Digitakt - Using Green Trigs/Lock Trigs to Create Evolving Ambience and Textures

To call the Digitakt a “drum machine” feels like an extreme oversimplification, almost to the point of nullifying what makes it such a wonderful instrument in my eyes, but, stripping everything away, that is what is at the core of its DNA. You put a trig on a step, and when the sequencer gets to that step it plays a sound - like almost every step-based drum machine under the sun.

That all being said, I’ve really been enjoying a technique recently that intentionally avoids the idea of playing a sound on a step, but rather manipulating an ongoing sonic event using green/lock trigs. Although there are many ways you could make use of this idea, I (potentially rather predictably) really love it for establishing evolving ambient textures from loops; so in this video I’ll demonstrate the idea from that perspective in the hope that it’ll spark some inspiration for you to draw from and run with.

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