16 advanced Digitakt ideas, tips and tricks

This clip contains a bunch of ideas, tips and tricks to help you get more out of your Digitakt.

An update regarding ideas that use MIDI Loopback: After publishing this clip I was alerted to the fact that pressing the "stop" button twice on the Digitakt while a MIDI loopback is in place causes the Digitakt to freeze. Everything is back where you left it if you power down and back up, but in order to work around this I did some digging and indeed Digitakt sends a MIDI CC 120 message out the MIDI out, which if sent back in, will freeze it. I reached out to Bome and they've updated their script to filter out MIDI CC 120, and it sails smoothly past a double tap on "stop", so no worries ;)  I've also heard feedback that this doesn't happen on the RK-002 - so as far as polyphony goes, you should be good to go. Regarding regular MIDI loopback, you can either use the Bome script via USB, or just create your own simple Bome (or other) script / DAW loopback that filters out MIDI CC 120, or, if you're using a regular MIDI cable, don't press "stop" twice... or just enjoy the non-loopback tricks. Remember MIDI loopbacks are "tricks" that are outside of the regular scope of how devices are intended to work, please don't blame Elektron if they don't work 100% of the time...

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Polyphonic resources mentioned:

Retrokits RK002: http://bit.ly/RK-002
Bome's channel rotation script: http://bit.ly/BomeChannelRotationScript
PolyMind Max for Live plugin: http://bit.ly/PolyMindMaxForLive
This is another hardware polyphony solution I haven't tried out: http://bit.ly/MidiDisp

Singe-cycle waveform resources:

https://waveeditonline.com
https://audionewsroom.net/2018/03/scw...
https://www.adventurekid.se/akrt/wave...


Here's a timeline for this clip:
0:00 Intro
0:45 Single cycle PWM
3:10 Subtractive synthesis
3:45 Samples vs. Sounds
5:00 Ideas for polyphony
9:30 More LFO ideas
10:05 FM synthesis
10:55 Granular synthesis
13:05 Wavetable synthesis
15:25 Dynamic Rathets
16:30 Waterdrop synthesis?!
17:15 Want more LFOs?
17:30 Using simple loopback
17:55 Transposing patterns
20:30 8+ bar patterns
21:20 Saveable pattern chains
21:50 More LFO destinations?
23:25 Want more ideas?

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