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I've got a digitakt that I've been having alot of fun with, but after jamming with a buddies microkorg and dx200 im itching for some sort of synth to pair with it. Im a bit torn between the digitone and the dx reface.. the reface is like half the price and has keys, but im already used to elektrons workflow and due to the very weird way my setup is the digitone would fit a lot better then then reface. I currently put my takt on top of my djing setup when I want to use it, and it just so happens its the perfect size to fit on a turntable between the spindle, light, and power knob, to where it only has a mm or two so it can't move. If I get the tone it'll fit perfectly on the other turntable and so I can just set the both of them on top of my setup to jam. If I get the reface ill need to set it on top of my desk awkwardly off to the side and won't be facing my speakers when I use it. I suppose I could try to finangle some sort of stand to put it over the turntables and mixer, but it would be awkwardly high and butting up against my shelves.  Are there any other similarly sized synth modules that would fit in this space? titty_baby_ fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Jul 12, 2021 |
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Ok Comboomer posted:I wouldn’t put weighted objects that I was gonna be pressing down on repeatedly directly on top a turntable platter The pressing action is pretty light, but I hear you on having a two pound weight on one side of my platter. Unfortunately using a cover isn't really an option either, as the record shelf is 3 high and already at the comfortable end of high for me. A cover just brings it into the stratosphere. I'll just give in an get some extra long cables so I can sit at my desk
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Jul 12, 2021 16:18
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Bought a used sh01a to pair with the digitakt. When it heated up it smelled like animal pee. Returned it and got a blofeld, which is awesome except now on day 3 I'm running into the infamous "hosed up encoder" problem, on a brand new synth. If the firmware update doesn't change this then it looks like I'm back to cruising for synth modules on Amazon:(
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Sep 2, 2021 06:11
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Startyde posted:The firmware update fixes it usually, sometimes they need more debounce, the fix isn’t hard. Whats debounce? I feel a little more reassured after your post. Im not trying to push it with huge amounts of voices, modulation, fx, etc, I just bought it because it seemed like a very flexible and affordable polysynth. My planned workflow will be to make baselines and mono stuff with it to resample into the digitakt, and then pads and leads to record in stereo when I record my jams onto ableton.
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Sep 2, 2021 18:09
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For my first bit of hardware I bought a digitakt with my stimmy $ last year. I felt like it had a bit of a learning curve- it wasn't as "immediate" as other gear ive used, and it took me a good amount of practice and reading to get used to it. The manual doesn't include all the key combinations and theres all sorts of weird tricks and workarounds I've found for things by looking online. I do really like it now though and can work pretty quickly, but I still feel like I've scratched the surface of it. My goal with it was record everything into ableton and work from there, and its been great for that. Having each of the 8 tracks come in on a seperate channels, along with the master L/R and the 2 inputs, all over USB, is real nice. The sampler is real easy to use too and ive sampled records, the TV, my phone, etc into it for use. The main thing I dont like is the lack of a song mode. You can chain patterns but the chains aren't saved. You could sort of hack it with extensive use of conditional triggers, resampling, etc, but its not very straightforward. An MPC, polyend tracker, or (i believe) the octotrack all have song modes. For something to pair it with you don't necessarily have to stay in the elektron system. The digitakt has 8 midi tracks it can send, so you can use the sequencer and LFO of the digitakt to control other hardware. That being said, I havent used any of the other elektron stuff but ive heard its all good.
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Sep 5, 2021 17:11
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minidracula posted:
Just get a beebo or zoia and you'll have a great reverb, delay, chorus, flanger, phaser, drum.machine, and synth, all in one pedal
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Sep 7, 2021 01:31
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nominal posted:Incidentally, Empress just opened orders for the Euroburo last Thursday. It's pretty much a Eurorack Zoia with an optional desktop enclosure. I've been waiting on this for a good year or so and ALMOST broke and bought a regular Zoia. They pretty much announced it just as I was starting to be tempted again.
