I’m evaluating the Digitone for a live setup where my hands are mostly occupied by a bass guitar. A workflow I’d love to be able to achieve is to have patterns pre-programmed for parts of songs, which are triggered by use of an expression pedal.
Specifically, I would have my multi-fx board send a MIDI note or CC message whenever the expression pedal goes to the heel-down position, and I’d like for each of these events to trigger the next note in a sequence.
My question is: Can the Digitone be configured in such a way that, instead of advancing the playback of the sequencer using the internal clock, it can advance the playback by a step each time it receives a certain MIDI message?
In addition to this, I’d also expect to be able to use the sweep of the expression pedal as a separate modulation source, but that seems achievable.
Any feedback on whether this is possible, and with reasonable ergonomics? Thanks!
Interesting idea! I think you need a midi processor that can translate a command from your pedal to a midi start message and (a few moments later) a midi stop message.
no, you cant advance the sequencer by midi. it always starts from the beginning.
you could make the trig play only once and use different patterns for these oneshots but seems pretty cumbersome.
I think something like a sp404 could be a winner for this use case
Yes this should work with all sequencers. But indeed you need an extra tool. Or if you can double tap very fast…. then just a play/pause control could be enough.
Boss GT-1000, which can definitely send patch changes. Unfortunately I’m looking more for note-by-note (or step-by-step) changes, rather than whole patch changes.
I’m not sure to understand. Do you want to play only one step ?
No loop ?
On Elektron machines, program changes are used to change patterns. Patterns can have the same patch.
As said you can use midi processing to increment and send any messages. A pattern change + stop + play starts any pattern instantly. Patterns can be 1 step with one shot sounds.