@lescour1Yeah, obviously. Thanks for the wisdom. That wasn’t really what either of us were talking about tho…
The unofficial 'hardware forums mantra' for whenever someone wants/needs a feature that someone else doesn't care about... ;)
@lescour1Yeah, obviously. Thanks for the wisdom. That wasn’t really what either of us were talking about tho…
The unofficial 'hardware forums mantra' for whenever someone wants/needs a feature that someone else doesn't care about... ;)Well i like the idea of Digitakt because it does what i want it to do. It obviously misses features you want, so probably not a good device for you. Thats exactly what you were talking about?
Ugh…Not at all. I responded to your post, your response to mine was unrelated to anything I said… It’s fine tho, not worth this kind of bickering 
Not bickering man, just wondering what you’re on about lol 
Not bickering man, just wondering what you're on about lol ;)
Haha, communication breakdown
Just wondering about selling my MPC1000 to make way for the Digitakt. I do miss my OT terribly but a few things pissed me off (monophonic samples, MIDI note polyphony awkward, etc). Think I may have to give this one a swerve which is a shame, I love the Elektron sequencers.Sounds like the things that pissed you off are still part of the Digitakt. 4 note "chords" on MIDI tracks only, no polyphony on audio tracks, AFAIK.I've been thinking about all the fun ways to hack at the thing, and using the LFO to do "video game" style chords (modulating through a pitch sequence very quickly) or wave-travel through a sample with a bunch of pitches I think will be fun.
Precisely, which is why I think I have to give it a swerve. Looks a lot more fun and hands on than the MPC1000 though…
I really dig this new little box.
It’s pretty cool for sequencing other gear : chromatic mode makes it possible to play chords, it’s very nice to play with it.
I haven’t plugged a keyboard yet, can’t tell you more on this.
I regret the lack of arpeggiator, I miss it to play other synths…
A pity you can’t add FX on Input either.
At least you can hear/monitor the inputs (alas the sound gets cut once you stopped sampling)
But otherwise it’s a beast 
8 tracks is plenty when you come from OP1 ^^
FX sound pretty good, any waveform turns it into a monosynth beast… Filter is perfect for acid, all the more with a bit of distorsion !
What I like most is the sequencer, I use and abuse of conditional trigs, retrigs.
You can press several buttons and turn any knob to set the same values for all the trigs pressed.
E. g. velocity, so nice to enter ghost notes.
The fact that buttons are in two rows is very convenient.
And with certain samples playing only once every X patterns, it’s easy to evade the 64 steps.
Mutes and BPM can be recorded into a pattern, I have just started to discover what it means but it’s huge 
Cool thing is you can let long samples play from 1 pattern to another while no new note is triggered on the corresponding track.
Sampling is dead easy, but you can’t program the start with a step, it’s all manual. So I still have to practice to find my way towards transition trick and being able to craft several patterns in a row…
Overall I really love the sound of it.
I do believe OT is more powerful, but the sound alone makes me want to stay on DT.
I really dig this new little box.It’s pretty cool for sequencing other gear : chromatic mode makes it possible to play chords, it’s very nice to play with it.
I haven’t plugged a keyboard yet, can’t tell you more on this.I regret the lack of arpeggiator, I miss it to play other synths…
A pity you can’t add FX on Input either.
At least you can hear/monitor the inputs (alas the sound gets cut once you stopped sampling)But otherwise it’s a beast
8 tracks is plenty when you come from OP1 ^^
FX sound pretty good, any waveform turns it into a monosynth beast… Filter is perfect for acid, all the more with a bit of distorsion !What I like most is the sequencer, I use and abuse of conditional trigs, retrigs.
You can press several buttons and turn any knob to set the same values for all the trigs pressed.
E. g. velocity, so nice to enter ghost notes.
The fact that buttons are in two rows is very convenient.
And with certain samples playing only once every X patterns, it’s easy to evade the 64 steps.Mutes and BPM can be recorded into a pattern, I have just started to discover what it means but it’s huge
Cool thing is you can let long samples play from 1 pattern to another while no new note is triggered on the corresponding track.
Sampling is dead easy, but you can’t program the start with a step, it’s all manual. So I still have to practice to find my way towards transition trick and being able to craft several patterns in a row…
Overall I really love the sound of it.
I do believe OT is more powerful, but the sound alone makes me want to stay on DT.
Excellent info!!! Thank you! Mine arrives tomorrow!
I pre-ordered one last night…hoping I will actually get one from the first batch.
@<a href=“https://operator-1.com/index.php?p=/profile/LyingDalai” rel=“nofollow” style=“margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: “lucida grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, tahoma, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(1, 115, 198); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);”>LyingDalai great breakdown.
As an OT owner I’m attracted to the streamlined UI of the DT, but disappointed by its lack of performance features. The crossfader is the most fun part of the OT for me.
Agreed @Anfim - I like my cross fader so much, as well as 3 lfos/designer.
Very jealous about condition trigs and the filter /distortion. (Plus simple UI does looks killer).
