MIDI effect only outputs on channel 1

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Hello, I just made an M4L MIDI effect that can split MIDI data into multiple channels for use with Aria Player, but it isn't working. I eventually found out that back in Live 8, Ableton would change all MIDI to channel 1 between devices--is that still the case in Live 10.1? I hope not, but I can't find any other explanation.

[[jur]]

You should be able to send to different channel, but only since L11.
Another option is to use the [imp.midiin] Max external.
You might even just need to use the External Instrument after your midi FX, but it all depends on what you're doing and how your stuff is set.

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@[jur]: You mean they removed the "hard-coded to channel 1" behaviour in Live 11? I just downloaded the beta and it appears to be the same. Is there a setting for this I can change somewhere?

[[jur]]

You can send to midi to external hardware with M4L in L11.
I realized afterward that you're talking about a plugin and in this case I'm not sure it's possible.
Check the [BrowseRouting2] abstraction with "midi_outputs 0" argument in M4L to see what's possible.

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Yes, I'm talking about a plugin.

How do I get BrowseRouting2? It doesn't appear as an available Max object.

I've also read about a community Max object called imp.midiout that's intended for this purpose, but it hasn't been updated to Max 8.

BTW, I thought I might be able to cheat by telling L11 that my controller supports MPE and layering a muted Wavetable with my sound, so it would enable all 16 channels for MPE support, but that didn't work.

I submitted a suggestion to the L11 public beta program to add support for MIDI channels 2-16, explaining that I need to be able to output multiple MIDI channels from a single M4L device.

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I found a solution. I just spent half an hour documenting it for future forum-searchers, but my forum login timed out and it got deleted.

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Is there no way to attach a screenshot to a forum reply?