Omnisphere instrument only playing midi channel 1
You would need three instances of DUNE on separate tracks to do this. Imagine that you want to have three parts each having different voices (patches) and you were using a monotimbral softsynth like DUNE. I’d suggest that Omnisphere is a friend, not a problem. Might be best to take Omnisphere out of the equation for now I will look up Bome - perhaps thats the miracle I’m searching for. Very limited knowledge in this space unfortunately. The dummy midi track is something I’m hearing about that led me to question IAC which I havent used much at all. This is great thinking in itself - Where I was thinking the need for 24 instances as above I could combine voices into an intrument rack where for instance the instrumentation for Song 1 Part 1 was set to Chain 1 on the instrument rack and this chain itself could host a rack with multiple voices (with keysplits if necessary). Back to the original dilemma - the possibility of 1 instrument rack (with M instances of scaler) being able to send info to V instrument tracks… Might be best to take Omnispehere out of the equation for now and forget the multitimbral aspect - that just does my head in. This may mean that if I had 6 songs in a set I would have: 6 x M (say 4 parts) x V for each part … in other words without routing somehow from an instrument rack with multiple instances of Scaler this would be 24 scaler tracks and 24 Intrument tracks to receive this midi!! This is where the set seems to get out of control: If V is a midi track with a instrument rack on it where I can happily select from a range of VSt instruments on it via chain selector, I assume I need M x V worth of seperate midi tracks (as the input of each V can only receive midi from 1 instance of scaler (M). After my 2012 Macbook packed up I’ve forked out for a MacAir with M2 chip and this seems to be screaming along so no dramas with CPU. Yes - as above this seems to be necessary. If I want bass etc I am going to need completely seperate instances. Granted this is if I’m playing with the one performance coming out of one instance of scaler. Next step to get as much out of that one instance as possible might be to add midi filters / keyboard splits to the respective instrument tracks so they would only hear (and play) the bits of the scaler performance that I want them to hear. Possibly I could then use the performance and pattern selectors (via midi controller) in that one instance of scaler to move through different parts of a song. Yes thats my understanding too - correct me if I am wrong but if I had one instance of scaler on one midi track I am able to send this to any number of seperate midi instruments on seperate midi tracks in Live by choosing that one instance of scaler as the source/input. Thanks so much for the willingness to understand here - what an amazing community! I’m sorry if I am confusing things more… So, on first glance, the above would require 4 Instrument racks, each driving 4 voices of the total song. To make sure I interpret the goal properly, I’ll bounce my interpretation of your approach off you, for you to correct / affirm as relevant. I assume that the mention of IAC means that you are on a Mac… I’m Windows. I don’t use racks (except to split midi input by pitch/midi note number).to send to different instruments. I’m just trying to get my head round this, but I understand there are some basic issues with doing this sort of thing in Live, with its limited routing capabilities and no channel recognition PS I am wondering if a Max for Live device or IAC driver routing might help but really I dont know what I’m doing - Mike Hope this makes sense and that someone out there has a work around. Input itself doesn’t seem to be midi mappable. I am stuck on whatever ‘song’ I’ve selected to begin with.
This doesn’t change the midi-in on the receiving track though. My intention was to ‘change songs’ in the scaler track using the chain selector on the instrument rack.
My core problem is that on the receiving midi track with a soft synth in it I can only choose either Song 1 or Song 2 as the midi input in the lower section of the midi input in the Track. For reference I have named each of these instances as Song 1, Song 2 etc. So far I have created an instrument rack on one midi track and loaded a number of instances of Scaler into it. I want to be able to send the output of Scaler 2 to various instrument tracks sometimes more than one at the same time. I’ll just start with what I’m trying to do in Live 11…Ĭreate a set list for live performance that has an instance of Scaler 2 for every song.