Setting up Digitakt+Digitone combo (and 10 minutes of noodling)
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2019
- I intended to make a short video on how to set up the Digitakt and Digitone, but ended up playing around for 10 minutes after I ran out of tutorial material.
With this setup, the Digitakt will act as the master: this is where you set the tempo, change patterns and press play/stop. Tracks 9-12 will mute the DN's synth tracks 1-4, respectively. Very handy if you want all the mute buttons close to each other :)
TL;DW:
1. Connect the Digitakt's (DN) output L/R into the Digitone's (DN) Input L/R
2. Connect the DT's midi out to the DN's midi in
3. Go to the DN's master page with func+LFO
4. Set L in and R in to 100 and LPAN and RPAN all the way to the left and right respectively
5. Go to Midi config - sync and make the DT send clock and program change, and set the DN to receive clock and program change
6. On the DT, go to midi config - port config and set the mute destination to int+ext
7. On the DT, go do midi config - channels and disable tracks 1-8, then set A to 1, B to 2, C to 3 and D to 4.
I hope it was helpful, and thanks for watching!
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Thanks for this! Was trying to get my DT to mute the tracks on my DN. I followed your video to the letter but it wasn't working. Lots of rechecking for about an hour and scratching my head. I managed to find a post in Elektronauts that mentioned the DT needs to have Port Config > Param Output > NRPN (and not CC) to work (at least for me). Finally works! wooohaaa. Cheers
Happy to help, Dan! I'm glad you figured it out :D
Dear Lord!!! This mute setting letting DT mute DN tracks is amazing. Thanks a lot for this great tutorial. Cheers
Thanks for a great tutorial and also for aligning the boxes perfectly at 2:17
Hehe, thanks for watching =P
Yes I was going crazy couldnt pay attention for the whole two minutes thank you very much
😄@@javiermeza2557
i just ordered the digitone to pair it up with the takt and this video is a godsend, i love your work Ivar
That's awesome, man :D Glad to hear my tutorial was helpful!
Holy crap. The mute destination thing makes workflow so much easier! Absolutely fantastic.
Thanks a lot, man! Keeping the mute buttons close together is really handy :D
Just got my digitakt thank you SO MUCH for this tutorial, just tried out the exact set up (except digitakt on my right hehe) and it’s SO perfect! I’m so stoked on this thank you thank you thank you
Great tutorial! Just got Digitone yesterday and Digitakt last month. This tutorial is super helpful! Now I can mute Digitone from Digitakt! Thank you!
Thanks so much for this workflow tutorial. Works just as I'd hoped.
Very instructive video again ! I found the noodling part as interesting as the start :D Thanks again.
Thank you! I was a bit worried the noodling part was a bit self indulgent, but I'm glad you found it interesting!
Impressive watching you working on the Digitakt and the Digitone. Such skill and speed!
Bought your albums on BandCamp. They are really good for when I work. :-)
Thank you very much, Michael! And thanks for the support, I really appreciate it :)
Thank you for this tutorial! I’ve both for a while, but never realise how I can mute Digitone. It is awesome! Mute indication on DN is not so obvious as on DT, so, seems like nice approach for live.
Thanks for watching! I had the same problem with the mute indicators on the DN, and that you had to toggle between mute mode and normal mode to select the tracks. Very handy to make the track buttons select the track, while the DT does all the muting.
Thanks for making this and the noodling around which is also fun to watch!
My pleasure, man. Thanks for watching! :D
Hey Ivar, I finally have synced both machines together, pretty dam cool....
This tutorial saved me so much time...Thanks again
Happy to help! I'm glad you found the tutorial useful =)
Bro - so helpful! Just got my Digitakt...getting the DTone in a few months! Subscribed and digginʻ the jams ~
Thanks a lot Kimble! Congrats man, they're awesome boxes =D. I hope they suit your workflow!
your videos honestly might be too good, dude. for starters, your tutorials are imo every bit as good as cuckoo's and bobeat's. beyondt hat, i think you really show how you can make beautiful music off of these things. your sound is so good! i like more organic sounds and would like to make borderline rock music with the digitakt, and i was beginning to feel very frustrated with that before i saw your videos. i'm sub'd here, and i'm doing the same on bandcamp next!
