Chilling with Digitone (Making Ambient with Arpeggios)

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  • Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
  • The Elektron Digitone is an 8-voice, 4-part FM synthesizer and sequencer. Let's touch it with our meat hands and see what happens.
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Комментарии • 216

  • @SteveMc870
    @SteveMc870 5 лет назад +75

    Halfway through this video I started poking away at my Digitone. Next thing I knew it was 2 hours later and I was lost in a reverb-drenched land of plinky FM ambient. Thanks for another fabulous video!

  • @shaunlittle1667
    @shaunlittle1667 5 лет назад +27

    "Hi... My name is Jeremy, this is rezmeanz.. ziss.. I already screwed this up."
    Hahahaha, not even 10 seconds in and i'm cracking up smiling. Thank you for not redoing the intro!

  • @toonvank6165
    @toonvank6165 3 года назад +8

    9:24 glad to hear I’m not the only one who occasionally makes a sequence and just zones out thinking: “wow, this sounds nice and soothing”

    • @vor946
      @vor946 Год назад

      seems like completely normal thing to do

  • @Substainable2037
    @Substainable2037 5 лет назад +10

    Hey, Jeremy!
    Just want to say that I started to make electronic music because of your videos. Thank you for that, it makes my life brighter a lot. You're a great artist, please, don't stop.

  • @adamcarter6013
    @adamcarter6013 5 лет назад +4

    Surprising harmonies are the best harmonies. Thanks for highlighting this form of composition. All the best.

  • @markharman5834
    @markharman5834 5 лет назад +2

    Mate. These Chilling with Digitone videos have been really helpful and super fun. Thanks man

  • @strati5phere
    @strati5phere 5 лет назад +32

    Hi Jeremy, you are a briliant Sound Engineer and Artist - I appreciate you. That said I'd like to see a video on making a specific song made with the Digitone. Try some liquid drum and bass, something to drive down an LA highway at night to

  • @robertreid8241
    @robertreid8241 5 лет назад +4

    Yet again, amazing sounds, from one machine! You are one talented dude. I've spent a small fortune over the years, on music nowhere near as good as your making, in the time it takes to have a coffee!!
    Stay strong my friend, peace!

  • @sashajedinac9391
    @sashajedinac9391 5 лет назад +1

    I really appreciate the informative and fun videos you make. It’s really nice to have a genuine human explaining their process and expressing their weirdness for us all to enjoy. Thanks.

  • @Andrew-uk1bz
    @Andrew-uk1bz 5 лет назад +2

    Your videos are the main reason I've been getting more into the synth world. Super inspiring. Keep bein awesome, or maybe don't because you're also the reason every paycheck I get I somehow end up with another lil' instrument and I don't know how long I can keep that up.

  • @brianrio3607
    @brianrio3607 5 лет назад +2

    I really appreciate your honest noodling.

  • @fully_privatized_mass_medium
    @fully_privatized_mass_medium 3 года назад +1

    This is so helpful and a huge inspiration. You've made the clearest tutorials with the Digitone out of anybody on RUclips. Hopefully there will be more.

  • @G0nz0uk
    @G0nz0uk 5 лет назад +2

    I get excited when I see one of your new Digitone videos pop up! Very talented I must say.

  • @eabeeson
    @eabeeson 5 лет назад +2

    Got laid off today. Chilling with you for a little while is exactly what I need right now. I wish I could say something that would provide you with the comfort that you provide me. Thank you for all that you do, and for sharing it with us.

  • @JC-bf9zm
    @JC-bf9zm 5 лет назад +2

    I'm getting even more value from my Diggitoné thanks to you, good sir.

  • @Hanoveur
    @Hanoveur 3 года назад +1

    Just discovering these videos. Thanks for making them. I’m reentering the world of EMP and just got this. I was a bit lost and was starting to feel some buyers remorse and now I feel like I’m fortunate to own one of the best synths on the market...thanks to your videos.

  • @loopop
    @loopop 5 лет назад +46

    Sweeeeet weird semi generative ambient stuff

    • @tybowesformerlygoat-x7760
      @tybowesformerlygoat-x7760 3 года назад +3

      I love how you top guys support each other.