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Sep 8, 2021 20:20
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watho posted:does the digitakt have timestretch? otherwise you could possibly get a used octatrack mk1 for… well not cheap but It doesn't have a proper timestretch mode, but people have figured out a workaround by filling the pattern with trigs and using the lfo to restart the sample at each trig at the proper timing. Its a bit convoluted but not difficult to do.
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Sep 17, 2021 15:24
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I'm having GAS again for this. Another tracker like the polyend but with a smaller footprint and costing a few hundred less.
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Sep 18, 2021 16:20
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My entire fm philosophy is "gently caress with things until I get a uk bass sort of sound" and I can say I've reached this point easily enough. I didnt realize operator in ableton is fm until recently, so I've effectively been doing fm synthesis for a decade
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Oct 8, 2021 20:08
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Rod Hoofhearted posted:A sampler. I can loop a waveform on my digitakt buddy
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Jan 9, 2022 04:05
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DukeDuke posted:https://twitter.com/ComputerLove_/status/1509373202807484420?s=20&t=abRGoSRZc799EHg2d3hHYg Roughly $1500 in today's money
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Mar 31, 2022 06:25
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Matt Zerella posted:GAS strikes again, tomorrow im picking up a Digitakt with a stand and decksaver for 525 Thats not gas, that's a good deal. If you don't get with it you can easily flip it and get more then your money back
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Apr 17, 2022 16:15
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bop bop perano posted:Oh cool, the idea of having a mini MnM box in the form of a digitakt like elektron box is exciting, and would compliment the digitakt well. I assume it only has one LFO per track? I saw someone going over it, and it looked the same as the digitakt LFO, but with destinations for what seemed like most of the synth parameters, I think they were using the wavetable synth, and used the LFO to change the wave shape, if I remember correctly. If there is only one LFO I hope they add it in an update, and like you said, the Sid and mnm stuff would be great. The person who made that MnM video said it’s basically just fm, with an LFO on the pitch I think.
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Apr 23, 2022 17:12
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Pollyanna posted:Unpopular opinion: Whats the difference
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May 11, 2022 05:52
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I just got a poly beebo and aside from these loose rear end encoders I'm in love. It took a few minutes of twiddling with it but once figured out the controls I was banging out patches. My goal for now is to build a big multipatch of dj style fx and use the footswitches to be able to turn on and off individual fx. I think I can get 5 or 6 between them all? I'd ideally like to get the encoders mapped to parameters in each modules as well without having to click on them individually, but I havent gotten that far into it yet
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Jul 13, 2022 06:56
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Cabbages and Kings posted:God help me, I just bought an E352 Cloud Terrarium, and also sold my last MTG deck for $4000, with a plan of getting a Rackbrute ($279 through a deal through my employer) and slamming about $1800 worth of poo poo into it instantly. I don't really need more voice modules at this point but Morphagene is great, and VCV rack has me trying out various effects.
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Sep 4, 2022 19:48
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Anyone with experience using the poly beebo? I have an idea where I'd go midi out from my digitakt to trigger the euclidian rhythm module in beebo and then have the euclidian rhythm module send midi to my blofeld. So I'm going midi out of digitakt into the midi in on the beebo, and in the beebo its midi to cv to trigger the euclidian rhythm module, with each of its 4 triggers going to a cv to midi module, and all the cv to midi modules going to midi out, into the blofeld. The blofeld receives notes from the digitakt but it seems like the beebo isn't doing anything. Ive managed to get the euclidian rhythm module to trigger synth modules within the beebo in this manner, but im not sure why its not passing through. Edit: figured it out. I needed to set midi channels in the cv to midi modulez titty_baby_ fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Nov 6, 2022 |
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Nov 5, 2022 23:43
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theratking posted:I have room for exactly one desktop synth to live alongside my electric piano, but:
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Any recs?
