Edirol Orchestral and Ableton

get2sammyb · Post by **get2sammyb** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:05 pm

I am having a few problems getting going with Edirol Orchestral in Ableton Live 4. Basically I can only seem to get one instrument playing - everything is assigned to channel one, and I have a midi track with some notes in - but only the top instrument plays. How can I get them all playing simultaneously?

I think I then want to have all the instruments playing - but slightly different notes etc - what's my next move?

Thanks in advance.

get2sammyb · Post by **get2sammyb** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:26 am

Thoughts?

shayne · Post by **shayne** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:08 pm

Heres how I make edirol work.

I set aside 4 audio tracks for mixing groups. (max edirol allows.

1 midi track for edirol. NO PATTERNS ON THIS TRACK AS IT'LL BLOCK OTHER INPUTS

Then multiple midi tracks, one per instrument.

All the audiotrack INPUTS point to edirol, with the subchannel thingo pointing to which edirol output.

All the midi track OUTPUTS point to edirol with the channel set to the corresponding instruments

Now put edirol's midi channel, and all the audio channels to monitor input.

Then record midi to the instrument tracks, and play it.

Make sure you route edirols outs to the subgroups.

NOTE: You *can* skip the multi audio outs, and just use it all coming out #1, but subgroup outs allow you more fine control.

I'll tend to go 1) Strings 2) Woodwinds 3) Brass 4)Percussion etc.

Instant orchestra!

shayne · Post by **shayne** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:10 pm

You might not be able to route ouputs in 4. I deep sixed my version when I got 5, and to boot I nevre used multi outs on 4 cos I thought it couldnt be done. I may of been wrong. I only found how to do it in 5 from this forum

get2sammyb · Post by **get2sammyb** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:08 pm

How do I specify the inputs and outputs of the tracks?

get2sammyb · Post by **get2sammyb** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:57 pm

Anyone?