Thank you! And yes 
I want to get a keystep. Seems like the perfect companion because of its great chord arp en sequence capabilities.
edit: One thing to wonder: It has to power the rk-002 over midi. Have to find out if the keystep does that.
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thats sick 
yea good point about the power.
edit: it should work according to thisā¦
https://forum.arturia.com/index.php?topic=87807.0
and with beatstep pro too.
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Yes Nice. i asked the rk-002 creators Retrokits. It does work indeed BUT you cannot update the firmware or change the settings of the rk-002 through the keystep (it filters Sysex messages), so thatās good to know as well. If you want to change settings or change the firmware you need another interface. I almost have a video ready on how to do this in detail. Will be released this evening or tomorrow.
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Just got the keystep, itās pretty lovely. Much more sturdy than i thought, and really playable for having those small keys. And fairly cheap, thatās never wrong
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Maybe you can write a script with conditions for changes when receiving a Prog Change or CCā¦
Hi fellow Elektronauts,
First of all thank you for the very kind responses on my previous demonstration. Really appreciate it
I now uploaded the video where I thoroughly go through setting up the digitakt and rk-002 to work as a poly synth. Hope this helps. Let me know if you have additional questions. Happy to help.
If you want to see more videos (un)like this, you can subscribe to my channel here: https://m.youtube.com/#/c/Davemech?sub_confirmation=1
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thanks a bunch! quick question. so if you use the cable and only want sayā¦4 voices of polyphony, can you still use the other 4 tracks for drums and other sounds? I assume the channels youāre using for the voices are unavailable once you assign them to the cable?
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I was about to reply, and then realised I donāt know anything about that cable 
But, if you use that Max for Live patch which is mentioned in this thread, you can send out midi to however many channels you want, up to 8 of course.
Just a thought :
I have this huge prehistoric Mep4 Yamaha midi processor since 20 years. Released in 1986 apparently. Given by a friend.
At first : wtf I can do with this thingā¦last year triggering slices of OT (before EPP)
http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/yamaha-mep4-processor/1910
Happy to have smallest solutions !
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Iām not gonna lie, that was confusing But it would seem it should be possible to use it to trigger the digitakt as a four voice polysynth at least. And then have four channels free for whatever else you would want.
I think so. Even with a channel 1-8 script, you should be able to set midi channels as you like on DT, and play 4 notesā¦
But are you talking about sending Max for live script through the mep4? Because with that script you can just chose to send to channels 1-4 on the DT.
I thought you were talking about the channel split in general. Not sure you can do it with Mep4, because thereās no conditions.
Max, Rk002, Mep4 or anything, thatās midi processing. I still prefer hardware. Mep4 is getting very old, after years of glory without opponents in a small world.
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Yes! Thatās how I use it. Super nice. 
Yes you can choose less midi channels at the polymux setting
Check out the other video I made for a thorough demo of it all. You will get a better idea how it all works with assigning single cycle waveforms and such.
ughā¦i canāt seem to get it to workā¦maybe iām just dense though. I tried to set it up exactly as you said but I was using my Moog Sub Phatty instead of an audio interface. I know the Moog can receive sys files so I thought that would be ok? I have no way of knowing if things worked correctly after I set RK-002 settings, so itās hard to know where iām going wrong. I also tried going strictly through the Sub Phatty with just the orange part of the cable connected (tried connecting to both IN and OUT) and when i was done hooked it up to the digitakt and got nothing.
Iām clearly doing something wrong but iām not sure whatā¦any ideas?
I use a midi monitor software to check midi processing.
Are you sure Sub Phatty can send sys with midi out ?
Thru settings in sub phatty ?
yeah iām not really sure on thatā¦iāll have to look into it. I donāt have a lot of options for midi controllers since the keystep wonāt work for the sys. trying to work with what I have! Maybe the Moog canāt do that thoughā¦
There are cheap midi interfacesā¦
Yeah I may have to try something elseā¦anyone else have something cheap that they know works with the RK-002? Or will the Digitakt be able to update the cable on itās own once overbridge comes out?