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Wowporn posted:I left my guitar thread bubble to see if people saw this, I actually hate using synths cause I am too dumb for them, but this seemed simple enough for my dry caveman brain to see how I could use it. The quick and easy way to record a sample and adjust the start time of it is really appealing, also lukewarm take but I hate the standard piano keyboard layout and wish more things had plain chromatic buttons. https://sonicware.jp/collections/online-shop/products/pre-order-smpltrek this thing is similarly small and cheaper and packs more features, could be worth a look
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Reaganomicon posted:Quick question: I'm interested in getting an Akai Professional MPK Mini MKII midi controller to mess around with, with Ardour as my DAW (due to it being free). I'm pretty clueless on how to hook all of this up, do I also need to buy a preamp or can I just directly connect the Akai Mini to my PC w/ the USB cable and use it in Ardour? A midi controller doesn't make any of its own sounds, it just controls other devices/software. So yeah you're on the right path with your latter idea. You would hook it up via the USB cable, download any drivers/updates you need, and then have to go in Ardour and figure out how to make it recognize the MPK. Its usually pretty simple to do but ive never used ardour so idk the specifics
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Sep 1, 2023 15:06
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Arms_Akimbo posted:They were talking on Mr Bill's podcast about YouTube channels that recreate sounds and the guest was like yeah one time I saw a video where a guy did a pretty rock solid recreation of one of my bass synths, almost nailed it, but in reality I searched YouTube for "bird sounds" and ran some through my convolution reverb Reminds me of the "how burial sampled/produced x album" video where he finds a tutorial on how to make a sound in sylenth or something and just samples the tutorial
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Sep 10, 2023 16:32
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Cabbages and Kings posted:Warbird, some very quick definitions and links:
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Sep 21, 2023 01:36
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Is an eq an instrument?
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Sep 21, 2023 21:57
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Fair enough
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Sep 21, 2023 22:15
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I bought a sh01a that initially smelled good but upon playing and warming up a little it smelled like dog piss. When I returned it and they asked for the reason I said "smells like dog piss"
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Sep 24, 2023 17:27
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tylertfb posted:How good is the digitakt at sequencing chromatic tracks? I had it in my head it was mostly a drum machine/sampler, but my model:cycles sequences melodic stuff just fine so I suppose it’s ok? Its fine! On the 8 midi out tracks you can do up to 4 notes per "step", but on the 8 internal tracks you can only do 1 note per step. With the recent update it has a bunch of scales you can select from so you can jam out in keyboard mode and be entirely in key. Its a pretty nice brain tbh. I was using it to control my blofeld and beebo and had a blast
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Nov 2, 2023 19:47
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Stan Taylor posted:I begrudgingly have to admit I’m into the new TE sampler. Glad to see them putting out more affordable stuff after recently creeping into furniture and interior design
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Nov 22, 2023 21:52
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Laserjet 4P posted:The problem with samplers has always been in the file and data management, not the storage. More space requires more expression requires a bigger display requires more complex software and before you know it you’re in S6000 territory again and then you might as well just use a laptop. Idk, I imagine if my digitakt had more space the only difference is id potentially have to scroll more
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Nov 27, 2023 22:10
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A MIRACLE posted:Wish I could find something like that. at least they sell mushrooms at the dispensary now here in nor cal lol I know we're in the same county. Tell me where to go.
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Apr 19, 2024 05:52
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Me and A MIRACLE are probably neighbors, we've talked about this before, I just wanna know where to go also I sold my blofeld to get nice open back headphones lol No.room for physical synths in the current living situation...just my digitakt and then recording cool loops into ableton
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Apr 20, 2024 02:18
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Thank you for your service.
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Apr 20, 2024 04:00
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Digitakt 2 got me looking for new credit cards with an introductory cash back bonus...
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Arms_Akimbo posted:The new digitakt is priced juuuuuust high enough that it takes the sting out of anybody who bought an mk1 in the past six months Its only $200 more for double the tracks*, double the steps per pattern, and like 10x the storage. If I had bought new recently I'd be feeling the sting. Thankfully I bought it a lot cheaper used for govt bailout $ years ago
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