Digitakt MIDI Program Change headaches with HydraSynth and Peak

Elektron Gear Digitakt
#1

Hi, I’m trying to get my Digitakt to send out program change messages to my HydraSynth Explorer and Novation Peak synths. I haven’t managed to get it working properly with any combination of Bank, SBank and Patch parameters. It sends something out, but it isn’t what the synths expect. Probably something to do with LSB, MSB, or an expected sequence.

Anyone got any luck to get this working with either of these synths?

I haven’t tried to do it with my Syntakt, but if anyone got that working, I’d be willing to reorganize my MIDI chain to set the Syntakt as being the main box. Using the DT as main because of the 8 “use it or lose it” MIDI tracks.

Thanks!

#2

I’m using Digitakt with the Peak. SBNK is Peak’s Bank, PROG -1 is Peak’s patch.

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#3

Thanks, just for good measure, do you have anything in between the DT and the Peak in your MIDI chain?

#4

no, directly connected.

#5

Thanks, I’ll try to sort this out tonight.

#6

Ok, I got everything working. The culprit was my Behringer TD-3-MO. Daddy likes his acid.

I had:
DT -> DN -> ST -> AH+fx -> TD-3-MO -> Peak -> Hydrasynth -> DT
will change to:
DT -> DN -> ST -> AH+fx -> Peak -> Hydrasynth -> TD-3-MO -> DT

Behringer… I enjoy their hardware (and understand why some don’t), but damn it, we can all agree that they are the worst at software and firmware. Can’t even do a MIDI thru correctly…

Thanks for your assistance!