Pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my Digitone wont send Midi notes (Screenshots)

[Hardware]

Alright so this is my first hardware synth, and boy let me tell you the nightmares I’ve had trying to set this up and have it work properly. I am pretty sure I am at the final boss (SENDING MIDI NOTES) but nothing seems to be working.

What I have done:

• Properly routed my Digitone to my Scarlet 2i2, which is connected to my PC, along with the Digitone USB port that let’s you send MIDI.
• In Ableton my Digitone is recognized and is audible. I can record my Digitone through the audio tracks.
• In my “Link Midi” settings I have turned on the output (and input) for my Digitone
• I enabled External Instrument and configured it so that it does pick up the audio, but when I play sounds from my Digitone keys none of the Midi channels pick anything up.
• I am however able to play my Digitone through my Computer Keyboard on the External Instrument.

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The strange thing is, while I was on google trouble shooting this, I went back on ableton for a moment as I was about to test something, and to my amazement, without having done ANYTHING it started sending midi!!! I thought it just randomly fixed itself, I got up to get some water, came back to my desk and it stopped working. I am so confused and sad I just want to play music…

[barnacles]

You probably want to look at the MIDI Config -> Port Config settings in the digitone. Hopefully that helps otherwise I’m sure someone else will chime in

[Hardware]

I did take a look at the midi config > port config drop down menu, and to be honest I either don’t understand enough or don’t see anything that helps. I appreciate the reply though.

[barnacles]

Oh, umm Output To should be USB or midi+USB. USB only means the digitone sends midi over USB and not the physical midi port. Midi+USB means the digitone sends midi on both the midi port and over USB

[Hardware]

Gave it a shot, did not do the trick unfortunately.

[Hardware]

So I literally went one by one and tried every setting combination, turns out Trig Key DST switched to Int+Ext seems to have fixed the issue and I am able to send midi now. Double checked with the manual: "TRIG KEY DEST controls whether the [TRIG] keys sends MIDI data or not. When set to INT, the
[TRIG] keys only affect the Digitone and sends no MIDI data. When set to INT + EXT, the [TRIG] keys
affect the Digitone, and also send MIDI data to external devices. "

Not sure how I was supposed to have known that without randomly finding this in the manual before hand, but I’m glad I do now.

[ANON20yhouse530]

Welcome to the world of hardware synths. It drives me absolutely nuts whenever I buy a new synth. This was my same experience when trying to sync Digitone with Logic Pro and an external synth. True Cuckoo has a great Digitone tutorial on the Digitone that was a huge help for me.

[Tchu]

Can you Screenshot the Tracks Settings in Ableton Live (Session View)?

[barnacles]

Way to use the manual as intended!