Elektron Digitakt-New affordable Drum Sampler

[ILL GREEN]

Beat making powerhouse
Compact, rugged and to the point. Digitakt is a formidable drum machine. With an astounding feature set and an exquisite digital sound engine, the stage is set for a striking encounter.

Rhythm is a fundamental part of music. Off-kilter beats, four on the floor workouts, polyrhythmic excursions all serve the same purpose. They provide musical structure and sometimes they even make us dance.

Digitakt is a new compact drum machine from Elektron. It contains all the necessary tools to make people move to the beat. A digital and highly flexible sound engine, sampling capability, a live-friendly sequencer, the means to control external MIDI gear. Round it off with a super crisp OLED screen and wonderfully tactile back-lit buttons. Done deal.

Drum machines are something of an Elektron speciality. With the Digitakt we show why.




Eight voice digital
drum computer & sampler
Digitakt highlights
8 internal audio tracks
8 dedicated MIDI tracks
1 × Multi-mode filter per audio track
1 × Assignable LFO per track
Delay and Reverb send FX
Sampling capability
64 MB sample memory
1 GB +Drive storage
2 × ¼” input & 2 × ¼” balanced output
1 × High Speed USB 2.0 port
MIDI IN, OUT and THRU ports
Overbridge support
Coming this spring.

Off the Elektron website.

[mendo]

Hello folks,

many great videos on Digitakt shown in the manufacturer’s lates newsletter.

Especially the one by Cuckoo is wicked!

judging from the videos, I would really say that the device is much better when it comes to usability.
In comparison is the access to edit samples in the Electribe is just cumbersome. Means 3 menu items, no waveform, no listening while edit...

So the additional price is really for the workflow and quick editing.
The only flaws are mainly

- the single master out
- the missing transient slicing.

What's your opinion?

[Brakio]

In terms of possibilities, it looks like a simplified octatrack (less features) with improved workflow + some renewals (sampling frequency for instance).

I may be wrong, but from what I have seen (like for the octatrack), it seems that there is no polyphony (on a track basis): you will not be able to play chords (but you can sample them of course), or have a long sample on a track that overlap another sample on the same track (what you can do with the electribe).

Preference will really depend on what you want to do!

[Redmond Barry]

Looks pretty cool but I'll still be keeping my E2S (and maybe just purchase the Digitakt as well!). I love having the VA + sampler. The only thing that'll make me get rid of it is if another better device with these two things comes along.

[mendo]

Workflow is just so fast & interactive for live recording in comparison to Electribe

https://www.elektron.se/products/digitakt/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MefPEo_9kiI

If it had only 8 analogue outputs... & stereo...

Sorry, e-tribe: where's the firmware update???

[jpeg]

digitak is way better than the es2

better filters better sample storage and transfer between computer

[Steeplemouth]

It's also nearly twice the price so not really a fair comparison.

[immon]

Electribe & digitakt is a dangerous combination