hey all, i’m new to the Elektron workflow and have been going through Cuckoo and BoBeats videos. i’m trying to work only with digitakt currently until i get more comfortable with the workflow. anyways, i’ve made some beats and was attempting to put some different tempo note progressions on top (more sustained notes for example) and i’ve managed to get two of the four notes to record in live record mode by adjusting sustain and some other settings. just wondering if i’m missing something basic? any advice appreciated! thanks.
hi there…
…it’s a one shot sampler…
so all sound can sustain only as long as the sample is, aslong u did’nt loop a section of it…
chromatic keys won’t help here…
Not sure what exactly the problem is but the way I’m understanding you atm is that you played four notes but only two were recorded?
Could be due to Live Quantize, you can turn that off by pressing Rec + Play until it tells you that quantize is off.
You could also try a different scale length on your progression track, to increase its resolution (standard is 1/16th) and/or decrease its playback speed.
EDIT: suggesting the scale length because I thought maybe your playing is too intricate for the 1/16th per step resolution 
yeah i’m just holding notes down as the beat plays on the chromatic keyboard and trying to live record the progression and i thought i had seen others do this in videos but maybe not. i appreciate the responses, i have a lot to figure out hahaha.
…oh yes…seems so…
ur aware of the fact, that u got an eight voice sampler in front of u?
so there’s also just ONE sample playing at any moment per track…
so, maybe u saw a digitone video…er, well, even if they look pretty much the same on first quick sight, but one is a sampler, the other a synth…
Yeah it was for sure the digitakt. I was able to mostly achieve what I wanted by increasing the pattern and track steps to 64. The is also my first sequencer so there are a few hurdles I’m overcoming here it seems. Lol. Thanks for the responses. Much appreciated.
Digitakt’s audio tracks (1-8) are monophonic, so they only play one note each, period. The MIDI tracks (9-16) are up to four-note polyphonic, so you may have seen someone playing chords on the DT’s chromatic keyboard triggering an external MIDI device.
…er, talking to me…?
no need for explaining me exactly what i was explaining to him before…
or did u just hit the wrong reply button…?