Is it possible to transmit mutes in song mode from the Digitakt to other boxes (I’m MIDI chaining a Syntakt and Digitone)?
I’ve got mutes synched outside song mode, DT has MUTE DEST set to INT + EXT, and PARAM OUTPUT set to NRPN.
I was initially sequencing everything on the DT, which made song mode muting easy. But some of my subtle param locks for DN tracks (via CC settings on DT) for some reason just wouldn’t work the same as when they’re set on DN, so I’m hoping I can have sequencing on each box, with pattern changes and mutes controlled by the DT song.
It doesn’t seem to make any difference if I’m in pattern or global mute mode.
I guess a plan B might be to try having parallel songs running on all boxes. It feels easier to have one box control one song for all of them, though as mentioned above I need to have the sequencing on each box, the DT song controlling just the mutes and pattern changes. But - if there’s a problem with sending mutes in song mode, anyone have any experience running parallel songs?
I had a similar dilemma with the DT and DN. Eventually I decided to have song mode run on each device. It was only then that I realised that having song mode on each device is much better because not only are you solving the mute issue, you can have the digitakt stay playing on pattern 1 while the digitone moves to pattern 2 for example.
Yeah, on DT and ST I run song mode on both in parallel, and coordinate pattern and song numbers across the projects on each. (DT only has the 8 midi tracks and I group the ST tracks on control channels for macros and RK-002 compatibility.)
I usually populate the song a row at a time with Fn + Down from the last row on both devices and muting and unmuting, then revise a couple times by playing through it and hitting pattern mutes as I go (saves those changes). After a few times’ practice, I don’t think I’d be any faster at it in a daw.
Thanks, I’ll try that. It seemed nicer to have more things centralised, and after problems keeping the sequencing on DT I thought that just transmitting mutes and pattern changes would be a good compromise. But if having songs constructed in parallel across devices works out better, I guess it’s only a bit more effort. And yeah, pattern changes won’t necessarily be necessary for all devices at once if mutes are handling many of the changes, so that might work nicely.