Midi routing with MPE controllers, how to merge multiple input sources?

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JefVerbeeck
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Midi routing with MPE controllers, how to merge multiple input sources?

Post by JefVerbeeck » Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:10 am

Hi!

I rebuilt my setup recently and want to run a bunch of stuff at once:

My Beastep Pro controls a drumcomputer and some hardware monosynths, all on separate MIDI channels. All audio and midi is recorded in Ableton on separate tracks.

This is the easy part: set a synth to receive on a certain MIDI-channel and voilà, it works.

Now I want to control an MPE softsynth with my Linnstrument (sending out MIDI notes on all 16 MIDI channels)and ALSO control this same synth with Touchosc on my iPad (sending MIDI CCs via Touchosc Bridge)... Now I cannot just set these to the same MIDI channel since the Linnstrument uses multiple channels...

I think I should merge the MIDI from the Linnstrument and from Touchosc Bridge before it goes into Ableton, so I then can select this new MIDI source on my softsynth track?

Who has solved this and what is the solution?

I 'm open to both hard- and software solutions. Software should run on a Mac.

All the best,

Jef

pottering
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Re: Midi routing with MPE controllers, how to merge multiple input sources?

Post by pottering » Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:43 pm

You can use empty MIDI Tracks to route MIDI, without instrument and audio FX (MIDI FX are OK), then they will still show the "MIDI To" drop-down menus to choose output.

https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/routi ... al-routing
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