I dunno I’m being probably super noob.
Just got amika.
Can’t get digitakt to send a single note to it.
I dunno wth I’m doing wrong.
As you can see it seems to be set up correctly I have channel 1 set on the midi A channel of the digitakt and channel 1 set to part 1 of the Ambika coming out of output 1 straight into input L of digitakt. The volume of the osc is turned up in Ambika.
Just not sending/recieving anything. But weirdly the midi light on the Ambika blinks 4 times when I press play then never blinks again unless I stop and play again.
Go to the source page on midi track 1 (if that’s the midi track you’re using) and then press the encoder (A) for channel (CHAN) assignment and turn it to assign the desired midi channel, there’s probably an X there right now.
You have to do it from the SRC page of the midi track. If you are using a midi track other than track 1 it’s the same process, just make sure the correct midi channel is selected so if 1, choose 1. Again, you must press it first or it won’t let you enable the assignment parameter, it’s like a safeguard or something.
You mean you press the key once and it plays a note, then twice dead then a third time it plays another note? I’m not sure about that one, what about if you go into the chromatic keyboard and press trigs from there, still the same issue?
Oh I see, maybe you have a scale selected instead of chromatic? Or you have the folded keyboard enabled. Unfold it, if so. Folded keyboard might do something like that.
I’m in chromatic keyboard. Yeah it’s only very third note that triggers. Dunno how to change folded keyboard. Or change to a different scale but seems not a scale as every key would still be triggering a note just in a different scale .
kk go back to the actual keyboard screen where you select the scale etc and it probably says folded or unfolded, I can turn on my digitakt if you can’t find it, I just don’t have it in front of me. It sounds like you have the notes doubled up, folded.
func + hold the TRK button until it goes to the screen that shows the keyboard image, in the bottom right for encoder H it says kb fold and it either says on or off, so if it says on, turn the encoder to select off.
tell me what happens.
If you want chromatic, make sure the bottom left of the screen (encoder E) shows “CHRO” otherwise you can select a different scale mode from there.
Thank you couldn’t find anything in Google you’re a life saver but unfortunately all the settings are correct so have no idea why it’s only doing every third semi tone of the chromatic keyboard lol…
Maybe it’s something in Ambika … I’ll get something to work one day!! Lol
Sorry buddy I figured it out was because I reset the Ambika and it changed the voice parts to multiple voice cards so was not allowed coming out the output 1. Now I changed it and it’s working perfectly I also learnt something new about the digitakt thank you so much for your time and help !!
you can live record the notes (in live recording mode) and it will lock the notes to the steps, or you have to manually enter the notes in grid recording mode by holding the step (trig key) and then selecting the note, it will then trig lock the note as a parameter to the step.
On the trig page you have to select note length values for the track, but you can also select for the trig itself while you have it held down to enter the scale note.
If you hold down FUNC and then turn the trig length parameter, it will skip to useful values so like 1/64, 1/32, 1/16, 1/8 so on and so forth, otherwise it gives you decimal values and can be confusing.
In fact most parameters, will give you more useful jumps if you hold down func and turn the encoder, like the input in the mixer will go from 0 to 100 automatically if you hold down func when you turn the input gain, or the pan control you can set all the way left or all the way right by holding func and turning the pan. It just saves you scrolling endlessly.
Not all work that way, but many do in and out of midi recording, just in case you didn’t already have that info.
Yeah I . familiar with the basics just sometimes get caught out setting it up to sequence other kit.
Thanks for your time.
I wanna learn these two deeper so just taking the plunge now…
Still some useful stuff in here. It’s such a deep sequencer. I’m using it as the heart of my set up after trying everything on the market. Digitakt wins !
Many sounds from Ambika do actually cycle through the 6 soundboards if used in the poly mode. Every keypress / note uses the next activated soundboard.
And you have to either connect all 6 outputs through a mixer or use the sum output to get sound from all cards.