The edit all would be nice to have a group routing so not to affect bass/kik.
Oh I love my OTs mixer capabilities - but that’s where the complexity comes in.
DT is nicely positioned in their range ,not too much over lap.
This is exactly what I was hoping for. Can’t wait for mine to show up next week!
Try as I might, I just can’t get excited by it. All depends on what music you make really. I like the older house/Balearic/disco stuff so getting a Roland R8 mk2 which has killer 808,909s etc plus lovely humanize groove features and keeping the sampling duties to the OP-1. It’s a great time for music production now-so many options from the past 25 years
Try as I might, I just can't get excited by it. All depends on what music you make really. I like the older house/Balearic/disco stuff so getting a Roland R8 mk2 which has killer 808,909s etc plus lovely humanize groove features and keeping the sampling duties to the OP-1. It's a great time for music production now-so many options from the past 25 years
A very competent sampler, even if downscaled from Elektron’s other offerings. Direct input is great for sampling, sound quality is great, sample “editor” functions (zoom, trim, save) are quick and intuitive. The workflow is based on behavioural patterns so invoking functions always feels familiar and is easy to remember / hard to forget. Takes any sound. Amazing sequencer for drums/beats. Not that many bugs with v1.03. The build is good. I’d have loved a less resonant chassis, but hey, at this price it’s kinda hard to complain.
but hey, at this price it's kinda hard to complain.
Erm… It’s nearly £700 once you factor in Overbridge for separate outs…
It’s hard to complain about a Korg Es2 at £370. But from some angles the Digitakt kinda begs complaining about - No slicing. No timestrech. No insert fx. No memory expansion options and only 1gb onboard. Only 64gb ram. No separate physical outs. No polyphonic tracks. No song mode. No stereo sample option. No performance macros/scenes. Elektron ‘could’ (should) have been waaaay more generous with that box…Instead they just bank on p-locks and trig conditions being enough to sell at a high price. I’ll laugh my ass off when all other companies add those 2 features… won’t be long
but hey, at this price it's kinda hard to complain.Erm… It’s nearly £700 once you factor in Overbridge for separate outs…
It’s hard to complain about a Korg Es2 at £370. But from some angles the Digitakt kinda begs complaining about - No slicing. No timestrech. No insert fx. No memory expansion options and only 1gb onboard. Only 64gb ram. No separate physical outs. No polyphonic tracks. No song mode. No stereo sample option. No performance macros/scenes. Elektron ‘could’ (should) have been waaaay more generous with that box…Instead they just bank on p-locks and trig conditions being enough to sell at a high price. I’ll laugh my ass off when all other companies add those 2 features… won’t be long
I mean it’s hard to complain, not that it’s impossible. It’s basically cheaper than the OP1, has more memory, a mature and musical sequencer (in comparison) capable of deep variation, an actually useful UI (just compare sampling workflow to Es2), the included single-cycle waveforms can be used for synth-like patches, and Overbridge Premium will allow you to take the outputs separately. Yes a could have / should have, but so far, for me, it has been more fun than the OP1 (no slicing, no timestretch, less memory, no song mode, no stereo sample option, etc), and more affordable than Electron’s bigger boxes. A lot of the magic is in the software. It’s just super easy and quick.
I’m a big fan of the general Elektron workflow/sequencer/ui too (tho would love to see them increase the 64 step limit + finally acknowledge polyphonic sampling…). Love OT and would definitely have fun with DT. Just doesn’t interest me enough to cop one at the price. Seems like a lot left out. Possibly with a mkii on roadmap in a few years… If I didn’t have an OT then maybe I’d consider it a little more. Tho I’m not really digging elektron as a creative/generous company in general lately.
Op1 size/polyphony/weird+fast sequencer options/battery/tape tracks export etc set it apart from everything else out there for me. It was cheaper when I grabbed one tho. I paid £620… Saw them for £800 lately, that’s a pretty crazy price… But yeah, portability was def the main Op1 swayer for me. Shame DT + OT mkii don’t have battery 
Edit - Op1 has basic slicing in the drum sampler? And Polyphonic slices is killer… And the tape is basically ‘song mode’
Edit - Op1 has basic slicing in the drum sampler? And Polyphonic slices is killer...
yes, true that. I think nothing is stopping Elektron to provide a “split to samples” function that would just chop up a loop and load it in the sample memory of a project and assign 8 of the slices to the pads. But I find the encoder workflow for adjusting start/end of samples to be pretty quick but also quite precise. Recording weird sounds and saving little fragments has become a favourite pastime.
OP1 and DT are totally different approaches so it’s hard to compare them IMO. DT is a cool box for sure, the only thing preventing me from swapping my OT for one is my love of fader scenes.
Absolutely loving the Digitakt. Feels a lot more immediate than my OT ever did, a lot of that is down to the ease of trimming samples and the two rows of trigs being more “keyboard like” than 16 buttons ever could be. And the reverb and delay sound lovely.