Digitakt - Using Green Trigs/Lock Trigs to Create Evolving Ambience and Textures
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- To call the Digitakt a “drum machine” feels like an extreme oversimplification, almost to the point of nullifying what makes it such a wonderful instrument in my eyes, but, stripping everything away, that is what is at the core of its DNA. You put a trig on a step, and when the sequencer gets to that step it plays a sound - like almost every step-based drum machine under the sun.
That all being said, I’ve really been enjoying a technique recently that intentionally avoids the idea of playing a sound on a step, but rather manipulating an ongoing sonic event using green/lock trigs. Although there are many ways you could make use of this idea, I (potentially rather predictably) really love it for establishing evolving ambient textures from loops; so in this video I’ll demonstrate the idea from that perspective in the hope that it’ll spark some inspiration for you to draw from and run with.
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You are probably the first person who made a tutorial on the Digitakt who didn't navigate the interface at 1,000 miles per hour.
Thanks for being easy to follow. Wonderful video.
YOU DAMN RIGHT!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cheers everyone! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Unbelievable. Changed my life because I’ve wanted this type of control and no one explained it. Thank you so much 🔥🔥🔥🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
You're very welcome!
MORE DT TUTORIAL PLEASE! ❤️
There are a few more on the channel if you haven't spotted them yet 😊
Digitakt late adopter here. Thank you for this, I hadn't seen this particular technique yet.
I'm three years behind on this one but, what an amazing technique for the 'takt. Glorious.
Thanks for so much teaching!!
you just opened a door to a world I didn't know existed in within my digitakt, thankyou
Step through the door, it's nice over here.
One of the best Digitakt tutorials I've watched. Fantastic, thanks so much.
Wow, you're too kind!
Damn for a second i thought this was a new DT, the way the screen is enlarged toi the edge of the box ;)
Haha, yeah sorry, that's all "movie magic" - the bigger screen does look pretty good though hey?
Great ! Thanks for sharing this 😊
This is brilliant! Thank you, such a great technique.
Absolutely briliant! The only thing stopping me from getting a Digitakt is the fear of not having enough time to learn it and explore it...
It might be fun to control VCV with though, no? ;)
@@OscillatorSink it could be a great tutorial!!!! Thanks a lot Mr. Oscillator and Mr. Omri!! digitakt and vcv rack are full of good surprises!! and thank a lot for both of you to show me!!
I have that concern with creative projects too, he has another great video "How I made my Digitakt set" with advice on how to dedicate time away from distractions that really resonated with me and convinced me to get a digitakt even with limited free time. it's a beautiful machine :)
You’ll get the hang of it quickly I’m sure
Today, I ‘ave mostly been binging all of Oscillator Sync’s Digitakt videos
Your voice is now an official part of my stress management… i really like what you’re composing with this beloved black box.
Thank you, and I'm glad I can be a relaxing influence. Perhaps I should do a "generative ambient synth soundscapes + bedtime stories" series...
this is beautiful, thank you for the video!!
Damn this is super cool
That instantly remind me some Radiohead (Like Spinning Plates..) and Trent Reznor ambient work in some points. Yeah, a sampler machine can't just be just a drum machine, thank you, what an inspiring work you did with it!
This was the most soothing music production video, I've ever watched. Your technique is so effective and your voice so calming, I fell asleep twice! 😊 Now I'm well rested to go back to my Digitakt and give it a try (keep your fingers crossed I won't pass out). 😅
I would love some more tutorials on different ways of using the digitakt
I need to spend some time thinking about other ways to apply the "machines" in the most recent update.
Yes please!
All this whithin a 4 bar loop. A whole ambient track!!!! wtf, dude!!! Blows my mind!
Thanks! The Digitakt is magic!
Ambient track. Listen to this for 10 minutes and you’re good to be committed
So far the best ambient technique I’ve seen on Digitakt! Thanks!❤
I still love coming back to this vid over and over. 💎 💎 💎
Nice to have you back!
Things do indeed start to sound rather pleasant! 👍
I've had my digitakt for a few days and I am so excited to keep using it. this video is absolutely incredible. thank you.
Enjoy it! It's a fantastic instrument!
Thank you so much. This video opened my eyes, it's by far one of the most useful tutorials I've seen.
Thanks for the examples with the green lights.
So good. You're like the Bob Ross of the DT and DN.
Happy little parameter locks
@@OscillatorSink but he needs a little friend!