Thanks so much for showing the trick with the mute setup. That's sooo useful.
Thanks to you, I was able to connect digitone and digitakt! The notes were so easy to understand. ;)
I'm glad to hear it, man! Thanks for watching :)
Hello Ivar! Could you please help me? I connect DT and DN as you recommend in your video. But in my DT headphones out I can still hear only DT sounds. What's wrong in your opinion? Thanks!
I've managed to follow all the steps listed here and it was mostly working fine, however only one of my synths (synth 1) from the digitone was working. The other synths wouldn't play any notes on either the DN or DT, despite the fact that they weren't muted. Any ideas why this would happen?
Also, is it possible to record ideas on either sequencer or would i always have to hold down record and play on the Digitakt if i wanted to chromatically play Digitone notes rather than program them in?
Can I just connect DT and DN via MIDI for muting DN tracks from DT buttons? I’m new to the DN. I think perhaps DN inputs are more interesting to use with some other synth that lacks internal effects.
BIGGEST THX - Now it works fine for me. You make a very good howto!
Hi ! Thanks for the tutorial. Very informative as for the midi settings menus.
Would it be possible to connect a midi keyboard as well into Digitakt midi in (given that DN's midi in is already taken). I would like to play the notes of the DN that way. Would that work ? Thanks.
Thanks a lot for the tutorial! I also added another midi cable from digitone out to digitakt in so that you can add additional LFO on digitakt track!! That's even better 😁👍!!!
Thanks for watching, man. Glad it was helpful. Good call on that one, makes up for the Digitakt's 1 LFO :D
My man, I really appreciate your time and dedication to put this out to everybody, your page helped me a lot
Huge respect to you
My pleasure, man! And thanks for the kind words :)
How would you incorporate An Arturia key step into this?
hi, i noticed that the mutes work as expected with the global mutes with the DT but when I change to the pattern mutes I have some problems. It is either not muting anything from the DN or it is making some strange things, as if the trig would be muted after being triggered. Is it happening to you too?
Have you tried using a tb03 with the digitakt I would like to be able to mute and un mute the tb03 from the DT is this possible by doing the same work flow ?
Thanks for the tutorial ! Do you know how to get both machines to change pattern in sync? The DN is always one bar pattern length late, can't find the way to get it right. Do you have a recomendation?
would like to ask a question, why the digitakt sequence does not play when switching the pattern of digitone
Hi , can you please help me , I hear the digitone track 2 and 3 when I press the pad2 and 3 on the digitakt , what should I set properly ?
Hey Ivar, I'm not sure if you have a workaround for this but when you stop the sending box, the receiving box will get in this weird mode where the play and stop buttons are lit. If you then change patter on the receiving box, it doesn't actually change. I find you need to hit the stop on the receiving box a few times first. I noticed this when I was composing using these two boxes and I was trying to copy and paste patterns on the receiving box and ended up overwriting a bunch unintentionally. I only noticed it when the pattern change notification was flashing and not changing. I wonder if it's a bug or just how the two boxes communicate?
Hi Ivar great tutorial. The only thing that is now working for me is the sync between both machines when i hit play on digitakt. Do you think i need to make a setup on the midi channels?
In regards to muting the digitone from the digitakt, is there a way to do this with the pattern mutes as opposed to the global mutes??
I have a similar set up with the DT and DN but i can't figure out how to send midi notes to another synth down the chain afterwards. I have my keystep - DT - DN then want to control my Erebus as well. any ideas as far as the set up if i should go from the DN to it? thanks and great vids/music man!
Such a great set up tutorial, thank you!
Thanks for watching, Paul =D
@@IvarTryti How you recommend setting it up if you wanted to add a keystep controller that could control the Digitone primarily, but also the digitakt if possible. I would still like to have the Digitakt as master sending clock and program changes. Thank you!
As usual, great work, very useful information. Thank you! Hope you will record something about drum synthesis on the digitone.
