On my Digitakt I love to play around with automation, global settings recording and etc. That’s what it is all about in the end of the day, right?
But as I’ve seen on some YouTube videos - most of Digitakts do animate this kind of automation. Like when you mess around with an envelope, it shows you after how the envelope change.
But not in my case
What do I do wrong? And is it ok if on my Digitakt there is no logo of Elektron, but it only say Korg Volca?*
Ah yeah looks like it’s set up with MIDI loopback so it can be plocked from the MIDI tracks. In that case, it’ll make the screen update in realtime. Normal direct plocks won’t show the changes.
Okay, so we came back with an answer: Knobs show changes only if they are controlled by MIDI.
So It is annoying, according to @tengig, that we don’t see this animation if knobs and/or filters or etc. are controlled by record-play automation.
As for me, it is not obvious how do LFO control, say, sample tone. I’d like to see how do Tone knob act, controlled by LFO. And I need to see it is controlled, as I can forget about it. I mean, what does it take to bring up such animation and what are cons against it?
I imagine that the issue is to do with message rate… we know that MIDI can only go at a certain (slow) speed. Recording automation, on the other hand, is sampled much faster.
There might be an extra layer of abstraction necessary to animate the knobs at recorded-automation-rate (imagine a parameter being modified by an LFO at x 2k) - so perhaps they’ve decided to keep the implementation simple and only animate parameters where they know they can definitely keep up with in real-time.
There is a similar behaviour with the Octatrack’s crossfader - it is sampled at a very high frequency, much faster than MIDI messages can be sent, so (I am under the impression that) rather than resampling it to MIDI rate, it just doesn’t send MIDI messages when the crossfader is moved.
Okay, so we came back with an answer: Knobs show changes only if they are controlled by MIDI.