I was wondering if u great people on here have some advice on the best way of connecting these Elektron box’s together in a Dawless setup and also part of a hybrid setup??
Rytm
Octatrack
A4
Digitakt
Syntakt
Digitone
I have a lot of other gear but want to concentrate on the above first
I was thnking of using the Octatrack as a Fx Mixer with the Digitakt Digitone Syntakt ie Ezbot setup but was wondering how to include the Rytm & A4 in this setup also
I have a couple of Patchbays a Mackie Cr1604 also I have a 16 input output interface connected to my Mac running ableton if that would help in connecting them all together
I would link your two most used devices through the patch to ABCD of the OT and patch the others as required. Also run cables for the RYTM/DT inputs so you can cue out of the OT to sample.
Don’t worry about what EZBOT is doing, take some time to see what works for you and simplify the setup so it’s not complex or too daisy chained. Record your stems on the OT then move to a different box.
I really think Elektron needs to make something called a Mixtakt (with that Takt/heat form factor).
and it has a bunch of USB ports and a bunch of outputs…and faders (heck even knobs) and EQs and send effects and then you can connect all your devices that use overbridge and route those channels to the outputs on the Mixtakt.
well… what are you looking to do? is the focus on recording your jams? if so, do you want individual control of each track and sound from each machine? or do you want to treat it like a live setup and just record a stereo output? do you want to be able to sample from one machine to another? do you want to use the effects of one machine on another? and which of the three that can sample do you want to use for sampling? how old is your computer and Ableton version? does it support Overbridge? how about from five machines at once?
really, there’s a lot of different ways you can set this up, depending upon what you’re after. and some of those will dictate what you can and cannot do with the setup. so you need to decide what you’re after first, and then you’ll receive the best help. just saying “I have all this gear, what do I do?” will yield you a bunch of people saying what they would do. and maybe that works for you, maybe not…
Unless you’re just pressing play and running a preset sequence with minimal interaction then running 6 boxes would be fine (but incredibly overkill and possibly a bit pointless) or are you just wanting easy availability of all boxes as and when needed? Personally, if you’re running them together in a live jam scenario then I can’t see it being anything other than a complete knightmare using 6 boxes.
My top tip for running so much Elektron equipment would be to ditch there sequencer (Elektron Blasphemy i know) if your doing live jams & team them up with a Torso T1 or OXI - it’s possibly one of the best things i’ve done on my live setup as it just makes managing multiple devices and sequencers manageable
I second that, the thread title alone is giving me headaches :D. My guess is you’ll always run into problems with this setup and will spend a lot of time solving these problems instead of making music. I also think there’s too much overlap between all the Elektrons to use all of them together. Which means constant option paralysis: do I use Syntakt for analog drums now or Rytm? Okay, this doesn’t sound so good on both, maybe a sample is better. But do I choose a sample on DT, AR or OT? Ah shit, I’ve settled for DT but would like to use OT fader action on this. Let’s set this up on OT and let me reconnect my MIDI cables so I can send the data to OT quickly. Ah fuck, I haven’t loaded this sample onto my OT and it’s also causing OT trademark issues etc. etc.
And you even mention you have a lot of additional gear, patchbays etc. Maybe you can work best with this abundance, but I personally would get rid of stuff or think about building several smaller setups of 2-3 machines (drums, synth, sampler). Personally, I have way too much gear and quite a bit of Elektrons. But I try to keep a main setup of two boxes plus a few select pedals that I can bring a third machine into when I need it for a specific purpose. This helps me focus but still have a lot of options, but only when I need them.
I sometimes use 4 Elektrons in my Live setup (DT, AR, DN and ST). The easiest way, for me :
Audio :
AR > DN > DT > ST (the order is up to you)
AR has the weakest Input Level, that’s why it’s first in the chain. ST is last in the chain for slight sidechaining of everything (the Kick comes from the ST).
MIDI :
DT transmits via a MIDI Thru box.
In the end, I only have a Stereo Output (convenient for Live performances at EMOMs).
I thought it might be over kill having all these different Elektron Boxes
I might just streamline them down to 3 or 4 boxes
Im caught in to minds between going Digitakt ll Syntakt Digitone Octatrack or A4 Rytm Octatrack
I really want to use them in a hybrid studio setup and record the individual tracks into Ableton but do most of the arrangement on the Elektron devices if that makes sense
three Elektron machines at once is my limit. and even that can be hard to juggle. either of these option sets sounds fine, and gives you a lot of everything. I would cut it down to one sampler in the first option set though (either DT2 or OT). unless you feel like you’re just using OT as a mixer/effects box and like DT2 better as a sampler.