⚙️🛠👷Admin Tasks Ahead!
⦦ᔑ⎍ Overbridge and Transfer make it very easy to import and export samples, as well as to incorporate the Digitakt into a DAW workflow.
Those tools do not, however provide an equally easy way to backup your Digitakt projects.

⦦ᔑ⎍ The more I've thought about it, the more I've come to believe that Elektron consciously left out this functionality as it doesn't jive with the creator's vision for the Digitakt. Something about this "hole", and the absence of song mode gives me the impression that "transience" was always the goal. Perhaps a topic for another video?

⦦ᔑ⎍ In any case, this video demonstrates how to backup and restore a Digitakt project using a USB connected Mac running SysEx Librarian. It's a topic that I know has confounded many Elektronauts. Please don't hesitate to comment if any of the guidance here isn't easy to understand.

0:00 Are you stressing over how to back up your DT?
Part 1⟿ Backup & Restore a Pattern
0:30 Getting Started, You'll need a Mac and SysEx Librarian
1:16 Basic setup before backing up (turn OFF overbridge mode)
2:06 Back up the pattern using SysEx Librarian
4:13 We're done, right? No. TEST YOUR BACKUP.
4:35 Making a new project to test the restore
5:20 Restore the backup
6:44 Listen to the restored pattern... Wait a sec... This doesn't sound right!
Part 2 ⟿ Backup & Restore Sounds
7:28 We need to get the sounds from the original project
8:10 How do we get these sounds?
8:29 Check out the Pattern menu
8:45 An Elektron "Sound" explained in ~20 seconds
9:23 Backing up sounds
11:47 Send sounds to the Mac with SysEx
13:00 Reload the test restore project
13:50 Prep to restore sounds from SysEx
15:00 Restore the sounds to the DT
15:32 Reassign the sounds to the pattern trigs
17:15 We did it!
Wrapping up ⟿
17:27 Closing notes, backup/restore & p-locks

⦦ᔑ⎍ I should mention that, although I didn't cover it in this video, this method also works for saving midi templates. Leave some comments if that's something you'd like to see also.

⦦ᔑ⎍Finally, Ricky Tinez made a video on this subject many moons ago. Although it's still relevant, some modern technical constraints made it impossible for me to take advantage of the lessons there. So building on what I learned in his video, I worked the rest out and am sharing it here.

⦦ᔑ⎍ Production notes:
⟿ I did actually dust the DT before / during the making of this video. And yet it still looks dusty. Apologies.
⟿ I made some adjustments to my recording process for this video. I think we got better image quality, and while the sound is mostly ok, the main mic on my voice peaks and cracks once or twice at the end. Again, apologies.


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