I have ordered a new DT2 which should arrive any day now. Already the proud owner of a DN2, which I love. Coming from the OP-1 Field there is so much more depth for sound design. I make drone, dark ambient, musique concrete…etc.
I frequently use long-form field recordings in my music and keep reading that although the DT2 can’t create samples longer than a minute or so, if you transfer long samples to the device, it will play them just fine. Is that the case? If so, it would be one less piece of gear I need to add to my setup. I am talking about loops of 10 minutes or longer.
Quite how versatile the machines capable of working with this and the constraints of not exploiting the sequencer with it is anyone’s guess … suffice to say it may be a compromised use case.
For sure it can probably be used creatively, but depending on how you wish to treat the source material it may be better to run the audio in, if it’s really only straight field recordings
You could chop 10 minutes up into smaller chunks and probably get more mileage with the tools available which are clearly better suited to working on shorter material … sorta flip the narrative from the sample length determining your workflow options
Think in terms of how quickly the sequencer will loop back compared to such a long loop; a long loop like this likely wants to be set to run with a 1st pass trig condition
Tbh, thinking about it kinda makes me want to explore this side of it … in some regards the OT is more naturally suited to this, but streaming from the card has its constraints
I think it could be interesting, but if it’s a primary use case it might be hard to justify on that alone, you kinda have to want what it’s geared for and also see if it can be taken more off-piste
What I liked about the It was that the machine paradigm allowed samples to be played decoupled from the sequencer … I don’t think the DT is as accommodating, it’d be more of a manual thing
A few thoughts, but I haven’t tried, in part because it’s not what it feels tailored for … but as I like looser longform textural ideas I think it’s something I may explore now out of curiosity as I’d actually overlooked how much ram it had (in comparison to its forebear)
Ah, I think I understand. So you’re saying the DT doesn’t restrict sample length-per se, but can play whatever fits into the 400MB of available RAM. Thank you for the insight and tips. I am thinking it may work fine for my use-case.