Thank you, nichego! I've been thinking about. I want to spend some more time making drums from scratch before I'm comfortable making that tutorial.
Do you know if this audio and midi setup is the same with Digitakt and Syntakt? To make them work together?
Thank you for this video! I tried turning up the OD on the digitone. I was using headphones, it started to sound messy. Probably sounds better through real speakers lol.
Thanks for the tutorial!
Really helped me to connect Digitakt and Digitone together. I have one problem. When I modify some parameters on AMP page on Digitakt, it automatically modifies parameters on SYN2 page on Digitone. I'm not sure which setting causes that. Do you have any idea?
Thank you so much for this!
great tips here, tnx Ivar! just wondering is there any reason you send the DT audio through the DN rather than the other way around? I thought DN audio in to DT so it's set up to sample would be the way to go or am I missing something by doing it the other way round? anyways just curious and thx for all the great videos.!
Great video, very helpful! Does the muting also work with a Digitakt muting Analog Four MK1? I can't get it to work... :(
Really excellent tutorial and great bit of "noodling " at the end :-)
I have a question and i hope you don't mind me asking ,, i'm not a keyboard player and i wanted to know if the keys (buttons) on the Digitone can be set to a certain scale ?
Thank you very much SJ! The Digitone's keyboard mode has a scale setting, which will disable certain keys when scales are selected. In chromatic mode, all keys are enabled. Sadly it doesn't squeeze the keys together to make room for more notes, it just disables the keys that aren't in the scale you selected.
@@IvarTryti I see , thanks for the info :-)
incredibly newb questions, but what type cables are you using to connect the audio ins/outs of the two? and are you then having audio out from both of them to a DAW?
I'm just using normal 1/4 inch jack cables to connect digitakts outs into Digitone's ins, and all audio is going into FL Studio as one stereo track via the USB. I'm using the Digitone as an audio interface, so you have access to audio coming from the Digitone (including whatever is passed through the ins) in the DAW.
I have a Syntakt and Digitone but that worked well. Thank you so much.
I'm glad to hear it! Yeah, all three digi-boxes have very similar menus :)
@@IvarTryti I want to buy a Digitakt this year.
Very Helpful, thank you!
I'm curious as to why you didnt set it up the other way around with the DTackt controlling the DTone?
Nice man. Thanks for the tutorial. I love the detuned pad sounds. Boc'ish.
Very nice. 🤘
Thank you very much!
Hey Thanks for this very useful tutorial !
I was wondering, though, if there were any particular reasons that you chose to send the sound from the digitakt into the digitone and not the other way round ?
Thanks
Thank you! I made this tutorial before the Digitakt got the update that lets you run the inputs through the FX and master compressor. Nowadays I always go Digitone into Digitakt, because I prefer the Digitakt's compressor over the Digitone's overdrive :)
Great tutorial! Thank you!
Thank you!
Is it possible to control DN mute from DT mute on violet muting ? thx !
Thanks bro just what I needed
Thanks for watching! Happy to help =)
Thanks so much for this! Questions: how would I add a midi controller to this setup, so I can use it to play tunes on the DN…? The MIDI in on the DN port is already occupied by the DT.
Same question in my mind, guess you have to use a midi merger like:
U had me at the tutorial, but ur noodling chrushed me... I haven’t got any of the DN or DT, yet! Guess I have to watch all ur stuff and tuts first. Thanks for the show and tell.
Thank you very much, Trond! I'm glad to hear you're gonna check out my other stuff, too :D
@@IvarTryti Hei! Got a used Digitone and a Model:Sample, used your config to set them up. It just works, so thanks again. (Yeah, and found your BandCamp site... Hahaha!)
@@Gnoopher Nice, awesome to hear that this setup works with the M:S and DN! Thanks for letting me know, Trond :)
Great tutorial! Thanks
Thanks!
Hey with the new update to the digitakt and the external audio mixer feature. Could you still do this with the digitone but have 2 separate bits of gear coming into the digitakt? So you could have 4 gear in total without a mixer, would it all come through the digitone output?
