Best connection and synchro for Cycles with Digitone?

[ShivaOm]

Hello
can anyone explain detailed instructions on how to connect and synchronise two devices Cycles with Digitone ?

basic questions
1/ how to connect via MIDI?
2/ what buttons need to be pressed on synthesizers after connecting the wires?

3/ after I make a combination of digitone and cycles, how can I add a Roland C1 sequencer to the circuit???

for commutation I use a Motu Ultralight Mk 3 audio card

ps/ It would be cool to get links to video tutorials on this topic.

thank you in advance for your response.

[PeterHanes]

@ShivaOm

detailed instructions on how to connect and synchronise two devices Cycles with Digitone ?

Previous discussion:

Syncing the Cycles and Digitone

I have a Cycles and Digitone and would like to get them set up in a way that pressing the play button on one triggers the other via 5 pin midi cables. Trying to get everything set up for DAWless performances but I haven’t figured out what I need to do so they both start at the same time and change patterns together. Is it better to set one before or after the other? Right now I have the Cycles first in the midi chain. Any help is appreciated. Best, David

[alechko]

would like to add that the DN manual has a pretty detailed section of using it with other machines, worth taking a look!

[ShivaOm]

i connected already my Cycles with Digitone but still cannot find how add in sync my Roland S1.

[ShivaOm]

yes i take a look, but i not find any information how add also my other synth Roland S1, this question stay actuality.

[PeterHanes]

@ShivaOm

how add in sync my Roland S1

If the Digitone (DN) is the clock transmitter and Model:Cycles (M:C) is the clock receiver, then you can:

• connect the MIDI Out/Thru port of the M:C to the MIDI In port of the S-1;
• in the M:C’s CONFIG > MIDI > PORTS menu, set OUT/THRU to ‘THRU’;
• set MIDI clock sync on the S-1 to ‘Auto’ or ‘MID’.

If the M:C is the clock transmitter and DN is the clock receiver, then you can:

• connect the MIDI Thru port of the DN to the MIDI In port of the S-1;
• in the DN’s SETTINGS > MIDI CONFIG > PORT CONFIG menu, set THRU PORT FUNC to ‘MIDI’;
• set MIDI clock sync on the S-1 to ‘Auto’ or ‘MID’.

[ShivaOm]

Hello Peter. so DM and MC connected perfect, but with S 1 i still cannot use like a sequence and stay have problems with it. i want have same effect like on this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=budtXcofT34.
I finally connected my cycles with Digitone and send a signal from Digitone to S1 and after from S1 to main audio card, I hear output from my DM but the sequence does not work like in your video. what could be the reason?

• set MIDI clock sync on the S-1 to ‘Auto’ or ‘MID’.`
  i try both , and everything looking well like on video many youtube lives. BUT sequence still not work. any ideas ???

Thank you so much for help and explain me.

[PeterHanes]

@ShivaOm

I finally connected my cycles with Digitone and send a signal from Digitone to S1 and after from S1 to main audio card, I hear output from my DM but the sequence does not work like in your video. what could be the reason?

• set MIDI clock sync on the S-1 to ‘Auto’ or ‘MID’.`
  i try both , and everything looking well like on video many youtube lives. BUT sequence still not work. any ideas ???

Thank you so much for help and explain me.

We need to know more information in order to help you.

We need to make sure that both your MIDI and audio connections are correct.

First, ignore the Digitone (DN). Choose a pattern on the S-1 (maybe one of the preset patterns). Set S-1 MIDI clock sync to “Int”. Connect your S-1 Mix Out to your audio card. Play the S-1 pattern. Can you hear the S-1 playing?

If not, tell us how you are trying to listen to it (all connections from the S-1 to your ears).

[ShivaOm]

@PeterHanes

S-1 MIDI clock sync to “Int”.

Yeaa when i Play the S-1 pattern. i can hear the S-1 playing. but it does not sync with signal from digitone. I mean, i can’t process the signal from digitone to Roland S1 as in the example in the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=budtXcofT34. there is also no synchronisation in bpm.

If i change Int on Midi - i see sync on the screen, but cannot play pattern and signal what going from Digitone also not have.

1st screen with Int
2 nd screen with midi
I thought it would work in midi mode, because the picture on the S1 screen is the same as in the example in the video. but I have no synchronisation on both options. only the same view on the screen but not sync.