I’m making a downtempo trip hop beat from scratch using the Digitakt and Digitone in this video. I do my best to explain my thought process along the way, but sometimes I go into a flow state and forget I’m recording a video.
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Digitakt & Digitone #14 Contingency (January 1st 2020)
Since my last video, I have reached 3,5k subs. Thanks a lot, everyone! I am also really grateful for the positive reception of my Patreon launch. Seriously, thank you very much for the support.
I made a DnB style track using the Digitakt and Digitone. I wanted to do one last track before 2020, but I didn’t make it in time. Instead, here’s the first track of this year!
I made the drums by running a bunch of drum samples and Drumaxx patches through a stack of preamp, compressor, distortion, reverb and other plugins, then sampled them into the Digitakt for further chopping. I rarely work in BPMs higher than 110, so I was slightly overwhelmed when performing this track. It took some practice to finally get it mostly right
All audio is coming from the Digitakt and Digitone, with a multiband compressor added in post.
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Digitakt Sketch #40 High Effort Low Payoff (January 4th 2020)
I’m usually very good at taking breaks when I feel like I’m pushing myself to make music. This time I kept going even if it was break time. I should do it too often or I might burn myself out!
I planned on recording each track separately in FL Studio for greater control, but I find that I get choice paralysis whenever I try this. I feel I get a more cohesive result when I just do everything (or mostly everything) on the Digitakt itself.
All audio is coming from the Digitakt, with a multiband compressor and a preamp plugin added in post.
Digitakt Sketch #41 I Wish I Had An SP404 (January 5th 2020)
I hate the gearlust that often comes when checking out new gear. Among the things I’m interested in trying out, an FX unit is one of them, particularly the SP404. It’s a sampler that is often used for its FX.
To fight this, I made a track where the main goal was to convince myself I don’t need more gear, because I have FL Studio and 8 midi tracks on the Digitakt to trigger FX plugins.
I set the following tracks to enable/disable these master FX:
Track 9: reverb (Effector)
Track 10: flanger (Effector)
Track 11: delay (Fruity Delay 3)
Track 12: hp filter (Effector)
Track 13: reverse (gross beat)
Track 14: stutter 1/4th (gross beat)
Track 15: scratch (gross beat)
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Samples used:
Track 1: DMA_23_2
Track 2: BAO4
Track 3: ride_005 (The Lo-Fi Box)
Track 4: tom_040a (The Lo-Fi Box)
Track 5: BASS_BUZZ
Track 6: 5THBP2
Track 7: 5THBP2
Track 8: PIANO TH1 and PIANO TH2