iirc a workaround can be to use some CTL machine as a mediator…
e.g. use an LFO on a CTL-8 machine, and assign the MIDI-machine’s pitch as target of the CTL-8. Not sure if this the right way, but a workaround along these lines does exist.
Hi,
last night I was trying MD midi machines, and in particular sending an LFO to various destinations on my Waldorf Pulse with good success, but I noticed that setting the LFO destination to Note doesn’t change pitch, can you guys confirm this? Or maybe with some other synth this could work
It worked once upon a time in an older OS, but the functionality was removed by HQ for some stability reasons.
there is a workaround… Set up a CTRL8 Machine with a knob assigned to the pitch of the Midi Machine you want to lfo. Now you can point any track’s LFO at the CTRL8 parameter and it should work.
Although it’s assignable unfortunately I don’t believe it works.
You can refer to the manual; I’m not sure where as I’m not near mine. It definitely says there are some params on the MIDI machines that aren’t affected by LFOs.
BTW a nice thing I noticed while playing with the MID machine last night (new owner) is that you can change the note before pressing the step, and it will automatically P-Lock it, so you can essentially dial a note in, press the step to set that note, dial another note in, press the next step to set that one, etc - rather than entering the steps first then going in and P-Locking them. Makes creating those crazy techno sequences with random notes much quicker
Reading this feel some sort of silly annoyance with Elektron. People are using their gear years and years after release and their bugs are simply abandoned. I know there’s a bottom line and Elektron has to make a profit - but shit! It would likely take someone less than a few hours to fix something like this. The fact that firmware development has been abandoned makes me cry inside.
Anyways. don’t mean to high-jack the post - I can’t wait to try this with my MD.
I was just thinking about this, and that’s a perfect solution for doing this stuff with minimal boxes! You could have a solid spastic jam with only the A4/MDUW! Thanks for the suggestion! Will try out!
Hello,
I already read in this forum that it’s a known bug of MD.
The work around consist in creating a 8pole ctrl, attribute the note parameter to one of the ctrl and then to apply an lfo to this track control
That’s all
Cheers
What you hear on the MD is processed sound on the mains, synthesis plus modulation, i.e. p-lock. On your midi-out port it appears as a midi note plus a controller stream. The note you send to OT triggers a sample but it isn’t aware of the CC-stream since it has no synthesis as the MD.
MD’s sequencer dosn’t work with midi, it uses ELEKTRON-OS.