I bought a machinedrum (non uw) a few months ago and I’m finally getting round to playing with it. I’d like to set it up with my digitone. Would you recommend sending the audio from the machinedrum into the digitone or the other way round?
I’d say into the digitone , overdrive is quite nice! plus recording into pc ?
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Digitone because of the reverb and delay
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I assume to sync patterns I just enable program send on the DN and receive on then MD?
Another for into DN. When overbridge gets released, the DN will help you record the MD.
This is a killer setup. So it looks like I can use the machinedrum song mode to control the digitone
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Yes, you can sync pattern changes with the MD or sequence them with song mode.
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Yes! Also, you can use the midi to extend the capabilities of the MD. Conditionals/microtiming/individual track scale. Only 4 tracks- but that should be enough to vary up your core rhythm- also you can change the notes to trigger different tracks so you can do quite a lot with the 4 midi tracks.
Also, you can use the MD midi to vary different loops on the DN. Switch up the bass lines, change leads, etc. Or you can use midi machines on some tracks to act as a quick control to select DN parameters. 16 tracks to do whatever you want with is pure wealth!
Glad you’re enjoying your set up. The MD is a magical, magical machine 
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Has anyone successfully managed to do this yet? I’ve been trying to get it working but to no avail. Should I have midi tracks sending CC’s to the DN from the MD?
I assumed the message would just be sent by ticking the Program Change box to send and receive on the DN?
Cheers!
I mean, first and foremost, I’d want the main midi connection to go from the DN to the MD just to apply the advanced sequencer to tracks on the MD.
MD midi setup is pretty esoteric though, I’ve done it before- but I always forget the settings whenever I have to do it again
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The program change following should ‘just work’. I’ve done this. Wrote a 10 minute song this way. But it’s been a while and I don’t have the setup in front of me.
I use MD as the MIDI master, going into Digitone, since MD has the song mode. Yeah, Digitone has more advanced sequencer, but they’re good sequencers on their own right so I just wanted them synced up.
I just made sure the MD was set to send program changes (I tend to reserve channel 16 for this), and the Digitone was set to receive. Then, no problems!
For extra fun, I also ran the MD through the Digitone because I liked the Digitone’s Overdrive and using the delay effect on the inputs. And since one can’t directly sequence the effect channel on Digitone within the box, I used a MIDI machine on Machinedrum to send some light randomization to a CC on the effects MIDI channel on Digitone to tweak the delay time.
But as I said, it’s been a while since I’ve done this. I may be setting this up again to re-record the drums this way. In the final track I released, I kept the Machinedrum dry instead of going through Digitone’s delay and I regret it. The Digitone added some nice sparkle to my drums.
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Thanks for the quick reply guys. Very strange, doesn’t seem to work at all for me. I must be missing something. I’m also using the MD as the master since thats the way it works most comfortably for me. Should I be putting trigs on the channel I’ve set the program change to or something? Perhaps its something in the DN I’ve missed.
Great combo.
If you had UW, Digitone > MD.
But since you don’t have UW, I agree it’s probably better to have the ability to use the Digitone’s efx. And possibly Overbridge but I could care less about that myself.
Silly me, turned out I had the wrong channel selected on the DN. Seems there is a whole 1 pattern run delay to the pattern change though, which is pretty useless.
Thanks for the help though!
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Glad you got the problem solved
Rock on!
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Hey there,
I have a machinedrum mk1 and due to its age its knobs doesn’t work perfect anymore.
I have a Digitonekeys aswell as a rytm mk1.
I would like to control the machinedrum with the digitonekeys. In which extend is that possible?
Is it possible to have the parameterknobs on the DN work as the knobs of the machinedrum that i can change the Parameterpage on the MD and tweak a knob on the DN and its always responding to the correct parameter i am tweaking. What if i change the track on the MD say from BD to HH. Would it still be responding accordingly?
Hope this is understandable and thanks for helping 
Possible to control MD with Control Change you can set with DN midi tracks.
Afaik no active track control, but 4 midi channels, 4 MD tracks per channel.
You’d be able to control only 10 parameters per channel or 20, 30, 40 with additional DN tracks with the same channel.
Anyway, 40 parameters max for the 16 MD tracks.
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