Digitakt II newb think I muted access to Metronome page

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Hello!

I finally pulled the trigger on a piece of Elektron gear and just got my Digitakt II yesterday. Aside from getting used to the file hierarchy, I cannot access the Metronome at all. It’s flashing and locked at 120 BPMs. I was following allong with the manual muting and unmuting TRK, PTN, and SONG pads, but nothing is muted right now. If I hold FUNC and click TRK I can see the speaker icon with an x to the left of the metronome icon. I also cannot even get into the page, or tap tempo. Did I lock it out somehow?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!
Arthur

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Welcome @Tweekhead!

I think you are trying to hold Func while hitting the metronome button, which is for tap tempo (“blinking 120 BPM” is waiting for you to tap in your tempo).

You should just tap the metronome button only and it will open the menu. Make sure metro is on, slider to the right, and have the click volume audible.

You may have also put the metronome/tempo in Global BPM mode, I think it is Func + Yes. If so, hit Func + Yes again to return to Pattern BPM

Hopefully this helps.

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Hello!

Thank you so much for the reply! Tapping just the Metronome button does nothing.

I tried bothof your suggestions and FUNC + Yes saves pattern to temporary area.

Hopefully it’s a quick easy resolve! I did FUNC + No too just to see what happens and it seems to just toggle the pattern copy.

Thanks again!
Arthur

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Hello again!

I have an image of my locked Metronome icon. Any ideas?
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Thank you!!!

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You mean the speaker icon with an ‘x’ ? That just means you’re in one of the Mute Modes.

That’s odd. Try this:
Turn off the DT2, wait 30 seconds, then turn it back on while holding FUNC.
This will give you a menu. Press trig 1 to enter Test Mode and then press the Metronome button.
It should show TEMPO PRESSED on the screen. If it doesn’t, the button is faulty and you should get in touch with Elektron support or the place where you bought it from.

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Hello! Thank you for the info for test mode! It doesn’t recongnize the metronome button has been pressed, but does for all other buttons. I did notice that Trig 1 just gives a white screen on the LCD, Trig 2 doesn’t give any text. All other Trig buttons give the info Trig 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 etc. pressed.

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Time to send it back where it came from, i’m afraid. Hopefully you should be able to get a replacement unit.

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Thank you all for the help!!! This is such a great community!! I’ll have no issues getting a replacement, aside from impatience and availability:)

Thanks again!
Arthur

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No problem, hope it’s a swift swap. See you back here soon :slight_smile:

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is DT2 different then other elektrons? because this is the behavior both on my DN and AR, white screen on trig 1 and no text on trig 2, just a flashing menu on top

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Hello!

Thank you for more information! Would it be possible for anyone else to also check Trig 1 and Trig 2 to see if they get the same results?

I haven’t done anything with MIDI but did read about a global mute that I was going to investigate in a bit.

Thanks!

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It’s a pixel test used for identifying problems with the display (dead pixels / pixels stuck on), it’s the same for all elektron machines. Standard behavior in test mode.

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well, the tempo/metronome button should register clicks, if it doesn’t then there’s most likely a problem with the unit, I was just wondering about trig1 and trig2 if they changed it

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Totally understand, just learning as much about the unit I possibly can!