    • @mortenrobinson
      @mortenrobinson 3 года назад

      @@tybowesformerlygoat-x7760 top guys? The top guys are the ones playing the huge festivals across the globe. These guys are simple advertisers/gear-pushers 😉

  • @dep1001
    @dep1001 5 лет назад +5

    Great series, Jeremy! I would love to see it continue into a some episodes where you make a song from scratch on the Digitone. Thanks!

  • @vroenis
    @vroenis 5 лет назад +9

    This series on the Digitone is amazing, Jeremy, but this clip in particular is great just because the ambient sound is so curiously pleasing & interesting. Reading between the lines (or perhaps the not so subtle hints in your recent videos), it sounds like things are rough for you at the moment. I don't know what you're going thru & I know it's so difficult to have even a little bit of a public presence & to present any kind of performative face when you feel terrible. I just want to thank you so much for still sharing your creativity & music with us, in whatever form you choose to, with whatever regularity. I subbed to your channel a few months ago & you've been a massive inspiration for me to get back into music & expression. No matter what happens, I hope your life works out. I'm a world away (in Australia) on the internet but I see you & appreciate you.

  • @abstractsoundscape
    @abstractsoundscape 5 лет назад +2

    Really digging this machine!! You can play everything!! Good work jeremy!!

  • @avrilcadabra
    @avrilcadabra 4 года назад +3

    This is the exact moment I wanted a digitone.

  • @danfozmusic3046
    @danfozmusic3046 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for this Red, been working on beast for a couple weeks now. A lot to learn :)

  • @wickeddubz
    @wickeddubz 4 года назад +1

    Jeremy, massive big up! You style of making video and story telling is super awesome.

  • @santiagoasimov3590
    @santiagoasimov3590 5 лет назад +1

    Thanks for this video and I appreciate your work and efforts to inform us all. Keep rocking my friend and have a wonderful day✌🏾❤️✊🏾

  • @NorthGameStudio
    @NorthGameStudio 5 лет назад +3

    Thanks for being awesome and sharing. Your videos have really inspired me to make music again. I gave up on music in the 90s, even though I was signed to various major labels, the industry was very cut throat back then and I walked away. Years later, your videos have reminded me about the joy of making music again. I’m thinking of buying the op-1 but I keep holding out to see if I can find something just as good or better. Something just as capable, dawless. Would love to see you make tracks with the elektron.
    Anyway, thanks for saving a dying part of myself.

    • @jammintoast
      @jammintoast 3 года назад +1

      I see from your channel you got the op1! Jelly dude, hope you like it

    • @NorthGameStudio
      @NorthGameStudio 3 года назад +1

      @@jammintoast I love everything about it

  • @TurboSqu1d
    @TurboSqu1d 5 лет назад +90

    “People are telling me to kill myself, I already want to do that” but who will I watch to see passive aggressive text over chill music :(

    • @TonytheCapeGuy
      @TonytheCapeGuy 5 лет назад +4

      RUclips tells me he uploaded this vid 45 minutes ago, but you commented 54 minutes ago...
      WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR?

    • @TD05SSLegacy
      @TD05SSLegacy 5 лет назад

      That is a ‘no joke’ topic.

    • @CockatooDude
      @CockatooDude 5 лет назад +9

      @@TD05SSLegacy Nah man, no topic is off limits to jokes.

    • @elikopokopo6443
      @elikopokopo6443 5 лет назад

      Go to 4 chan , even there youll get more support than here

    • @TonytheCapeGuy
      @TonytheCapeGuy 5 лет назад +1

      @@TD05SSLegacy Actually, levity from someone who cares is totally fine as long as it's obvious that they aren't apathetic to you.

  • @StephenBaird
    @StephenBaird 5 лет назад +3

    This is amazing. Keep being amazing.

  • @PinkBoardProducts
    @PinkBoardProducts 5 лет назад

    crazy beautiful, wasnt really considering one of these until i saw your soft music, do nothing performance. youre amazing my dude, thank you for everything youre giving to the world

  • @lozza9789
    @lozza9789 5 лет назад +1

    This and the Digitakt are just incredible pieces of kit. Endless possibilities, only your imagination. Great inspiration RMR, thank you!

