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No statement from Ableton about this matter?

ableton are obviously missing the basics. channel groups in version 8 of a sequencer? no internal midi channel routing? templates? the list is long.
these are sort of things every newcomer sequencer can do..

It seems that this is impossible in Live.. Hopefully the Bitwig guys will incorporate this feature!

I've tried to make something with max4live but no way. Nobody have an idea here?

May be there is a workaround using python?

Thanks for that, but if I'm understanding your explanation correctly.. this is not the feature I'm looking for.

Please, take a look at this image:

No, I'm talking about midi merging that happens when you try to route internally midi from one midi track to another.
Ableton is merging midi channels 1-16 to a single channel.

for example: You have two midi tracks.
On the second midi track you want to receive midi from midi track 1, but only ...

so boring live can do that!

ableton, any news about this?

Is this possible:
can we have 8 same instruments and control them with the same midi controller, simply by switching the focused channel?
Thanks!

Try to route a midi channel (1-16) from one track to another and you will see what I mean. Every time you route midi from one track to another all the channels are merged. For example, you have a midi sequencer running in channel A and you want to controle different plugins like a drummachine with ...

Live 9 is coming out and we still cant route midi internally without merging channels. Its so sad that we cant route midi channels from one track to another. I haven't update my live since version 7 because of this.

Ableton guys.. is this so hard?

Why every DAW in the world (even newcomers like ...