Does anyone here programme the bass station from the Digitakt or Digitone?
I want to try and sequence those funky acid style bass lines that I love about Aphex twins music.
I’m wondering about using midi cc to input glide etc rather than just note data.
I can imagine that coupled with the trig conditions it would be a recipe for a great party.
Hi,
I can’t speak for bass station 2 specifically, but a lot of mono synths which behave in that manner interpret 2 overlapping notes as a tie or an instruction for legato / glide.
So, what that means is that you’d need to try and overlap 2 notes in the sequencer and test to see if it will work with both on the same midi track or if you need to use 2 midi tracks to do it (like if you lay down a trig on step 9 and the trig from step 1 is still playing, will it automatically jump to the note from the second trig or will the duration of trig 1 keep the note on the bass station playing and interpret the note on trig 9 as an overlap, because if it doesn’t then you might need 2 midi tracks sending to the same destination to indicate that the notes should overlap).
You’ll also need to test for the optimal duration of the overlapping notes to get the results that you want.
In the event that bass station receives legato differently, the manual should tell you that, but you aren’t programming the bass station sequencer from the digitakt, you’re using the digitakt to sequence the BS therefore you need to know how it receives the command to glide in order to proceed further. Most likely as described above though.
Changing the sound of the synth (i.e. changing parameters or tweaking the filter) would require sending CC (if the receiving device can be controlled in such a way). Refer to your user manual for that part.
As far as trig conditions available on midi tracks, I guess it depends on what you expect it to do, but theoretically it’s possible.
Good luck
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The main thing I don’t like about my BS2(s) is that the filter cutoff is smoothed when automated via CCs, so you can’t make stepped filter movements, making some of typical Aphex grooves impossible. That’s super weird for an instrument that is endorsed by Aphex Twin himself, by the way…
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But if you use the overlays it is not smoothed? 
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That’s right.