Sure u can
Thanks for the Tutorial, I tried this and just have a question about clock syncing. on standard tempos, 120, 110, 100 etc it's great but when I set it to values in between such as 146 the receiving Digitone fluctuates from 145.9 - 146.1 - is this normal behaviour? I can't tell for sure if its just read out or actually ever so slightly out of sync. Have you experienced this or are my units faulty? I've reversed the sync, using Digitone as master and Digitakt as slave and it does the same.
My pleasure! This is normal behavior. I don't know the specifics, but the machines are constantly adjusting to stay in sync. The fact that you can see bpm jitter slightly means that they won't go out of sync even minutes down the line.
Jay S I use my boss 505 looper as brain tempo and send to digitak and it does the same thing
I use the setup. Adding a 2nd Digitone. How would I configure?
With the new update it comes start and stop for the both, it is in the same function Sync to found. the name for this one is: "transport send" & "transport receive".
Excellent tutorial and jam! I have a question, can mute track the digitone with the octatrack? Im try using the same configuration of the digitakt, but not work properly. Thanks :)
Thank you very much! I've never used the octatrack before, but I hear it's pretty feature packed so it might be hard to find the right settings. The first thing I'd check is if the Octatrack has its mute destinations set to int+ext, and that its midi channels line up with the Digitone's midi channels.
Great tutorial! Very helpfull
Thanks, I'm glad you found it helpful :)
wonderful video, thanks, so the Digitone reflects a stereo image sans it’s inputs but still not the Digitakt (V1.20) ? i guess overbridge is something different
Thank you! I haven't tried it myself, but I think the Digitakt's inputs are mono only. When monitoring the inputs, you can't change the level of input L and input R separately or pan them, like you can on the Digitone. When using overbridge though, you have access to the Digitakt's L/R inputs as a stereo track.
Ivar Tryti ya, i think your correct, bummer, but, still love my Digitakt. but that Digitone is something else too, eh! thanks again
I have a question regarding the setup and I hope you can help. :) So I have an external keyboard and a 0 coast on top of this setup. So:
1 - can I play the digitone notes from digitakt using a midi keyboard? ( According to this setup only available midi input is on digitakt)
2 - According to the same principle, can I play the 0 coast that is connected to midi out of the digitone?
Thanks in advance :)
same question :)
@@jacquesrumba7965 I have the same question, too. But I *think* the solution lies in switching the machines (out from the Tone & into the Takt) as this opens the Midi-in for an external keyboard to the Tone). Maybe....
Great, thank you!
Thanks for this, very helpful
Glad you found it helpful :)
@@IvarTryti Yeah, it was the first step in figuring out how to sync everything up for my setup.
Quick question, do you need to re-set the master settings for every pattern? I seem to have to on the DT, and wanted to make sure I didn't miss a step. (no worries getting back to me if your busy =)
Hi Iver,
I followed your instructions to Map the midi levels and pan on the digitone, it worked, but a few minutes later it had lost the settings. It's happened more than once.
Also, I can hear buttons being pressed on the digitakt but the tracks aren't audible when I try to play them. Nothing appears muted?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Same thing happening to me. Not sure why. Ant advice would be appreciated.
It's only saving the master settings per pattern. I think an update caused this behavior, as even the digitone UI changed and send transpose is a thing. There's an option in the settings to make it global external mixer
Fantastic video thanks! Does anyone know if you can do a similar “mute the DN” setup with an Octatrack instead of a DT?
hmm, i have an analog rytm in the midi-chain too so when i it comes to muting, it mutes only the tracks from AR, it only works when AR just receives clock - is there a way where i can mute DN but AR gets not affected by mutes form DT?
I don't have an AR, but is it possible to assign midi channels to the AR's internal tracks? On the DT and DN you can do this (and also set them to 'off'),so if you can do that on the AR then they shouldn't receive the mute messages any more.
@@IvarTryti yes! that solved the problem - on the AR i've turned them all to "off" - now only the DN gets muted! ... thanks for the help!
Such a helpful tutorial! Thank you! Any reason why you choose to have the digitakt go into digitone, rather than the digitone into the digitakt? Because that way couldn't you use the digitakt's compressor/sidechain on the digitone?
