I´m having a problem with my Digitakt and I was trying to solve it but I couldn´t. That´s why I´m here asking for help and would really appreciate it.
The thing is when controlling an external synth, with a midi track, and the midi track is set to 1/2x scale (time scale), when I change for example from “pattern 1” to “pattern 2”, after changing to the “pattern 2”, in the first step of the “pattern 2” it plays the first step of the “pattern 1”…
The pattern one has 64 steps, and when I change it to the “pattern 2”, it doesn’t play the first step of the “pattern 2”, it plays the first step (1/64) of the “pattern one” and after that plays the second step of the “pattern 2”, and it continues properly…
I made a video to try to explain the problem better:
The “midi track one” is controlling an external synth and is set to 1/2x scale (time scale). After playing 2 times the “pattern 1”, I change it to the “pattern 5”. The “pattern 5” is empty, but in the first step of the “pattern 5” it plays the first step (1/64) of the “pattern 1”… You can see in the end of the video that when it changes to the “pattern 5”, the synth still plays the first step of the “pattern 1”.
This problem just happens with a midi track (doesn´t happen with the sample track), and just when the midi track scale is set to 1/2x.
I don´t know if I´m making something wrong or it´s a bug of the digitakt.
I have set the “Chanel length” and “Pattern length” to 128.
Yes it was the first thing that I did. I also tried to move a bit to the right the microtiming in the first step y in order to avoid the problem, but it doesn’t work. Thank you very much for the replay!
Hmmmm … that really shouldn’t happen. Change length 128 with 64 steps at 1/2x seems okay.
To exclude the external synth as the problem source I would connect the Digitakt to a computer and check if it is really sending a NoteOn message after the Program Change message.
I had a very similar issue with the Digitone. It was a confirmed bug by Elektron (support ticket) but unfortunately I have not seen a fix yet.
For my particular case, it happened when I engaged the ability to have different scales per track and also had external MIDI sync. The really strange part was when I reverted both of those settings, the issue remained and effected every bank/track in the project. I had to create a new project to get it to go away.
I finally decided to remove the Digitone from my Dark trinity setup entirely as it was too risky.
I now have Digitone as master to my Digitakt and haven’t had the issue…yet.
Sorry man but the only advice I can give you is to create a new project and see if it happens in there. And of course create a support ticket.
You people you are the best, thank you very much for replaying. The external Synth is not the problem because I tried with diferent Synthes and happens all the time the same. I personaly think that it is a bug of the Software. I will checkt it in a new Projekt and see what happens. Thanks again.
scale per track doesn’t keep tracks in sync. it happens as soon as you change the scale parameter as the sequencer is playing.
I also submitted a ticket for that a while ago
I tested this out, it seems that this is an issue with any scale bellow 1x.
TL:DR Workaround:
An example to avoid the note duplication in your case: you need to set a m. / ch. length of 64 with the length of 64/64 and create a chain of 2 such patterns to get to the 128 m. / ch. length.
You can also chain the pattern to itself if the steps would be the same, this way you are still using up only one pattern. You can play around with conditional triggers to achieve this perhaps.
Also, don’t set steps in the 3rd and 4th page. Especially not in the first trig of the 3rd page, they wouldn’t play anyway.
Details:
in 1/2 scale mode, the length has to be a bigger number than 1/2 of the master length/chain length number (and in 1/4 scale, bigger than 1/4th of m. / ch. length and so on), something you cannot do with a m. / ch. length of 128 because of the 64 step limit. It should be at least 65 steps to not have this issue
if you set up a length of 64 in scale 1/2, it means that you will be able to set steps enough to fill in the time span of a m. / ch. length of 128 (1/2 scale = 2x64 step time span aka. 4 pages) even if you set m. / ch. length to 64 (meaning that you will be able to put steps in all four pages even though only the first 2 pages will play)
– this is important, because if you set steps in the 3rd/4th page, when you switch to the new pattern, the duplicated note issue will still occur, so you need to leave those empty
