Digitakt Octatrack Sample Chains

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#1

Hi guys,

Can you someone please shed some light on my query.

Currently using my Octa Mk2 for just about everything drum related but the 4 outs is a bit of a bummer. Im chopping breaks on the Main L/R and mono drums from Cue L/R. I use sample chains for my drum sounds on a static machine. Just wondering, does the Digitakt handle sample chains as well as the Octa? Should i look to buy the Digitakt for this role?

Cheers

#2

Octatrack is better equipped for sample chains, without a doubt.

Sure you can use them with DT, I do it all the time to save sample slots. But there is no inherent slicing, so selecting start points is definitely more tedious and not as flexible as with OT.

I guess you’re planning to use Overbride for separate drum channels? Because obviously DT has even less analog outs…

#3

Short answer, No.

Possibly not. DT is more of a one-shot sampler.

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#4

DT is the worst Elektron for sample chain use, due to the higher resolution start point. You can’t snap to the integer.

OT/AR/MS are each more ideal.

OT uses 64 slices, AR/MS each use 120 (or even divisions thereof, 60, 30, 15, for example)

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#5

I made this about sample chopping generally but it occurs to me that this could be an okay work around for longer sample chains. You’re sacrificing an LFO though:

  1. Make sure the number of samples in your chain is a multiple of 4. You could theoretically put as many as 128.
  2. Set the start point to 60
  3. Set your LFO shape to saw. Set its destination to sample start. Set the mode to trigger and the depth to -60.
  4. You can now choose your sample by adjusting the phase of your LFO.

If you’ve got 4 samples in a chain, for example, you’re splitting the phase of the LFO into 4 parts. So 128/4=32. So your samples will be on 0, 32, 64, and 96. If you’ve got 8 samples, you count by 16. 16 samples and you count by 8. And so on.

But again. This is just work around. This sacrifices an LFO so that you can scroll through a sample in nice whole numbers. Like AdamJay was saying, the Model: Samples already works that way out of the box.

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