Elektron Digitakt - Playing a Sound; Editing a Sound; Saving a Sound

9. PATTERNS, KITS, SOUNDS, AND SAMPLES
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DELETE deletes the Sound or selected Sounds.
SELECT ALL selects all Sounds in the list.
SELECT UNUSED selects all Sounds that are not used in any pattern in the project from the Sound pool.
The Sounds are not removed from the +Drive Sound library. Then select DELETE to remove the select-
ed sounds from the project’s Sound pool. The SELECT UNUSED command is only available when you
browse the Sound pool of the active project.
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. The command is only available when you browse the +Drive Sound library.
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
in a specific bank.
• You can preview the currently selected Sound by pressing the [TRIG 1–8] key of the active
track. All Sounds available for the active track can be previewed. Please note that if the
previewed Sound is sent to the eects, the current eects settings will aect it.
• Several Sounds can be simultaneously aected by the commands available in the SOUND
OPERATIONS menu. Select/deselect individual Sounds by highlighting them and pressing
[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 66. 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.
9.5 EDITING A SOUND
Activate one of the audio tracks for editing by pressing [TRK] + one of the [TRIG] keys 1–8. When editing
the settings of the track, any changes made will be stored as part of the active pattern.
Adjust the overall volume level of the active audio track with the LEVEL/DATA knob.
Edit a Sound by adjusting the parameters found on the PARAMETER pages. Access these pages by
pressing a [PARAMETER] page key. Use the DATA ENTRY knobs A-H to change the parameters. For more
information, please see “11. AUDIO TRACK PARAMETERS” on page 40.
SRC controls sample selection and playback of samples.
FLTR controls the filter mode, cuto frequency, and envelope.
AMP controls the amplitude parameters, eect sends, and levels.
LFO controls parameters for the LFO of the Sound.
The complete Sound, with all its parameter settings and sample, may be copied to another track. Press
[TRK] + [RECORD], and then press [TRK] + one of the [TRIG] keys to select the track you want to copy
the Sound to, and finally press [TRK] + [STOP] to paste the Sound to the selected track.
9.6 SAVING A SOUND
After you edited the parameters of a Sound, you can save it to the +Drive.
1. Press [FUNC] + [PATTERN MENU] to open the IMPORT/EXPORT menu.
2. Select EXPORT SOUND, and then press [YES].
3. Turn the LEVEL/DATA knob or use the [UP]/[DOWN] keys to select an empty slot to where you want
to save your Sound, and then press [YES]. If you want to save your Sound to another bank, press
[BANK] + [TRIG 9–16] to select a bank.