Good news for Volume control,
In the DT System Menu under USB Config you can choose to send audio out of the Digitakt Pre/Post Fader
If you send it out Post Fader then it will print that level to your Reaper recording. The Level/Data knob in this case has a function, as does the Master Mixer section [func lfo double tap]
If you send the audio out with Pre Fader selected it bypasses the Level/Mixer, making 9 knobs useless, but available…
I assigned 1-8 in the mixer section to their corresponding Reaper tracks on MIDI CC 95, and it works!
The Level knob however is still useless. So you can choose to sacrifice one of the 8 individual DT track volume controls and in Reaper set up a Master Digitakt Fader. Maybe track 8?
As long as you have your “sacrificial” track selected you can now use the Level knob as a Master Fader!
That’s the way I have my project file set up now. I’ve also routed the FX Main into this Master, so all DT audio can be muted on 1 Reaper track.
1 thing to note, Level 91 on the DT corresponds with +0.01DB (Level90 is -0.35DB) on the Reaper track.
With that in mind what you are hearing for each track 1-7 is a 0.02DB bump in level (only 0.01DB on the FX, and 8). This is only monitored in Reaper keep in mind. The level sent out of the DT and recorded in Reaper is 127, as long as you have Reaper set to monitor PreFader-Post Pan
/ Since writing that I realized you could adjust the send level to the DT montor track to compensate, I’ll leave the above text to document the routing logic
I left the DT Inputs out of the Reaper DT Master as the DT itself doesn’t have any control over that audio
I also turned off Track Grouping in Reaper for all DT related tracks. It was causing an issue when the LFO was active and any two tracks following were group selected, the LFO took over all panning for every track in between
Check out this new RPP? DTOB-12AP38MP2MIPrePoVOLnoGrp.RPP (10.3 KB)
Edit: like with most things Digitakt this control is pattern specific, you can’t just smoothly fade globally from the level knob if you have patterns chaining, you can with that master reaper fader tough…