I just got a digitone 2. I only have one other synth and I use my iPad besides. Ive had lots of elektron gear in the past but its been a while. I have a 2 in 2 out Interface. So I have the digitone going into the interface and the left and right audio outs from my synth going into the audio in on the dn2. Is it possible to send the audio out of the digitone into the interface so I can simultaneously play the synth?
I watched the video with ezbot and Mario on youtube and Mario said dn2 can be an interface. All the midi is connected and working great. I just want to somehow be able to have both audio devices working at once. I hope this makes sense and if this has been answered somewhere else, maybe you could point me to that article. Glad to be back with the elektronauts again.
Hi, I’m not 100% positive what you’re asking regarding your 2 in 2 out interface, but your Digitone 2 is a class compliant USB interface. You can plug it in via the USB cable that came with it and record directly into a DAW by setting it as an audio device just like you would any other interface or audio device.
If you already have your synth going into the DN2 and you can currently hear it, then you must have already enabled the external mixer setting, if you are asking why you can’t hear your synth through the digitone then you need to do that - enable the external mixer input and set the level so that it will mix with your digitone audio.
All of that combined audio will be sent over USB to the stereo track, so unless you have a specific need for your other audio interface, I’d just focus on the digitone connection via USB.
So if you can clarify about:
whether this means you can’t currently hear the synth which you’ve plugged into the digitone, then it will be easier to help you out.
The stuff about the external mixer setup is in the manual if you hit the search thing and type in the words “external mixer”, but I can probably help you get that sorted if you’re having trouble understanding because I don’t know if it’s clearly stated, I’m just kind of accustomed to the way that Elektron writes their manuals.
So long story short, no external audio interface, make sure usb/midi is enabled in the menu. There should not be an option for overbridge because it’s not yet available for digitone 2 but there’s an option for USB audio. You need to make sure the route to main parameter shows all possible tracks are headed to main, but if you never messed with it then it should already be that way.
Then like I was saying, mixer needs to be enabled and level set, and in your daw you’ll need to select the digitone as your audio interface or audio device. Check out the manual and let me know if something isn’t clear, or if I’m not making sense or if I’m misinterpreting your problem.
Sorry I know that’s vague but I’m honestly not clear on where you’re at in the setup other than that midi is working and you were thinking you need an audio interface externally, which you don’t.
Welcome to the forum and good luck 
No, I think you have it. The DAW sees the dn2 and the Osmose as midi devices. I haven’t tried audio over USB into the DAW but I’m sure it works. The only thing that’s not working is the osmose audio cables are connected into the back of the DN2 in the “audio in” jacks. And then the dn2 goes into the interface where the speakers are connected. I can hear the DN2, but I can’t hear the osmose.
From what you’re saying, it sounds like I don’t have the mixer enabled, I know the menu pretty well just because I had a dn1 for a long time, but im rusty, meaning, I know how elektron menus work, just dont remember whats where. 
If it’s in the manual, I’ll find it. Do I just search for enable mixer?
It should be called external mixer, it’s one of the subpages of the mixer screen but hold on one second and I’ll pull it up.
Yo check out page 68 in the elektron manual, that should familiarize you with the location and settings of the external mixer page. You need to enable it and set the level, I usually bump the mixer up to 100 and set the level from the external device starting from zero volume and go up slowly until appropriate.
If the external device outputs line level when at max volume, you might find it easier to turn the external device to maximum and then slowly raise the mixer input level to match. Playing both at the same time is obviously the key to level matching but the method is mostly arbitrary to the results.
If the audio interface connects to your speakers and also the computer, you can send audio over USB from the DNII into the daw and then back out from the daw to the interface which will send the audio from dn and osmose combined out to your speakers. That would eliminate the need for instrument cables. If your interface is standalone without a computer then what you’re doing is fine and will work.
Got it, ill be in front of it in 20 minutes, ill get it figured out from what you just gave me, thanks man
No worries, just reply again if it’s not working, we’ll get it figured out.
Next time you do this you’re gonna want to get it set up before starting the project so you can save the settings with the blank project file, just to make life easier on yourself. That way you can just copy the settings to new patterns without going through the setup again, mainly bc it makes you set it up again for each new pattern just like the midi stuff.
