ELEKTRON Digitakt [35/70] Chains

10. THE SEQUENCER

Trigs, complete with all parameter lock settings, can be copied, pasted and cleared as well. GRID RE-

CORDING mode needs to be active to access this functionality. Press and hold a trig and press [RE-

CORD] to perform the copy operation. Paste by holding another [TRIG] key and pressing [STOP]. It is

also possible to copy more than one trig. Hold several trigs and press [RECORD]. The trig ﬁrst pressed

will act as the starting point. When pasting, the other copied trigs will be placed in relation to this trig.

Paste the copied sequence of trigs by holding another [TRIG] key and pressing [STOP]. Clear trig locks

by holding one or more trigs and press [PLAY].

You can undo any copy, paste, and clear operation by repeating the key presses.

10.11.6 TEMPORARY SAVE AND RELOAD PATTERN COMMANDS

Patterns can instantly be saved to a temporary memory space and then reloaded again from this space.

• To perform a temporary save of the active pattern, press [FUNC] + [YES]. This is useful in order to

create a restore point when you are live tweaking, but without permanently save your changes.

• To perform a temporary reload of the active pattern, press [FUNC] + [NO]. It will the reload the pat-

tern from when you last used the temporary save command. If you have not done any temporary save,

then the pattern will reload from the permanently saved state.

The TEMPORARY SAVE PATTERN and TEMPORARY RELOAD PATTERN commands are

great when improvising live. Any changes made to the active pattern, like adding bass line

notes or using CONTROL ALL , can immediately be undone. And at the same time, the

saves and reloads will not aect the pattern in a permanent way.

The TEMPORARY SAVE PATTERN command will not save the pattern permanently and

any changes will be lost if you load another project. If you wish to save your changes per-

manently, you should use SAVE TO PROJ in the PATTERN MENU. For more information,

please see “10.5 PATTERN MENU” on page 30.

10.12 CHAINS

Chains are sequences that consist of more than one pattern. You can use chains to preselect and automate

in what order you want your patterns to play.

You can create one chain in the currently active bank. You can use the 16 patterns within that bank to create

the chain. The chain can consist of up to 64 pattern entries.

1. Press [BANK] + [TRIG 9–16] key to select bank.

2. Press and hold [PTN] and then press a [TRIG 1–16] key to select the ﬁrst pattern in the chain.

3. Release the [PTN] key and then press [TRIG 1–16] keys in the same order as you want the chained

patterns to play. Keep the previous [TRIG] key pressed while you press the next one, the one after

that and so on, so that the sequencer can recognize that you’re building a chain and not just switching

patterns. You can press the same [TRIG] key again if you wish to add the pattern multiple times in a row.

4. Press [PLAY] to start the sequencer and play the chain. The chain will be looped once the ﬁnal pat-

tern of the chain has played.

Please note that the chain will be lost when you create a new chain or when you select a new

bank/pattern. Also, chains cannot be saved and will be lost when you switch the Digitakt o.

• Chains can be created while the sequencer is running.

• You can also use MIDI program change messages from an external device to change

patterns on the Digitakt. For more information, please see “15.3.1 SYNC” on page 55.