I got an Eventide H9 Max yesterday, and quickly realized it’s a pain to edit parameters on the device itself (as expected), and it’s not exactly awesome to use the Ipad app to do it either - so I figured I could try the Digitakt to control the H9. Anyone else here that does this? I’ve tried setting the H9 to receive MIDI on all channels, hooked up a MIDI cable between the two, have tried to send MIDI from all sorts of channels on Digitakt, and use all sorts of MIDI CC’s, but the H9 is not responding at all.
I’m going to try again later, but would appreciate it if anyone had a good pointer on how to do it successfully. I’ve stayed away from MIDI for a few years (for this exact reason), so I’m a bit out of the game, so to speak.
Where exactly do you enable “MIDI send”? I’ve set Digitakt to send MIDI CC, that it’s right? Also set encoders to send to both ext and int.
I’ve now set H9 to setup receiving on channel 1, receive continous control, I’m using the default patch (which has the knobs controlled by CC22-29), and I’ve set the CC numbers accordingly on the Digitakt. But there’s nothing happening when I move the knobs. I’ve tried putting active steps on all the tracks, but nothing. I’m supposed to hear/see changes when moving the knobs on the filter page, right? I’ve activated all those and checked that the right CC’s are applied.
Also, the H9 is definitely receiving clock from Digitakt, so something is working …
Yeah, hmmm. MIDI Track A on Digi is sending on channel 9, I have tried H9 both set to Omni and channel 9 to receive CC’s, but nothing. Have you set your H9 to Omni? I guess you can’t send program change and CC’s on the same channel, so should use Omni, right? When you send it CC’s you’ll see the changes in knobs positions in the PC/Ipad app, right?
Argh, bloody annoying. Thanks for your help though.
I’ve even tried the MIDI learn function of the H9 now, and it’s picking up the right CC’s from when I turn the encoder on Digitakt, yet still nothing. So it’s clearly receiving the right MIDI CC’s but still doesn’t respond to them.
Ah - I think I figured it out. Must’ve been some sort of conflict with the Ipad app going on. As soon as I disconnected that, it worked. Would’ve been nice to use them both at the same time though.
for using two destinations in your MIDI chain you would need MIDI splitter. For using two sources and one destination you would need MIDI merger.
BTW it should be possible to set up the H9 to follow the pattern changes of Digitakt but I vaguely remember it was a pain to set it up.
MIDI CC info is only track based. You can copy the settings from one track and one pattern to other. You can create your own template project with preferred MIDI info recorded to the pattern and then copy-paste this pattern inside of your project. But no system wide template is possible at the moment.
I’ll probably make a new post for this but… After spending two evenings trying to get Digitakt to send program changes to more than one device to much frustration and no success I stumbled upon a solution we shouldn’t have to be using. Turning off and on the Digitakt after setting each channel up for each device makes it work. Didn’t matter what the devices were I tried a lot of different ones (including H9, Moog Subsequent 37, Empress Echosystem, etc). This is clearly a bug and surely Elektron has encountered this in testing. I hope they do some more testing and make it more robust. A lot of promise having 8 MIDI tracks but a lot of frustration trying to get them working (and for the record I’ve set up a lot of MIDI systems over the years). Good luck everyone!
