These both sound very finished to me :) Not every song has to be a super complex and long production, sometimes a short sweet track with minimal elements is great the way it is, like one you'd hear in an emotional scene in an rpg or something 😁 Great stuff, as always!
Thank you very much! I was very happy with the loops, but I felt the length was too short to upload as two separate tracks, so I put them together like this :D
I enjoyed listening to this anyway. My complete musical output so far has been me jamming with patterns that are basically unfinished songs that I recorded anyway. Not everything needs to end up as a completed song, I find lots of joy making music this way.
Thanks a lot! It's all coming from the Digitone. It's a stereo recording running through a multiband expander and Limiter for a bit of compression and eq and loudness
Yeah, everything is coming from the Digitone, and it's all recorded in one take. The drums are on track 4, with two voices locked to them to avoid voice stealing from the melodic tracks. I'm using sound locks and microtiming on the drum track to make two drum hits play almost at the same time. It's a bit of a hassle, but the amount of work isn't TOO bad so I do this for most of my Digitone only jams =) The super fast chord synth sound was done using a fast saw shaped LFO assigned to volume, so it sounds like it's playing a ton of notes when it's really just 4 notes with really long Amp release time.
"I made two patterns on the Digitone and liked them both very much, but had trouble finishing them. So I just performed them back to back instead and called it a day" is why I eventually gave up on the Elektron workflow. It's built for making a quick pattern or two and looping them while changing mutes and knobs, and that's just not what I was aiming for in my music.
@@zbsfm Hi, sorry, I tried to answer but youtube deleted my comment. In short, my workflow and the Elektron workflow aren't very compatible, and I get stuff done much faster on a Force. I've uploaded some examples, but I don't know if I can mention that without getting my comment deleted again.
Yeah you can certainly use it that way, but that's your choice, you can make as long and complex songs as you need. But enjoy whatever you're using now! It's all about finding what works best for you, Elektron certainly isn't for everyone.
@@zbsfm The song "Easy Does It" is a style Elektron doesn't do well. I generally lay down a minute or two of melody, then go back to add a bassline, then drums and stuff, then choose samples and patches and fx and finally do mixing, etc... and that's really impractical on Elektron devices. They're built to finish a single pattern to production quality first, then loop it while knob-turning, or copy/paste it to make variations. So with 22 patterns, if I wanted to adjust my snare or mixing levels or something, I had to do it 22 times for each thing I wanted to change.
@@ToyKeeper Yep, I've experienced the same pain points when working with many patterns in one song. The bigger Elektron boxes have kits which solves that problem, but introduces different different issues for me (mainly extra book keeping on which kit is used by which pattern). The Elektron workflow really does work really well when you use it the way you described, flesh out a single pattern and duplicating it for variation and tweaking things live.
Came here after the Digitone 2 release for some classic anti-GAS therapy 🫠 While the update seems really nice, there's also something deeply satisfying with hearing a song like this on hardware with only four tracks. Impressive!
There's definitely something magical about pulling off stuff like this on the DN1. I wrote a comment about this on the elektronauts forums: "Yeah, making full sounding tracks on the OG Digitone made me feel like a wizard. Squeezing all the drums into one track with p-locks and sound-locks and and microtiming hats with arps to free up trigs for even more complexity was really satisfying (and undeniably more work). Getting around the 8 voice limitation by increasing the delay and reverb right before the pattern switches to let chords from the first pattern bleed over into the next pattern while the track switches to a different sound was really satisfying to pull off. That said, it’s very nice to not HAVE to do those things anymore. I still find myself only using around 7-8 tracks when working with the Digitone 2. I’m basically structuring stuff the same way as on the OG Digitone, but all the drum sounds are on 4 tracks instead of 1, and 3 tracks for all the melodic stuff :)"
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That feeling when you are listening to the music and searching where to buy used digitone
Hehe, thank you!
This one gave me goosebumps, fantastic work mate. Really appreciated this one.
❤🙏🚀 Inspiring. Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much for the support!
Late night catching up on Ivar vids. Man you've got a fabulous melodic sense.
Thanks a lot!
These both sound very finished to me :) Not every song has to be a super complex and long production, sometimes a short sweet track with minimal elements is great the way it is, like one you'd hear in an emotional scene in an rpg or something 😁 Great stuff, as always!
Thank you very much! I was very happy with the loops, but I felt the length was too short to upload as two separate tracks, so I put them together like this :D
I enjoyed listening to this anyway. My complete musical output so far has been me jamming with patterns that are basically unfinished songs that I recorded anyway. Not everything needs to end up as a completed song, I find lots of joy making music this way.
Thanks a lot! I have made a few tracks using only one pattern before, but these two felt too short to put up as separate uploads :)
First bar of the intro reminds me of the opening theme to Chrono Trigger!
Lovely work, as usual.
