I have managed to sequence midi out into my synth, but are having issues the other way around
when i try to play notes from my roland synth into the digitakt midi tracks it produces a ‘double note’ ie i hear the synth note but also a drum sample from the digitakt (from the sample directly above the midi digitakt key)… why is this> can anyone please fix, thanks
Also, with both the midi in and midi out cables plugged into the synth the digitakt freezes… but is fine if i remove one of the midi cables…?
one thing to explore - to sequence a controller/sound synth via a daw/recorder/etc you need to Enable Local Control Off on the sounding synth (if it has it) - this means that the synth only responds to the returning MIDI and not directly to the key input - try that and see how your other issues play out, ensure you don’t have both trying to be master midi clock etc
Another source for double notes might be your DT responding on your Midi in a different way as you intend it to.
To send Midi from your DT to your Synth you set the Midi Channel on the SRC Page of the Track. The configuration what Midi channel is recieved is configured in the Midi Settings. There is, besides the separate Tracks also a setting for Auto Channel. This one is always sending to the Track you currently have active, so if it fits your Keyboard, you might trigger 2 different Tracks inside your DT.
But at the end, your freezing sounds as if both devices sending Midi Notes in circles and maybe overloading the DT with data.
Jumping in 4 years later to thank you for this response.
I had no luck googling this problem, because I just did not know how to accurately describe my problem. Maybe it helps others if I expand on it:
I wanted to play a synth with its integrated keyboard, but also be able to sequence it via the Digitakt. Ideally, I would be able to use the Digitakt as a “MIDI Looper Pedal” by recording sequences on the fly that I have worked out before on the synth through improvisation. All this without a noticeable change in the sound of the synth, because its all MIDI and not audio loops.
Local Control Off is exactly the setting that allows me to do that, as any MIDI events will be routed through the Digitakt and back to the synth, but the synth does not additionally trigger itself like it usually would (and should).
I was so certain that I would not be the first person to stumble upon this, but I did not no on which device to solve the problem.
If you want to do this, you need set the synth keyboard to send midi to the auto channel set on the Digitakt while in local control mode, and then you need to set the synth to receive midi on the channel that you are sending from the Digitakt on the particular midi track you wish to use to sequence the synth.
So the workflow would be to select the track you want to control with the synth keyboard, and whichever is the active channel will be playable with the keyboard. For playing the synth’s internal voice, you select the midi channel on the DT that uses the synth voice’s receiving channel as the active track, and now you are controlling the synth with the keyboard again.
You obviously need to set the midi up to not cause loops, so only one device sends clock and transport to the other, etc.
