There are also send controls here for the global reverb and delay, along with an insert distortion. The AMP window then offers a further AHD envelope shaper, along with level and pan controls.
Next, in the FLTR window, we get controls for filter type, cutoff and resonance, along with an ADSR envelope with depth control. Playing with these can achieve anything from simple one-shots to more granular and texturally weird sounds.There’s bit rate reduction here too, which is great for beefing up thin sounds with a little lo-fi crunch.
There are controls for setting a sample’s tuning, start and end points, along with play mode and loop settings. Saved recordings, or sounds already loaded into the internal memory, are assigned and manipulated in each track’s SCR menu. Once onboard, however, Digitakt handles sounds in a smart, non-destructive manner, meaning that sounds assigned to patterns are copied, rather than directly edited, so the original remains available. We get controls for filter type, cutoff and resonance, along with an ADSR envelope With no SD or USB input on the hardware, this means there’s no way to load sounds into Digitakt without a computer with the appropriate software installed, which is a bit of a shame. Loading samples to the +Drive is handled via Elektron’s desktop sample transfer application. Digitakt also comes stocked with a healthy offering of quality factory sounds and kits. Samples are saved to and loaded from the +Drive, which offers 1GB of internal storage. It’s worth noting that, despite stereo input jacks, Digitakt samples in mono, so recordings taken from both the L/R input at once will be summed to a single channel. Since Digitakt ‘holds’ a recorded audio clip until it’s manually cleared, it’s easy to slice multiple hits out of longer chunks of audio. Once recorded, it only takes a few button presses to save, trim and rename a recording and then assign it to an audio track. Opening the sampling window in Digitakt’s OS brings up options to set levels, arm recording and set an auto-record threshold. The process of sampling is fast, fluid, and can be done without the need to pause the sequencer. Samples themselves can either be loaded via the internal memory or sampled from Digitakt’s audio inputs. The Digitakt feature 16 channels divided into eight audio - ie, sampling - channels and eight MIDI channels. Instead, triggering and sequencing the Digitakt is done with two rows of plastic buttons that bring to mind the click-y feel of a vintage computer keyboard, albeit sturdier.
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