Have i picked the right gear for live use?

Elektron Gear Digitone/Digitone Keys
#1

love my Digitone: the quality/depth of sound, the relative ease of programming, etc.

my only issue is sequencing. what others have mentioned is a lack of song mode- i think that’s what i’ve been needing.

i have a band & a burgeoning solo project. Digitone will fit perfectly into the band for pads/ethereal stuff - otherwise it’s a song/idea generator.

for the solo project on the other hand, switching patterns is hard when i’m trying to play my Juno & guitar throughout a song. since Overbridge doesn’t seem to be coming soon (or offering Song Mode) i’m wondering what my options are.

  1. i can be patient since i love the sound/use of the Digitone.
  2. i could switch to the Digitakt and see if it’s easier to use drum samples i’ve made in Reason.
  3. i can look elsewhere like the MPC Live.

my dream would be a hardware sequencer that could take the patterns/sounds i’ve made in Reason (especially ReDrum) and play them back live without a computer present.

that way i can be a one-man-band and offer drums in my duo.

any clues ? this isn’t urgent, but i’m getting closer to finishing up a ton of songs - i’d be in heaven if i could play them live from guitar/synth/ and whatever piece of hardware will do the trick.

#2

my dream would be a hardware sequencer that could take the patterns/sounds i’ve made in Reason (especially ReDrum) and play them back live without a computer present.

Almost any old mpc could do this for you. The 1000 is still a very viable + relatively cheap option. Has all the modern connectivity over usb and will read a midi file you create or re-create on the box perfectly.

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#3

Whoa - if there’s any lineup I’m ignorant about it’s the Akai MPCs. Figured they were too tough to learn.

If they could trigger various 4min drum/synth tracks though it’d a gamechanger !!

#4

Nothing will be as good as a DAW as far as features, ease of use and price.

But since you want hardware only then id look into an MPC.

#5

You can create patterns and then string those together via songmode, manipulate them live using track mutes, or create patterns that are basically songs and use one per song just as basic playback (still w the ability to edit via trackmutes live).

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#6

Love the Digitone but since I’ve come to use it more as a drum machine it makes sense that I might shuffle it off for something that plays back all my DAW-work.

#7

If your just looking to playback a long wav file like drum loops you created in your daw, you may want to check out the sp404. You can load incredibly long samples on it.

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#8

I know Chad Valley gets a lot of use from that in a live setting ! Any Mac software I could use with it ?:thinking: