Quick question I wanted to get a definitive answer for:
Can you trigger each track trig with external MIDI without triggering a note value?
What I’m trying to accomplish:
I have external MIDI velocity sensitive pads I’m trying to set to trigger each track. The only way I can seem to get them to work is by assigning a note value. The MIDI index in the manual only offers CC values for Trig Parameters, not the track trigs themselves. Ideally, I’d like to use the pads to play the trigs independently of any note value, so the trig note set on the DN is played.
I just looked in the manual and confirmed that it’s different than digitakt in that you cannot trigger the track sound on digitone II using the C0-G0 paradigm. The only way you could then do this is if your midi controller pads can be programmed with a midi channel number and note value for each pad, then you could make it happen by addressing the tracks by their channel numbers.
previous response.
Try assigning your pads to the chromatic notes starting with C0 (zero), because with Digitakt, using notes C0 - G0 triggers the tracks in order based on the sample (which refers back to the track note).
I suspect since this is a synth and is not addressing audio tracks containing samples, that it may not work the same way.
I’d have to pull the manual back up and I can’t do it right now but I’ll look for the information if you try this and it doesn’t work. Just start with the note C0 and go up chromatically to see if it will work.
It might be screwy because of the extra tracks between the OG models and the II models. An example, is that I saw someone the other day say that they were trying to trigger slices on Digitakt II and it started with the middle slice on trig 1 and the first slice was on trig 9, so if it for some reason works but it’s in a weird order like that, it may be some kind of expected behavior. Probably won’t be relevant from an external controller, but it’s probably better to say it’s a possible outcome than to not tell you.
It’s also possible that you won’t be able to avoid the chromatic note values when playing from the pad controller, but I don’t know definitively so I can only tell you what I know works on DT and have you give it a shot.
Ok, manual is very unclear but says specifically 0-127 starting with C0 plays chromatically, my interpretation was that meant you can’t do it the way I explained at first. I didn’t have a DNII to test but my first thought was “why not?”
