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I've built a M4L device that acts as a sequencer, capable of sending out data on 4 different MIDI channels. But I just realized that Live only allows a track to output to one MIDI channel. Has anyone else encountered this problem? I have no idea to get around it - Max is great because in the program I can output to multiple MIDI channels, but that doesn't seem possible in Live. I don't want to put the M4L device on multiple channels because that will basically render a lot of the patch pointless.

I don’t know enough about Max to code things myself, but there are Max devices capable of sending on multiple MIDI channels from one track so it’s clearly possible.

An example is an Elektron Machinedrum control plugin I sometimes use.

http://www.maxforlive.com/library/devic ... ram-change

Thank you for this! Are you aware of any others?

Make a midi channel and have it receive midi from that channel. See what options there are for receiving midi, instead of thinking about how to send 4 channels from one channel.

yur2die4 wrote: ↑

Mon May 27, 2019 8:39 pm

Make a midi channel and have it receive midi from that channel. See what options there are for receiving midi, instead of thinking about how to send 4 channels from one channel.

Thanks for the reply, not quite sure what you're getting at though - could you elaborate?

I think yur2die4 meant to create new MIDI tracks listening to the original track. You can then chose another output option.

Édit: misread the original post

Right - I tried this, but the way Ableton works, it takes ALL the MIDI data that Max is outputting (on multiple channels) and combines it into one channel so that even if another MIDI track is listening on just one channel, it is receiving all the MIDI data.

Have you tried receiving directly from the device on the track instead of just from the midi track?