I thought I had this figured out, but there’s a piece of the puzzle missing.
M:C is master
M:S is picking up the M:C clock and transport changes
M:S responds to manually selected patterns on the M:C when both are stopped.
BUT … when I run a pattern chain from M:C, M:S doesn’t pick up the changes, not on time anyway the changes are one cycle late. Both machines and both patterns on each machine (A01-A02) have the same scale CHG (128). But while M:C changes at 128, M:S doesn’t change till count 256.
What am I missing … does PCH sync not work with pattern chains ?
EDIT: Just discovered that manual PCH changes, when they are both running, also happen late, by a whole cycle.
I do this with my Model:Samples and Model:Cycles as well. Samples sends prog change on channel 8, Cycles receives on channel 8.
One thing though: on my Cycles I have to setup my pattern MODE to PATTERN and CHG to LEN. Otherwise it will not sync immediately. Not sure if the Digitakt and Digitone work similar.
Thank you. I was wondering if it was those values, but haven’t yet experimented with that because what I have so far is dependent on different length tracks (e.g. a len of 4 for a 4 note arpeggio and a half-scaled track with an 8 bar melody). Hope I don’t have to change too much to make PCH sync work.
Could possibly be an issue of the track lengths, can you create simple projects with those parameters and set up a few patterns to verify whether the changes follow as you’d expect?
Yes, I’ll need to experiment something along those lines. I think I may start by taking the song I have and making copies, then warping them bit by bit to see what magically suddenly makes PCH sync correctly … but there are so many variables, it’ll take time. If I can come up with some concrete conclusions (e.g. it’s definitely only about scale or definitely only about how the master is set) I’ll post here.
Alright, starting with the simplest possible thing (MC sending to MS):
Two patterns A01 and A02, 16 step pattern both machines scale set up as Mod PTN, Len 16, Chg 16. Also Chain A01-A01-A02-A02
Everything works
Change receiver (MS) pattern A01 to Mod TRK … immediately things are broken. Change A01 to A02 is one cycle (16 steps) late on the receiver. Though change A02 -> A01 (with A02 on the receiver still set to pattern) the changes are in sync.
Assuming that’s the only thing that went wrong (which is a big assumption) we have one big rule already:
DON’T use Mode TRK on the scale setup of the RECEIVER.
Glad I followed your advice and started simple @thermionic