I just moved to a new house to have more privacy and be able to continue making music after my daughter made the old studio her room.
I had the Digitakt for about a year now, and just added the Digitone with an Arturia Keystep. I am trying to work with only those pieces (and monitors/headphones of course…).
What are your best advice to help me quickstart this new journey?
I went through the Cuckoo’s megatutorial and tried digesting some part of the manual which can be a bit hard.
Congrats on your new Digitone! It’s a really great companion to the Digitakt. I’d recommend watching Ivar Tryti’s YouTube video on setting up the Digitakt + Digitone – has lots of helpful tips when getting started. It got me up and running with the duo in no time:
My issue is not how to make loops, rater how to break from them and develop a track out of the loops.
I have managed to work it out doing hiphop as I reworked my samples and drums throughout the songs, but working with this set I need to do all the changes in effects manually to come up with new ideas.
I cannot jam for a long time developping the same idea.
@MilesKvndra has some very useful information on his youtube channel. The guy is a great instructor and lays it all out clearly. Here’s a video that might be useful if you’re still struggling with this challenge that so many of us have
Thanks a bunch for sharing Sean, really appreciate that! Still struggle a lot with this today but I found some techniques to overgo this and finish more music. But if you guys have some different ideas how to tackle this I’d be super happy to hear.