Elektron Digitakt 5-stars Reviews

Excellent all-purpose groovebox with a sound of its own

I bought the Digitakt to act as both a standalone drum machine as well as for sequencing my Waldorf Blofeld Desktop until my Digitone arrives.

It's a true joy to work with it - even though it was my first time delving into the Elektron sequencing workflow and their OS (aside from watching tens of review videos online) and I haven't felt intimidated by it at all.

It's a brilliantly thought-out machine which was actually able to make me smile and grin with joy every time I've used it! Sampling from any source on it is a breeze and really-really fun!

Its possibilities for sequencing external gear are truly breathtaking - and I was truly in awe when I realized it can drive 8 voices of multitimbrality on my Waldorf Blofeld Desktop without a hiccup - all within a 45-minute mission-critical live set.

Furthermore, it has a pleasantly raunchy character to its sound. I don't exactly know how to describe it, but my Blofeld does sound quite different when passed through the Digitakt's audio ins and outs - decidedly with more bite/crunch to its sound at the expense of a bit of clarity - especially at the low end of the frequency spectrum.

Great piece of kit! I'd totally recommend - and it's a true steal for the money in terms of what it can do.

Art pice

This device is meant to be in the history, the build quality, the materials, the feeling when you play it, the features, the display... Everything about this device is unbelievably great. You can complain about mono sampling or the fact that MIDI Thru dosen't work as another Out. But still an amazing machine to produce and performance.

Godlike Standalone Production Studio

Probably the best hardware for music production around.

I can sample, chop, arrange, edit samples to the maximum. I can sequence anything, I can program all my midi synths to work from Digitakt.

Sounds and midi messages can be manipulated with millions of ways. Learning curve? A week at the most.

I use it as a recorder, midi sequencer, sampler, song arranger, synth AND live performance tool.

I can't even imagine what the possibilities are going to be when Overbridge is finally released.

super fun and very easy to pick up, Would recommend will be even better once over bridge is launched with it in febuary

Compact Beast

Great machine will 100% change your work flow and add new features to your music, it has very simple and intuitive

interface which is also very deep. For me it works perfectly as a partner for my Ableton 9.7. I received it week ago and already made bunch of cool patterns and great sound-bank by sampling external gear and acoustic instruments. Only one insignificant issue were found in this sampler - it is a sound of pushing knobs which is not a problem for me but if you making music in a headphones with some other people in room trying to focus on their things - so for them it's seem to be annoying sound made some crazy person pushing old calculator knobs.

Tremendously intuitive machine

Versatile drum machine, the interface is easy to get to grips with, it sounds great and I can sequence synths with it. Very fast learning curve (Cuckoo is a great teacher :)). The features that I like the most:

- Conditional trigs!

- Portability

- Sample transferring

- Sound great

- Vintage feel

- Reverse from top menu

- MIDI sequencing (I have to admit that I didn't explore this feature so much)

- Waveform view

It's such a joy to manipulate it therefore I will not share the "this must be improve" side, despite the lack of Overbridge for the moment . Check the elektronauts forum, there are a lot of great ideas there. Hopefully, Elektron will take care in the near future.

In the time that I have had it, the Digitakt has quickly become the core of my entire setup, as it's MIDI functionality and Midi Parameter locks have completely changed the way I interact with the rest of my gear. Changing Patches and Parameters per step has really allowed me to use my synths in a way I hadn't even considered before.

Sampling on the Digitakt is easy and intuitive, and I've quickly built up a number of samples from my synths but also objects around the house, and the Digitakt's sound design possibilities allow you to push and pull your samples into weird places, which is great fun.

The build quality is great, the box is rugged, the buttons feel good to press and the encoders have no wobble whatsoever. The OLED Display is clear and bright with great viewing angles.

As of firmware v1.04 I still suffer from the occasional crash, but otherwise there are no other major problems with the OS.

The Digitakt is a great drum machine and "groovebox" and I would recommend it.

MPC Killer!

Amazing box! Still working out a couple of firmware bugs, but the updates so far have been pretty comprehensive. Once Overbridge is available, this will be just as comfortable in a home studio environment as it would at the centre of your live setup. Worth the wait.