Tutorial : DT+DN combo where all muting is done on the DT

Elektron Gear Digitakt
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I intended to make a short video on how to set up the Digitakt and Digitone, but ended up playing around for 10 minutes after I ran out of tutorial material.

With this setup, the Digitakt will act as the master: this is where you set the tempo, change patterns and press play/stop. Tracks 9-12 will mute the DN’s synth tracks 1-4, respectively. Very handy if you want all the mute buttons close to each other :slight_smile:

TL;DW:

  1. Connect the Digitakt’s (DN) output L/R into the Digitone’s (DN) Input L/R
  2. Connect the DT’s midi out to the DN’s midi in
  3. Go to the DN’s master page with func+LFO
  4. Set L in and R in to 100 and LPAN and RPAN all the way to the left and right respectively
  5. Go to Midi config - sync and make the DT send clock and program change, and set the DN to receive clock and program change
  6. On the DT, go to midi config - port config and set the mute destination to int+ext
  7. On the DT, go do midi config - channels and disable tracks 1-8, then set A to 1, B to 2, C to 3 and D to 4.

I hope it was helpful, and thanks for watching!

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This is great. Controlling the DN mutes from the DT is awesome with the global (Green). But the pattern mutes (purple) don’t seem to work for this. Am I wrong? am I missing something?

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Thanks! I actually haven’t tried the pattern mutes this way, but I’ve read a couple of posts from people having the same problem. I think it just doesn’t work on pattern mutes, but I gotta double check.