fresh salad wrote:@ brothertony, naw it's but a re-issue. (with MIDI? I'll take it!)
way to go imo. had a friend with an original and you cannot keep the oscillators in tune for more than 5 minutes. they shift so violently, which i guess is super common with the old ones.
Yeah it stays in tune fairly well.. ironic that the newest piece of gear I own is a repro of basically the oldest synth ever
acidity regulator wrote:Yea I've heard octatrack workflow stoinks. Gonna have a look at more digitakt vids but I guess this would make sense
Although I guess Octatrack could as well work as an instant sampling machine for the Lyra so I can capture a sound and stack it with more Lyra. That would be sick as hell
once I was at a friends house and he had like just bought an octa. I was like, cool, I can check this out it seems so sick. so impossible to just dip in fuck around.
CoolRanch wrote:i totally disagree. i don't own anything modular but this and the intellijel plonk sound very hot
I'm not saying it can't sound good but I still reckon if you're not modular, as a drum machine, a single voice, module without midi and a single 8 step sequencer is gonna be pretty limited. And a lot of that video is blippity blop rather than drum rhythms.
So is the Digitakt workflow really that much different and easier than the normal Elektron workflow? I bought a monomachine once and that thing was a chore.
cant speak to any other elektron but i can take my phone and line into the digitakt and grab things off youtube/voice memo recordings and have the foundation for something interesting/workable in minutes
also easily lose hours in it
yeaaaaaaaaaaaa american nostalgia love it suburban living civilized families this could be my life
CoolRanch wrote:i totally disagree. i don't own anything modular but this and the intellijel plonk sound very hot
I'm not saying it can't sound good but I still reckon if you're not modular, as a drum machine, a single voice, module without midi and a single 8 step sequencer is gonna be pretty limited. And a lot of that video is blippity blop rather than drum rhythms.
I really don't see the point of a drum machine without MIDI capability in 2018
i checked youtube vids for octatrack and digitakt and yeah the latter had a workflow optimized for more instant playability and i feel like octatrack would frustrate me a lot
CoolRanch wrote:i totally disagree. i don't own anything modular but this and the intellijel plonk sound very hot
I'm not saying it can't sound good but I still reckon if you're not modular, as a drum machine, a single voice, module without midi and a single 8 step sequencer is gonna be pretty limited. And a lot of that video is blippity blop rather than drum rhythms.
I really don't see the point of a drum machine without MIDI capability in 2018
bongo wrote:cant speak to any other elektron but i can take my phone and line into the digitakt and grab things off youtube/voice memo recordings and have the foundation for something interesting/workable in minutes
also easily lose hours in it
The monomachine felt like obtuse menu diving, hold this button and press that button, for pretty much everything. Digitakt looks interesting but I'm still kinda wary of Elektron.
Also thinking about the Squarp Pyramid cuz it can sequence via CV as well, but then again I've gone far from my original idea of a drum machine need. However I kinda need a workflow tool to tie my shit together.
acidity regulator wrote:Dumb question but can digitakt / octatrack:
-trigger midi instruments & play sample/drum tracks at the same time -make my music good/gooder ?!?
Digitakt can trigger up to 8 separate instruments along with its internal sampler. It has a 64-step sequencer. If sick beats live within your heart, the Digitakt will find them.
So, I ended up returning the On Stage stand for the Proline and it definitely seems like a significantly sturdier build (and it was $30 cheaper--go figure)
My coworker is giving me his 2-tiered stand, solving my remaining space issues. Gonna be real sick having all of my equipment at arm's length
whoa they stuck a keyboard and vocoder on the streichfett. been eyeing one for a while and the eugs cosign made the itch stronger. https://waldorfmusic.com/en/stvc
the vocoder voicing is kinda wack, but its way cool using using your breathing as sort of that filtered formant giving movement and space throughout the chord changes.
all the companies need to make a little standalone desktop unit or pedal or something non-eurorack, with their own bespoke filter with nice big control knobs for Freq, Decay, Resonance, Envelope, etc... like, the EHX guitar microsynth is pretty much based off of the minimoog's filter, it would be cool to have a dave smith curtis filter box, a korg MS-10 filter, Buchla, whatever....