ELEKTRON Digitakt [25/70] Playing a sound

9. PATTERNS, KITS, SOUNDS, AND SAMPLES

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SEARCH will perform a text search and list all sounds with names matching or including the text input.

For more information, please see “6.5 THE NAMING SCREEN” on page 17 on how to enter text.

Press [RIGHT] to access the SOUND OPERATIONS menu. The available operations will aect the highlight-

ed sound. Press [YES] to apply the commands to the selected sound. Press [NO] or the [LEFT] arrow key

to exit the menu.

IMPORT TO TRACK loads the selected sound to the active track and makes it a part of the active pattern.

COPY TO... Copies the selected sounds to one of the following:

press [YES] to save

DELETE deletes the sound.

SELECT ALL selects all sounds in the list.

DESELECT ALL deselects all sounds in the list.

TOGGLE enables or disables write protection for the selected sounds. When a sound is write protected

it cannot be overwritten, renamed, tagged or deleted. A write protected sound has a padlock symbol

next to its name

SEND SYSEX sends the selected sounds as SysEx data.

• Sounds in the +Drive Sound library are organized into eight banks, ranging from A to H.

Each bank can contain 256 sounds. Use the [TRIG A–H] keys to view only sounds located

[YES].

• Press [FUNC] + [UP]/[DOWN] for faster scrolling in the sound list.

9.4 PLAYING A SOUND

Press the [TRIG 1–8] keys to play the sounds of the eight tracks of the active pattern. The [TRIG] keys will

briefly light up when pressed.

PLAYING A SOUND WITH AN EXTERNAL MIDI UNIT

The sounds can also be played using an external MIDI device connected to Digitakt. The MIDI channels for

of each of the audio tracks can be assigned in the MIDI CHANNELS menu, covered in the section “15.3.3

CHANNELS” on page 57. You can also use an external MIDI unit to play a sound chromatically when you

are in CHROMATIC mode. For more information, please see “8.5.1 CHROMATIC MODE” on page 21.