I’ve been trying to get the Digitake to control what sound to sequence from the Typhon Dreadbox, but it’s strange, I select the sound from the Digitakt, so here is bank 3 which is C on the Dreadbox and patch 5.
Ignore the dust, but if I then select Midi H (16) and go back to Midi E (13) the sound is lost and I have to move the program button on the Digitone to patch 4 and back to 5 for it to re-select the sound. It’s as if Dreadbox and Digitakt done keep the information when every you change the Midi track.
Apologies for the explanation. So today I’ve just tried again and set the Dreadbox to channel 11 and set both Midi H and Midi G to that.
On each Midi key on the DT I have chosen a separate sound from the Dreadbox:
Midi H -
CHAN: 11
BANK: 3
SBNK: x
PROG: 5
Midi G -
CHAN: 11
BANK: 1
SBNK: x
PROG: 1
When I select the sounds they work, but if I then press either of the Midi keys I’ve set they will not change to the sound I have chosen, however if then move 1 of the knobs assigned for example the PROG from 1 to 2 and then back to 1 it will change to the right sound.
It doesn’t seem to want to choose the selected sound if I switch between midi key G or H it seems to keep the last sound selected.
Not sure I get what you’re trying to achieve. What you’re doing right now won’t work with any synth. Also, I don’t think Digitakt supports parameter locking midi bank and program change settings. So the only way to have the Typhon change prog+bank is to designate only one midi track to the Typhon. Then copy your existing pattern (or create a new one) on the Digitakt and select a different prog+bank in your Midi track. Playing back the patterns consecutively should result in Digitakt sending the corresponding prog+bank change messages to Typhon on pattern change.
To have one synth play different patches at the same time, you’d need a multi-timbral synth. But in that case, you’d send each track’s notes on different midi channels. Waldorf Blofeld, Access Virus, Nord Leads can do this, for example.
Pretty sure the DT does support p-locking bank and program changes (to varying success depending on the receiving unit’s speed of program change). I have done this with my Roland SE-02, which is very snappy, and my Virus, which was sluggish. With the SE-02 you can almost simulate a monophonic drum machine with kicks and snares etc. on different steps.
I stand corrected. Just tried it on the Digitone. It does work indeed. This doesn’t work on the Octatrack so I guess I just never tried on the Digi… Thanks!
Changing the sound on the synth requires a program change message. When you’re moving to another MIDI channel it doesn’t necessarily change the program. The only way it will update is to change it by knob again or to have a MIDI note in the sequence that has the midi program p-locked and it will change on that trig.
While holding one of the steps turn your midi program change knob until it’s on the channel you want it, just like you’d p-lock any other parameter. The more I thought about it though your whole situation hinges a bit on what you’re trying to do. Your synth is not multitimbral so you can’t sequence two sounds at once. It’s also only monophonic so if you have two separate midi channels playing it’s going to merge the notes. So there’s really no point to having both going. Now if you mute one of the tracks you can be able to flip between two or more sequences on the same pattern. But you’d have to p-lock the program change on each step if you wanted to make fluid consistent changes. This also leaves an issue because everytime the program change goes through is going to reset to your saved version of the patch which will override any automation you’ve done on the synth. The only real reason I see to do the multiple channels is if you’re creating separate midi tracks to audition sequences before recording a pass.
