Digitakt + Nord Drum 3P

Thank you, will experiment with this.

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When I had these paired up (a while ago), I remember the unit getting confused whenever i switched from controlling it locally and externally. As long as I only used one it was fine. Not sure if that helps at all…

Unless you want to send note and cc data from the ND’s pads and knobs, turn local off when sequencing / controlling with midi out from another box. As mentioned above, ND3 receives on 7 midi channels simultaneously (on the 6 parts and its global channel), but only sends on its global channel. Lets say you want to have all six parts playing melodies with different modulations etc and you want to input notes and other midi from the ND3. With ND local on and cc receive off, change the ND global channel to the corresponding Midi channel in your sequencer assigned to the given part. Record notes and data and when done, change the ND global channel to the midi channel assigned for the next part. Likewise for the other parts. Then switch local off and CC receive on the ND, make sure each part is set to Ch in the Midi menu, then sequence/modulate from the master device.

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Can anyone successfully get the Digitakt to send CC44 Delay Rate and CC45 Delay Feedback to the ND3? I seem to be able to send CC messages for a lot of different parameters, but not these. What gives? any help out there?

Since it’s a global effect, it has to be controlled by the global midi channnel (10). You might have to use an extra midi track for this.

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Righteous. Thank you!!

Hi. Got a 3P a few days ago and recording live midi into the DT was the first thing which came to my mind cause this would be a very great combo. I’ m still working on this :smile: but more on latency issues. A workaround for the Global MIDI Channel Problem is to filter incoming midi events(notes) in your DAW. I’m using Ableton so I’m sending the 3P MIDI to 6 MIDI Tracks in Ableton (MIDI in -> CH 10) and MIDI out to DT on CH 1 2 3 4 5 6 but with a scale midi effect on each channel to let only the specific note for each channal pass through. It works but I have some latency issues ( I’m working with an E-RM Multiclock, which make things even more complex). Today I buyed a midi soloutions event processor to do the note filtering outside of the computer. I will try next week so I can tell you if it works.

Cheers :whale:

OK, I almost got a brain damage but it finally works! Had to deactivate Overbridge because of the latency prob.

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Nice! You’re playing is tight enough to play it as a midi live looper. :+1:

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Maybe with some practice I can turn of quantization while recording

I’d turn of quantize, then incrementally quantize as needed (I’m presuming the DT has the same quantizing options as the OT)

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