Moving patterns between projects

Elektron Gear Digitakt
#21

Second video in the top post of this thread will show you: Elk-Herd 3.0

In short:

  1. Load the project you are going to copy from —Fetch Project button
  2. Save the project as a file on your computer — Save File button
  3. Load the project you want to copy to — Fetch Project button
  4. Import from the project you saved in step 2 — Import File button
  5. Select patterns you want to import
  6. Click Import
  7. Send project back to Digitakt — Send Project button
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#22

Ahh yes, thank you so much!

To clarify though, for step 4, did you mean Import FILE? Because when I clicked Import PROJECT it just fetched the project I currently had open on the Digitakt. Whereas, Import FILE allowed me to load the file I saved in step 2.

Just wanna make sure I’m doing this right. What a wonderful tool. Thank you thank you!

#23

Yes, Import File. Fixed.

Mind you, Import Project does just what it says… so you can run the workflow the other way 'round if more convienent:

  1. Load up project to copy to —Fetch Project or Load File
  2. Import stuff from any number of:
    a. On Digitakt, load the project to copy from — Import Project — select patterns to import — click Import
    2b. If you have a project file on your disk to copy from — Import File — select patterns to import — click Import
  3. Send project back to Digitakt — or just save the project as a file.
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#24

Thank you @mzero for this great app!

By the way, if someone has troubles sending the project back to the digitakt, make sure that the USB connection is set to MIDI and not overbridge. It seems that when OB is enabled, even though reading the projects and samples work, sending doesn’t.

#25

Nice. Nice, nice, nice.
This guy just earned a beer.

#26

@mzero I’d love to use Elk-Herd to manage my projects. Somehow though after asking elk herd to fetch my project I just get an empty loading bar. I’m on Digi 1.5A is Elk Herd still going for that OS? Am I doing something wrong maybe?
Running on Win and Chorme… Finds my Digitakt alright and the Sample Manager seems to work just fine.
Greetings

#27

I don’t think it supports such a recent firmware. From what I’ve seen there is a beta for 1.40 which can do certain tasks, but not all. I don’t think any more development for it has been communicated, so to use it one will have to use a supported firmware.

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#28

ok. bummer. there is no offical tool that let’s you manage patterns from pc right? Neither Transfer nor Overbridgre support this or I missing something?

#29

Did anybody come across a new solution/ workaround? Any way to organize Patterns on the PC? Else I have to consider downgrading to 1.4 or even 1.3 ? But I would loose the machines right? And propably a bunch of other stuff that I’m not aware of.

#30

You should probably have a read of this, from a moderator.

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#31

Ok thx for the hint. Sure right. Sorry I took it back.

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#32

Ok here is my new Idea. Unfortunatly I can’t get it to work really.
Since Elk Herd offers a SysEx Project Import I thought it could be easy enough to get a SysEx Dump of my Project from transfer and import it into ElkHerd. Manage away and then do it vice versa.
But I can’t get a SysEx File from Transfer but only a .dtprj file. I tried C6 but I’m not sure about if what I am receiving is a proper project file. It does not have a name and appears only as soon as I stop receiving. And finally it doesn’t import into Elk Herd. Well maybe my Idea doesn’t work out in the end but like I said I’m not sure that Project sysex I’m getting is a correct file.
So is there another way of retrieving a project sysex file from the DT?

#33

Ok well my sysex files were ok. I guess it just doesn’t work that way.
I guess I will just give it up to keep my stuff in order on the DT itself for now.