02:36 Sinevibes x True Cuckoo, Bad Gear Intro Tune
02:54 Tatsuya Takahashi #2
03:01 Nord
03:16 Sorry for deleting the Elektron Footage 😔😔😔
03:25 The Teenage Engineering Bus Incident
04:00 Nick Batt #4
04:13 Arturia #2 (DrumBrute Discussion)
04:53 Polyend #1
05:01 Nick Batt #5
05:25 Sinevibes #2 (huh, huh, huh,...)
05:32 Waldorf Confessions
05:51 Wiggler V2 (Hainbach approves)
06:08 Tatsuya Takahashi #3
06:34 Novation
06:42 Polyend #2
06:49 Yamaha
06:55 Nick Batt #6
07:03 FL Studio
07:12 Jam Part 1 (Schmidt Synthesizer)
07:29 Jam Part 2 (UDO Super Gemini)
07:44 Jam Part 3 (Waldorf Quantum MK2)
07:59 Jam Part 4 (Oberheim OB-X8)
08:14 Jam Part 5 (Mayer EMI)
08:30 Nick Batt #7 (Outro)"

Synthstrom Audible Deluge going Open Source Event! - Superbooth 2023

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"Read all about Synthstrom's Open Source announcement:
https://synthstrom.com/open/"

Lambda Synthetics Polypulse - Superbooth 2023

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"More about Lambda Synthetics: http://lambdasynthetics.com"

See the Lambda Synthetics label below for more.

Superlative's Beautiful Modular - Superbooth 2023

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"More info about Superlative: https://www.playsuperlative.com"