Multi-channel midi on one track needed for film scoring.

chewywater · Post by **chewywater** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:13 pm

I wish I could keep multi-channel midi data confined to one track.

PROBLEM THIS SOLVES:
I am attempting to use Ableton for film scoring.
I use the eastwest orchestral plugins which are used
as follows:
Each instrument in the orchestra has many
articulations (staccato, double tongue etc..). To
play a single instrument realistically, I load each
articulation into a different channel of the plug-in.
Then, during a performance, I switch midi channels to
get the articulations I'm looking for.

I have been unable to do this in live without
spreading the data across multiple tracks. Spreading
performances across tracks gets unmanageable for full
orchestral pieces, as I wind up with 400-600 tracks.

Other DAWs get around the problem by allowing multi
channel midi data to exist in one track.

drb · Post by **drb** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:06 pm

this would be nice.
wonder if racks can do it?

theguru_ · Post by **theguru_** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:33 pm

AMEN!!! MULTIPLE MIDI TRACK EDITS!!!

chewywater · Post by **chewywater** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:56 am

drb wrote:this would be nice.
wonder if racks can do it?

Nope. Can't be done. It would be nice if you could use midi racks to do real time midi routing. I contacted ableton about it and got this response:

Nope
I´m afraid there´s no workaround, you´d need to spread the MIDI
tracks
in Live´s current
state. We´ll see what we can do about this in the future.

Best,
C. Kleine