Hi guys,
I have my digitone 2 connected via usb midi to my ipad. Using AUM I am able to see the dn2 and set it as a midi device for apps, as you would. For testing the dn2 sequencer, I decided to use Drum Computer, you can actually set each pad to a note range pretty easily and you can see it right on the pad, makes for a good test app.
So I got it all setup, set trk 1 to midi, set the channel and everything. I set the kick in drum computer to be triggered by notes E1-G#1. Then i set the trig to F1 in the dn2. It did not send any trigger to drum computer.
Weird, i scratched my head and clicked around for some setting I was missing.
Then as a tester, I turned on the kb in the digitone and when i hit the F-1 key with the keypad lit, it triggers the kick! Im like WTF, so I went octave up and down on the keyboard to make sure i was in the right spot, i was, any idea what would cause it not to trigger in the sequencer but to trigger with the keys. I assume they would use the same channel settings and stuff. I’m baffled.
Hey, let’s go through the process of everything you did again, where did you set the channel and where did you set the trig note? For example, did you lock the note to the trig by holding it down and changing the note where the whole box turns white?
I do know that elektron midi note numbers are off an octave of 2 numerically from some other companies, but I’ll have to verify in which direction.
Can we post screen, cap, videos, here or no? Because I can show you the ultimate test of why it’s weird. You know how like when the record button isn’t active, you can hit the track and it’ll play the sound associated with that track. If I push track one while the record button is not active, it plays the kick in Drum computer. Which means the trigger is set to the right note, otherwise pushing the 1 button wouldn’t play it. So then I activate record and push 1, 5, 9, and 13 just to do a four on the floor test and it doesnt play it. Now, obviously if I can turn the record button off and just hit the one for the track and it hits the kick then that track is set to that kick? No?
But you’re right it is a couple octaves off, which is fine. I just hit the button and turn the knob until i hot the note thwt plays the right button on drum computer.
Alright I looked and I think the way that it works is elektron counts C0 as note 0 and c4 is note 60, whereas they call C5 middle C, I’m pretty sure midi standard refers to note 60 as Middle C. That said, you did try an octave up and down so I suspect it’s something else.
Well, not just that but like I said, pushing the track trigger without record plays the kick, but then when I set the Trigs in record mode, it does not. But oddly, on other tracks, it seems to work, albeit Intermittently maybe it doesn’t like track one as midi.
In theory it should work, but we have to figure out why it’s not working. Is there a trig condition on that track? Like a not first condition?
Things that impact the sequenced trigs would be like, trig conditions, velocity, wrong note locked to the trig, etc.
So on your 1, 5, 9, 13 if you hold down one of the trigs that is lit in the sequencer, verify that it shows the same note number as it does on the track level. It will always show you the track level information until you hold down the trig. You should check velocity in the same manner, hold it down and see if the velocity value is different than the track level.
I don’t know why it would be different, but we need to rule it out.
As far as intermittently working on other tracks that’s an odd behavior.
Nope, there’s absolutely nothing like that and I just moved the kick over to track two and moved everything down one and everything works great. I mean it’s still the weird two octaves off but the thing you told me about note zero through 60 was true and now I can find whatever I need in that department… It’s very weird.
But on the one track we were talking about in the beginning it still won’t play the sequenced trigs? And yeah, you can upload anything up to 10mb using this little icon 
but I think it has to be MP4 I’m not sure the player supports apple native formats.
Or you can imbed a youtube link or whatever, that’s also possible. And yeah the information should be accurate, I checked a couple of threads and made sure in the Digitone II manual that it’s using the same standard system so C0 is definitely note 0.
I got it to work everywhere but track one. I checked all of the basic stuff, you know all the trig conditions, making sure the note is the same when I press the trig is the same as the one when unpressed. As you know the trick to making sure that that is the case, it’s just to undo all the triggers and redo them. But I checked it manually as well. I did some of that stuff before I asked in the forum, the rest since. I’m new to the digitone 2 and I’ve been out of hardware for a couple years. But ive owned a lot of Elektron devices in the past and once i kicked the rust off I was able to get things figured out. Except on track 1. When I said it was happening intermittently elsewhere, it wasn’t, that was just me being rusty. I figured those ones out, but track one. I can’t figure out so I’m gonna have to make a recording and post it here and let you look at it. Maybe I am overlooking something, but I can’t imagine what, so maybe just a fresh perspective will see what my blurry eyes are not. it’s late now, so I’ll do it tomorrow.