Hello guys. I bought a Multi Fx pedal and I want to run it through the digitakt, the pedal has only one input so I’m trying to send the Digitakt signal into mono, I tried using only one cable connected into the Left output of the Digitakt but doesn’t seem to do the trick. On my mixer signal only comes on the left.
Is there a setting I’m missing or do I need a Stereo to Mono cable?
Thanks for your help!
It doesn’t sound like sampling is the issue so it’s not related to mono / stereo sampling
It’s running the outputs of the digitakt ( both left and right) into an fx box that only has mono input
But yea - you need a stero to mono lead to run into the fix box.
If you’re running it via mixer fx send , then you need 2x mono into the mixer ( one panned left , one right )
The fx send on both channels into the fx box , the output of fx back into the mixer fx return.
Isn’t that potentially going to cause issues with the digitakt’s outputs?
I always thought you could use that kind of cable to split a signal but not combine??
Yeah, there’s no guarantee it will work with every piece of gear. Potentially could damage some gear ?
Might help to know what the pedal and mixer is, but if you are using one channel of DT then I assume you are going DT to pedal and then out of the pedal to the mixer? Then you need to either use a mono channel on your mixer or use a mono to stereo split from your pedal into the mixer. Much better to set up an FX send on your mixer (if it has it) so you can still mix stereo DT with the mono pedal… but yeah I’m guessing from what you wrote you are putting a mono channel from your pedal into a stereo channel on your mixer.
You mentioned a mixer? Does it have aux sends if so then use those and connect your fx pedal up to the aux.
Hey guys, thanks for the quick replies, it’s a Mackie Onyx 16 mixer, Digitakt Left goes into the Zoom B3 fx and then zoom B3 L and R goes into a channel of the mixer. The mixer has Aux, but not sure how it’s meant to be routed?
Hi, yes it does have Aux Sends, but not sure how am I meant to route the signal from mixer to the zoom and back? I have the Mackie Onyx 16 mixer. My first time having an FX pedal so this is all new to me haha!
Ok so on the top of the mixer there’s an FX send jack. You go from that to the input of your pedal and the pedals output comes back into one of the channels on the mixer.
You control how much signal is sent to the external effect using the FX send knobs which are the yellow ones.
I don’t think the cable could do any damage, but if you are just passively summing a stereo signal to mono, you’re likely to get weird phase cancellations or things like that, especially if using reverb. So it’s not recommended. I would just run L output mono and ignore the right channel as long as you haven’t done any significant panning or ping pong delays.
When I send DT (or other stereo device) to mono back out to TRS stereo, I usually use 2 types of cables. One is Y cable that goes 1/4" TS/TS to 1/4" TS, it just merges the left and right into a single mono output.
That goes into the mono device’s input and then on the output side I use a hosa CMP-103 1/4" TS to 3.5mm TRS Mono Interconnect Cable 3 ft.
They describe it as: “This cable is designed to apply a mono signal equally to a mini stereo phone input. It may be used to connect a mixing console to a portable media player, laptop, or similar device.”
So, any cable which does the same should work.
If you decide to go out of the pedal into dual mono channels, then instead of the cmp-103 you need another Y cable similar to the first.
For some reason some Y cables are directional (probably because there’s a resistor in the jack plug shield on one end and not the other but not 100% sure) so you just need to read the description and see if it’s deliberate about the usage, like how the one I copied the description of above says it applies a mono signal equally into a TRS jack. That means it would not work in the direction of TRS sending signal to the mono end.
Not sure if that’s adding any new information to the conversation, but that’s what I do.
Situationally with devices, you need to be aware of whether or not they require balanced cables or other caveats to general type advice though.
Interesting the way you have it set up sounds like it should be working to me, is there possibly some setting on the pedal that has it stuck in mono output?
The way to set up an aux send would be digitakt into the mixer then aux out to the pedal and back to the aux return and the the mixer should have some aux send knobs to route the signal with
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the tip, I have set it up so Digitakt is on 15/16 stereo channel, the mono FX port at the back is connected to the Pedal and the stereo output of the pedal into 17/18 stereo FX channel.
I can now hear the effect working on digitakt in stereo which is great but when I try to record Digitakt’s channel it doesn’t record the fx together? Also can’t see any signal coming from 17/18 into Ableton.
If I record the master out of the mixer into Ableton I hear both the FX and Digitakt in the recording, however I’m losing the multitrack recording functionality so would be great if there is a way to record the FX serparetely or on top of the digitakt without recording the master.
Am I missing something here? Thanks again!
Have you pressed the LR button by the fader?
Yes, LR button is pressed on the fader!
What output do you record from? Control room or main outs?
Control Room, should I change to Main Out?
Ok and how do you send the signal back into digitakt?
I just put the FX yellow knob up, do I have to use the Aux sends somehow?
The FX yellow knob sends some digitakt signal to the pedal. How do you get the signal back to the digitakt? For instance I use the headphones jack on the mixer to send signal back into digitakt. I don’t have a Mackie mixer with internal effects so it’s difficult for me to try out. I think the answer might be on this pages somewhere.
