Midi connection with other gear

Elektron Gear
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Hi,

I need your help to find the best way to set up my gear with midi, I have a problem with the octatrack playing

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I want my master keyboard to play the 4 tracks of my Analog 4. This already works (Channels 1 to 4).

Next, I want to play the waldorf pulse 2 with the master keyboard AND with the octatrack (midi sequencing). Is this even possible??? If yes, how? Can’t get it working.

I do got the midi sequencing with the octatrack right, but I don’t get them both working (octrack midi sequencing and master keyboard playing the waldorf pulse 2 synth)

Thank You

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If I would be in your situation, I would do it as following:

Master Keyboard - set to MIDI channel 9

Octatrack - send clock, leave MIDI channels 1-8 for audio, MIDI channel 9 as auto-channel, MIDI tracks 10-16 used for tracking of other modules

A4 - receive clock, send clock, assign voices/tracks to channels 10-13

AR - receive clock, send clock

WP2 - receive clock, listen to channel 14

I don’t have neither A4/AR nor WP2 but I guess you can assign the listening channels on them. Good luck!

Edit: If you connect it like above you should be able to select your desired MIDI track on Octatrack and play/record your pre-configured instrument through that channel. If you i.e. want to layer WP2 with one of the A4 voices you could just set them to listen to the same MIDI channel.

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It works! Don’t know what the AUTO channel is for but it works like this. I disabled the midi tracks note recieving on the Analog rytm because there’s no need for this.
Do you know why I can’t control the CC’s of the waldorf in the OCTATRACK, when i TURN the CC encoder knob it doesn’t change the value, it says OFF. And In chromatic mode, how do change the octave of the “keyboard”?.

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Any MIDI input on the AUTO channel is automatically directed to the currently-selected track. See page 43 of the manual.

Did you hold [FUNCTION] and press the relevant DATA ENTRY knob as described on page 116 of the manual?

Press {FUNCTION] and either [LEFT] or {RIGHT]. See page 83 of the manual.

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Any MIDI input on the AUTO channel is automatically directed to the currently-selected track. See page 43 of the manual.

Did you hold [FUNCTION] and press the relevant DATA ENTRY knob as described on page 116 of the manual?

Press {FUNCTION] and either [LEFT] or {RIGHT]. See page 83 of the manual.
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  1. Don’t quite understand it yet, still some crazy shit going on, things I can’t even explain (one of them is that the octatrack transport starts while in midi config transport recieve is off)
  2. Thank you
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Any MIDI input on the AUTO channel is automatically directed to the currently-selected track. See page 43 of the manual.

Did you hold [FUNCTION] and press the relevant DATA ENTRY knob as described on page 116 of the manual?

Press {FUNCTION] and either [LEFT] or {RIGHT]. See page 83 of the manual.
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  1. Don’t quite understand it yet, still some crazy shit going on, things I can’t even explain (one of them is that the octatrack transport starts while in midi config transport recieve is off)
  2. Thank you
  3. Thank you

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I´m guessing the sequencer are being controlled by notes (in manual Appendix C: Midi Control)… ?

Seq Stop: note A (33)
Seq Start: note A# (34)
Seq Start/Restart: note B (35)

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sorry if i revive such an old post…

I’m in a similar situation (the sound module is the digitone).
Is there any way to jam with the digitone while not having the specific midi track selected?
I wish to “hardlink” a midi channel from the keyboard to the OT’s midi tracks without having to arm it. Otherwise i can’t jam with OT while playing with the keyboard

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What about a keyboard with knobs, several channels, in order to control OT parameters?

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I don’t want a new keyb/controller, I’m fine with OT controls. I just need to have a fixed midi routing from my keyboard to my desired midi track