If you’re only working in a single pattern right now it shouldn’t really impact your current situation.
Anyways good luck, and let me know if it doesn’t click for you.
It worked, I was actually gonna ask if it was like midi and that it would go away if i start a new project, but you answered that already.
So is what you’re suggesting that I make like a template?
Or should I just set it up at the beginning when I create a new project?
Just to chime in – it’s always nice to have a template since there are no global settings (yet). I use one with pre-named patterns (intro, verse, chorus etc.) and with all my default settings, and every time I jump into something new, I just load that puppy up.
You can load a kit to all “empty” patterns (without trigs) with the function LOAD TO EMPTY in kit load menu.
Thanks for thar input, global settings seems like a good idea hopefully in the future update. In the interim my task for tonight is to completely imitate your template described above. Lol
Missed having an Elektron device, I forgot how solid this community is
Yeah, they already hopped on it before I got back here but template is the way of the walk lol
Good stuff man, elektronauts is definitely a place with good info and good people, glad to hear that the audio issue worked out for you too!
Hey quick question, sort of related. I am trying to use the osmose as a midi kb, occasionally, for the dn2. Currently, with my ipad as the brain of my setup, both the digitone and the osmose show up as midi devices, so clearly all 3 devices are communicating.
The manual tells me that in order for a midi kb to work Receive Notes has to be checked, it is. And Auto Channel needs to be set to whatever default you want the active track to default to, i chose 16, just because. I then set the osmose to send notes to 16, nothing. I also put the Osmose on MPE where it sends to all channels, so it would also hit 16.
I also tried all of that, but at the dn2 default of ch 10.
All the inputs in the misi config are set to usb only
As recommended in the manual.
Any ideas?
Turned out to not be quick with all the explanation, lol, should i just make this a new post?
So they’re connected with the ipad in the middle? I don’t know much about ipads so I can’t tell you whether or not it’s passing the midi but I would suspect something to do with that as opposed to either the controller or the DN if both seem to be configured correctly. Someone else with more ipad experience will have to give you more direct advice on that.
I would buy Aum and route midi through that. It has a great little matrix.
Ive had AUM forever, ive been exclusively ipad since I sold my dn1 and dt1 in 2021. Not sure i can route an external midi controller through AUM to another hw device, I assumed because they are all on rhe same usb hub they were all 3 being seen as independent midi devices. But that may not be true, let me see if i can route the osmose to the digitone through there.
It sure does, im going to have to do some tweaking to get it to just play as a chromatic keyboard i think, its doing weird stuff, playing the track preview sounds on the trigs instead of keys for the synth machine im on.
But they’re talking, so i know it can be done through AUM
When you say name the patterns. So a pattern includes all the tracks simultaneously right? So in your example when you said you name them intro, verse, chorus etc, if we take Intro as an example, and assume your intro has 3 drum tracks, a bass track, and a pad. (Just for the sake of these examples) and Verse has all of the above plus 2 lead tracks and an additional drum track. All 5 of the tracks in the Intro example are one pattern. And Verse would have 8. (And any of them can have from 1-16, so cool)
For some reason in my head, I think of a pattern as a set of steps of a single instrument or sound.
I’m pretty sure I’m right, but if anything I said above is off, let me know. Also, I’m assuming this is going to grow and change quite a bit as I figure out my workflow, I’ve grown so much since I had the DN1 and DT1. And so has this device.
Thanks so much for telling me this early. This will save me some heartache down the road…
That’s correct, you understand it. You have to think of pattern as a naming word and not a descriptive word, although it does, in a way, describe what it is, just reducing it from a collection of patterns (literal) into a pattern (container), if that makes sense.
Ok, just had to do one to see how it stores it, this thing is phenomenal. I really feel like Elektron has outdone themselves with this thing. I was completely out of the hardware world I only had the Osmose and even though it’s a synthesizer, I was using it mainly as a midi controller for my iPad. When I watched the video on the DN2, and then saw the price I was like “man, guess I’m getting into hardware again” lol
Anyway, enough out of me
thank you