I need a sanity check to make sure I’m not going completely mad. Like a lot of you, I recently updated Overbridge so that I can use it to control my Digitone II. All going well so far, seemed to be working normally for typical things we usually do in OB.
However, I’ve run into an issue that is driving me crazy. Here it is:
I made a nice lead sound on the DN2, and wanted to use Ableton’s piano roll to build a melody. Simple. So here is what I did. I dragged OB plugin onto a new midi track, set the input to DN2 and the midi channel to channel 10, which is where my sound is located (On the DN2 itself, I made sure that Track 10 is routed to channel 10). I expected to then be able to simply plug in my midi notes, and hear the sequence.
However, instead of hearing the sound of track 10, I hear what is on track 1. I’ve double checked the channel routing, audio routing, and other settings and I cannot for the life of me identify the issue.
By ‘active track’ do you mean the currently selected track on the DN2?
The currently selected track, i.e., the one that I am able to manipulate is track 10. When I preview the midi notes in the piano roll, I hear track 1 being triggered. I also see it being trigger in the OB GUI.
Yep. On the DN2, I’ve set track 1 to channel 1, track 2 to channel 2… track 10 (where my sound is) to channel 10. This is exactly where I thought the issue would be, but the parameters here are correct. Very confused!
In the DAW, is there a midi track associated with track 1? or anything else that could be sending on channel 1? Or is the only midi track currently set up, going to be the one which is configured to send on channel 10?
Can you try a little experiment and configure the midi track in your DAW to send on the auto channel instead of track 10? Since track 10 is currently the active track, then the autochannel should reach it either way and that might tell us a little more about the problem.
Just verify the channel which is assigned to auto channel under the same menu.
So I’ve opened a new Ableton set, and the only midi channel I have open is the one that OB is on (and configured to channel 10). I have no other hardware or softsynths connected.
The auto-channel is currently set to midi channel 16. I’ve just configured the midi track to channel 16, but the issue persists i.e., I still hear track 1 and see it being triggered.
I’ve also tried setting the auto-channel to channel 10 out of frustration; same problem though.
Do you have midiox or any other midi monitor to confirm what’s coming out of the daw/ob? Sounds pretty strange to me, I don’t blame you for wanting a sanity check.
