Midi help needed SETTINGS Cycles master>Microfreak Slave

Elektron Gear Model:Cycles
#1

Hi everyone,

Want to connect Cycles to MicroFreak and. Cycles master, MF slave. Want to send/play Track 6 with microfreak Alas… Too many menu setting on both devices, I don’t grasp alas. Manuals also did not help … I am too much newby, so after 8 jours I gave up :wink:

… so if anybody can help me out, great and eternal thx!

SETUP hardware: Cycles midi out > MF midi in (via dongles)

CYCLES MIDI MENU MIDI SYNC

ON / OFF clk in (1/4) >ON / OFF clk in (2/4)
ON / OFF PCH in (3/4)
ON / OFF PCH out (3/4)
(Which should be on and which off?)

MIDI OUT

Guess T6 > out (!?)
(PCH out en FX out are chinese to me)

MIDI PORTS

IN CHAN Midi / Usb / Midi+USn / Off

  • I guess Midi??
    ? >OUT CHAN Midi / Usb / Midi+USn / Off
  • I guess Midi???

OUT POLARITY INV of STD
-I guess standard via dongles, only needed with trrs I read.
OUT/Trough(- guess out?)

CYCLES TRACK (in my case 6) MENU SETTINGS
Kbt+0 and Pad C5
Mout on or off???

MICROFREAK MIDI MENU

On the MF there is a midi menu with

Input Chan, >Output Chan (which can be set to 1-16, to all or to none)

  • (both to 1? Or 1 and 2???) >

Output destination (options: none, both, usb and midi)

  • I guess Midi (?)

LCAL (on/off option) Arp/Seq (on or off?) and Thru (on or off)

  • Not a clue

Knob sens CCs (options on or off)

  • Not a clue

Merge USB-KBD MIDI-KBD or Both
-Chinese for me :wink:

Sorry for my “synth and midi blondness” hope someone can help! Thank a zillion in Advance!

#2

Hello,

This is fairly straightforward to do. Now keep in mind I used to own both of these and did this, but I do not own either anymore so I’m going to try to help from memory.

Your setup should be like this:

Physical:
One TRS cable from model cycles midi out port to microfreak midi in port.

PS I saw you wrote dongles. You don’t need dongles for this. Just use a standard aux cable and make your life simple. But if you don’t have one and don’t want to get one, you can use the dongles that came with the Cycles and Microfreak. With a standard MIDI cable between. If you do this choose Polarity: Std on cycles.

Microfreak midi settings:
external clock sync from midi (cycles will control it)
Midi In channel 6 (for receiving notes) I chose 6 because you’ll be using track 6 on cycles but this can be anything as long as it matches what channel you choose on Cycles for track output.

Cycles midi settings:
section 9.4 and 12.3 in the manual: https://cdn.www.elektron.se/media/downloads/model-cycles/Model-Cycles-User-Manual_ENG_OS1.13_210602.pdf#page27
Midi clock OUT: ON. Clock IN: OFF
Midi out (not thru)
Track 6 midi to output (MOut checked in track menu for track 6)
midi channel for track 6 set to 6 in midi menu (as long as it matches what you set microfreak midi INPUT channel to be)
Polarity should be set to INV as microfreak uses B standard and not A like cycles.

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#3

Wonderful Chrisdanger thx a lot for your input!
REALLY APPRECIATED
It appears to work!!!
My current settings are

CYCLES MIDI MENU

MIDI SYNC

OFF clk in (1/4) >**ON clk out (2/4)
ON / OFF PCH in (3/4)
ON / OFF PCH out (3/4)

MIDI OUT CHAN

T6 > OUT

MIDI PORTS

IN CHAN Off >
OUT CHAN MIDI
OUT POLARITY: INV
Out/THRU: OUT

CYCLES TRACK (in my case 6)

MENU SETTINGS
Mout ON (Track 6

) MIDI FILTER (sorry missed that one in first post)
Rcv Note OFF
RcV CC OFF
Encs INT

MICROFREAK MIDI MENU
On the MF there is a midi menu with

Input Chan set to 6 >Output Chan
Output destination MIDI
LCAL ON >Arp/Seq ON
Thru OFF
Knob sens CCs ON
Merge USB-KBD (can also be MIDI-KBD or Both)

The only clock settings on the MF I found here under Sync…
was no option for "ext clock midi " so hope I did right!
MF Menu
Sync > Source ( MIDI , other options are int, usb, clock, auto) Sync > Clock 24PPQ (options default, other options: one step 2ppq, 48ppq) Sync> Global Tempo OFF /onx

Hope I didn’t make any stupid mistakes since most of it is new to me! …

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#4

That all looks good! Any settings I didn’t mention don’t need to be adjusted and can be left at their defaults. Glad you got it working :mechanical_arm:

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