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Feature Request: Track-to-Track Sidechain / Ducking for Digitakt 1 - DrmstrngTech - 10-07-2026
First of all, thank you again to everyone involved in the Digitakt 1 modding scene.
Seeing people add entirely new machines, filters, processing options and other features to the original Digitakt is genuinely inspiring. I really appreciate the amount of work, research and experimentation that goes into all of this.
I would like to suggest another feature that could be very useful musically:
**Track-to-track sidechain / ducking for Digitakt 1.**
The idea would be to use one track as a trigger or sidechain source — for example a kick — and make one or more selected tracks duck in response to it.
For example:
**T1 = Kick**
**T2 = Bass**
**T3 = Pad**
T1 could act as the sidechain source, while T2 and/or T3 are selected as the tracks being ducked.
Ideally, it could have a few basic controls such as:
- Ducking amount / depth
- Attack
- Release
- Sidechain source
- Target track or tracks
One particularly useful option would be allowing the source track itself to remain unaffected while it controls the gain reduction of other tracks.
That would make it possible to create classic kick-to-bass sidechain, rhythmic pumping on pads, or more experimental modulation without having to process the entire master signal.
Even a simpler implementation would already be extremely useful — for example, a basic volume envelope triggered by another track.
If it were possible to choose several destination tracks independently, that would be even more powerful.
I think this could fit the Digitakt workflow very naturally, especially because parameter locks, conditional trigs and different track lengths could make the sidechain behaviour much more creative than a conventional compressor.
Of course, I completely understand that this may be difficult depending on the internal audio routing, DSP resources and firmware architecture.
This is only a suggestion.
Thank you very much for continuing to explore what these machines can do. The work being done by this community is genuinely appreciated.