I'm trying to map everything in hive to a launch control xl, and I'm having no luck getting hive to adhere to mappings across multiple midi channels.
I searched through the forum but could only find a brief mention of similar issues in the beta discussion, although Urs mentioned that there was still work to be done in this area before the full release.
I also had a look through the guide, although it seems that this should be possible:
"The next two fields are for MIDI channel and CC number. HIVE is channel-sensitive, so you can map up to 16 channels for a total of about 2000 control assignments."
Here's what I've done, sorry about all the detail
- Running x32 hive v1.1 in Ableton 9.6 on Win10.
- Created a new midi track and inserted hive, set 'midi to' to "All ins" and "All channels".
- Used hives' midi learn to assign 'osc1 wave' to cc 13, channel 1.
- Next assigned 'osc2 wave' to cc 13, channel 2.
- At this point, both knobs control both of the 'wave' parameters, and if I look in hives' midi table, it has assigned both parameters to cc13, channel 1.
- If I update the midi table to set 'osc2 wave' to cc 13, channel 2, then both knobs now only control 'osc1 wave'.
- I'm fairly sure channel 2 is sending separate data, as if is set the 'midi from' in ableton to the controller itself, I can see activity in the channel dropdown separately for each channel.
- I also tried creating a separate midi track just for channel 2 of the controller, and sent this to channel 2 of the track hosting hive. It didn't respond to channel 2 at all.
- The other option here is to use the vst parameter 'configure' mode which ableton has, although this only has 128 slots to map, and there doesn't seem to be any way to save the setup you have besides saving the entire live set and using it as a template!
- I even downloaded the demo of bitwig and mirrored the setup there (as far as I could), and got the same results.
I'm currently just using the demo of hive at the moment to test it out (loving it), so I'm wondering if this is a limitation of the demo, or if I'm just missing something really obvious!
Thanks in advance for any ideas you guys might have, James.