TESTIMONIALS

An excellent deep-dive into FM sound design, and a great introduction to the Elektron workflow. I've also learned a lot on how to make the most out of Digitones four parts, and make grooves with a lot of variation.

— Øivind Hatleskog

Grâce aux leçons de Dave Mech, Digitone et Digitakt n'ont plus de secrets pour moi ! Très bien expliqué... C'est le meilleur dans sa catégorie !
Merci Dave !

Translation:

Thanks to the lessons of Dave Mech, Digitone and Digitakt have no more secrets for me! Very well explained... It's the best in its class! Thanks Dave!

— Clément Nguyen

I really enjoyed the course, it was good value for money. I ended up with a much better understanding of sound design on the Digitone, as well as some things I didn’t know about the sequencer.

— Ben Jones

Brilliant material to learn about the machines as well as programming and creating electronic music in general. Dave is a fantastic teacher, artist and generally a very cool person. Can recommend those for everyone interested in advancing their music making skills.
Thanks a lot Dave!

— Christof Schulz

I had both the Digitakt and Digitone for a couple of years... able to do quite a bit, but still not progressing much after a certain point. I've watched lots of Youtube videos and follow the Elektronauts forum, but I thought that I'd pay for one of Dave Mech's courses and see how it goes. It took a few days and then I purchased two more courses, once I realized that I probably needed these courses as much as I needed the Elektron manual itself.

The courses are broken down into short segments that are easy to follow and also easy to go back and watch later for reference. I honestly can't recommend them enough if you're serious about learning how to create better music with your Digitakt or Digitone.

— Steven Kendrick

If it was not for Dave's course , I would still be twisting knobs without a clue of what I am doing.
The course explains very wel how the Digitone works and as a bonus you learn a lot on FM synthesis.
The workflow of how he makes his synth patches is easy to follow and sets you up on how you can make your own synthpatches”

— Gery Verlinden

“all of the courses are very professional and will help anyone understanding the machines, and will allow you to create songs right away”

— Guy Mitson

“All excellent courses. Very clear and thorough. Digitakt particularly good for beginners as you literally explain every step and button push, along with great tips and tricks. Loved the pdf worksheets with key points, tips and space for own notes. Digitone course more focussed on FM synthesis process rather than use of Digitone box. Fine for me (not complete beginner) but for someone picking up the box for the very first time it is not quite as instructional as Digitakt pt1. Overall, great quality courses and I would highly recommend.”

— Ken Beaty

“Hi Dave,
Overall, I thought they were really great. Clear explanations, and crucially, the application of the theory and functionality in context — rather than just the functions in isolation. I think my groove building, and overall synthesis knowledge has drastically improved because of these courses, and I have become more attuned to the nuances of both parts of music making and sound design. The tracks you use in your examples are always really great too, and serve as an excellent of what is possible within the limitations of the Elektron boxes.

A few minor criticisms, though:

1. On some shots, it was hard to read the exact values on the screen of the devices. If the final values could be clearly presented on screen for those following along, it would really help. There were a few occasions where my actual values were obviously not quite what you were using, which in the Digitone course, meant that I was sometimes working with a progressively different timbre than the one in the tutorial.
   

2. There were in all courses a number of (very) short videos — like 13 seconds or so, which amounted to little more than saying what would be in the next video, or recapping the previous. From a UI perspective, this just meant more clicking than was necessary when viewing your video content through the Gumroad app. In the future, I think it would be better to be mindful to not have such short clips, and ensure that all videos ran between, say, 4 minutes to 10-15 minutes for a longer video explaining a more complex concept.

3. The cheat sheets, while cool, are typeset in what is known as a 'display typeface' — which in layman's terms is a typeface that is more stylistic or decorative (normally reserved for headers, or 'display' type), and not so great for readability of long passages of text. Given the nature of this typeface, and the density of the amount of information fitting onto two pages, the legibility of the Cheat Sheets really suffer — especially when viewing them on an iPad, which was the main way I viewed them. If the information was spread out over a few more pages, less cramped, and in a more legible font, then these documents would be more functional for their intended use.

   Sorry to be quite critical on those points, but they were only small negatives in what was otherwise a very well structured, thoughtful, practical and insightful series. Looking forward to more content from you — possibly a course that is a deep dive in how you take raw ideas from your Elektron hardware into the DAW and finish them. I love working with the Elektron hardware, but am still struggling to devise a clear workflow for this part of my process. Too many jams stay stuck in the boxes!
   Similarly a deep dive on the workflow of how you personally combine the Digitakt with the Digitone would also be of interest.
   

   All the best,

— John Citizen