That was very inspiring, and I can totally see its usefulness towards creating a sound texture, and or soundscape
I’ve been kicking over the idea of trading out my digitakt for an MPC One. This video reminded me of why I was drawn to the digitakt in the first place. I’m inspired by how you used the instrument here to let the digitakt create some inflections and impressions that could never exist on any other device. If the MPC One takes you precisely where you mean to go, the digitakt takes you everywhere else. Thanks for this!
As soon as you reduced the global trig probability to 70 it hit me what magic you just made possible and my mind was blown. I was walking around the apartment with my jaw dropped talking to myself about what that affords the digitakt. Wow. Amazing video, thank you!
Glad to hear I've uncovered some new ideas for you to explore!
Wow awesome thank you 🙏 trigless trigs huh 🤔 cool very cool. I need to sit down with my boxes and play.
excellent, thank you
Beautiful. So cinematic
was not even aware that this technique could be used on Digitakt... many many thanks for that!!!
it opens a door to a great way doing ambient with this wonderful machine!
I use the digitakt for ambient more than anything these days, it's actually has a really fantastic set of tools for creating that kind of music.
Awesome. I had no idea about that functionality. Thank you
Sounds like something William Basinski might come up with. Great video!
Wow - not to trigger the sample from the beginning on every trigger is a huge creativity boost🎉, didn‘t know about this feature
These boxes are so flexible, there's always new ideas to uncover! I hope you have fun with this new idea!
This is the way
You’ve been given much praise for this instruction and for good reason. Very insightful!
Thank you!
This is super inspiring! Great tutorial.
Thanks for the excellent content.
Be well.
Holy mackerel, thanks for sharing your digiwisdom and inspiration!
Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Great tutorial! Glad to find this one, thnx.
Holy shit. at first I thought: what is he doing, this is sounding kinda weird ? :D but when you finished the piano and finally added in the choir I couldn't believe what I was hearing. beautiful. thanks for the tutorial and the beautiful ambient music
Thanks for sticking around for the whole journey - appreciate it!
Digitakt is so inspirational instrument..
.Many thanks for this great tutorial!
It really is!
This is really beautiful
Thank you!
Excellent. Lots of interesting ideas and I certainly learned a few things here. It's nuggets of inspiration like these that help rekindle interest when the creative flow dips. And delivered in your usual clear and mellow style too. Thank you.
such an amazing organic instrument. it can sound extremely happy or sad and everything in between. all of that requires some work though, some dedication. I think that’s wonderful.
Fantastic video, great job.
Thank you!
This is wonderful! I am really looking forward to getting one!
Nice demo, i enjoyed that!
Wonderful technique!
Very inspiring!
Thanks
Love it
"I hope this will spark some ideas..."
I'm glad I could help you find some new interesting areas to explore in the world of the Digitakt!
Appreciate this so much man, thank you. After 5 months of owning this machine I'm still learning new stuff thanks to channels like yours
I keep finding new ideas to explore in the Digitakt - an instrument of infinite possibilities!
Great to see a video on the Digitakt that covers new ground. Inspiring sounds, easy to follow guide and soothing voice. Thanks for posting.
And thank you for watching!
Thanks for reinvigorating my creativity, this was a great inspiration.
You're very welcome. I'm glad to help.
super interesting! can't wait to give this a go on my digitakt. Thanks for sharing!
Have fun!
Incredibly useful tip- just learned how to do parameter locks but this sweetens it even more. thank you!
love this
Great - just what I was looking for. This is mostly how I use my DT, I love it - its like a vintage sampler with evolving control, I love the physicality of the machine.
Been trying to get some evolving ambience out of my DT. Thanks so much for this 🙏🏻
One of the best videos I've seen on the Digitakt yet!
Thank you so much!
Love this so much. Exactly why I picked a Digitakt up! Just to follow along very slowly now to try and figure it all out.... :) Thank you!
Solid technique. As much as I love my digitakt for being a drum machine/sample player, the more and more I dig into it I'm finding more and more uses for it as a sound design machine of amazingness
"sound design machine of amazingness" is about right!
Wow, this is pure gold! Thank you!
This is excellent!!! This tutorial opens a world of possibilities with the Digitakt. Thank you very much!
Cheers for watching!
As ever. cool tips presented in a friendly user spirit. Keep coming back to your Deepmind and Digitakt videos. Keep up the good work man :)
What an inspiring approach! I've been looking into the Digitakt lately and this isn't making me want it less :) Awesome!