Thank you! I made this tutorial before the firmware update that added the Digitakt's internal mixer. Back then you couldn't use the delay, reverb, or compressor on the inputs, and they were always monitored in mono. But now, I pretty much always take the Digitone into the Digitakt for compression.
@@IvarTryti That makes a lot of sense! Thanks again!
Anyone know why (after I followed this setup completely) when I change a Pattern on the DT, the Input Levels on the DN, revert to zero? - Oh, I see, they change each time and return when you go back to the original Pattern. Anyway to make it global?
Hi how would you set these two up using monitors?
3y ago … but exactly what I was looking 4 … I will only switch the Takt to master and use a microcosm 4 the output of the tone … and go to a mixer or to the Takt in … Thank U
Hey Ivar! I thought this really was a nice session and video, the wealth of knowledge at the beginning was super nice. I thought the vibe overall was really coherent and I really liked how the bass line hit the beat rhythmically and melodically. The one thing I believe you could really benefit from at this point is to take the time to design your own sounds on the Digitone so that we could really get a clear sense of where your ear is taking you. I personally thought the energy of the bass was on point but I did dislike the high frequency portion of the bass timbre, it felt a bit like an unnecessary noisy distraction.
You could easily get away with something as simple as designing 2 bass sounds, 2 leads, 2 pads and tweaking their timbre when you make something new on the spot. Your emphasis seems to be so much on punching your internalized melodies onto the machine in a condensed fashion that if you were using cleaner tones that you've already fully approved before the composing even started it would give you more of an ergonomic template that you could expand on more naturally tone wise. I do have to say I'm really not a fan of the recurring "pseudo depressive" color (I don't know how else to say it!) of the factory patches Elektron released for the Digitone. It really does take a conscious effort to stir away from that underlying vibe, but it's relatively easy to do, especially considering your level of technical mastery of the machines.
Thanks for the both positive and constructive feedback, groovegcs! I was a bit more driven during the noodling part than I was on my last track from scratch video. I can agree on the bass having too much high frequency content; I usually like the sound of it, but it should be tweaked to suit the track.
All of the patches I used here are patches I've made from scratch. I think the "pseudo depressive" sound I make can be explained by the fact that my three main insprations when it comes to making sounds is Trent Reznor/NIN, Thom Yorke/Radiohead, and Akira Yamaoka/Silent Hill :P. Reznor has a lot of really harsh industrial stuff, but also soft and haunting music, I don't exactly know how to describe Yorke's music other than haunting and beautiful, and Yamaoka has some of my favorite creepy lofi trip hop.
Do you have any examples of synth patches that aren't "pseudo depressive"? I naturally gravitate towards making harsh patches and rolling back the cutoff to only let a bit of it shine through, or detuning slowly with an LFO and lots of reverb. I've been playing it rather safe lately by using the same patches and samples, so maybe I'll be inspired and make a new set of favorite patches :)
@@IvarTryti My apologies :) you mentioning Radiohead is enough for me to understand that I had it all wrong. I have the Digitakt but I have only tested the Digitone for like 2 hours or so, I did make the erroneous assumption that the patches you used were the default patches because they sounded vaguely familiar to the factory patches. I come from the realm of deep house and cleaner old school tones, I like jazzy, funky and deep stuff most - music that has lots of "air" in it, but I also have an underlying natural attraction for styles that are based on electronic tones but without trying necessarily to turn into dance music.
There's no other way to put it I'm just quite frankly in a bit of a rebellion against depressive sounding stuff, I want to feel moved and inspired when I listen to music, most of all it's about getting that nourishing and healing effect through the listening experience. Here are 2 old titles that reflect the kind of sounds with which I feel most at home, and i've chosen those mostly because of the tones that can be heard in them:
First, probably the best bass sound ever created and coincidentally also most probably made with FM synthesis:
St Germain - Pont des Arts : ua-cam.com/video/A4_KW-cC6Og/v-deo.html
And last, Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It: ua-cam.com/video/UeiH9Mm0E5Y/v-deo.html
It's partially with that kind of lens that I'm listening to your content.
