Slice Mode is absent from the Digitakt II. This feature is a valuable tool for many users, and its removal is beyond disappointment. It would be helpful if Elektron could do better and bring back Slide Mode in a future firmware update.
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Func + Src
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it’s now called GRID
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OK cool I just watched this guys vid and freaked out haha
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cheers garf/orionka
We do need the ability of adjusting the individual slices though.
As well as insuring that the ADSR works on each slice so we can adjust the Attack and Release of slices to avoid popping during playback.
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True.
A crossover fade mode or something like that would be good in general for loops also to avoid clicking.
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How are you guys working around this? I really like to use the Digitakt but as I am making more hip hop I find I get pretty frustrating with the shyte timestretch and lack of slice mode.
I never gelled with the MPC 2.0 workflow but I am considering getting something else to replace it I guess
Edit: i thought back on how I did this on the DT1 because i never felt this frustrated before. Turns out I can just use oneshot and triglock the sample start… duhgh
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I have not actually done this yet, but I have been meaning to.
First copy the same sample to multiple tracks in one-shot mode, change the start point on each to make the “slices”. Then save each of those as a preset in the preset pool, then use the trig mode that lets you play the presets on the keys. Or just use multiple tracks and resample the result and put it on one track.
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That’s actually the only way to do it right now, unfortunately. I don’t find the new machines useful at all in practical real world situations; I just use One Shot mode 99% of the time with lots of tedious parameter locks. It’s not the most fun or efficient use of my time, but it works.
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it’s easilly doeable, imagine you have a plock for kick, snare , hh open , hh closed, tom and ride that 6 plock , after that you copy / paste the trigs it’s quick
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Sure, you just have to remember (or preview) which trig is which… the same as doing it on the very first firmware version of the DT1. Kinda crazy that you have to make individual presets to be able to address them via the buttons / MIDI notes. This could certainly be improved, but I think the overall design of the Grid machine relies on the evenly divided slices.
My kingdom for a “slice” machine that lets you move those markers around manually. Two kingdoms for one that also has transient detection for initial slice positions like Steinberg’s Recycle did way back in 1995 (about 30 years ago).
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I have been using octatrack for years , and even it already have all these I must say with the actual screen size it’s not this good. I often have a hard time. I’m deeply thinking to try the poly end tracker because it offers all that .
I might have to trade brand new DT2 for OT Mkii
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2 very different machine, you will miss 16 tracks , pitch adjusment is vastly impoved range, 400 mo and 1024 slots for samples ,8 measures , page loop euclidean sequencer, last trig conditions and so on.
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One workaround to play the slices dynamically would be to save your slices (isolated thanks to one shot mode plocking) into the preset pool and then use the preset pool as trig mode
Edit: I see this method has already been mentioned by @warpigs330 but that was a good reminder to myself
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