that’s what I was thinking, to create a kind of pseudo FX track
I don’t know if it works, but would be cool to layer the ghost track to the kick. If you can still ruote it out of the main should do the trick
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Yes you can
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Cool. Thanks for the confirmation!
Definitely, it opens up a lot of options. e.g. micro time the ghost track, just before the actual kick. Should create a similar effect to having lookahead in the compressor, so that you could have a slower attack but still on time with the beat
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Thought this was worth sharing. Was discussing the topic of guitar strumming on Digitone II using the arp. Obviously there are some limitations (like arp speed and pattern tempo, static note length) but maybe this will provoke some other ideas:
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Here is my first pattern made using the Digitone II. There is lots more to discover after Digitone OG. It’s a beautiful instrument!
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Can’t believe how realistic this sounds, is that the comb filter?
Yes indeed, Comb+. I think these kind of arps can work well as one-shots that ring out, but they are a bit too quantized for my taste to be used for rapid strumming (and that’s not something you can configure on an arp level). It’s nice for options to be able to synthesize an acoustic guitar string though and have some performance leeway.
Maybe someday we will get more types of trig modes for this manner of playing or some more advanced arp options / targetable LFO destinations.
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You know that you can live record unquantized and have microtiming, velocity and length per note, don’t you?
What do you need arp for?
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I’m not following how you are going to record that live in the same way. The arp provides a consistent means to rapidly play 6 notes in quick succession with one finger press. I’m not sure if it is humanely possible to consistently play a similar strum live with 6 fingers spread across the folded keyboard. Of course you can note edit that post-recording for each individual note but that is also more of a time consuming process and not beneficial in the context of live playing.
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Hoping for a digitone keytar edition
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Can be pretty fast. Recorded live with DN2 sequencer.
Your strummed arp is a good idea but DN arp isn’t my friend as is. Lock trigs don’t work properly with it (not only arp parameters, also audio parameters), no random…
I prefer to use external arp or play live with recorded quantize, sequence notes.
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Cool demo - but I still think we are talking about different things. I am mainly talking about getting as close as possible to guitar style strum actions with a thumb/index/middle finger shape. When I close my eyes and listen, the plucks in this demo make it sound less guitar-like to my ears and not just because of the higher tones but also the manner of playing.
In my example at the very end of the video I try to replicate the common down, down-up, up-down-up strumming pattern. My arps are just using open strings but they could also use arp presets for common major/minor guitar chord shapes. When you introduce those into the mix I think that makes it even more difficult to achieve by manually playing 6 trigs with 6 fingers. A strum is really considered a single motion in my mind, but like I said, the arp isn’t going to get 1:1 with that either because of all the aforementioned little bits of micro-timing, velocity, length and speed. Using 6 fingers for 6 notes is closer to fingerstyle.
Loving the discussion though.
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offtopic
what scale is this? sounds very four tet / alice coltrane
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@fffiiissshhh pentatonic.
Yes, arp inspired. Just showing fast note playing, strummed like.
Your approach with arp seems much easier to play guitar chords indeed.
I have a strum function on my Linnstrument !
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Another example of D, D-U, U-D-U with chord shapes Am / G / Em / F
Afterthought: for this type of playing (with the preset pool trig mode) it would be better to allocate the down strums to the top row (trigs 1-8) and the up strums to the bottom row (trigs 9-16).
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I think this really shows the strengths of elektron devices. They put these features in that are very open ended, and when you put them all together with intentionality, you can just do so so much.
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Trying to make music in a genre I rarely explore: EDM 
Lots of swarmer machine on this one
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It’s lovely
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That sounds really nice! I would have expected a Nothing Else Matters cover on DN II
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