@@groovegcs Thanks for the inspiration, man :D. I haven't thought of house music this way. It's not a genre I listen to often, but there are definitely sounds and ideas there I could try to put into my own music. I'm gonna have to explore this :)
Ivar Tryti I wonder if a more experienced musician than myself would be willing to argue that synth music in general tends to have a more sedative or spooky effect due to it's focus on atmosphere, tone and repetition? Perhaps music is more emotionally stimulating when it focuses less on the sound and more on the melodic and harmonic structure?
This is why I want to get a NDLR. I think if I could make that logic more the center of my music I could do a lot more in the realm of scalar modality and get better at pushing the emotions up and out rather than drowning in a minimalist moment. (I'm also willing to concede that it's probably just a crutch, but I'm old enough to use one without shame...)
That smooth bass sound is awesome. I'm continually amazed by what the digitone can do. Any chance of a tutorial on that bass patch? Sounds lush.
Thank you! I actually have a tutorial for bass sounds already: ua-cam.com/video/gfFCnILXr20/v-deo.html
I think the sound I use here is similar to the one I make at 10:40 in the tutorial.
@@IvarTryti Fantastic- thanks as always!
If I run my audio of my digitak thru the audio in of the digitone and then press control all and change the bit reduction on digitone, does the bit reduction also effect the digitak?
The Digitone doesn't have bit reduction, but it does have a reverb, delay, chorus and overdrive on the master page. If you apply any of these, it'll affect everything, including audio coming in from its inputs.
Control all on one machine doesn't affect anything on the other machine, sadly!
Hi, I know this is old stuff for you but would you be able to help me out pairing a Digitakt and a Model:Cycles together? I've tried over and over and for some reason I can't figure it out... I paired both Model:Cycles and Model:Samples together very easily but I don't have such luck with the Digitakt and the M:C. Thank you :-)
Awesome tutorial, thanks a lot! Really enjoying muting the tracks on Digitone from the Digitakt. It does not seem to work with pattern mutes however. Do you happen to have any solution for that? I would love to save a few patterns on the takt and use the pattern mutes as well for a nice performance tool. Thanks!
Thank you, I'm glad you like it! I've actually never tried pattern mutes when using the DT and DN together. I gotta give that a try! I'd expect pattern mutes to actually send their muted/unmuted state over midi too...
@@IvarTryti Same here but I was surprised to see it doesn't do that. Couldn't find anything in the settings about it so I'm curious if you manage to make it work somehow. Thanks for looking into it!
also here looking for an answer to this question! There has to be a way to control pattern mutes on digitone with the digitakt.. Love the vids btw!
Hi, on my digitone fonction LFO i just have Left program and not righ, i got an empty square for right channel, do you know why ?
Ui update changed, go to next page (press button again to cycle through pages)
Veeery helpful, thx Ivar!!
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful =)
I just got a Digitone, and I already have a Digitakt, this is a great video, thanks! I’m finding some of my sounds aren’t coming through the mix very well, any tips on this, or a video you may direct me to? Or is it just down to choosing sounds that jive well together, whilst adjusting the bass vs treble per sound to cut through the mix better like anything else?
Congrats man, they are both awesome boxes =). When paired with the DT, it sometimes feels like the synth tracks are a bit too soft. One tip I've heard is to try to mix at low volumes. If you turn it really low, but can pick out the important bits (kicks, snares, lead, depending on what you're going for), then the levels are roughly in a good spot at higher volumes. What you said is pretty much what I'd suggest. Use the bandpass filter (filter page 2) to remove bass frequencies from leads and hats to make space for every instrument. There's a lot to get into, but those are the first things that come to mind.
All right cool, thanks for the quick response! I’ll try working at lower volume as per your suggestion! I’m sure this will take a little while before I have the two boxes working exactly as I’d like. I’m super impressed from what I’ve seen so far, in the single day that I’ve had the Digitone! Cheers!
