Elektron Digitakt - Using MIDI with External Hardware

The Digitakt has 8 tracks of MIDI that can control your external hardware in various ways. We explain a few ways in this video so let us know in the comments section if there is a feature you want explored.

[omermesci]

Finally someone showing how to actually connecting the midi in detail, not pre hooked up. Great video!

[EZBOT_]

This is an amazing tutorial for the Dgitakt! Well done video club :)

[ringostar]

Nice Vide. THANKYOU. Can you explain how the midi thru box is connected in this setup please?

[AlmostHomeSounds]

my biggest question: can you play on the keyboard of your external synth and capture the midi on the digitakt to achieve anything close to live looping?

[JonasHamill]

This was very helpful and comprehensive. Do you have or would you be prepared to make a video explaining how to set up the Digitakt to be controlled by an external MIDI hardware? For example setting the sliders on my controller to control volume of each of the 8 tracks

[TheFetteEnte]

Uhh new vids bout the digitakt, nice and thx

[turfoid]

Noob question, to use 2 different midi instruments, i need quadra thru or a midi interface hey? I have midi chanel 1 assigned to virus ti. And channel 16 to volca kick. But virus doesnt have midi thru 😒

[johncitizen]

It it possible with an external keyboard synth, to alternate between using it to play audio samples 1-8 on AutoChannel, and then back to playing the actual sounds on the keyboard itself?

[diedebos]

Hi! I want to connect the Behringer TD3 and the Volca Keys. They both got midi channel number 1. How do I connect the two without them producing the same patterns?

[adelderderder]

how to connect the digitakt to monitor? are you use (midi out - usb) to your monitor? or you just only use (elektron usb cable) to monitor?

[michele]

I can’t wait to try this with Hydrasynth

[MrKillingerr]

Bro.... Was that Chrono Trigger sound effects I hear in the intro?

[lesvolga]

And if for example I wish to connect two or more audio devices to DT? Will they both be acting as two separate mono channels? I mean if Digitone sends audio via its two outputs, and I have another modular system I wish to have sound from as well — so I need a separate external mixer to have all three pieces sounding? Thanks!

[abrokenframe]

Excellent video, extremely helpful. Would it be possible to connect a controller keyboard to the midi in on the Digitakt and use this to play in notes into the sequencer instead of the buttons the Digitakt itself? Also, as there is only 4 note polyphony would it be possible to set an external synth like the pro 800 to 2 different midi channels so it could play the full 8 notes of polyphony from the Digitakts sequencer?

Thanks for any help.

[N-trepid]

This is a golden tutorial. Thanks!! Question: Can you enter notes, cc changes into the Digitakt using your external synth--rather than using the buttons on the digitakt? Kinda like what you do with the Pyramids sequencer, where it records midi values and parameter changes from your midi'd synth to the Pyramids? Or is this a one way proposition with the Digitakt?

[jasonlyle]

I do have a question: @elektronvideoklub: are you using a particular mixer to combine both JU06A and the digitakt?

[maxamllion]

For example, is it possible to assign MIDI channel 9 and 10 from one device, in my case the Mircrofreak? With different sounds? If i change the sound on the Mircofreak its changes all MIDI channel, i want different sounds from one device. Nice video btw. :)