Explain to me in 1 sentence AUTO CHANNEL

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#1

thanks : )

OT little buddy DTone midi confusion loop
#2

Basically the midi channel for the currently selected track.

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Digitakt MIDI External Control Questions
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#4

receiving or sending device?

#5

aah “access”

#6

so if I set the auto channel on the Digitakt to 1 it would not matter, because only the auto channel on the say Analog four would be set to receive?

#7

If you set the auto channel on the Digitakt to 1, then any data coming in via MIDI channel 1 will play on the currently selected Digitakt track. Auto channel doesn’t affect MIDI output from the Digitakt itself.
Usually it’s best to not set the auto channel to 1 on Elektron devices, as by default the main tracks are set to channels 1–x (where x is the amount of tracks provided by the machine, e.g. 8 on the octatrack). But that can all be changed. Just don’t set your auto channel to be the same as the channel assigned to one of the main channels.

Usually I set/keep the auto channel at 9, at least on my octatrack and monomachine (I don’t use them together).

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#8

Interesting! I’ve always ignored this feature on my gear, but this sounds really useful for live jamming purpose. : )

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#9

Regardless of the currently selected Track, the Auto Channel is also used for other, more “global” things - like changing Patterns with Program Change Messages for example. Incoming PC messages are only processed if they are received on that Auto Channel.

But btw … this is all in the Manual(s) :wink: And i think they explain it quite well.

#10

Program changes have their own channel setting too if you want to.

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#11

I wish the auto channel feature would be a standard among multitimbral MIDI devices. Super useful.

#12

aah, thanks : )

Auto channel doesn’t affect MIDI output from the Digitakt itself.

i did not know that !

#13

care to elaborate? since we are already talking about it : )

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#14

program CH in / out CHANNEL have their own midi channels … soooo … ???

I ve looked through the manual, but I have to admit I am in need of a more “user based” experience … like from my fellow nauts here on the forum : )

#15

I always turn off individual track channels and use auto channel.
The reason is that with A4, MM and OT (today DT) alone I would already have too many destinations.

I set OT (temporarily replaced by DT) to 16, A4 to 15 and MM to 14 (I didn’t set off MM channels because in Poly mode I wouldn’t get all the notes.

My “lowest” synth get the first channels, PFM2 the 2nd, JX3 the 3rd, etc. so that I can control them from DT midi tracks.

So basically each piece is assigned one auto channel and I just change the active track when I need to switch from one track to another on a particular synth.

Note that this is plainly convenient if the keyboard offers to quickly change its own channel.
This is true for XKey, Keystep or M-Audio, and deal-breaker to me otherwise.

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#16

I’m a bit disappointed that there’s so many using more then one sentence trying to describe auto channels… :smiley:

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#17

Just RTFM.

#18

what does that mean? rtfm? fm synthesis ?

#19

Analog Rtfm

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#20

Elektron COULD make RTFM a good thing! They just need to release it <3