@@erikbarton6352 My pleasure, man. There are tons of mixing tips for DAWs that all have the same principle, but they're basically a more detailed version of what you said. And yeah, the DN is really satsifying :D
Very Nice tutorial. Thank you. I have a question: where is the sound coming from? Since you connected the outputs of the digitakt to the digitone I mean.
Thank you! I'm using the Digitone as an audio interface. This lets it send audio over USB that I can access in a DAW.
Ivar Tryti oh i see thanks!
I used the same settings as you but my Digitakt doesn't (un)mute my Digitone Patterns. I have Mute Dest set to ext+int. Can you help me?
I haven't tested it myself, but I hear it doesn't work when in pattern mute (purple trigs), only global mute (green trigs). Could that be the reason?
@@IvarTryti This is correct. Global mute only.
Thanks for the tutorial, happy to know how to mute Digitone tracks from the Digitakt. I keep getting confused with the mute leds on the Digitone. But am I correct in saying that this doesn't work for pattern mutes?
Thanks for watching man, I'm glad it helped. Sorry for the late reply! By pattern mutes, do you mean the local mute mode where the trigs light up purple? If so, then I think it should work, though I haven't tried it yet.
@@IvarTryti unfortunately it doesn't seem to work with pattern mutes... it's a shame, since it's my preferred mute method when live performing
I see that this is 2 years old, but I have a question, if you happen to notice: I did everything exactly as instructed here (even pausing to notice which buttons were pressed) and I got the DN to match the DT's BPM. BUT....the patterns wouldn't play on the DN. I had sound, but no synced start. I went back to the MIDI config menu and checked "Transport send" DT and "Transport receive" on DN and now it works. Wondering why this wasn't mentioned....or why it only worked for me when I did this(??)
I think the tutorial was recorded before the update that added the Transport Send & Transport Receive functions.
I can’t seem to get the DN to follow the tempo of the DT. DT is set to clock send & prog ch send, and DN is set to clock receive & prog ch receive, but the DT just changes the tempo independently without any tempo change to the DN. Any idea what the issue might be? Btw, thank you for the tutorial.
Lol disregard, I changed my midi cable and it works now.
Awesome thanks!
How do you like this setup? I have an OT MK2 but don't necessarily need the performance part - was thinking of switching it up to these two.
I like it a lot! Both of these boxes work really well on their own and sometimes combining the two give me more tools than I really need. I've made a lot of tracks using just one box at a time, so I imagine the more feature rich OT is really nice for making full tracks on. What do you like about the DT and DN combo over the OT?
@@IvarTryti I was new to the OT and just did an exchange for the two of these. I'm way happier with the setup. I'm just old school. Thanks for the video.
@@jlowrie33 aha! Congrats on getting a Digitakt and Digitone! I can't speak for the OT since I haven't tried it, but I love both of these boxes and you can't go wrong with them =)
Is the setup per Project or is it a global change for every Project on both machines?
Great video.
This is set up per project. I haven't checked out if it's possible to save templates, but for now it's a quick enough process that I don't mind doing it before every project. Hopefully there's a way to save these settings!
That's the way you should do it. Thanks for lesson.
Thanks for watching, Rafal!
How would you recommend connecting a midi keyboard to either/both the digitakt and digitone while they’re both connected?
I haven't tried connecting more than two things together, but I imagine that if you want to use the keyboard to play the DT's 8 tracks *and* the DN's 4 synth tracks, then you have to set the DT's first 12 tracks to midi channel 1-12. This way, if you set the keyboard's midi channel to either of those channels, it will play them. And since tracks 9-12 are the midi tracks controlling the DN, then I hope the keyboard will actually play the DN, too. I haven't tried this before, let me know if it works!
