Keystep, Digitone configuration

[knh]

On KS im always in ARP mode, so when pressing start on the master KS is not triggering DN.

Edit: This way you have to stop KS every time before playing single notes.

I think the only workaround then is to set it KS>OT>DN.

See this post for the setttings on the OT.

External keyboard set up

What knh said; you can setup a midi channel on octa and set the channel to the channel you want to control on the DN, making sure your external keyboard is transmitting on the same channel. It should playthrough fine in realtime. You can also set the octa cc’s on the midi channel to record aftertouch, pitchbend etc as well as note data. (make sure the midi channel on octa is not muted) I don’t know if the DN supports autochannel but if it does you can set the autochannel to the same channel as …