Overbridge doesn’t allow recording notes into the sequencer right now not sure why
So you have to send it via old way midi… so you have to send midi to the device not the plugin,
Which it seems you are doing
The one on the right Under where you have chosen digitakt you need to set it to channel 14 so it goes to your auto channel…
If you are sending midi to the midi tracks you won’t hear anything,
the midi track is for sending midi to other things
No, I’m sending midi from Ableton to Digitakt, for sure.
On the last (bottom) screen – left part “MIDI to” is Pro14 (MIDI) – is sending notes from my sound card by MIDI cable. At least I can hear sounds on digitakt on channels 1-9.
The right one (Elektron Digitakt) is only available via Overbridge.
Both ways are working fine, until I’m trying to write notes.
Yes, I know. Digitakt is connected with MIDI out to another synth, so it should play.
UPD
I’ve just tryed it and it works! Thank you!
Ableton MIDI OUT > digitakt MIDI IN >
digitakt MIDI OUT > roland sh-01 MIDI IN
I can hear notes on my roland.
But i still can’t record them to digitakt MIDI track. Is it impossible at the moment ?
UPD2
ok it works now,
my tracks on digitakt were muted.
thanks everybody!
Hello nice to hear that your problem was solved. I have a quiet similar problem …I would be so happy if you guys could give me some help if either I have not the right things selected in ableton / digitakt or its not possible what I want… For the sake of simplicity here the schema how I would like to connect:
use keyboard midi USB with ableton to play a instrument rack 
use Digitakt Knobs to change instrument’s stats
listen over headphones the instrument played by keyboard midi USB
chromatic recording of instrument sounds when pressing digitakt
chromatic recording of instrument sounds when played by keybaord midi USB 
If someone could help answer if this is possible to accomplish with the Digitakt. I am sequencing my Virus TI hardware synth in mulit-mode. I would like be able to live record automation of my sequence while I tweak the knobs on the virus so it plays back when. That way I don’t have to sit there and live tweak all the time. Is this possible? I never have really used the record+play function so I’m not aware of its possibility. I have read that you can record notes played from a keyboard using this method but not found anything about hitting record tweaking knobs and having it play back as you tweaked.
I have both, but I tried with Digitone which was close to the TI. Their midi sequencers seems identical.
If you set some CCs on the DT, you can record them in Live Recording (hold rec+play), by turning DT knobs. That works for sure.
I couldn’t record TI knobs movements, maybe I missed something. I tried with midi track’s channel and Auto Channel from the TI, and I set the corresponding CC on the DN.
Edit :
Apparently not fixed…
for instance right now i’m trying to record CC #63 from my virus to the Digitakt that is for the Amp/Env Release knob. When trying to assign a soft knob on the Digitakt to this value… I cant seem to find CC 63 to assign it. I’m rather new to this implementation as I don’t normally try advanced things like this so im lost. From what you are saying I would need to assign all six soft knobs on the Digitakt to match the CC values of the virus knobs I would like to tweak most. From there It may only be possible to live record by (hold rec+play) by turning the DT knobs. Not tweaking the Virus knobs… … But wait from your confirmation from Elektron support the DT does not have capability to record CC values at all? Or just ones for mod wheeel, ptch bend and after touch… I’m only after things like cut off resonance and release things like that
8 knobs, but if you set other midi tracks on the same channel, up to 8x8 different CCs.
As I said on the other topic, check the Value below the box in Amp page.
Basically, no. Although you can record knob tweaks from an external MIDI CC source into the DT, the MIDI CC message numbers have to be the specific values given in A.8 of the DT manual. The outgoing MIDI CC data from the DT can, of course, be assigned to any MIDI CC message you want.
That’s why @sezare56 suggested that you record knob movements on the DT itself. The other alternative would be a MIDI processor to map the CCs from the Virus to those that are recorded by the DT.
Of Elektron’s instruments, only the Octatrack does what you want.
Midi processor so its like a stand alone device that you just assign midi CC values to four output right. It has not knob of its own it just acts as an intermediary between the virus and the DT, am I understanding this correctly? If so would you have any recommendations for such a device? I’m still new to all the options and tools available for midi and CC stuff. = )
Yes.
Nice one!
Not me! 
@ESK_quantum if you’re ok with a standalone static config, using always the same TI parameters, I’d recommend the Event Processor Plus as midi processor, pretty simple to set up.
If you want a config with midi learn, it’s getting complicated.
With a computer, you can use MIDIOX, or Bome Translator…
Once the parameters are routed to the virus correctly and I can record live tweaks from it instead of using the soft knobs on the Elektron I will be all set. Thanks for the suggestion on the Event Processor Plus. Sounds like its just what I need.
So here is an update! I didn’t need the midi event processor after all. I managed to get it working! It’s perfect. I can now record automation from knob movements from the virus during live record onto the Octatrack. It came down to setting the Auto channel. I had to make sure that I was connected midi in and out from both machines. Somehow it just magically started working haha.
So in order to get the midi learn feature to work and to get the knobs on the Virus to record automation into the Octatrack, the Auto channel needs to be set to the midi channel of the track your trying to record on.
My only issue now is on the Octatrack say from if I switch from T5 toT6 and now I wanted to record automation on T6 would that mean I need to physically go into the settings and change the Auto channel to Track 6 from 5. So like I have to do this every time I switch to a new channel and record automation from that one? The Digitakt has an Auto channel setting called TR so whatever channel you currently on the Auto channel is automatically set to the midi channel of that track. But with Octatrack I don’t see this!
Is it possible to record note data from an App sequencer on your phone into the Digitakt? Midi from an iPhone through a powered Midi Thru and then into the Digitakt possibly? The sequences that I’ve made on Apps like Fugue Machine are something I would like to work with on the Digitakt. Any advice would be appreciated thanks
What I want is to record the sequenced note data, which I would then send to hardware synths.
Try this tip from @sezare56, there’s a few threads with some similar discussion but I think this is the only way to do it with a coordinated start and not just free-syncing the sequence start by feel.
Go to the link to see the full description. Digitakt will, of course, have to be configured to receive midi notes and your iphone will need to be configured to send. If the apps can’t send midi then I believe it’s a no go, although the long way around would be using ableton which has something that can turn recorded wav sounds (recorded note sequences) into midi notes, then play that midi data into Digitakt.
Hope that’s helpful.
Thank you shigginpit and yes the apps send Midi and are easier to make melodies and chords on. I would just rather use my Digitakt as a master sequencer. Done some live sets with my phone as the sequencer and feel I’m missing out on what the Digitakt can do.
I hope you can now enjoy the Digitakt more than you have been, it should be very useful as a performance tool. If you haven’t tried Digitakt for composition purposes recently, like since the older OS, give it a shot again. Things like the folded keyboard in chromatic mode and using resample with slice machine can expand it’s usefulness.
Also, if you don’t use sound pool very often, it’s quite a good trick for getting more out of your 8 tracks. I don’t assume it’s not something you’re aware of, but I figured I would mention it since you stated you use your phone for composition. If you open a sample then enter the import export menu, you can copy the sample as a “sound” to the sound pool, and then that sound can be trig locked to any step on any track. With short sounds (drums etc) you can often condense several percussive instruments down to 1 or 2 tracks and that leaves a lot more room for composition on the remaining tracks.
Yes thank you for the reminder of the folded keyboard etc. Some time away from the Digitakt can create memory cob-webs.
