Okay guys. Created an account purely to get some help. The digitakt is my first piece of Elektron gear. I received mine today and updated the firmware to 1.1…However I still for the life of me cannot get it to make any sound other than the tick of the metronome out either the headphone jack or the outputs. I’ll hit play and see the audio track pads lighting up as if it’s playing something but there is no sound at all. I was under the impression it came loaded with 400+ presets? I have factory reset it and loaded the “preset” project but cannot hear any of the samples? Am I doing something stupid…or do I have an issue with my unit? Been trying for a good 2 hours to get some type of sound out of it. Maybe i’m misunderstanding what I need to do when I initially get it to load the presets? Any help would be VERY appreciated.
Also in the “boot load” key test mode when I press the snare button the whole screen goes dark and when I press kick the whole screen lights up. Is that supposed to happen?
Edit: Probably asked for help a bit too early. I am going to delve into the manual this weekend and figure more out. I suppose I was just expecting their to be preset patterns already loaded so I could start messing with it from there…I shall report back!
Mine had a similar problem where it was making no sound when I turned it on for the first time. It was a let down but I shut it off and then turned it back on and there were no more problems. It’s working and sounds awesome.
Check to see if the audio channels are muted (hold func key and all the tracks should be it green). I did that to myself and won’t admit publicly how long it took me to figure that out.
So I can sample into it and save that audio just fine. It definitely can input and output sound. Interestingly enough after I had saved the one sample on a few of the preset patterns the sample I recorded would be used on one of the tracks…so it seems the problem is none of the preloaded samples are loaded into any of the preset patterns. All the sequencer data is there it seems? In boot mode I’ve ran the test and it says “O-errors.” Anyone else experiencing this or any of the mods care to offer any advice?
@phaelam I’ve done that a few times. It will show the preset pattern names but none of the pads trigger anything and when I hit play I can tell there is sequencer data but there is no sound playing. It seems like it just doesn’t have any samples loaded?
Glad to know I’m not the only one confused by this. Normally I’m able to get something new and just figure it out by messing with the presets but in this case I can’t even do that…
I had the preset patterns and all the samples associated with them but didn’t see anything in the +drive when I stumbled into that menu. I’ll have to read that section of the manual to confirm. Let us know if this doesn’t get resolved in this thread before hand.