Digitone playing external synth with midi keyboard issue [confirmed]

Elektron Gear Digitone/Digitone Keys
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I noticed this this morning when I tried playing my Modor NF-1m module using Digitone’s Midi tracks and trigs (no external keyboard, just the trigs). I eventually found a configuration that worked, but it was strange compared to other Elektron devices and I wondered if I had things right.

Sequencer trigs worked fine, which let me know the Modor and Digitone were communicating and routed properly (I had the Modor’s audio going into Digitone).

The way I got the Digitone’s trigger keys to play the Modor was:

  • Turn off MIDI channels for Digitone’s internal tracks (I usually do this on all my Elektrons as I just want them on their internal sequencer so I can freely use things like channel 1 on my other gear without interference)
  • On MIDI Config - Channels page, I had to set MIDI Track 1 to Channel 1 (the channel I had configured on MIDI Track 1’s SYN1 page, which is what my Modor NF-1m was set to).
  • On MIDI Config - Port Config page, I set Output Ch setting to Trk Ch.
  • On MIDI Config - Port Config page, I set Trig Key Dest setting to INT + EXT.

Then, I could play the Modor NF-1m with the Digitone’s trigger/keyboard.

But this does not seem like the right configuration, compared to how this works on Machinedrum, Monomachine, Octatrack, where the trigger keys on a MIDI track always send to the MIDI track’s destination.

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