Digitakt-Eurorack Pitch Issue

First time poster. Couldn’t find answers in other threads, so sorry if this has been covered.

The issue I’m having is that, after tuning all oscillators in my eurorack case to middle C, when I send a sequence from my Digitakt into my eurorack case, the pitch of the sequence is transposed super high.

More info:

  • Digitakt is integrated via a Polyend Poly2 MIDI to CV module.
  • I don’t have this issue when sequencing with my Analog4 MkI using its CV track.

Things I’ve already tried:

  • Adjusting middle C parameters on Poly2 module.
  • Transposing sequences in Digitakt (annoying and at lower octaves, sometimes oscillators won’t track…)
  • Tuning oscillators much lower (also annoying and still unable to get full range I’m looking for).

Are the notes you are inputting super high? I have the same issue when I first initialize my eurorack/Digitakt setup, and I have to press the down arrow a couple times before it’s in a reasonable octave.

You have to tune your oscillators much lower than middle C. Pitch CV is always positive - so your middle c tuned oscillators are the base for whatever you play on the Digitakt . so for instance if you play C1 one your Digitakt you play C4 on your Oscillators (could also C3 or C5 - I am not familiar with the polyend, so i don’t know with which offset it converts midi to CV).
I would tune the Oscillators by ear to the Digitakt to whatever pitch you like.
i don’t know if that was written understandable enough - let me know if you need further explanation.

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No, that makes perfect sense. I was just wondering if there were any setting to try to avoid having to mess around with tuning too much. I really appreciate the info! By the way, the Poly2 allows you to select different middle C values. However, none of those seem to compensate enough to preclude tuning to oscillators down as you suggested.

Yeah, same thing. I think @jox is right. Just have to tune the oscillators down to a lower C, or by ear (which I am not good at at all lol).