Logic pro misbehaving with Digitakt 2 and Focusrite 2i2

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Hi guys. I’ve got things up set up like in the diagram but digitakt seems to be causing issues the moment usb audio/midi is enabled in its system menu. I have waldorf blofeld on a midi track in Logic that im playing with a midi keyboard.

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Basically what happens is the moment I enable usb audio/midi in Digitakt 2 in system settings, suddenly the volume level of the track with blofeld drops to an almost inaudible level. Disabling digitakt usb audio/midi and changing it to usb midi only fixes this but only after logic is restarted. Another annoyance is when re-enabling digitakt’s usb audio blofeld crashes requiring restarting logic, sometimes changing blofeld presets also seems to do this.

More annoyingly still, digitakt isn’t receiving any audio from logic.

I have it set up like this so that I could sample blofeld into digitakt without having to reconnect too many cables (So I can just use the ipad and interface on their own sometimes and be able to just turn Digitakt on to sample into it without needing to rewire things)

Anyone know a fix for the weird volume loss on the blofeld track and for digitakt not getting any audio from logic? I do have audio input turned up in the digitakt mixer so that’s not the issue as far as I can tell.

Thanks

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If you’re trying to play audio via both the DT2 and the Focusrite, I don’t think that will work. That would require setting up an aggregate audio device, which is something you can do on a mac but not, I think, an iPad?

So that means, when you want to record to the DT2 via USB, you’ll need to switch output from the Focuseite to the DT2 in Logic’s Audio Device settings.

Sounds like changing your audio device like this might make the Blofeld plugin crash, but not much to be done about that other than filing a bug report with Waldorf.

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Thanks for the tips. I figured the signal got quiet because I plugged Digitakt 2 in last therefore it took over as the audio interface instead of the Focusrite. And yeah, you’re right, seems that switching audio interfaces causes the crashes. In either case I’ve got a fix now (bought a Motu Ultralite MK5) so now I can route the audio however I want with just one interface :slight_smile:

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