Digitakt Recording Effects Through Overbridge Solution?

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I’d like to use Overbridge to record complete individual tracks into Ableton (for Digitakt and Digitone). I understand that you can only do this if you do not want to record the send effects. This changes my work significantly and records audio of something that isn’t useful. Does anyone have a solution to this, or is this workflow just an inherent limitation?

I thought the ability route the audio individually was to allow tacking and adding specific effects in a DAW, but I guess it can only do that if you don’t use Digitakt’s effects at all. What’s the utility in being able to route individual audio tracks if they don’t include the full sound and signal?

And to Elektron: Is this something that could possibly be fixed? For my workflow, it makes Overbridge routing to individual tracks unusable (presuming there is no solution). My guess is there isn’t a solution because the effects signals are mixed with all tracks as inputs.

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you can route the induvidual audio and the FX separately … so in effect you might need to record everything one track at a time (master outs would have fx and track 1 routed and recorded too).

its been like this since the beginning, to route each track and relevant FX uniquely youd need.
track 1 (stereo audio) , unique track 1 fx (stereo audio). x 8 which isnt possible.
and quite different digitakt architecture …

dig into audio routing within digitakt and you can get trk1 to 8 on their own unique stero tracks (dry) and master outs (FX only). if needed.

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Thanks for your input, that’s what I figured. So how do people use the individual routing of tracks in their DAWs if it’s only a dry signal? I’m trying to decide if this feature is useful.

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You can use your own effects, or take the effects output from the Digitakt (by removing the dry signals from the main outputs) as described above:

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I just record one track at a time. I use delay as a p-locked rhythmic device, and I pan a lot with LFOs, so recording dry is no good for me.

I also prefer the Digitakt reverb to the standard Ableton reverb.

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So do you just use the wet FX and delete the dry track? Im trying to do the one track at the time thing.

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I’m trying to imagine how Elektron could work around this problem. OB could record steps taken, pattern changes etc, and then re-record each track individually based on a master track?