Hi, I've got the same problem and im very new into this digitakt digitone world but I figured one thing out after following this great tutorial. Do the exact same as Ivar did, then put your midi keyboard out into digitakt midi in, then go to SRC on dt on midi A- and change the channel to 10, its the auto channel. Now you can select the 4 channels on dn and play them on your keyboard from the dt midi in. Thats how far I got, there is a lot of other changes you can do on SRC- BANK SBNH PROG etc ive only got my instruments for 2 weeks, so let me know if there are more cool settings using keyboard together with these 2 wonders. Great Music and tutorials Ivar Tryti, they help me a lot :)
Hi
Thank you so much for you video it’s very helpful
I try to do mute setting on Digitakt
I set the same as like video but first I thought it’s digitone setting,, I think I did something wrong ..I couldn’t control 9,10,11,12 on digitakt to mute digitone..
i don’t know if you don’t mind how can I do the setting on digitone ? 🥺
Hi Ivar , great tutorial , Just wondering what you have the digitone connected to via usb and how we can hear them both ? And do you have headphones connected ? Thanks mate 👍🏽
Thank you! I'm using the Digitone as an audio interface, so the main L/R outs of the Digitone are going through the USB into FL Studio. I have my headphones connected to the headphones out on the Digitone, and have muted its audio internally. What I'm hearing on my headphones is actually the audio coming from FL Studio (which is getting audio from the Digitone). When connecting the Digitakt's outputs to the Digitone's inputs, and turning up the volume of those inputs and panning them left and right, you'll hear both the Digitakt and Digitone.
Ivar Tryti thanks for taking the time to reply , much appreciated my friend 👍🏽
@@IvarTryti Hi!! Thank you so much for the great tutorial. If I'm not using any DAW and audio interface. I can use Digitone stereo out R/L to a mixer? that way I can hear both DT and DN from speakers connected to the mixer? Thanks!
Thanks for the video. With this setup, is there a way to also connect an external midi keyboard to the Digitone?
My pleasure, thanks for watching :). I haven't tried it, but the first thing I would try is to plug the midi keyboard into the Digitone's midi thru port. I don't know how it works, but I think thru handles both incoming and outgoing midi messages.
The first two times I tried to connect the DT & DN it does not work for me. But after I made a Factory-Reset to both now it works.
Hi Ivar, thanks for the tutorial. I've followed the steps and the global mute mode works great but the pattern mute mode doesn't, any thoughts on this? Thanks!
Thanks for watching, man :) How do the pattern mutes behave when you try to use them?
In the meantime I've received this reply from Elektron:
Global mutes is CC value 94 on both Digitakt and Digitone, so controlling CC 94 on one unit by muting the track will also mute the other unit.
When it comes to pattern mutes, the Digitakt transmits them as CC 110, but the Digitone does not transmit or receive patten mutes at all.
I have talked to R&D about this and pattern mutes via midi CC should eventually be added to the Digitone, but I don't know when that would be.
@@IvarTryti on the midi tracks they don't work at all, mute on umuted is the same, always playing. The reply from Elektron is elucidative though.
@ Ohh, I see! Thank you very much for the heads up :)
@@IvarTryti nothing to thank for. If I figure a solution out I'll post it here. Thanks for your amazing channel!
is it possible to connect into digitakt another audio output or only into digitone? e.g. I want connect digitakt to digitone, tb-03 into digitakt
It's possible to connect the tb-03 to the digitakt and the digitakt into the digitone, but it's pretty limited. If you turn on monitoring on the digitakt, you'll be able to hear the tb-03. There's no preamp on the digitakt though, so the incoming audio has to be loud enough already. Also, it will be mono only, and you can't pan it. If none of this is a problem for you, then I think it should work!
@@IvarTryti thanks, it works fine for me, and I've added usb camera kit into digitone and I can record all of them directly from output on my iphone so very nice
@@IvarTryti and I still have one free input audio inside tb-03, so in future might be able to connect one more device)
Ah, nice! I think at this point it might be worth looking into a mixer if you plan on adding more stuff. I really like the idea of keeping things simple though, so daisy chaining audio like that probably works fine :)
but I think elektron should use some approach from electribe, just to add a external audio into sources list and then setup it to any trigger on digitakt, I think in can be done just on a program drivers side
My digitakt wouldn't mute the DN eventhough I did everything as you, on a new project.
Anything I'm missing?
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thanx!!
Thank you!
My pleasure man, thanks for watching :)
thank you so much!
Happy to help!