Beautiful! The trigless trigs are such a unique and useful way of working. Thanks for the inspiration
This is so relaxing..... Grand master of the Digitakt 👌
I'm glad that it finds you well.
This was fantastic and precisely the looping technique I needed to find. Thank you.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Damn it, now I need a Digitakt. Amazing video and lovely sounds!
Everyone needs a Digitakt. (and then also probably a Digitone).
That's so awesome, thank you for your work!! It would take so much time to mimic anything like that with the software. This machine does really have my attention now.
Brilliant! That you very much!🤘🏽
What wonderful soundscaping. Beautiful. Such a joy to watch someone work with an instrument they know so well. Love it. Thank you.
Thank you!
Many thanks for the awesome vid! I ask myself since 6 month's what is really going on with the yellow illuminated button. Now i know....
Glad to have helped a fellow Kyuss fan out!
Yeah Kyuss! Let’s make some molten universe with the Digitakt. Cheers from Germany
Wow what a method!!!!
This tutorial is amazing! I own a octatrack but can see how this can apply on it. Can’t wait to get started with trigless locks and trigless trigs !
Subbed, and saved the video to watch again. Great stuff.
Welcome to the channel friend!
@@OscillatorSink Really excited to try some of this stuff with my Digi running through my pedal board.
@@milkweedreflections I just had a lovely time running a patch based on these ideas through my Zoia today. The hours melted away real fast!
This is such a great idea! I think it's techniques like this that make the Digitakt so amazing as an instrument and I can't wait to learn it and explore these sound worlds. Thanks a lot for sharing!
I'm always learning new techniques and finding new little corners of the Digitakt to explore, it's a wonderful instrument!
That is both useful and really beautiful. Thank you.
Thank you, that's very kind of you to say!
Brilliant, thank you so much. I'm trying this tonight. Your videos are great!
Enjoy exploring some new sound-worlds, and thanks for watching!
absolute gold my man. thank you thank you thank you.
Thank you!
Man I was wondering what the green trigs were, I was accidently punching some in randomly. That is a gamechanger for me! Cannot wait to try it for my tracks/vids. Learned so much from this vid and many of your others! That reverse piano you were working on was awesome as well, starting sounding so surreal.
Look forward to more of your content.
Very, very cool ! Thank you
When you showed the LFO part, you sold the machine to me! 😊 Guess, I NEED this!!
Great tutorial, would go perfectly as a track!!
Nice, mate! Love it, will add this one to my digitakt playlist. And thanx for your videos, it expends the perspective, appreciated a lot!
This was amazing, really. Thank you so much.
Wow this is fantastic, I've never seen anyone make ambient like this on digitakt, love it! I will definitely be bookmarking this for the future. Thanks for the tutorial!
Thank you! Thanks for stepping by!
beautiful stuff, great inspiration for a new year of music making!
Really rad dive into this. Thanks for the always wonderful insights and efforts to share. 🤙 from Canada!
Cheers!
Absolutely brilliant. Very ingenious and brilliant thinking out of the box (or in the box in this case). Elements of William Basinski at the end I thought. Well done. 👍🏼🙏🏼
Thank you! Glad to hear that you enjoyed it!
Brilliant stuff mate, can't wait to play around with some of these ideas on my own!
amazing work, just what I needed right now. I'm always amazed how well the Digitakt works for ambient stuff.
This is brilliant! The first stuff I made with the Digitakt was much more on the ambient / evolving side, and it gets you some great unexpected sound design results really quickly (e.g. one of my favourite bass sounds came from a downtuned choir). Feels like an injustice to see it as just a drum machine, though it's really strong for that too. Biggest challenge is fitting everything into 8 tracks..
awesome. if you wanted to clickbait this title, you could call it "chase bliss mood/tensor/microcosm/nebulae/morphagene/ct5 in your digitakt!" or something like that. this is the exact technique that those pedals employ. aside from some more micro granular modes in some of them
Not sure if I’ve commented on this before (this is my 3rd viewing) but this is the shit! Probably the first thing I’ll be experimenting with when my Digitakt arrives on the morrow. Cheers for this tremendous spark of inspiration ✌️
I loved this! And it answered my question: how to use Digitakt in ways that are outside of the usual rhythmic context.
Thanks! I'm glad I could highlight another side of the takt for you!