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Can someone tell me how to set up two or more midi/usb keyboards in live so that each one can trigger a different instrument?

Thanks

Well no one has taken a bite at this yet. Can it be done? It seems like it should be easy but I cant figure it out.

This should be quite easy.

Session view, make sure I/O is toggled to display (beside the master fader), select your track, select the "MIDI From" pulldown item and choose the keyboard you want. Repeat this for the other tracks.

can do it that way. or you can organize it by midi channels.

set your two different keyboards to two different midi channels.

under the dropdown menu on the channel midi, instead of making it say, "all ins" just select the channel you have assigned to each of your controllers.


very easy.

Superchibisan wrote:can do it that way. or you can organize it by midi channels.

set your two different keyboards to two different midi channels.

under the dropdown menu on the channel midi, instead of making it say, "all ins" just select the channel you have assigned to each of your controllers.


very easy.

Even better.

I usually combine these two so I can switch presets on my keyboard to control another instrument on another midi channel.

This has been posted before, so do a search. One of the keyboards has to always be CAPS LOCK, and I think two is the limit unless one could be set up to be doing key strokes (ctrl+?) but be careful of of Lives Defaults for these, then just set each key to launch or toggle parameters and clips like you would set midi, suing the key icon

mediashow wrote:This has been posted before, so do a search. One of the keyboards has to always be CAPS LOCK, and I think two is the limit unless one could be set up to be doing key strokes (ctrl+?) but be careful of of Lives Defaults for these, then just set each key to launch or toggle parameters and clips like you would set midi, suing the key icon

Since he said midi/usb, I assume he meant piano-style keyboards, not pc-style keyboards.

Useful info, anyways.