Midi routing (multiple Elektron Gear + Micromonsta 2)

Hi there,

I’m pulling out the little hair I have left for a few days now so I will ask a probably stupid/noob question but I couldn’t figure out how to solve this so here we go.

I have 4 Elektron Boxes and a Micromonsta 2.

My setup is the following :

MIDI :
DT (OUT) —> (IN) ST (Midi Thru) —> (IN) DN (Midi Thru) —> (IN) A4 (Midi Thru)

This miding routing was first only meant to send clock from the DT (Master) to the other boxes. It works really well.

AUDIO :
MM2 -> A4 -> DN -> ST -> DT

I would like my DT to send notes to the MM2. Is there any way to achieve this without modifying my setup ? I would like to use one of the 8 midi tracks from the DT to send notes to the MM2 but for now the only way I found was to sacrify one track of every other box to send the midi through them.

(Don’t wanna change my setup as I just finished my “performance flight case” and everything is at the good place now :-))

Any idea of how to deal with this?

Cheers!

For now, the only way I found was to put an external instrument on Ableton and sending midi notes from it to the MM2. But that’s a bit “annoying” cause I want my setup to be able to work both with the comptuer and without… So every idea is welcome :slight_smile:

Simple way : A4 (Thru) MM2 in.
You can try it but that is a long daisy chain.

Or DN out > MM2 in using DN midi tracks.

If you just send clock, you can use Midi Out instead of thru to send back clock (receive AND send).

With DT notes:
DT out > ST in, ST out > DN…
ST thru > MM2

The simple way (A4 Thru MM2) needs to “sacrify” one of the 4 A4 tracks ?

I like the Idea of keeping everything in place but using DN out to MM2 in, I think I am gonna try this one. I just need to add one more midi cable and won’t need to change the others. (To be sure I understood it correctly : I keep DN thru A4 and I add DN out MM2 in, right ?)

Thank you!

That’s it yes :ok_hand:t4:

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good news, thanks !

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a small update : the Digitone option was the perfect choice :slight_smile:

so thank you for your help on this one; my setup is now fully working :

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