I used to have a soundcraft notepad fx-8 mixer, when moving a lot of instruments I had to sell it too. now I have a small setup in the form - volca keys goes to digitakt - and digitakt goes to digitone. dubious decision 🥹
I know, but forced. I also connect my electron to my macbook through overbridge, but the fact is that I don’t like this idea, through overbridge the sound that I hear directly and how I hear it through overbridge is very different. I want everything to be channel-by-channel “the next time I buy instruments, of course I have nowhere to connect them,” each instrument had its own track in the sequencer.
Notepad fx is a cool solution because it has a built-in audio interface that allows you to connect it to a macbook, very convenient.
I would like to consult and talk about how you guys have everything organized with 5-8 tools !!!???
TY 
Hey Eduard, before anything, I would get rid of that daisy chaining.
I would say Volca Keys, DT, and DN all into a mixer with multichannel USB to computer…then if you want to use Overbridge with any of the Elektrons you can choose whether you want the stereo feed from the mixer’s USB interface or the multichannel feed through Overbridge. Strange, both DT and DN are digital…there should be no reason why OB sounds different…especially if you send stereo audio back to an Elektron unit and use it’s stereo analog outs.
I checked the manual and the Notepad FX-8 only has 2-channel USB. You should be able to stream audio over USB from both your Digitakt and Digitone at the same time into your mac, giving you 4 analog inputs in addition to the internal voices of your Elektrons.
If you want a better quality audio interface the MOTU M2/M4/M6 are unbeatable in terms of bang for your buck.
If you want to replicate your prior Soundcraft setup, but with greater audio quality, consider getting a Mackie VLZ4 and a MOTU M-series interface. If you want more analog channels into your DAW and a mixer interface, consider a Tascam 12.
Based on my experience with a 124FX and what others report, I’d stay away from the cheap Soundcrafts - QC seems exceptionally poor. Mackie isn’t perfect either, but the main problem with the VLZ4 series seems to be imperfect L/R balance. That is much easier to solve than noisy channels, which is the typical cheap Soundcraft problem.
I mean that I like to write music both separately on each instrument and together with ableton, but the volume per channel is somewhat lower, and I try to do it the way it was when playing on a separate device. this is confusing. there is a difference in the source material, I always turn up the volume through the utilities.
Taskam 12, looked at a very cool mixer! I will keep it in mind, but for now I want a more budget option.
Yes, notepad has this problem.
Motu m2 I considered as an option, a lot of positive feedback about it. VLZ4, that’s what I was thinking of buying
TY 
…forget all ur first impressions…that’s all just pervieved loudness…
u got two ob devices and ob seems to work with ur actual config…so congrats !
set up a daw project where ob is already involved they way u need it and for each single elektron device, adressing all their single out options plus external ins…
level all that…save all that as a blank…use ur overall monitoring to ur personal loudness taste…
The DT and DN default output at -24db through Overbridge, so it will sound a lot less loud without any adjustments. This is intentional, to ensure that you have a lot of headroom to work with. There are setting in the Digi boxes that let you adjust this and get it louder. Also, you can just add a utility tool to each track in Ableton to bump up the loudness.
Oh, thanks ! it makes me happier than those stories about writing music at -20 
i thought for a moment that i complicate it, i have this habit 
In general, if suddenly someone runs into a problem like me, with low volume in overbridge, and you want your digital to play as well as directly with DT DN, you just need to increase the volume of the tracks to 12db in DT. in DN - up to 6, projects will sound absolutely the same. and yes, don’t forget to turn off in - audio routing - route to main all tracks except for your effects
if I had been told about this earlier, I would have saved a lot of time 
I remember there was this topic, and I asked a specific question to which they answered me that it was right to write music at -24 after that I wrote it for a week at -100. lol, I want that when I took the device separately and left with it, my DT sounded the same as it sounded through the overbridge, let’s say I want to finish something on DT, but my setup will be different, I have to twist everything to make it look like like in the ableton project, then when I plug it in … twist it again …?!? In general, these are the thoughts friends.