OT MIDI Sequencer Woes

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#1

Hello everyone,

Yet another question about the OT midi sequencer, but I’ve been looking for answers here and in the manual for a while, and can’t find any.

I am using the OT to sequence my eurorack via an Intellijel MIDI 1U. It works okay, but if I want to send the same notes consecutively, subsequent notes don’t play. I have to change the note before it will play again. This occurs in both step and chromatic mode. I would attach a video but elektronauts is not letting me because I’m a new user.

Any ideas? It may be the intellijel midi 1U that’s causing this, so if I can’t find answers here I’ll try the intellijel forum.

Cheers!

#2

Do you mean to say the same note, when pressed a second time, doesn’t trigger a gate?

Check possible note length issues: I would first look to see if your Arp is on and/or what the note length setting is.

#3

The Octatrack does set note on with velocity 0 messages instead of note off messages. This is valid from a MIDI standard perspective, but not all devices recognize it correctly. Maybe the Intellijel MIDI 1U is one of them …

And before you’ll ask: no, this behavior of the OT cannot be changed.

A workaround is to use an external midi processor in between which translates note on with velocity 0 into proper note off messages.

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#4

Yeah but only if it’s the same as previous note, if it’s a different note it works perfectly.

Arps mode set to off, no difference. Length doesn’t seem to change anything. But weirdly, when I change NOT2-4, all the triggers play! I am stumped. Thanks for your help though!

#5

That’s alright hopefully intellijel can do something about it if needs be

#6

Someone on the intellijel forum says the MIDI 1U does recognise Note On Velocity 0 as MIDI Note Off, which is good to hear. Any ideas?

#7

Other ideas like the ones suggested by @xidnpnlss? Have you already tried to reduce the note length? Just make it very short for testing.

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#8

is this how it (the MIDI) works only on the Octatrack or is the case for all elektron machines??

#9

I don’t have any eurorack gear, but the DT MIDI sequencer will trigger the same note repeatedly on my external synths if programmed to.

#10

Note length doesn’t seem to make a difference unfortunately

#11

The indicator on the octatrack is telling me that there is midi data being sent out whenever I press a key, so does that suggest that the problem is the midi 1U not being about to recognise it for some reason?