rec automation across several midi channels simultaneously?

[nutsadamus]

Is this possible?

I have a UC-16 that I'm using now on individual tracks for recording volume curves one at a time.

Lets say I have a string section spread across several midi channels, and I want to control the dynamics of the section as a whole. Is there a way to do this in one pass, or do I have to copy and paste the volume curves onto the seperate tracks?

Thanks for the help.

[nutsadamus]

yes, no, maybe, sort of?

anyone?

[glurgle]

you could route all the tracks through a bus and automate the volume on that track accordingly.

just set each tracks output to one other track (the bus).

[nutsadamus]

thank you for the suggestion.

I thought of that as well, but it won't work for my purposes.

My sequences are for live performance and wont be eventually rendered into an audio file. I need the flexibility of being able to export the whole thing as a midi file (namely to DP) and each track and midi channel needs its own volume curve.

DOn't ask why I don't just sequence in DP, long story.

I guess what I wanna know is is it possible to do midi multitracking with only one controller?

[glurgle]

not natively in tracktion at the moment :(

though you could work around it using something like midiyoke to make a bunch of virtual midi inputs that mirror one physical midi input, I think that would work... maybe.

Oh, I think midiyoke might be PC only, didn't remember you were on a Mac till now.... not sure what you could do.

[nutsadamus]

strangely enough, I'm using both Mac and PC. Tracktion on a PC using 32 channels of soundfonts and then exporting to DP for more fine-tuning using the notation vue, putting in measure numbers and a few other things not supported in Tracktion just yet.

If I had a Mac plugin that could compare with SFZ, I guess I could get everything done on the Mac. I'm really enjoying using Tracktion, though.

I'll give the midiox idea a shot. THanks for the input.