Polyphonic Digitakt via Retrokits RK-002 cable?

Elektron Gear Digitakt
#22

Can someone explain a little more about how this is working/how you would set up a track for this?

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#23

i am curious about the Arduino and the Rk-002 route as well.

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#24

I can talk about the Midipal : you set receiving channel and the number of output channels (8), same on DT midi track (or any midi gear), lets say channel 1. You set DT tracks channels to 1-8.

When you play a chord, each note is mapped with a different channel. Ex :
C = ch1, E =ch2, G=ch3, B=ch4, etcā€¦

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#25

can someone with an rk002 please help me. how do i set the midi channels as well as the midi configs to get the polyphonic behaviour on the dt? thanks

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#26

Yes! Iā€™d like some help with the setup as well. I just spent an hr trying to get it working:confused: Iā€™m mostly looking for help with setting up the Digitaktā€™s MIDI for this. How exactly do you have the Digitakt to use the MIDI channels to control the track channels for Polyphony?

#27

You have to set the right firmware (volca fm) and the needed number of polymux channels (3 if you want to play 4 voices) with rk002 cabel connected to your computer via an interface:
https://www.retrokits.com/rk002/settings/kfm/

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#28

Than you will have to set the midi channel for an midi Channel on your dt that you want to use, eg midi A. Set it to midi channel 1 and the rk002 should than spread the notes, played on midi a, over track 1-4. hope you get an idea.

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#29

Thank you johannes. And you updated the RK002 using the website? I tried the website before and I was wondering if I needed to use the SYSex librarian program that retrokits recommends.

#30

Yes, you need to set everything on retrokits rk002 setting site.

I think you dont need the sysex if you want the polyphony. I only downloaded the jazz plugin to run the site and connected the cable to my audiointerface. than i could select port 1 as my ā€œmidi out interfaceā€, volca fm firmware and the polmux channelsā€¦

#31

I now have one of these cables, but havenā€™t got it to work yet.

Please, pretend Iā€™m a child and explain exactly what settings you use to make this work, both on the DT and on the web-midi firmware side.

Any suggestions about how I can check the cableā€™s even working? It doesnā€™t seem to be transmitting anything at all right now.

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#32

Me too, iā€™ve got the cable and tried it multiple time, but i dontā€™t get it to work.
On the Cable:
Iā€™ve set the Firmware to VolcaFM, Poymux to 4 (for 5 note poly) and iā€™ve set the cable to react on Channel 9.
On the Digitakt:
Iā€™ve patched the black side of the cable to MIDI out and the orange end to MIDI in.
In the MIDI Settings iā€™ve set audiotrack 1 to react to MIDI channel 9, audiotrack 2 to MIDI channel 10, audiotrack 10 to MIDI channel 11 and so forth.
Iā€™ve set a nice wavetable to the first 5 audiotracks and set it to FWD Loop.
Now Iā€™ve set MIDI A to MIDI Channel 9. If i now press the MIDI A he goes Back and forth from Audiotrack 1 to 5 and plays only one note. The chromatic mode doesnā€™t work.
Can you guys explain to me and to everyone, what iā€™m doing wrong?

Greetings
Jack

#33

Ohhh turned out, that i had Auto Midi Channel set to Channel 9 AND Iā€™ve had to lower the ocatve range on the chromatic mode cause the wavetable wasnā€™t designed for the high register.
So if you guys have some troubles setting it up, consider also this two things to fix, this is why iā€™m not deleting my post :smiley:
Bye!

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#34

Anyone know if thereā€™s a Max For Live plugin that can do the same thing in Ableton?

#35

this is really infuriating me. Iā€™m not even sure that the web-MIDI is successfully updating the settings on the cable, it doesnā€™t send any kind of message (it does for updating the firmware). Where do I even find the polymux setting? gahhhh this is making me feel like an idiot, but thereā€™s no documentation thatā€™s useful to me.

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#36

just do the setting changes, heā€™ll apply it! i know itā€™s weird, but it works

#37

A MidiPAL or one of its clones can do this in MIDI dispatch mode, too, assuming external MIDI control on the DT works anything like it does on the OT.

#38

Hi as a suggestion theres some free software that can monitor all the midi traffic from your device DT. i use midi monitor for mac. you can see CCs, Syssex, etc.

#39

Havenā€™t watched the video but hope this helps those in this threads.

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#40

Thanks for sharing !

I could do a specific video on how to set this up in detail if people are interested.

Cheers

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#41

If anyone knows how to achieve this in Cubase please post !..
The Piz plugins and any other similar program didnt work for me