Hey everyone, I’ve been avoiding MIDI all my musical life going on 25 years now. Just got a Digi and I love it, then picked up a CV.OCD to bring some MIDI channels into my Eurorack setup. I’m not getting a response on the OCD. Here are the constants:
• Cable is 100% working
• Connection is responding to another MIDI controller
• Channel on the working controller is 1A, same for the Digi (Track A channel is confirmed as 1, Track B channel is confirmed as 2)
• Mutes are not the issue here, both pattern and global are live
• I checked the Digi trying to send run info to a Volka with the confirmed working cable with no success.
In my head everything should be good to go. I am incorrect. I’m guessing I have a setting wrong on the Digi. Any help helps.
Check your Port/Sync settings in Midi Config menu.
Out port should be set to Midi.
Sync for transport controls (Volca)
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Also, because it’s not 100% obvious if you’ve never done it before, when configuring the midi track itself on digitakt the source page (SRC) should have a bunch of boxes with X’s in them and the first one is channel. You need to hold the func button down and then press the encoder (A) which corresponds to the channel box. Then release func and move the encoder to set the channel.
If you’ve already done this then disregard, but this is the problem like 7 out of 10 times when someone can’t get a midi connection out of digitakt.
You need to do that in every pattern for each midi track so if you know you’re going to be using midi on a project, it’s helpful to start out by configuring the first pattern with midi and any mixer input type settings, and then copy that blank pattern template to a new pattern slot which you won’t be using so that you can copy the blank pattern to other tracks.
You can also do this with a blank project template which you can pull up every time, if you never intend to change your config settings and just want easy access to inter-device communication. You would just access your template project and then save a new project using that one as your base.
If you’re not using multiple patterns then I wouldn’t worry about it too much, just get the channels set on the tracks that you want to use. If you copy the first pattern and all it’s trigs after setting up the midi channels, they’ll be copied that way also.
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Dude.
Ok first why the fuck is… I read the manual, I must have just not comprehended that part?
Incredibly thankful. It’s not even fully working yet but I’m getting a response on the pitch bend encoder on the cv.ocd, which means I’m not dead in the water.
I’m going to pull the manual out and go through the MIDI setup again.
Very big thanks.
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haha no worries, shit is unnecessarily convoluted and they really want you to be sure that you want to set that midi channel with the whole func plus encoder push move. but yeah, I’m glad that worked for you.
Per the manual: it’s in there but it’s just sometimes the manual will put the information in a weird place, like you go through and read the section and then the actual information is at the end of the section in bold type where they tell you 4 other unrelated things.
Anyways, familiarizing yourself with the manual is fine but this particular step has eluded many a more technologically prepared person than yourself so I wouldn’t worry too much about it and just enjoy making some music.
Digitakt does not pass pitch bend though (to my knowledge) so you might be SOL on that one. That is, if I’m correctly understanding what you’re attempting to do.
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We’re good, it’s picking up trigs and pitch CV as well!