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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.

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

AMEN!!! MULTIPLE MIDI TRACK EDITS!!!

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