ELEKTRON Digitakt [27/70] The sequencer

10. THE SEQUENCER

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10. THE SEQUENCER

The sequencer of the Digitakt stores information in patterns. A pattern controls the playback of the audio

tracks, the MIDI tracks and various pattern-specific aspects of the tracks. Each of the eight banks, A to H,

contains 16 patterns, which means 128 patterns are available for each project. For more information, please

see “10.5 PATTERN MENU” on page 30.

A pattern contains:

• General trig settings on the TRIG page (default note pitch, velocity et cetera).

• Sample locks.

• Length and time signature for the tracks.

10.1 BASIC PATTERN OPERATIONS

Digitakt can seamlessly switch between patterns. This, together with the ability to chain patterns, is a handy

feature when improvising live. For more information, please see “10.12 CHAINS” on page 35.

10.1.1 SELECTING BANK AND PATTERN

Press [BANK] and then press [TRIG 9–16] to select a bank. Then press [TRIG 1–16] to select a pattern.

Press [PTN] and then press [TRIG 1–16] to select a new pattern in the current bank. When you press

[BANK] or [PTN] you must choose a bank or pattern within four seconds for the change to take eect.

A message on the screen indicates the four second timeout. Press [TRK] to exit pattern or bank select.

• Patterns can be changed and queued by sending program change messages.

• After a pattern is selected, and before releasing any key, [RECORD], [PLAY] and [STOP]

can be pressed to copy, clear or paste patterns without leaving the active pattern. It is

possible to clear and paste multiple patterns at the same time.

10.1.2 PATTERN CONTROL

Press [PLAY] to start the playback of a pattern. Press [STOP] to stop the playback of all tracks. The

sound will be cut o, but eects like Delay will continue to be audible until the delay repeats have faded

out. When the sequencer has stopped, quickly press [STOP] + [STOP] to stop playback of all tracks and

get just a short fade out the send eects.

When a pattern is playing and [PLAY] is pressed, playback will pause. Press [PLAY] again to resume the

10.2 EDITING A PATTERN

Digitakt oers two main modes of input when editing or creating a pattern, GRID RECORDING mode and

LIVE RECORDING mode. In these modes, two types of trigs can be entered: note trigs and lock trigs.

10.2.1 TRIG TYPES

A trig is a sequencer event that you can place when you want the sequencer to perform an action on the

Digitakt. There are two types of trigs that you can use, note trigs and lock trigs.