Time stretching is one thing it doesn’t do and probably won’t. I assume the hardware is capable, but they don’t want to cannibalize the octatrack. I love throwing long chord samples in and randomly chopping them with lfos. Half the time I stumble into interesting textures and grooves that way.
If you’re looking for a synth, see if you can find a used A4. You can pick them up relatively cheap and it’s so deep. Makes the digi boxes feel surface level.
Yeah was looking at the A4 a few months back but they seemed to he holding their price and I didn’t want to fork out, thinking that a MK III might be around the corner. Will have another look on eBay.
I get the feeling the Digitakt II has way more to give through later firmware updates. Mind you, it’s still not even working in Overbridge yet so one step at a time!
The mk2s are supposed to have a deeper bass (partially due to the filter), but that’s never mattered much to me. Processing in ableton has always sorted that out for me. I’ve been meaning to try the A4 as an fx box on a mixer send. Once winter hits, I should have some time to try a few different setups.
Elektron is great about releasing updates, I’m sure there’s DT2 will see several. I’m hoping for some additional machines on the ST in the near future too. Doing something with the useless modifier function would be nice too.
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I’ll leave room for this Jamie xx album to grow on me. After one listen, it has some moments and is well-crafted, but it’s not doing it for me. And I love In Colour, just not sure about this one.
From what I have heard, the stand out is Baddy on the floor with Honey Dijon. Big festival track.
Friend very rarely messages me about electronica, but said the Jaime XX album is full of bangers.
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