Thank you for the kind word! I actually plan on making a complete tutorial on how to set up the MIDI loopback and what you can do with it, but I feel like I’m still learning how it works so I will probably wait a few weeks more. They are also a few topics here with a lot of informations!
As you may know the main idea is to simply plug a regular MIDI cable into both input and output. That way, by sending data from your MIDI track, you can control a lot of parameters within the Digitakt with LFOs or P-locks. The default MIDI Config allows the trick to work but I believe it’s better to disable some features if you don’t use them (such as Clock Send/Receive, Note Receive).
The main issue is that it tends to crash, but in my experience (with OS 1.10) there are only 3 actions that causes crashes and freezes :
- Double-tapping the Stop button
- Loading a project
- Saving a project you just created
When I want to do one of these I simply unplug the MIDI cable from the MIDI input. Otherwise it’s pretty stable, I only experience some minor bugs when I get all crazy with multiple LFOs and stuff, but nothing too annoying.
Even when it does crash, turning the unit Off and On again restore things to normal, and I’ve never heard of anyone doing permanent damages to his unit.
This video shows how to set it up (but it was on OS 1.02 back then) :