  • @aaron-bieber
    @aaron-bieber 5 лет назад +2

    Jeremy, never stop doing what you're doing. And don't listen to the haters!

  • @chrisbliss7130
    @chrisbliss7130 5 лет назад +1

    man, I love this. love your skills, those comments, the music and your teaching. could listen to this all day long😎

  • @cmap769
    @cmap769 5 лет назад +1

    Stay strong Jeremy, I love your content and you , keep up the good work!

  • @OscillatorSink
    @OscillatorSink 5 лет назад +8

    That is some delicious pasta.

  • @novojonov
    @novojonov 3 года назад +1

    Nice sound, Jeremy, very subtle, I like it. Thx for your job, keep it up, pls

  • @unsaame9505
    @unsaame9505 3 года назад +1

    This is a great video, thanks a lot!
    I've already had such a great time with this tiny box in the few hours I've owned it, and I can't even imagine what sort of rabbit hole I'm going to fall into now!
    This is my Xmas holiday sorted now!
    Keep on with the videos, very informative and entertaining without being over the top!
    Happy Xmas!
    PS: about the haters, well, have you seen what Hainbach made of it? Perfect answer to the trolls!

  • @Hell_Inc
    @Hell_Inc 5 лет назад +47

    "metroNOME"?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    dude, Jeremy for president. seriously.

    • @xc3n
      @xc3n 5 лет назад

      Métronomé! Love it

    • @cymbolic_space1832
      @cymbolic_space1832 3 года назад

      I read this like 5 seconds before it happened and laughed extra hard because of it.

  • @reao
    @reao 3 года назад

    Man I always enjoy your stuff. You helped me pull the trigger on modular over the OP1.

  • @piotr803
    @piotr803 5 лет назад

    0:50 pure gold. you've made my summer

  • @kontainer01
    @kontainer01 5 лет назад +2

    Just awesome. Thanks for sharing. Hang in there, man!

  • @emapage8914
    @emapage8914 5 лет назад +1

    You're basically the Bob Ross of Music Production

  • @honeybunny9942
    @honeybunny9942 5 лет назад

    Thank you Jeremy. I've had my Digitone for a few weeks and been already fooling around with doing semi generative stuff but this was still a very inspiring video and I learned a few tricks. The main reason I got this machine was mainly for doing stuff like this - it sends me into another world where chaos seems to make sense and everything falls into its right place. I would love to see you do more videos on the Digitone :-) Hope you have a good day too, cheers.

  • @ZekeSkylar
    @ZekeSkylar 5 лет назад +1

    This is good stuff. You have given me many good ideas.

  • @lepi9577
    @lepi9577 5 лет назад

    Courage, Jeremy! I love your videos and I hope you feel better soon. Sending hugs.

  • @pjarnfelt
    @pjarnfelt 5 лет назад +2

    Jeremy. You're great and what you do is amazing. Don't let the trolls get to you!
    Go away trolls!

  • @OM-sc1go
    @OM-sc1go 3 года назад

    Awesome, finished a track using this technique, can get lost in it for hours, thanks for the tips!!!

  • @sequencist
    @sequencist 3 года назад +1

    Thanks

  • @100056255
    @100056255 4 года назад

    You are awesome! Love the vibes of your channel. Regarding the hate comments, some people are miserable inside, don't let a single asshole get to you.

  • @heavysystemsinc.
    @heavysystemsinc. 3 года назад +2

    "Is that an Elektron generative tune?" "YARP."

  • @DECIMA1
    @DECIMA1 4 года назад

    great video if I get the digitone this is first thing I'm doing with it. Your channel rocks!

  • @alviszhao
    @alviszhao 8 месяцев назад

    Thank you for the video! Very cool ways to use the arpeggiator. I would also love to learn how to write long notes on the Digitone and change the timbre through time.

  • @scottag0
    @scottag0 5 лет назад +1

    Your final result immediately conjured up Blade Runner 2049 for me.

