Hi!
I’m sure a lot of people have struggled and tried all kinds of workarounds for the late pattern change issue. While browsing forums and watching youtube videos I tried all kinds of solutions involving midi interfaces, ableton, maxMSP and none of them produced a satisfactory result that wouldn’t introduce delay or just simply not work. However I noticed that when I sent a program change message from the Octatrack to the Rytm which has it’s MASTER SCALE set to 2x it worked! But there is no such setting on either the Digitakt and Digitone. So I figured that if I could somehow send the master clock twice to the Digitakt and Digitone it should achieve the same result. I tried the MIDIHUB by Blokas for this solution (I think you could replicate it using max and ableton as well).By making the Octatrack send it’s clock to the Digitone and Digitakt twice it works flawlessly. Yes it will make your sequence run twice as fast (which is easily solved by halving the track speed in pattern settings), and your tempo won’t display the correct numbers on other devices, but the pattern will change at exactly the same time as it does on the Octatrack.
I wonder if it would be possible to implement a master scale function into Digitakt and Digitone (same as the Rytm) so that people wouldn’t need to use midi interfaces or a computer to achieve this result.
Let me know if you have any questions!