External sequencer question

Elektron Gear Digitakt
#1

I’m thinking about expanding my live rig with a Roland TB-03 or x0xb0x.

My current setup:

-Digitakt
-Roland SE-02
-Yamaha TX81Z

(The thee of them are linked via my Midi Solutions Quadra Thru)

At this moment, I program the notes that I want my SE-02 and TX81Z to play, into the Digitakt’s MIDI tracks.

But the TB-03 en x0xb0x have really cool sequencers of their own, with the typical glides and accents.

So I guess programming notes from a TB-03 or x0xb0x into the Digitakt MIDI tracks don’t really give you that typical 303 sound, because then you would miss the glides and accents.

Suppose I get a TB-03, will it then be possible to program the Digitakt in such a way that it will trigger the external sequencer from the TB-03, while the SE-02 and TX81Z are still triggered by MIDI notes that are put in the Digitakt?

#2

Yes obviously you can just send a clock from DT to the TB-03 and have it run independently.

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#3

You can clock sync but you will have to switch patterns manually, TB-03 doesn’t support program change.

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#4

Thanks for you responses. So after I hook up a TB-03 via MIDI, I just have to check the ‘‘clock send’’ box in the MIDI configuration menu of the DT and things should work?

#6

Can you not use the MIDI cc automation from the DT to control the desired parameters?

The TB-03 looks like it has access to glides/accents/etc.:

And the Yamaha has a number of parameters you can modify as well: