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Christian 8 years, 8 months ago.
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Hey, so I have two drum machines, one of them a volca and the other a roland. I can play notes in “Chord” note to the drum machines. When I go into TR Mode on the Zaquencer, I can trigger the drum machines playing via midi, but they don’t play any of the notes in my sequence. I wonder if there is something I’m doing wrong. I’ve looked at the manual and the quickstarts, and assigned various midi notes accross all four drum tracks, and changed the global settings. I have used it to program sequences in synths previously. The sequence seem to be playing in the Zaquencer because the lights are flashing in the led. Thanks for you help.
Hi Jay,
I´m happy to help. Here´s a short checklist again what you have to do to create a drumtrack and make it play:- set track´s trackmode to “drum” in Global Menu
- assign track´s Midi Channel and Output A/B in Global Menu
- assign track´s Drum Notes in Global Menu (by holding the track button on the top right)
- unmute the track in Mixer Menu
- go to Inst Select Menu, select the instruments (2 button rows) and create notes by turning the steps´ encodersOnce you´ve made all these adjustments and it still doesn´t work, you can do the following:
- check the track´s Note Mute, Length, Velocity, and Step Skip prameters. These are still active in drum mode and could prevent generations of valid notes.
- check if the output LEDs A/B are blinking when the sequence is playing. This will show you if Midi Notes are being generated and sent
- hook up a Midi monitor software to the BCRs Midi Out, and look at the note data, making sure it has the correct notes (the ones that your drummachine expects)Can you please clarify what you mean by “trigger the drum machines playing via midi”. Is this without the Zaquencer, when a Midi Keyboard or DAW is connected directly to the drummachine?
Thanks for the checklist. I got the drum machines to work. My problem was I needed to set the correct channel for the correct drum track. So, volca beats works on midi channel ten, set to the correct output for the correct track. Because I was using a keyboard earlier, I had the track on channel 1.
When I said “trigger the drum machines” the volca would start sync tempo, but not play notes, because of the lack of correct channel. Thanks!
Happy to hear that it works now.
Thanks for the update and happy Zaquencing!
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