 Hello oscillators and gear a few days ago. I posted this jam So all of the sounds that you're hearing in this jam are coming from these two volks as the volk kick and the volk keys But rather than using their internal sequences instead. We're making use of the digga tones midi tracks So as you may know the digga tones are really wonderful FM synth, which is paired with a really great Sequencer the electron sequences have a very particular way of working if you get on with it Then you really really love it and for my part. I really really love the electron way of doing things But on the digga tone as well as having a sequencer to sequence the internal FM synth voices There are also four tracks of sequencer, which are dedicated to sequencing external midi devices Each of those tracks has eight note polyphony and has all of the great electron goodness like conditional trigs and P-locks so you can apply the electron workflow to other synths So in this video, I want to walk you through the setup for this jam How everything is rooted how you set up the volkers to work with the digga tone How you set up the digga tone to work with the volkers and although we're going to be talking about the volkers actually about 90% Of everything that we talk about in this video is going to apply to whatever you want to sequence with the digga tone and You will want to sequence stuff with a digga tone because it's awesome Okay, so let's just quickly talk about the the physical setup here So we've got the midi out coming out of the digga tone That's going into this midi splitter here. So the digga tone comes in here and it splits it out Here and those two cables are going into my volkers Midi ends here. My volkers have been powered by my new my vaults power supply one power supply to power order my volkers All at once. It's really really neat They're not sponsoring or anything but I'll pop a link to the power supply in The description because it's very keenly priced and seems to be working very well indeed The output my kick is going straight into my audio interface the output of the keys however, it's going into the left and right input of the digga tone and That allows me to run the keys through the master reverb on the digga tone off And then the output of the digga tone is going into the interface as well Okay, so just one volker specific thing just quickly The volkers can be set up to receive midi in one of two different ways in one mode All it receives is the clock So kind of your start stop messages and the tempo and that means that if you're in that mode And you try and send note information to the volkers They won't do anything the other mode accepts clock and notes values So the way that you can check this is if you turn off the volkers and then turn it back on when you're holding down funk You go into the global settings and this is the same on all the volkers and The light that you're looking to be lit up is the light on seven again I think this is the same on all of the volkers and this is the receive midi short message Setting if this is turned on then it's going to Get note information if it's turned off then all it's going to do is take clock information And you're going to get really confused as to why nothing is working Once you have got the stuff set up properly Make sure you hit the record button and that will save the settings and restart the unit So the other thing that you'll need to know is what midi channel the volkers are set up to be receiving midi on Again, so to do that turn the volker off And this time you want to turn it on when holding down the memory button instead and the lights across the bottom here tell you what Channel it's set to receive on so at the moment my kick is set up to receive on channel 13 as it happens My keys is set up to receive on channel one. I think Again, once you've set the channel that you want make sure you hit record so that that setting actually gets saved So one final Volker specific thing, although this might apply to other synths that have built-in sequencers Make sure you have a completely empty Pattern when you start if you're going to try and sequence it using well anything else Digitonal or anything else really and that includes making sure that you have an empty Motion sequence as well. So on most of the Volkers you can program the motion sequence That will still apply to the sequences and things can get really really weird I had a motion sequence on an otherwise empty Sequence on the keys and it was confusing the hell out of me as to why the sound was suddenly changed in partway through and The reason was that I had a motion sequence set up. So make sure that that is also clear Okay, let's move on to talk about the digitone. So the first thing you need to make sure is that you're actually in the midi mode So if this midi light isn't lit, then you're not in midi mode if it is then you are When you're in mini mode you have access to these Four midi tracks here. So I'm just going to go to an empty pattern Quickly so that we can see what's what sort of from an empty patch So the first thing you're going to want to do when you've got your midi track set up So I'll just go to track one here if you head into the Sin one page here. You've got this is your midi source set up. So this gives you access to various controls at the moment all of those controls are Turned off now the main one that I'm interested in is the channel this first one here So to enable any of these settings you need to hold funk and punch the knob basically So once you've done that you can select what channel this track is going to be applied to now Sadly the channel isn't parameter lockable And I kind of wish it was so but if I set up channel one then I can Control the keys easy enough and if I go to channel 13 which is my kick That's my kick Like that stick with the keys to begin with So once you've set your channel, you're kind of good to go for like basic sequencing You can either go into step mode and start programming that way or we can go into live recording mode and And we can play stuff in like that And the nice thing here even with this really simple setup here you have already got Access to things like conditional tricks. So if you go into the trick page here We can hold down this one here and we can set it to Should we say every second bar like that Play this time Not this time and so on so you immediately get access to that kind of electron sequencer way of working So what's really amazing about the digitone MIDI tracks is that if your synths that you're controlling respond to MIDI DCC messages as the valkers do you can actually set it up to parameter lock The MIDI CC messages, which means that in the case of the keys and the kick you can control the filters You control the envelopes the LFOs Pretty much any of the knobs on the valkers