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Reqs · Post by **Reqs** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 2:12 am

Despite the fact that I've been doing music on my computer for years, I'm constantly amazed at the basic things I don't know, especially about MIDI. Here's the question. In Tracktion its super easy for me to stick my new copy of GPO on a track loaded with a multi, configure the keyboard input in Tracktion to a specific channel matching one of the multi's programs, and hear that particular program. I don't have to touch the channel config of the keyboard itself.

In Live 4, however, if I set the MIDI channel on my keyboard to match one of the multi's programs, and then set the track that GPO is loaded on in Live to that same channel, I don't hear anything. Changing the channel for the specific program in GPO to OMNI, will let me hear the sound, however, mixed with whatever is on channel 1. This says to me that Channel 1 is always being sent, regardless of what channel I set on my keyboard. Can anyone enlighten me as to what is going on here? Is this some kind of limitation of Live?

Reqs · Post by **Reqs** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 1:03 pm

Figured this one would be pretty easy....

Rusty Shackleford · Post by **Rusty Shackleford** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:35 pm

Your MIDI track should be sending to the correct MIDI channel and the monitor button should be set to Auto or Off if you want your clips to play. Otherwise, Live won't play your MIDI clips and will instead only trigger notes that are sent from your MIDI keyboard.

So the first step is to check that you CAN trigger notes from your keyboard when Monitor is set to On and the MIDI channel is specified. That definitely should work, since you've said that it will play in OMNI mode. After that, the next step is to do up a MIDI clip, switch Monitor to Auto and trigger your clip. Should play.

Hope this helps...

Live 4 MIDI question