MPC Live or Elektron Digitakt ...

Not sure if this is where I should put this or not, but here goes ...

Until just a few hours ago, the Digitakt wasn't even on my radar, but after watching the video below, it's definitely caught my eye/ear.

Never had an MPC, but the Live has me wanting one, but now ... I don't know! Anyone do any thing similar to the stuff at the beginning/middle of this video with an MPC? Or ... ? I dunno ... just kind of neat mucking about on it, really.

Here 'tis:

UPDATE: And this one, too? Wow!


Can this sort of thing be done natively on an MPC?

My advice - wait until they are both in more users hands and read the complaints.

Ha! Yeah, there's always that ...

I'll have 'em side-by-side when they're both in to check out, I'm sure. Just curious if MPC's are ever used like that.

Depends on your needs. One is a mono sampling and no velocity machine, while the other is a stereo sampling and velocity sensitive machine.

I couldn't decide myself, so I preordered both to try them out, but I have a feeling the Digitakt will be the one full of surprises and interesting.

I'm actually leaning the way of a digitakt+sp404sx for stereo sample playback and fx. real pity the dt doesn't have a second set of outputs though

This would never suit my needs.. It's 2017 so I need a clear way of seeing what I'm doing and need to see where I'm at in my project. The mpc's at least offer us a grid view. what I'm still missing is a project overview like in a daw.

I'm definitely interested in both.

Good to understand that what's nice about Elektron gear is the parameter locking: you can easily lock changes to your sound/sample to the step.
That kind of inspires new things.
Cannot be done with the MPC.

zangetsu01 wrote:what I'm still missing is a project overview like in a daw.

That´s one thing I love about the MV-8800. Plus the color coding of tracks...a stroke of genius!

The DigiTakt lost me with all that endless encoder scrolling.

I never gelled with the Octatrack and I doubt I will with this .

Cheers

Fanu wrote:Good to understand that what's nice about Elektron gear is the parameter locking: you can easily lock changes to your sound/sample to the step.
That kind of inspires new things.
Cannot be done with the MPC.

Yeah - that's what's fun with Elektron gear; they're like an EMX pumped up on steroids and beer. Just never cared for no polyphony nor really the sound (tho the AR is nice).

We'll see, I guess. I believe there's currently no song mode on the Digitrakt, which is a deal-breaker for me.

The Digitakt suffers from the same issues that most of their other boxes do (IMO). Namely, the endless button bashing and encoder spinning. It looks more like a data input device rather than a musical instrument.

That said, Cenk makes it shine and you can see it has got a lot of depth. The overdrive sounds great but the reverb started to annoy me when I was listening with headphones last night.

I think the much fairer comparison would be the OP-1 Vs Digitakt.

No song mode for Digitakt = I'm out.
Been on the fence between Live and Digitakt, but that does it for me.
I love programming sequences and stringing them together.
Well, this makes the decision easy.
I already have an Octatrack anyways, and I love the programming aspect (and it has song mode).

..and no polyphony. That's strikes two AND three, for me.

And no stereo outs....sheesh....talk about crippled from the start.

Cheers

Spend your money on a good sound card and start using Ableton or any other DAW.