Can I connect my DT to my DN without using a soundcard ? Like connecting directly one to another via a MIDI cable ?
While waiting the overbridge !
Midi connection will allow one box to respond to pattern changes you make on the other.
Audio connection will keep you from using a mixer or a soundcard. Choose the order carefully though:
DT > DN: you get to use the Digitone’s thru FX on the Digitakt signal (chorus)
DN > DT: you get to sample the Digitone, but can only listen to its input dry.
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Cool, thanks for the answer. I found this setup on youtube which is what you describe.
In the end, for the next newbies like me, is needed:
- A midi cable from one box to another (careful choice here)
- Two audio jacks from one box to another (same order)
It seems that sending the DT into the DN has the advantage to send mono into a stereo machine (? confirmation needed, here).
The DT has a stereo output. You can pan the channels, and all the FX are stereo.
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There’s a handy dandy page in the DN manual on this. But don’t forget, the master input setting are saved per pattern, not globally. Kind of a pain for me personally, but it could be used creatively too, I suppose.
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It is not possible to process external audio through the digitakt FX ??? It kind of a deal breaker for me 
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Not live, it passes audio through but you need to record it to apply FX.
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This, especially with the DT compressor sidechaining things, would be fantastic. My guess is the dsp required to continually sample at the same time as playing back 8 channels of samples is too much.
Maybe the Elektron boffins can work some magic though.
Yeah sometimes I would dream of digitakt XL that support stereo and multisample, with some polyphony and the possibility to apply FX to the input … and why not a midi phrase sequencer like on the A4. That would be the perfect brain of a computer-free setup.