Digitakt Unofficial Guide

Elektron Gear Digitakt
#195

There are errors in the Shortcuts section, this needs to be corrected before more noobs end up losing their work:

An example:

WRONG
Page of track (trigs only)
REC, PAGE+COPY: Copies the trigs of the current page of the current track into memory.
REC, PAGE+CLEAR: Clears all trigs of the current page of the current.
REC, PAGE+PASTE: Pastes trigs from memory onto the current page of the current track

RIGHT
Page of track (trigs only)
FUNC, PAGE+COPY: Copies the trigs of the current page of the current track into memory.
FUNC, PAGE+CLEAR: Clears all trigs of the current page of the current.
FUNC, PAGE+PASTE: Pastes trigs from memory onto the current page of the current track

But thatā€™s not alll, there are more.
Basically any line where REC and COPY are used together is wrong because because REC IS COPY if you pres FUNC.

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#196

I was frantically looking through the manual to see where I managed to do these mistakes, but after a while, I understood that you meant the shortcut list in this thread :smiley: I guess that what the person who wrote the list here meant with ā€œRECā€ is that you have to be in a RECORDING mode to be able to use the following shortcut.

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#197

You donā€™t need to hold func to copy a page. Just need to be in grid recording mode, then press and hold page plus copy/paste/clear.

And indeed REC means you need to be in grid rec mode for this shortcut. Hence the ā€˜,ā€™ in stead of a + :wink:

Also, in case you clear or paste something you didnā€™t want, press the combination for the same action again to undo. Just make sure you didnā€™t do anything else after the initial action.

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#198

Well thanks, that clarifies it for meā€¦

#199

Woah, thank you for sharing this tip. Had no idea you could do this. Kind of a game changer for the DT. I know this was years ago now but still!

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#200

I actually made a real feature request at elektron for this feature. Letā€™s hope :slight_smile:

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#201

And thank you for pointing this out so now I know this too :slightly_smiling_face::+1:

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#202

Iā€™ve got to try this one. This prompted me to re-read the corresponding section in the manual (pattern menu).

In fact Kit data can be saved and imported (I overlooked that) but only in the current project, within a single pattern as far as I understand (probably why I didnā€™t find it that useful yet).

So, as Kits exist as an entity to save, what we miss a kind of ā€œload kitā€ that would list kits that were saved from anywhere.

And of course a ā€œsave MIDI Kitā€ as well :slight_smile:

#204

Hi, I thinked about it tooā€¦my tips are:

  1. to use current option, PLocks on Tr. 1-8, but yes, itā€™s about send levels only.
  2. to use MIDI loop, extra MIDI splitter/router could be more useful than simple cable, anw if MIDI connection for your case will be DT OUT -> DT IN and then DT THRU -> E2, it should work, bcs THRU is just 1:1 copy of IN without any influence of settings in DT (instead of port func). But be sure to set receiving of RT messages (clock+transport) in DT to OFF, otherwise DT got RT loop shock :smiley: and ends up in frozen state, restart is neccessary then.
  3. to demand FW upgrade massively:)) bcs if seq. has 8 MIDI trx, it could have 10, or (at least) last two G+H could be optionally assignable to FXs channels, simply - internal routing instead of extra cable.

If there any wise enginner working in the electron :smiley: I hope itā€™s on their mind. I think itā€™s not big deal to desing a small switch "device"to with 2i / 4o matrix to the midi architecture that is already there.

#205

Are you sure? This just does what it always does ā€œReload pattern from tempā€? And Iā€™m in LIVE RECORDING mode too.