i am looking to expand my elektron digitakt with 2 extra outputs, would this be possible?
You can only do this to a limited extent:
The Digitakt II can route two channels (or one stereo pair) of audio to the USB. Plugged into a Raspberry Pi, these show up as an ALSA audio source, and those can be routed to the PiSound card’s outputs using arecord | aplay or via software like pd (where you can transform the audio some more!) or perhaps even directly using the also sound config file.
On the Digitakt II you can select which two outputs go to USB… normally it is the main stereo pair, so this set up wouldn’t gain you any extra outputs. However, you can also choose either one track’s stereo pair, to two tracks (each summed to mono, and one sent left, the other right) - and have those go to USB.
So, if what you want to do is route just one (stereo) or two (mono) tracks out to different outputs, you can do it. And you can even, if you want, exclude those from the main outputs on the Digitakt II.
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sounds promising, thanks for sharing!
would you recommend this set-up?
could you perhaps provide me with a link to the right documentation?
have you tried this?
could i achieve this with the pisound module or do i need additional parts?
thanks in advance!
I don’t know what you are trying to achieve with the two extra outputs from the Digitakt. So, it’s hard to say if this is a reasonable path.
The Digitakt II manual is available from the Elektron site and explains audio routing over USB.
look into overwitch
yea i just want an extra set of outputs to send to my mixer for live sets.
seems ridiculous that a sampler with 16 tracks only has 1 stereo output, so much more potential with more outputs.
eyeballed that before, couldnt really find user succes stories on this method. will check on that again, thanks!
I actually had, and planning to make a github repo, with all the details.
U need to install it, and all the audio chanels ehich are available trough overbridge will be available in the jack audio backend, then u can route them to a sound card or i2c dac like the hifiberry x8. I did that works flawlessly.
nice! any way i can get a link or stay in the loop about this somehow?
getting the hifiberry x8 to work with Digitakt II en Digitone II would be so sick.
would it be technically possible to send 4 additional outputs from digitakt and another 4 from digitone to the hifiberry x8 using this method?
Totally. Doing it with digitakt and digitone.
Ohm hmm, im planning now how to make an rurorack module out of it, or like something easy to use, plug and play, ill post it on elektronouts of its ready I believe.
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Lots of flexible options including plugin routing via falktx/ kxstudio. I’m surprised it isn’t mentioned very much here!
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sounds good, good luck with that!
Hi all, reviving this thread because I’m trying to do this too. Please forgive my ignorant questions, I am a total novice with Pisound.
I just installed the Patchbox OS image tonight and got it up and running. When I run:
arecord -l
I see Digitakt II showing up as a sound card, but when I launch the Patchbox GUI and run Patchage I can’t see it in there, I only see the MIDI inputs/outputs for Digitakt.
This is exactly what I’m trying to do. I just want to grab two outputs from the Digitakt II and send them out to my pedals (and exclude them from the main mix).
Does anyone have some tips on what I need to do to see the Digitakt’s audio outputs as a source that I can connect to the main out of Pisound? Do I need to change something in alsa? I see Pipewire present in Patchage, it seems like that should be able to do it too? I’ve found some advice on various forums but it all seems to assume more knowledge than I currently have.
(I’m comfortable doing it from the command line, in fact I prefer not to run the GUI, I just launched it to see if I could get things going easily with Patchage.)
My medium-term goal is to have the setup in a script that runs on startup (or maybe with the button) so I can just plug it in “headless” and get Digitakt channels out.
Thanks in advance!
Ooh this looks amazing! I will tackle this after I understand the basic method better.