Virus TI Snow and APC 40 interaction

[Axis Mundi]

Hello all

I am going to buy an APC 40 in the very near future. I'm an avid user of the Virus TI Snow. I had a few questions that need answering. Hopefully somebody could help me.

Some time ago I had bought a cheap M-Audio X-Session Pro to use as a cheap knob box. I found that the buttons on the X-Session were assigned to notes-on messages along MIDI channel 1. That is to say, when I would press the Play, Stop, Forward ( > ) or Back ( < ) buttons on the X-Session, it would trigger notes on Channel 1 of the Snow, even if I assigned the buttons (and knobs, for that matter) to other parameters in Ableton.

I had to wait until M-Audio came out with a patch for Enigma for the X-Session Pro that allowed me to change the MIDI channel the X-Session sent on to a channel the Snow did not use.

Now for my question...

I read recently that the Clip Launch buttons on the APC 40 are also assigned to MIDI notes. Given the fact that these buttons seem auto-assigned by the software to Ableton, if I press Clip Launch buttons on the APC 40, will it trigger notes on channels 1 - 4 of the Snow? If so, what would be the easy way of disabling such MIDI sends, or changing the channels the APC sends on?

(I don't want to trigger notes on the Snow using the Clip Launch buttons, or, for that matter, adjusting Snow sound patch parameters with the knobs, unless I specifically assign them to do so.)

Thanks for the help

[phenret44]

I have a Virus TI snow and have not noticed any problems

[willdahbe]

i have both and jam out for hours while drinking and have no problems.

[nuxnamon]

whether your using the VC plug-in or running straight midi, just make sure you midi input on that channel is only set to the TI.. by default, it think when you create a midi track, it's set to listen to all channels..

[Axis Mundi]

Thanks for the answers.

One more question, just to clarify:

In Ableton, one MIDI channel is used to host the Virus Control plugin. Three other MIDI channels are needed and also need to be routed to the VC in order to manipulate them.

It seems obvious that using the channel select buttons on the APC (To select the MIDI channel hosting the VC, for example, will route the knobs to control that channel of the VC.

If I use Channel Select to select MIDI channels 2, 3, or 4 (channels which do not need to host a plugin to control the VC) will the knobs then route to control parameters on channels 2, 3, and 4 of the VC? Or will they not route to anything since those channels do not actually host the plugin?

[Axis Mundi]

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