I am looking to buy a digitakt to replace ableton live in my setup. but I absolutely need to have a metronome in my headphones only!
how do you solve this?
details about my setup: digitakt will be master clock. it will send midi tempo to looper and fx for guitar (pigtronix infinity), looper for voice and percussion (voicelive 3 and wavedrum), synth (still looking for one to replace vst synth… thinking about ultranova).
I prefer to have a dedicated metronome channel on my mixer, which I can route to headphones only and I can mute/unmute whenever I want to hear it. I tried using the metronome on the headphone out from the voicelive 3, but I can’t let it run continiously… it always stopt after recording loops.
The only solution to get a metronome on a different output on the digitakt would be to set up one of the tracks as a metronome and pan it to one side and then pan everything else to the other side.
Yes that’s possible, but losing stereo is not really an option. With solutions I was more referring to something like an external device that can generate a metronome or click, midi synced with the DT.
I have abandoned the idea of headphone only metronome and now quickly set a random bunch of hihats and start from there.
Or a kick, that works to.
My beats are generally half grid mode, half play mode.
Why would such an approach do not fit your own workflow ?
Actually I found a new solution. I am going to trade in my voicelive 3 for a boss rc 505 ugly ass looper (which will be midi slaved). I am going to route an aux of my mixer to the looper so I can loop anything I want and have 5 tracks! it’s just so damn ugly, but there is no better alternative for my needs in looping…
anyway, the rc 505 has the possibility to route only the integrated rythm track to the headphones, so I can actually use this otherwise useless function, and send it back to the mixer and in my phones
I happen to have a DB-90 together with my Digitakt. But it seems impossible for me to get the DB-90 to start playing over MIDI signal from the Digitakt. I am fairly new to the whole MIDI world so perhaps I am doing something wrong? Would you mind walking me through how to send midi cock from the Digitakt to the DB-90? And on what midi channel? It says nothing about what channel the DB-90 is receiving midi on in its manual.
Midi clock and transport (play/stop etc) are independent of midi channel data.
Make sure the Digitakt is set to send midi clock and transport, connect a midi cable from the midi out of the DT to the midi in on the DB-90, then press the Midi button on the DB-90 to make it sync to the incoming clock & transport. Shouldn’t be any more complicated than that.
Thanks - it’s sorted now! Didn’t know MIDI clock didn’t have anything to do with MIDI channel data. I found out I just had to change the Digitakt’s general MIDI setting so that it sends MIDI clock all the time.
