Digitakt usb out in MC101 usb in? Help for buiding a live setup

Hi there,

First, sorry for this cross-themes post.

Does anybody know if it’s possible to send Digitakt audio via usb to MC 101 usb input using the good usb cable (male b/male b, if I’m right) ?

Why ? After years of (trying to) making independants and finished tracks only, I would like now to create and play a live set. Currently learning this way of making music, it’s hard but exciting!

I have a bunch of machines actually:
DT, Deluge, MC101, Electribe2, SP303, KP3, Micromonsta2, Typhon, Wavestate, Blofeld, and a few more.
The idea is to sequence most of them at home with the Digitakt, then resample them in a small sampler to play them as loops or one shots, and maybe mangle them a little and/or adding FXs.

I would like my final setup to be:

Point 1:
Digitakt as brain for sequencing and a bit of mangling (rythmic stuff, short melodical stuff, fx, …)

Point 2:
Sampler-synth to play stereo/mono things sequenced here, and/or recorded from my other synths (bass, pads, melodies, fxs, risers,…), sound mangling.
Will go in DT inputs to keep compact setup.

Point 3:
Bonus: a small synth for the bass, and adding more evolving musical elements, like acid lines, chords, and so on…
In this case I’ll use a small mixer.

Point 4:
Bonus: a fx box

Here is my situation:

Point 1:
Actually DT found easily its role, and is a pure magic, specially after the newest update, so nothing to add here :slight_smile:

Point 2:
I tried Electribe2 to manage this point as I love how it can sounds, but currently facing some issues: sometimes running out of sync, takes time to make it fit perfectly in the mix, random midi notes playing without asking, few mangling possibilities, no samples playing.

Point 3:
Here I think using Micromonsta2, for its portability, and more than everything, its sound, and maybe Typhon for simple bass, as it also sounds great.

Point 4:
Tried KP3 here, but my unit is 12 years old now, and the touch surface is going mad, and no way to recalibrate it.

About point 2, as it’s my main concern:
I first thought of the Deluge, as I could record a massive amount of stems from my machines in Deluge kits and sequence them with DT.
But I’m not confident to take it out in the future in party places (random beer drops, …), as it’s my studio brain for crafting full songs. And for basic samples playing, I could use something cheaper.

That’s why my MC101 came to my mind: perfectly small.
As a synth, wonderful sounding, evolving sounds with filters and fxs.
As a samples player, 6 minutes stereo max per project is enough for my needs.
It can perfectly play the synth-samples/sound player role I need, so maybe no need to use extra synth (point 3), depending on how I can find some MC101 sounds that can replace my other synths.
The only con is it adds extra steps: sampling synths in daw, and importing in MC101. But that’s ok as I’m ready for a lot of preparation before playing live my stems.

And, to get back to the initial post theme, if it could accept Digitakt usb audio out, that would be the needed fx box that would tick the point 4 :slight_smile:

I can’t try now this DT usb out -> MC101 usb in, as I just don’t have the right cable.

Once again sorry for the long-cross-themes-messy post, but I can’t figure very well how to explain things simply, fast, and clear :smiley:

Cheers

I skimmed through your post
Basically - I don’t think you’ll get class compliant usb audio from digitakt into mc101

Simplify it , use normal audio , midi and a small mixer if you’ve got other gear.

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Thanks for your answer.

That’s what I plan to do at home while setting things up, messing with my synths, and recording some of them that are just static loops.

The further step is to get all these recorded stems in a sampler/synth, to keep the live setup smallest as possible, will being able to sequence and play live some other synths

After a little research (that I should have done before creating this post), class compliant usb audio machines need a host, and can’t be connected together.
Would have been perfect to use MC101 effects with other machines.
I guess I’m gonna sample a lot of loops these days :smiley: