Digitakt MKII

Imagine capturing a stereo loop straight from your mix and slicing it into rhythmic chaos on the fly—that's the kind of instant inspiration the Digitakt II delivers with its expanded 400MB RAM for up to 66 seconds of live sampling.

This 16-track digital drum computer and sampler packs stereo or mono audio tracks (or MIDI with 4-note polyphony), each with a swappable filter lineup including multimode, lowpass, highpass, comb, parametric, and more, plus dedicated amp and filter envelopes. Three versatile LFOs per track—syncable, free-running, or even modulating each other—join per-track effects like bit reduction, sample rate reduction, overdrive, and sends for delay, reverb, and chorus, all topped by a master stereo compressor. The 128-step sequencer shines with parameter locks, micro-timing, Euclidean generators, individual track lengths, four trig modes (tracks, velocity, retrigs, preset pool), song mode, and keyboard mode across 36 scales, all navigated via a crisp 128x64 OLED display and 16 velocity-sensitive trig buttons on its compact aluminum chassis (215 x 176mm, 1.45kg). Back-panel I/O includes balanced stereo ins/outs, headphones, full MIDI DIN, and USB for Overbridge integration.

Owners love how it slots perfectly between the original Digitakt's punch and the Octatrack's depth, praising the huge 20GB internal storage for sample libraries and eight banks of 128 samples per project, though some note the non-velocity-sensitive pads for melodic play could use more expressiveness.