Help with sending MIDI CC to Syntakt

Elektron Gear Digitakt
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I want to set Syntakt input LR to 0 upon pattern change (even if the new Syntakt pattern has INPUT LR set to 0, the sound still continues, which seems like a bug to me).
Because of the bug, I want to send a command to the Syntakt to set it to 0 on the first trig.
In the Syntakt manual, it says:

Parameter CC MSB CC LSB NRPN MSB NRPN LSB
Input LR 16 2 30

Can someone please tell me which values to set on the FLTR and/or AMP page that corresponds with this?
I have tried setting CC1 select to 16 and CC1 value to 0, but this does nothing on the Syntakt.
I have tried to set CC3 select to 98 (NRPN LSB according to the interface), and CC3 value to 30, and CC4 select to 99 (NRPN MSB), and CC4 value to 2.
As far as I can understand, this should be the correct settings, but I might be completely misunderstanding it?
On SRC page I have set channel to 9, which is the Syntakts channel.
I am getting a bit frustrated, so I am super happy for any help that can give me a better understanding for how this works.

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Have you enabled Receive MIDI CC in the Config menu?

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Thanks for your reply! Yes, both receive notes and CC/nrpn is enabled. It also works to change program (sent from Octatrack to Digitakt, then midi thru to Syntakt).

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You should use the CC MSB value.

The LSB and NRPN values are for controllers that can combine values for finer control (2x 7-bit CCs = 14-bit control).

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And you have to use the FX Control MIDI Channel (default #13).

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Thank you. So I should only set, for example channel to 13, encoder A on the amp page to 16, then encoder A on the fltr page to 0? If so, I have tried this, but it is still not changed.

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I think this might be a setup issue.
You described it before as:

  • Octatrack MIDI out to Digitakt MIDI in.
  • Digitakt MIDI thru to Syntakt MIDI in.

So you’d have to be setting this up on the Octatrack, as it’s the only device sending out MIDI control - and that doesn’t have a “FLTR” page.

I’ve never used an OT, but based on this video, it looks like you use the “FX2” page for MIDI CC assignment/control.

There’s no internal MIDI loopback function on Elektron devices, so the Syntakt can’t use a MIDI track to adjust parameters on itself, unless you have a cable going from MIDI out to MIDI in.

They don’t do MIDI merging either.
So MIDI thru on DT will only pass through signals received from MIDI in.
It does not merge commands from its own MIDI tracks (those only send on the MIDI out port).

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Thank you, that makes sense. I set up a midi note that was parameter locked with CC 16 and value 0 going out to channel 9, 14, and 15 (which are all that it could work on on the Syntakt), but still nothing, unfortunately.

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Just to verify that sending CC works, I tried changing the reverb of track 1, and this works perfectly.

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THANK YOU!
Sending from OT, setting CC1 16 to CC1 value 0, then sending to channel 13 which is the Syntakt FX channel, it works!

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