that you could control via motion sequencing You can now parameter lock and that's really really cool So in order to set this up you're going to need to take a look at the MIDI Implementation chart the mini implementation chart for your synths You can usually find either in the manual if it's a big thick manual or often as is the case for the valkers as a separate download it will list various things that the synth will respond to in terms of its MIDI whether it will respond to a note information and velocity and expression And all that kind of stuff and it will also hopefully list all of the parameters which are controllable By MIDI CC so on the MIDI tracks on the digitone you can control up to eight different MIDI CC numbers Per track and the way that you set this up as you go into the amp page here Which is now that the CC select page as far as the MIDI tracks go And you can select on each of these eight knobs which CC number you want that knob to control So if we look at the MIDI implementation chart for the valker keys We can see that MIDI CC number 44 can be used to control the filter cutoff So when our amp page if we go to this first knob here, and we go to CC44 we select that If we then head on to our filter page here We've got all of those values mapped out Again you need to do a funk and punch on the knob that you want to control but once you've done that We now have control of That CC number from within the digitone and once you've set that up This knob can now be parameter locked. So if we head into our step sequence so we can start setting different filter amounts For these different steps and now now you can hear that we've got different filter settings for each of those notes Which is pretty cool, and you can carry on setting different Parameters up here to be controlled if we wanted to give each of our notes a different release characteristic We can go to CC number 50 and then again head into here It's the funk and the knob and we can start putting different release characteristics on each of these notes as well This one can be nice and long and this one can be moderately short And now we've got different release characteristics on each of their notes as well So just one more extra awesome trick that we've got here on the MIDI tracks If you had the opportunity to dive into the sound design on the digitone You will know that the LFOs are something very very special Indeed and the cool thing here is that we can actually apply. It's any one LFO not two like on the synth But we've got one LFO here which we can apply To the CC values So here if we set this to CC value one, which was our filter cutoff we can now Also have an LFO controlling that parameter Which is really really cool and you've got all of the same sort of controls that you have in the main synth with different Modes like the hold mode here or the half and that all your different Wave forms here as well Okay, so to finish off. Let's actually dive into that original jam and see how everything is set up. So in this case Tracks one two and three are all addressing the folk keys So on this first track we meet all the other ones We've got this main kind of riff here and you can kind of hear that the the sounds are changing Over time. That's because we are applying parameter lock to a couple of different things. I've actually got quite a lot of stuff set up here I've got various bits of filtering and envelope stuff all mapped across these knobs here and I'm making use of So that's affecting the filter there If you go into these different steps, you should find some locks mostly filter And we've also then got some conditional tricks on some of this stuff as well If we bring the second one actually I'll just meet the first one again You can hear this got this higher thing here, but we can send both to the synth at once So the third key track is probably the most interesting of the lot phone just mute the other two Because it's this one which has got our Sort of snare sound on it as well as a couple of nice little planks But it's the snare that's particularly interesting because Obviously between the keys and the kick we don't have a dedicated way of doing a snare So the way that I'm achieving this is again by using parameter locks if we go into the cc setup here, we'll see that we have 46 47 and 48 set up here as our midi cc Numbers and if we look at the midi implementation chart on the Volcker keys We'll see that those relate to the LFO the rate the LFO pitch intensity and the LFO cutoff intensity and what I'm essentially doing on the Hits that would be the snare is I'm cranking those values to kind of get a sort of an FM kind of weirdness going on at the other trick that I'm having to do there instantly is on these steps that come directly after that is I've put in a Parameter, but not a note step so that it jumps back down to having none of those things turned up to full And when you bring in the other keys tracks together you get them all kind of interacting together Including having that kind of snare happening there as well The final track that I've got here is the kick track and This is kind of made up of both of sort of kick patterns, but also some little sort of plinkety-plonkety bits and pieces so the main thing that I'm controlling here is the drive control and also the Decay of the sound so you hear some of these hits are Boomie and long and some of them much shorter some of them more distorted and heavy and some of them a bit more mellow The other thing that I'm doing is that on those more pitched sounds the higher ones I'm also turning down the amount of bend on the kick So it sounds less like a kick and a bit more like a little synth sound basically And then you kind of bring all the stuff together And you get quite a lot of mileage with just the four notes of polyphony That are between the keys and the kick three notes on the keys and one on the kick You can get quite a lot of stuff going on there by using the parameter locks and layering up the different Sequencer elements One final trick that I have is on the first track here I've also got the LFO setup to affect the filter so I can So you can get some of that going on as well pretty neat So that's how I set up the jam I hope that was interesting and informative if you did enjoy the video Then please do give it the old thumbs up and make sure you subscribed so you don't miss out on any upcoming videos I'd be really interested to know in the comments if there are any other synths that are in my collection If you look through my other videos that you'd like to see me have a go Sequencing with the electron There are a couple that I think might be really really fun But I'd love to hear your thoughts as well other than that. Thank you so much for joining me today I hope you enjoyed it until next time. Take care guys. Bye. Bye