Hi all! New to Elektron, the Digitakt, and the forum section in general, so first thread here.
QUESTION: between a delay or reverb pedal, which should I get first? (wish there was a poll mechanic on the forums)
I find the two effects onboard the Digitakt are fine, but the results could be far greater with quality effects pedals added. Since I’m not loaded with cash, which should I go for first? I love creating a wall of sound with reverb, but it seems like you can do some really wild stuff with a proper delay pedal.
Sounds like you’d like the Erica Synths Black Hole. I love that thing. It’s eurorack though. Rainmaker is also a world of sound design. Many of the pedals are very boring in my opinion, they sound nice, but boring.
I use the Strymon Blue Sky in my set up. I don’t use it with just the Digitakt usually, but it’s very useful as an effect send in infinite mode or just to give simple stereo image and depth for clear separation. It also accepts line level, which is important to consider.
I like this guy for creating some soundscape-y goodness. Others are probably going to mention Strymon or eventide, which are great, but earthquaker does some very cool stuff.
I looked at the Ocean Machine for a while. Lots of possibilities in one box, and super well priced. I was never totally sold on the sound though.
To my ears, the Earthquaker Disaster Master Sr is seriously nice - two delays which can bleed into each other, aaand a reverb. Quite pricey though and no midi.
Speaking of which, midi should definitely be a consideration - that way you can sequence your fx using midi channels on your Digitakt!
I ended up buying a Source Audio Ventris dual reverb. It’s two reverbs in one box, you can do deep manipulation / save presets via apps aaand it has midi. It can also do delay which is useful.
A lot of people will recommend the Strymon and Eventide stuff which are popular and very good, just not quite my flavour.
For delay duties, I actually bought a Korg Stage Echo (because to me nothing is quite as magical as a proper old tape delay!)
They’ll be out soon and great if you don’t want to go full eurorack. Could have a Black Hole or something in one of these. There’s a trillion creative delays in Euroland.
If I were to buy anything non-eurorack, it’d be Bim & Bam. They do sound great.
Eventide Space and Strymon Big Sky are very popular for a reason - both are stereo, designed for line level, patch memory, hi/lo filtering, midi controllable, great sounding algos that can get pretty far out, etc. etc.
I second that emotion.
Although it’s not a pedal, I have the Lexicon MX300 which is perfect for basic stuff, has many effects (although only two simultaneously - although you can configure how they are routed), is stereo, takes a footswitch and it’s great to be able to store configs along with your DT pattern. Bought mine for 130€.
The only problem is the portability, and the fact that it isn’t ‘boutique’
BTW, I’d advise against the Zoom MS70 CDR - it has some great algorithms, but it’s too noisy for delicate studio use.
