I am just starting out on waveform and I have an Alesis V49. It has both a keybed and drum pads. I've been trying to set it up so that the pads play from a different plugin than my keybed. Using the software for the keyboard I've sent the keybed through channel 1 and the pads through channel 10 however, I can not figure out how to separate them in the Waveform 11 program. I'm trying to have the ability to play them both live simultaneously and was hoping there would be an easy way to do it.
The only idea I have had was to create a rack and mute the pads for the piano sounds and mute the keybed for the drum sounds. If this is the easiest way I would appreciate someone explaining how to go about doing that because I'm still starting out.
Trying to split midi channels onto different tracks
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- KVRer
- 3 posts since 8 Aug, 2021
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 3 posts since 8 Aug, 2021
I don't have the pro version, does that mean there is no way to do it?
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Peter Widdicombe Peter Widdicombe https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=336849
- KVRian
- 1205 posts since 29 Aug, 2014
Nope, that video highlights how to split a keyboard where the keyboard is a dumb keyboard with lots of keys, and you use waveform to split it into zones.
In your case, do the following:
- create a virtual MIDI input under settings. Just call it Virtual1 or Pads or whatever.
This enables you to play your keyboard and assign the REAL device to one track input, and the virtual (a copy) to another.
Both tracks should now play the same thing, in your case piano (Midi-1) and pads (Midi-10).
- open up the properties at the bottom of your screen. Click on the name of your primary midi device and make sure
the section at the bottom is expanded, where you see the "properties panel" bottom center. You might have to click the
UP arrow lower left to get it. Remember that, and keep it default !
(I see that in another post today as "Actually Useful Mode". IMHO that should be default ! )
- Now in the MIDI channel filter, click the 10 so it goes dark.
-Open up your virtual/pad device by clicking the virtual/PAD name
- click on the 1 to disable that.
NOW when you play pads, the piano is filtered out from it; and when you play piano the pads are filtered out.
Actually, you MIGHT be able to do that filter directly in the Settings/MIDI devices page where you create the virtual in the first place, so any time you want PADS on 10, just select it, and "any other MIDI input" just select the default Alesis.
In your case, do the following:
- create a virtual MIDI input under settings. Just call it Virtual1 or Pads or whatever.
This enables you to play your keyboard and assign the REAL device to one track input, and the virtual (a copy) to another.
Both tracks should now play the same thing, in your case piano (Midi-1) and pads (Midi-10).
- open up the properties at the bottom of your screen. Click on the name of your primary midi device and make sure
the section at the bottom is expanded, where you see the "properties panel" bottom center. You might have to click the
UP arrow lower left to get it. Remember that, and keep it default !
(I see that in another post today as "Actually Useful Mode". IMHO that should be default ! )
- Now in the MIDI channel filter, click the 10 so it goes dark.
-Open up your virtual/pad device by clicking the virtual/PAD name
- click on the 1 to disable that.
NOW when you play pads, the piano is filtered out from it; and when you play piano the pads are filtered out.
Actually, you MIGHT be able to do that filter directly in the Settings/MIDI devices page where you create the virtual in the first place, so any time you want PADS on 10, just select it, and "any other MIDI input" just select the default Alesis.
Waveform 13; Win10 desktop/8 Gig; Win11 Laptop; MPK261; VFX+disfunctional ESQ-1
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 3 posts since 8 Aug, 2021
Thanks! works like a charm