Midi Mute mode for Drum Racks

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DerDahli
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Midi Mute mode for Drum Racks

Post by DerDahli » Sun Mar 30, 2014 8:03 pm

Currently I have set up a Drum Rack containing external instruments to trigger my Vermona DRM1 MkIII.

I did not set up audio inputs for the external instruments for each drum sound of the DRM because I use the master out of the DRM and prefer external monitoring.

The problem is that the Mute and Solo buttons in the drum drack only mute the audio of the external instruments but not the midi notes. Solo and Mute have no effect.

So my plan of sequencing the DRM with Live + Push is useless now...

The buttons should mute the notes which are sent to the sound generators and not the sound generators themselves.

There should be a selectable midi mute mode for the drum rack.

Using the external instruments audio ins is no solution because Open Hihat and Closed Hihat have different midi trigger notes but the same sound engine.

Regards,
DerDahli

MThorrez
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Re: Midi Mute mode for Drum Racks

Post by MThorrez » Thu Jul 19, 2018 4:14 pm

Hey man!

Did you find a workaround for this? I am having the same problem.

Thanks!

M.

jestermgee
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Re: Midi Mute mode for Drum Racks

Post by jestermgee » Fri Jul 20, 2018 12:48 am

Mute/Solo on drum pads affect a loaded sound only, they do not mute/solo MIDI notes so there is no solution for this that I am aware of unfortunately.

pottering
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Re: Midi Mute mode for Drum Racks

Post by pottering » Fri Jul 20, 2018 10:41 pm

A Velocity device set to Clip mode and "Out Hi" set to 0, or Gate mode and Range set to 0 should mute the notes, on a pad's Chain.

Also simply changing the "Receive" note on the pad's Chain to a note that isn't triggered.
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annihilator.1
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Re: Midi Mute mode for Drum Racks

Post by annihilator.1 » Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:01 pm

or
turn the external instrument device on/off for that pad,

regularjack
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Re: Midi Mute mode for Drum Racks

Post by regularjack » Sun Nov 08, 2020 7:02 pm

I made a Max For Live device that fixes this issue. You can find it at:

https://maxforlive.com/library/device/6 ... e-and-solo

Prof Plom
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Re: Midi Mute mode for Drum Racks

Post by Prof Plom » Tue Jan 05, 2021 4:16 am

@regularjack: Thank you for making that solution and sharing it! Totally fixed a big issue and quite easily too!! You are awesome! :D :D :D

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