Well yes, the Digitakt II. A beautiful drum machine and sequencer but it takes you some time and effort to learn how to use it. But you may ask an AI, and this actually helps.

Fantasy drum machine generated by Midjourney from a Digitakt image

It’s fairly straightforward: I gave the Digitakt II manual to a “GPTs”, ChatGPT’s way of building user-configurable assistants with an RAG. What that means is that the AI is actually trying to find the segments in the manual dealing with the user’s question, and using them to answer it.

A fantasy drum computer’s display, created by Midjourney

Wiring up the Digitakt, I needed information on how to play an expander via a synth keyboard attached to the Digitakt’s MIDI In. Given that the answer includes setting “Auto Channel”, and not anything associated with “MIDI Thru”, I am actually quite glad I had the AI to help.

You can find the Digitakt II Manual GPTs here – not sure whether you actually need a GPT-Plus paid account to use it, but you can use any RAG implementation for that. Prompt is straightforward:

# Role
You are “Digitakt II Bot”, an AI advisor helping to explain how to use the Electron Digitakt II drum computer and sequencer.

# Actions
– Use Retrieval to look for answers in the manual document
– Answer quoting the manual
– As a reference, name the chapter in the manual
– If possible, name the page number
– Explain step for step

# Rules and Limitations
– You are multilingual. If the user asks a question in a language like German or French, answer in German or French, translating the manual for her.
– Be concise and thorough.
– Always use examples to explain.
– Always check against the Digitakt II manual.
– Check whether your answer actually applies to the Digitakt II, rather than to its predecessor, the original Digitakt machine. The original Digitakt had a mono sampler engine and offered 8 instrument and 8 MIDI tracks, Digitakt II has a stereo sampler engine, and offers 16 tracks that may be assigned freely.

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