  • @jamesdmorgan
    @jamesdmorgan 5 лет назад +1

    Great video - thankyou. I found it very clear and informative

  • @howardanderson3061
    @howardanderson3061 5 лет назад +1

    Wow beautiful sounds and great ambient tutorial. OK.... damn now I want the Digitone...Lol. I have an Octatrack and a Digitakt and I was just starting to get a hold on these two wild animals......I and now seriously considering the Digitone.

  • @abitpoet
    @abitpoet 5 лет назад +1

    Don’t care any asshole’s around, you’re doing a great stuff! Keep going!

  • @cursedsound
    @cursedsound 5 лет назад +2

    Now i want a digitone because of you 😆

  • @altogethernow
    @altogethernow 5 лет назад +1

    This is lovely, J.

  • @Bloodstone_DC
    @Bloodstone_DC 3 года назад

    I gotta say the Elektron Dijon is a pretty spicy instrument.

  • @GuitarGod666
    @GuitarGod666 3 года назад +1

    "And that's how that shit works. Boop."

  • @cls6200
    @cls6200 4 года назад +2

    This is lovely. I've found your videos very helpful in getting around my Digitone, just wanted to say THANK YOU. I think the Digitone is an amazing instrument. Do you have a video where you give tips on creating/tweaking drum sounds on the Digitone? The envelope and filters ar incredibly sensitive on the Digitone which is a sound designer's dream but for amateur like me puts me down many rabbit holes. My jam session last night turned to an hour tweaking one snare but that hour taught me a lot.

  • @avoidralph
    @avoidralph 5 лет назад

    Another great video!! My digitonay is arriving tomorrow.

  • @Devzcy
    @Devzcy 4 года назад +1

    Metronomé, digitoné I love it oné

  • @user-or3ce4gt2r
    @user-or3ce4gt2r 4 года назад +1

    Many thanks . I’m trying to experiment tonight :)

  • @brianreilly6545
    @brianreilly6545 4 года назад

    Awesome job! Thx for the tips👍🏼

  • @LimGiong
    @LimGiong 4 года назад

    Thanks.

  • @jaymeselliot8181
    @jaymeselliot8181 5 лет назад +2

    holy crap i love your music.

  • @IOioiIO
    @IOioiIO 5 лет назад +3

    This is sick. (Good sick. Like stellar; but cooler)

  • @lpil
    @lpil 5 лет назад

    Beautiful, thank you.

  • @bobbybouchet
    @bobbybouchet 4 года назад

    Amazing sound design! Thanks Jeremy! (Turns on Digitone and starts to waste the rest of the day turning knobs...)

  • @FourTetTrack
    @FourTetTrack 3 года назад

    I just realised that the arp can be used to do rolls on the digitone...gosh, my first non-copy-paste idea!

  • @jackycal
    @jackycal 5 лет назад +1

    Yes please

  • @IlmariLahti
    @IlmariLahti 10 месяцев назад +1

    Digitoné ❤

  • @mewraz
    @mewraz 5 лет назад +1

    Lovely video!

  • @Limbic1000
    @Limbic1000 4 года назад

    Yesss soo good, thank youu! 🙏

  • @nullcircuit
    @nullcircuit 5 лет назад +1

    60bpm is super fun to jam to

  • @robinray2566
    @robinray2566 5 лет назад

    I think the internet is sorely lacking in resources on developing an intuition about FM synthesis beyond the beginner level. There's plenty of stuff about what FM synthesis "is", but it never goes beyond introducing the basics carriers, modulators, and algorithms. When it comes to sound design, why is one algorithm preferable to another? What is the purpose of feedback/cross-modulation in an algorithm? What is happening to the spectrum/waveform at different ratios? Basically, how does one become more intentional when using FM for sound design?
    Thanks for the great videos. Your OP-1 videos inspired me to start making electronic music.

  • @ben89422
    @ben89422 4 года назад

    really lovely video, man.

  • @zacwhyte
    @zacwhyte 4 года назад

    What more do you need? It's just excellent. I agree, it's cool.

  • @louisservet7931
    @louisservet7931 5 лет назад

    It is brilliant, thanks !

