Tips and tricks for percussion on DN.
[Roughly 27 Tips for Drum and Percussion Patches on the Digitone]
When I put out my Drums and Percussion patch pack a few months back now, I promised that I’d make a video talking about some of the tips and techniques I had used and learnt during the process of putting it together.
It was slightly delayed by a bout of lockdown depression and an ill-advised dalliance with Eurorack but here it is. I’m certain that a lot of folk here will already be familiar with many of these tips, b…
I have an Arturia Beatstep that I NEVER use. Its encoders are unreliable and the pads jitter, sometimes playing twice when I hit it once. I saw some fingerdrumming videos last night and was inspired to check out a few tutorials. I also wanted to check out the Digitone’s new multimap feature, which lets you assign a range of keys play a range of sounds from the sound pool.
I have two ranges on the beatstep: C5, C#5 and D5 are the kick, snare and hat playing on track 4. From D#5 to D#6 it plays …
Hey all! I’m looking to use #jamuary as an opportunity to dive deep with the Digitone, and am trying to develop an approach that maximizes a single track for drums/rhythms. Any ‘naughts with tips? I’ve watched a fair number of YT videos on the DN, but reckon some non-Youtubers might have some suggestions as well.
Cheers!
When i attempt to program a simple drum loop one one track with sounds from the sound pool all the triggers play on one voice and it cuts off the sounds. Been digging through the manual and the digitone trying to figure out how to get the track to use more than one voice at a time and I’m struggling. Can anyone show me the simple step I know I’ve missed to get a drum loop on one track without cut off sounds?
Saving up for a DN specifically for some wacky synthesized drum sounds and sequencing and I’m hoping to hear more examples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2luFXf-tus& - I’d love to hear more stuff like this! I’ve heard some cool DT/DN jams in this realm but its hard to pick out which is which sometimes.
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I posted this in another thread awhile back.
A cool trick if you want to create trap style hi hats that can jump from 1/16th to 1/12th triplets and 1/32nd notes, etc…
Create or find a patch you want to use. Enable the arpeggiator. Now access the arp settings. Set the SPEED to 1/16th. Once this is done save your patch. Copy the patch to create a new one, this time changing only the SPEED of the Arpeggiator to 1/12th (triplets) Copy and save as many different patch variations you desire.
Load all your newly created patches into your sound pool so you can now lay them down in a pattern and use SOUND LOCKS to change the patch on any given trig, in turn changing the speed of the hi hats.
This is excellent fun with weird glitchy sounds, FM, claps, anything!!! Love tossing these at the end of a 4 bar phrase. This is basically the Digitone’s unofficial Retrig.
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April 19, 2020, 2:22pm
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Here is one where we learned some things about making EFM BD -ish machinedrum kicks:
Anyone managed to emulate the EFM kick from Machinedrum using the DN? I can’t seem to get anywhere close to it…
And here is another one where we almost went deeper with MD, but slipped for need of examples/samples:
We had a lot of fun in this thread recently: Emulate EFM BD
Maybe you want to post a sample of what you’d like to recreate and we can theorize together?
I’ve never had a machinedrum, but I like every sound I’ve heard from it.
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Not quite sure how to do this but I’m gonna give it a go, sounds like it could be funky
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Oh man how am I only discovering all these resources now, I was dying for in-depth DN drum synthesis tutorials when it first came out. Now my GAS for one has returned with a vengeance!
…then allow me to ruin your day, sorry/not sorry
@Eaves , you wouldn’t happen to have some recent stream links that might, say, show off some DN drums you could link, would you?
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Dude’s livestreams have been great. Good tips, and pleasant to chat with.
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