I understand that recording into the Digitakt using live play from an external midi keyboard (I have an arturia one) records up to 4 key’s simultaneously pressed when you are recording those notes into a midi channel. I wondered why this limitation is in place?
I wondered if:
1/ Is this correct, is it limited to a chord play and will just take 4 pressed at once or did I read this incorrectly and it is in fact recording all keys pressed at once?
2/ Is this the same for Octatrack and the new Midi update for the Rtym? Are they also limited to 4 keys being recorded at once?
Great thanks. I don’t think my skill level will see me use more than 4 in a chord, however it is an interesting limitation. I wonder if the bigger box’s support more.
The OT supports 4 note chords. The rytm is Single note output. The digitone supports 8 note chords. The Monomachine I believe supports 4 note chords too but it’s been a minute since I used it’s midi output.
You can use more than one MIDI track set to send to the same MIDI channel, so you could have 8 note chords, 12, 16, etc sent to the same device if you like. 32 notes is quite a few notes. If you have 4 notes sent to an 8 voice polysynth, and want to send more notes for a little twinkly melody up in the higher octaves to the same synth, just use a second MIDI Track and you’ll be all good. Bonus benefit of using it this way is that you can mute those parts individually, which is very useful for composition and variety.
FWIW - I found that 4 notes per trig is an easy limit to work around (at least for the music I write).
In the cases where I’ve needed more notes, it’s usually on pads, and I just add another trig.
For example if you have a long chord playing, you just add a few long notes into the sequence as it’s being held. The bonus is evolving pads
