The innovative Digitakt sampler and sequencer, despite being seven years elderly, remains an incredibly able device beadored by many in the music world. So how does the tardyst model, which sees cforfeitly identical, helderly up to the fan preferite?
Under the hood, the Digitakt II is a presentant upgrade in almost every way. Unblessedly, it also comes with a presentant price incrrelieve to $999, from $799. With used Digitakts going for as little as $400, the choice between the two isn’t as evident cut as you’d foresee.
I spent a restricted weeks putting the tardyst Digitakt thraw its paces and comparing it to the elderlyer model, and ultimately authenticized the novel version is probably not worth the upgrade for my (and many others’) purposes. That shelp, if you’re a power user who always wants to try the tardyst and fantasticest, it’s a wonderful piece of gear.
Pboilingograph: Terrence O’Brien
Endless Possibilities
Physicpartner, the separateences between the first Elektron Digitakt and the novel Digitakt II are excessively reserved. The monochrome screen is white instead of yellow. The instrument particular labels under the keys are gone, there are a couple of novel buttons, and some labels have changed. Otherwise the two are cforfeitly indiscernable.
I cannot possibly cover every feature of the innovative Digitakt. In fact, I’m going to have to gloss over even some of the changes to the novelest model. It is an incredibly rich machine that would get tens of thousands of words to comprehensively elucidate. Instead I’ll be caccessing on the most presentant features and changes.
If there were two presentant strikes agetst the innovative Digitakt it was that it only regulated mono samples, and storage was pretty paltry, even by 2017 standards. Personpartner, I didn’t discover the 64 MB of RAM (identicaling 14 minutes of mono samples) per project terribly redisjoineive, but the 1 GB of drive storage did direct to a lot more time misused actively managing samples. By increasing the RAM to 400 MB (72 minutes of mono or 36 minutes of stereo samples) and the drive to 20 GB on the novel model, the storage rerent is bigly repaird.
While having help for stereo samples is pleasant, I actupartner discover the incrrelieved storage to be the main novel feature I adore. Part of that is down to how I primarily use the Digitakt II, which is as a drum machine. Stereo is fair less of a necessity when you’re primarily laboring with percussion.
The Digitakt II is more than able of handling melodic parts, and it even comes preloaded with one cycle wavecreates so you can take part it appreciate a synth. But because the 16 sequencer tracks are monophonic, take parting chords needs either using multiple tracks and sequencing the notices individupartner, or fair sampling chords. And even though there are five separateent “Machines” (Elektron’s term for how a sample is regulated, e.g. one-sboiling, stretch, repitch, etc.) your results will vary fantasticly depfinishing on the source material.