Thank you very much! Chrono Trigger is one of my favorite games of all time, and the soundtrack is a big inspiration =D
Absolutely wonderful !
Thanks a lot!
Your Digitone jams are my favorites 🙌
Thank you veery much :D
Wow beautiful jams! Track 2 is quite impressive with its drums where the snare nearly sounds like an acoustic snare! Amazing work! 🤩
Thanks a lot, man!
God i love how FM sounds
The Digitone is great :D
Babe, new Ivar type banger dropped!
Time to get INSPIRED 🎇
Thank you very much!
Can't wait to hear what you do with DT2
Amazing music!! 🤩
Thank you!
Both of these are really lovely and sound very complete!
Thank you!
wonderful!
Thank you!
This is great music ❤
You can't beat a session on the DN.
Thanks a lot, man!
Track 2 is really dope. Sounds finished to me!
Thank you!
Beautiful composition
Thanks a lot!
love ittttt❤🎉
Thank you!
Very nice 👌
Thanks!
Super
Thanks!
Grrrr i want a digitone now 😅
😊
🎉🎉🎉
🙏
Clean asf as usual, thx for the inspiration !
Appreciate it!
That is just Epic! Any processing within FL or is it coming straight up from the Digitone? Beautifully brutal I'd say :D
Best wishes!
Thanks a lot! It's all coming from the Digitone. It's a stereo recording running through a multiband expander and Limiter for a bit of compression and eq and loudness
Dope af
Thanks!
Как всегда мощно ! Слегка напомнило apex!
Thanks a lot, man!
Is everything done on the Digitone? Are you sending midi in to the Digi from another source?
Yeah, everything is coming from the Digitone, and it's all recorded in one take. The drums are on track 4, with two voices locked to them to avoid voice stealing from the melodic tracks. I'm using sound locks and microtiming on the drum track to make two drum hits play almost at the same time. It's a bit of a hassle, but the amount of work isn't TOO bad so I do this for most of my Digitone only jams =)
The super fast chord synth sound was done using a fast saw shaped LFO assigned to volume, so it sounds like it's playing a ton of notes when it's really just 4 notes with really long Amp release time.
"I made two patterns on the Digitone and liked them both very much, but had trouble finishing them. So I just performed them back to back instead and called it a day" is why I eventually gave up on the Elektron workflow. It's built for making a quick pattern or two and looping them while changing mutes and knobs, and that's just not what I was aiming for in my music.
Real question, what was stopping you from creating more variations and progressions through different patterns? 🤔
@@zbsfm Hi, sorry, I tried to answer but youtube deleted my comment. In short, my workflow and the Elektron workflow aren't very compatible, and I get stuff done much faster on a Force. I've uploaded some examples, but I don't know if I can mention that without getting my comment deleted again.
Yeah you can certainly use it that way, but that's your choice, you can make as long and complex songs as you need. But enjoy whatever you're using now! It's all about finding what works best for you, Elektron certainly isn't for everyone.
@@zbsfm The song "Easy Does It" is a style Elektron doesn't do well. I generally lay down a minute or two of melody, then go back to add a bassline, then drums and stuff, then choose samples and patches and fx and finally do mixing, etc... and that's really impractical on Elektron devices. They're built to finish a single pattern to production quality first, then loop it while knob-turning, or copy/paste it to make variations. So with 22 patterns, if I wanted to adjust my snare or mixing levels or something, I had to do it 22 times for each thing I wanted to change.
@@ToyKeeper Yep, I've experienced the same pain points when working with many patterns in one song. The bigger Elektron boxes have kits which solves that problem, but introduces different different issues for me (mainly extra book keeping on which kit is used by which pattern). The Elektron workflow really does work really well when you use it the way you described, flesh out a single pattern and duplicating it for variation and tweaking things live.
Came here after the Digitone 2 release for some classic anti-GAS therapy 🫠 While the update seems really nice, there's also something deeply satisfying with hearing a song like this on hardware with only four tracks. Impressive!
There's definitely something magical about pulling off stuff like this on the DN1. I wrote a comment about this on the elektronauts forums:
"Yeah, making full sounding tracks on the OG Digitone made me feel like a wizard. Squeezing all the drums into one track with p-locks and sound-locks and and microtiming hats with arps to free up trigs for even more complexity was really satisfying (and undeniably more work). Getting around the 8 voice limitation by increasing the delay and reverb right before the pattern switches to let chords from the first pattern bleed over into the next pattern while the track switches to a different sound was really satisfying to pull off.
That said, it’s very nice to not HAVE to do those things anymore. I still find myself only using around 7-8 tracks when working with the Digitone 2. I’m basically structuring stuff the same way as on the OG Digitone, but all the drum sounds are on 4 tracks instead of 1, and 3 tracks for all the melodic stuff :)"
@@IvarTryti I know exactly what you mean. Limitations can be both a blessing and a curse.