Here ?
It’s just one bloke making an ‘app’ in his spare time.
Do you see a progress bar on the Digitakt as it is being sent?
If not - then perhaps your MIDI configuration on the Digitakt isn’t set right.
If yes - then I’d like to get a copy of the downloaded project, if I can.
- Mark
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Yes, there is a progress bar.
I revisited elk-herd 3.02b today and all of a sudden it does work, DT receives the project.
hi @mzero mark 
i am running my digitakt on 1.20 as i have a show in a few weeks and updating scares me so close … does elk-herd 3.0 work with OS1.20 AOK?
https://electric.kitchen/crunch/elk-herd/
or the beta…
https://electric.kitchen/crunch/beta/elk-herd/
thanks!
(Edit : sole purpose of rearranging pattern positions with no sampl locks)
Probably depends what you want to do
I’d do nothing with it / transfer if your worried and wait till gig is done.
Or just try and and it may just through up an error and you don’t have to wait for a response.
So the old version of ElkHerd I used two years ago (to rearrange all the patterns in running order) is gone? / not online anymore?
Scroll up to about July 1st thread. Read from there.
Backup might be fine , I guess it’s combining , trimming sounds , samples etc and then dumping back onto Device is where you need to be cautious.
I think in general when I updated my dt things sounded the same and a few things for fixed in the slightly tweaked dt firmware revision.
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DT 1.20 with ElkHerd alpha works AOK Rearranging 
https://electric.kitchen/crunch/elk-herd/
Beers incoming @mzero
look forward to updating and using beta soon 
I was about to post about my troubles, but I finally found the link to the beta and got project fetching working.
One thing I was hoping this would have is the ability to swap tracks with each other, but it looks like that’s not there yet? For example, I have a bunch of patterns in this one project, but for each pattern, the hi-hat isn’t necessarily always on the same track, nor is the bass.
@mzero (hi Mark!) have you managed to figure out the sysex or project format enough to determine if such a thing would be easy? Alternatively, has anyone managed to reverse engineer the .dtprj binary format? I see the string “manifest.json” a few times in there…
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The dtprj file is just a zip file with a different extension.
Inside the zip you’ll find the manifest.json you saw, the custom samples (factory samples are not included) and the project itself. That project file is what the reverse engineering efforts must be put on.
BTW, dtsnd files have exactly the same structure.
Amazing work! Thank you 
Gotcha, I just renamed a project to .zip to check that out, and completely agree. That internal project binary seems to be the relevant one for questioning – I see some text strings which appear to be pattern names… It would be interesting to figure out what the pattern delimiters are, and how this stuff is all stored.
In the meantime, I think I solved my core problem of re-arranging tracks just by using a new bank to copy existing patterns to the top row, and us a duplicate of the pattern in the bottom row to copy/paste tracks and track sounds to move them where I want them to be. It’s cumbersome, but it does work
Hey gang.
Any issues with ELK-HERD Version 3.0.2b and Digitakt latest OS 1.30 I should be aware of? or are we golden
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Bought you a well deserved beer! 
Beta working fine for me on Digitakt 1.30. Great bit of software 
@mzero You are great! “Buy me a beer” button should be a big banner.
I’m experiencing freeze while trying to fletch any project. It works at first but since I sent a project it never fletches anymore.
Many thanks!
Ahaha wanted to give a try after seeing a screenshot but i just upraded the DN yesterday…
Is the project still on development @mzero?
@mzero Hi!
Fetching project stopped working some days ago!
Digitakt 1.30. The device is detected.
+Drive samples are visible and sending functions works too.
Tried all combinations of usb and midi settings. Nothing helps.
I don’t understand what happened?
For those of you having trouble fetching projects, are you using the beta link? crunch/elk-herd (electric.kitchen)
Confirmed working for me with 1.30B firmware on my DT and version 3.0.2b of Elk-Herd.
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I had been getting a bunch of “kernel: ALSA: seq_midi: MIDI output buffer overrun” errors while transferring a lot of samples to the digitakt.
The following solved my problems:
Increasing the output buffer:
echo "65536" > /sys/module/snd_seq_midi/parameters/output_buffer_size
(Make sure you reconnect the device afterwards.
Using the beta version of elk-herd (I have not tried the non-beta after changing the midi buffer)
And adding ?slow after the elk-herd URL.
Some combination of these helped alleviate my problems and I hope this might be helpful to someone else!