Recording pitch bend

As tzero mentioned earlier in the thread, what is the point of the digitone keys having those controls?

Physical controls for MW and PB, a physical sequencer immediately next to it, and no way to record those movements.

It’s absurd really.

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its an instrument thats meant to be played.

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It’s an instrument that’s meant to be played and sequenced!

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You can record pitch bend and mod wheel into other elektron machines, such as octatrack.

However- all elektrons are step sequencers .

So your modulations will be stepped. There is no way round it. Exactly the same deal as if you record a filter sweep into your elektron sequencer.

If pitch bend and mod wheel recording is important to you, then you can record the audio into a sampler, or use a linear sequencer (MPC, or DAW) to record the midi from those wheels.

Elektron know there sequencer is a step sequencer, so thats probably why they didnt implement pitch and mod wheel recording, who wants stepped pitch bend??

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It’s possible, with some work.

I can’t hear any stepping.

Used a MIDI mapping app on my iPhone (MidiFlow) to map PB to LFO depth (CC#29/61), one MIDI track LFO to control the track’s pitchbend value (sawtooth shape, frequency=0) and a loopback cable (MIDI out->in) to play an internal track. Internal track sequencer part is muted. The bass part was recorded live and quantized. Timing still a little off, sorry.

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