Using Roland boutique as MIDI controller

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You will have more success by looking at Roland’s documentation for the SH-01A (and Elektron’s documentation).

The MIDI Implementation Chart for the SH-01A gives a list of the MIDI Control Change (CC) messages that the SH-01A’s controls transmit. The manual for each of your Elektron instruments shows which MIDI CC messages they respond to.

Because each manufacturer assigns CC messages to functions rather arbitrarily, it’s unlikely that the CC messages for one unit will match all those on any other unit. For example:

  • the filter cutoff frequency slider on the SH-01A transmits CC 74, and the Digitakt recognises CC 74 for controlling filter frequency;
  • the filter resonance slider on the SH-01A transmits CC 71, but the Digitakt recognises CC 75 for controlling filter resonance (CC 71 controls filter envelope decay time on the DT).

Therefore you can either:

  • learn the mapping between the SH-01A’s CC implementation and the Elektron instrument’s implementation and use it as-is, or
  • use an intermediate device (a computer running software or a standalone MIDI processor) to ensure that the controls on the SH-01A map sensibly to those on the Elektron instrument.
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