I’m about to just throw my hands up, sell my Komplete Kontrol and buy a KeyLab but wanted to ask here first.
When I put the Komplete Kontrol into MIDI mode and run its MIDI out to the Octatrak MIDI in, it is not sending the note on data you’d expect. Instead - only a few key (C4-C5) work, and they are doing things like triggering the sequencer on the OT and selecting tracks.
Has anyone else hit this/have a fix? NI doesn’t give you much in the way of MIDI config, so this is a last ditch ask before I go the Arturia direction.
This doesn’t has anything to do with the keyboard you are using. It would be still the same when you are using a KeyLab.
Of course, because the OT has only a limited pitch range (+/- 1 octave).
Since OS 1.40 there a different modes for external midi control. Now you can configure it to play slices via MIDI or different sounds.
There is no fix for this. It’s how the OT interprets incoming MIDI notes on audio tracks when in standard note mapping mode. Have a look into the manual, especially C.1 STANDARD NOTE MAPPING.
Thank you for the quick response - I think I know how to ask the question a bit better now - and makes sense around the standard mapping!
The behavior I’m seeing is on a MIDI track, when I’m holding down a trig and press a key nothing happens, unless I hit one of the standard note mapped keys, and then it triggers that behavior instead of entering the note.
I’m confused because the Hold Down Trig + press a key behavior works as expected on the Digitone - guessing there’s a workflow I haven’t fully grokked on the OT.
This sounds like an audio track is set to receive from the same MIDI channel as the MIDI track.
From the manual (important part in bold):
If an audio track and a MIDI track share the same MIDI channel, the MIDI track will block the audio track from sending out data while the audio track will block the MIDI track from receiving data.