Midian
June 1, 2023, 5:45pm
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I’m a relatively new user of this awesome forum, and I’ve learned a lot so far, both about my own gear and about how others make music. Sometimes I stumble across a topic which is brimming with great info, fascinating stories or just all around good vibes.
To get meta, what are some of your favourite topics on here? Maybe you find yourself always coming back to them for inspiration, or it’s just better than the manual…
To get it started, these are some of my faves so far:
I’ve recently been listening to a lot of Blawan, Surgeon, Karenn etc. who play live and improvised techno sets. I’ve also enjoyed listening to the knob twiddlers podcast.
Given I have very limited time to produce (typically 1-2h a week) I think my goal of making tracks should be replaced with a goal of jamming/improvising when I turn on my gear. I thought this thread could be a hub for people to ask questions, provide tips and advice, share their setups, share philosophy etc.
I’ll start by as…
Hey all,
Just got an A4 recently and the more I play with it the less enthusiastic I become as I find its sound to be just plain dull and muddy. I’m going through the presets thinking they all have that common boring mid range dullyness about them. Say compared to a DSI Tetra which sounds are bright and fat and refreshing the A4 sounds just plain uninspiring to me.
Anyone else share the same feeling?
FP
There are so many ways to affect sound level on the Digitakt: Trig velocity, Sample level, Amp volume, and Track level. Which one should I plock? Do they have different ranges? effects?
I set out to find out… and did!
First, the sound architecture diagram in the manual is lacking some detail. Turns out, the gain stages are in the pipeline like this:
Sample Level & Trig Velocity
Overdrive
Amplitude Volume
Filter
Track Level
Pan
Delay & Reverb Sends
Mixer
The first gain section is a pair o…
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