Digitakt II & USB Midi Keyboard set up?

Elektron Gear Digitakt
1

Great news about the Digitakt II being released.

Just wanted to clarify if the new Keyboard Set Up button allows each pad to be chromatic by using a USB MIDI Keyboard?
(not sure if you could do this anyway on the original Digitakt?) so each sample could be played as chords (polyphony depending)?

Secondly i have an unused M-Audio Oxygen 25 (v3 I think) : M-Audio

Is there a USB to MIDI Cable that could allow me to plug this M-Audio Oxygen 25 into the Digitakt II to use as a small keyboard?

ie: USB-B out from M-Audio Oxygen 25, to MIDI IN/OUT on the Digitakt? so I can use extra knobs on the M-Audio Oxygen 25?

Does a cable like this exist so I could connect these directly?

2

If your keyboard does not have DIN midi, and only USB midi, you’ll need a little more than a cable. The USB port on the keyboard will be a ‘USB device’ meant to connect to a ‘USB Host’. Unfortunately the DT2 is not a ‘USB Host’ it’s another ‘USB device’ .

You will need a USB host (or usb hub) to connect them. A computer can act as a USB host, and there are also specialist hardware devices that do it. There was a new one I posted on here recently.

EDIT: This is the recent one, but actually, it does a lot more than act as a midi host.

3

So any MIDI keyboard with MIDI Din plugs would work? like the Akai MPK Mini plus?

4

If you have a keyboard with either midi din sockets, or midi ‘aux’ jacks then you’ll find the right cable will do the job yes.