Polyphonic Digitakt via Retrokits RK-002 cable?

Anyone know if there’s a Max For Live plugin that can do the same thing in Ableton?

this is really infuriating me. I’m not even sure that the web-MIDI is successfully updating the settings on the cable, it doesn’t send any kind of message (it does for updating the firmware). Where do I even find the polymux setting? gahhhh this is making me feel like an idiot, but there’s no documentation that’s useful to me.

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just do the setting changes, he’ll apply it! i know it’s weird, but it works

A MidiPAL or one of its clones can do this in MIDI dispatch mode, too, assuming external MIDI control on the DT works anything like it does on the OT.

Hi as a suggestion theres some free software that can monitor all the midi traffic from your device DT. i use midi monitor for mac. you can see CCs, Syssex, etc.

Haven’t watched the video but hope this helps those in this threads.

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Thanks for sharing !

I could do a specific video on how to set this up in detail if people are interested.

Cheers

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If anyone knows how to achieve this in Cubase please post !..
The Piz plugins and any other similar program didnt work for me

I for one would love it if you did a video showing how to set up everything…I just got the RK-002 cable and haven’t tried messing with it yet, but it would be great to have something to follow along with to make sure i’m setting it all up correctly.

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Have you tried "bome’s midi translator’? I haven’t tried it yet, but that tool can manipulate midi in so many ways I would be surprised if it couldn’t do this.

I Just found a way so its all good : )

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Could you share how you did it? I think a lot of people would be interested :slight_smile:

Of course…
So this is how to make Digitakt Polyphonic inside of Cubase with the midi input transformer
1.Create audio track
2.Create midi track and set Digitakt as an output
3.In the midi inserts open the transformer and apply these settings

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I wondered the same thing – found this:
http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device/2192/polymind

There’s a bit of setup needed but it’s worth it:

In Live’s midi prefs, make sure Digitakt midi out is enabled (using DT’s midi over usb).
Add 9 midi tracks to a new Live project. Add the ‘Brain’ device to the first track, followed by the 8 ‘Satellite’ midi receiver-sender devices which will send the midi to the DT. Add the Satellite 1 device to track 2, Satellite 2 device to track 3, etc.

Basically, the Brain device receives your notes (played in via your e.g. midi keyboard) and sents them out round-robin style to the satellite devices, one note per track. These notes now need to be sent out to your DT – so set each of the 8 track’s midi out choosers to Digitakt and set their channels consecutively, 1 to 8. You can then group the 9 tracks and save this group track as a template in Live’s browser, ready to be dragged into any set when needed.

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Yeah, if you could do that it would be great! I’d definitely be interested in that video :slight_smile:

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This does it for me!!! A lot of fun this morning!!! Holy hell. It’s a totally different machine.

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Nice one, can’t wait to try it out!

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I have a beatstep pro as well as my digitakt. I’m wondering what would be the benefits of getting the RK-002 to connect the two devices? My aim is to use the RK-002 for polyphony on the digitakt but also to retrig the digitakt from the beatstep pros live retrig. Is this all possible?

This fudgin rules!

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Hi everyone,
I made a video where I thoroughly demonstrate the rk-002 cable in combination with the Digitakt. It’s a really powerful combination! Hope you enjoy this video on this relaxing day after new years eve.! Happy new year! :slight_smile:

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