  • @mondriantestpattern2613
    @mondriantestpattern2613 5 лет назад +13

    Hey mate please see a GP. I love you and your videos and on the last one picked up not everything was fine. It's ok. You are not alone. I suffer from both anxiety and depression, I feel it's pretty common with people that make music. Just make a step forward please. I love you dude.

  • @JamonCam
    @JamonCam 5 лет назад +1

    We need mooooore!

  • @musicalstatues73
    @musicalstatues73 4 года назад

    Really appreciating your channel, Jeremy!

  • @ifaber68
    @ifaber68 5 лет назад

    Very nice ambient pattern :-D

  • @CopeSpokenCast
    @CopeSpokenCast 5 лет назад +2

    Digi tone' heh. I like the patterning. It's a very interesting way to stop beat block i figure.

  • @C4P_10
    @C4P_10 5 лет назад +2

    this sound so much like the music in astroneer, you should check it out.

  • @whitenoisefromelectronicto1728
    @whitenoisefromelectronicto1728 3 года назад +1

    Man you just turned my Digitone into the magic ambient machine I wanted it to be from the start! Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart :-) just a question: I am experimenting with arpeggio lenghts and by adding empty notes in the arpeggiator but I am not sure about the technical theory behind that. I do understand that an odd lenght give way to non repeating sequences, but how do you choose which notes to remove for example when you have 2 or 3 arpeggios and you don’t want the notes to fight each other too much?

  • @oakfox
    @oakfox 4 года назад +1

    Gorgeous Jeremy.

  • @TonytheCapeGuy
    @TonytheCapeGuy 5 лет назад +3

    To have almost 300K subscribers and only have 600 views atm, that means y'all haven't done yourself a favor and check the bell icon.

  • @LukeLine
    @LukeLine 5 лет назад +2

    Beautiful J, loved this and ignore the hate - you're too talented :)

  • @elblito86
    @elblito86 5 лет назад +1

    I kinda always hated the Digitone/Digitakt, always thought it was too much menu diving, but daaang this sound...you might have bought me into this thing

  • @clamberry
    @clamberry 5 лет назад

    I’d love to hear full tracks you’ve created with it!

  • @flyingcrowbar1599
    @flyingcrowbar1599 5 лет назад +2

    I always thought the R in “metronomé” was silent.

  • @xsamaras1
    @xsamaras1 5 лет назад

    I would really like to see digitone sequencing another synth (especially a Moog). Great videos by the way!

  • @jean-pierrejoubert6140
    @jean-pierrejoubert6140 5 лет назад +1

    What would we love to see the Digitone do? I'd love to see the Digitone skydiving. I'm a little worried it may not take to the parachute, though.

  • @paulburkhart2619
    @paulburkhart2619 5 лет назад +1

    I made a few of these to play in between songs in my band's set. The problem is- after I make one, I don't want to keep working. Just wanna listen to the digital squishiness. Great video.

    • @RedMeansRecording
      @RedMeansRecording  5 лет назад

      Yeah I'm the same honestly. Just let it run and make tiny changes here and there.

  • @cymbolic_space1832
    @cymbolic_space1832 3 года назад

    Big Love 🤠🙏
    I would like to see a eurorack setup playing kindly with the digitone. I interface my rack with drums, I would like the digitone to meet my chordal polyphony needs and I would love to see the two communicate via midi. I don't have a midi interface in Euro yet but that's easy to manage.
    Also... Dub Techno.... 🤤

  • @byhorizon6155
    @byhorizon6155 5 лет назад +3

    Hoi there. I like me some elektron digitony

  • @snoopyoverthehills
    @snoopyoverthehills 5 лет назад

    beautiful!! wish i had a digitonE

  • @borpscampson
    @borpscampson 4 года назад

    now I wanna go watch joe pera

  • @KorhanErel
    @KorhanErel 5 лет назад

    I would really like to see how the digitone can be pushed to some really complex, evolving sound design

  • @HyperstationJR
    @HyperstationJR 4 года назад

    You could add some more "randomness" in a few different ways; Setting trig conditions to only play the note once with a length of infinite, OR setting the trigs so they don't all hit at the same time, and setting the track lengths on each track to be different (so track 1 at 55 steps, track 2 at 60, etc), along with changing the track speeds to very slow.