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Does anybody know how to assign physical midi ports so that the midi track only listens to a particular midi port and channel. Logic by default sums all incoming midi signals and all ports and channels and plays them on the out port assigned to the track when selected. Very annoying. I've seen people do this somehow in the environment of logic but I've never found a comprehensive explanation or tutorial. If audio was routed this way in logic every time you select a track all incoming audio on any audio interface port would show up on the currently selected track. Why? Really, all that I'm trying to do is what every other daw that I've used does. For instance Ableton Live midi tracks only receive midi signal on the midi port and channel assigned to that track.

10 years later still works. Mucho gracias!

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So physical input port 1 goes to external midi track on, physical input port 2 goes to external midi track 2. Then both external midi tracks out are routed to the sequencer input.

Are you setting up the routing in the environment like that for two physical input ports to two seperate external midi tracks and record enabling both tracks and then sending midi input from both ports? That's when I see the problems start.

That didn't work. I get wierd behavior like midi aliases being created on record enabled tracks. That's all right. Logic handles midi routing well enough the way it's set up to do it. For most situations it's default works great. It would be nice if you could set in input port for a channel strip but auto remix by channel will work. Just required a little more mucking around with the external midi gear.

And just to clarify...ports are physical I/O midi connections. And each port has 16 midi channels.

Yes. It's called "auto demix by MIDI channel". Then that's the answer to your question. More details: https://www.logicprohelp.com/instruments-tracks-midi-channels/ Hello David. I'm working with external midi tracks. I want to assign in input port, not midi channel. I understand Logic and auto remix based midi channel. But that is very limiting and much more work than being able to assign a midi in port as you can do in other DAWs such as Sonar. I've looked at the environment and it does not appear there is anyway to do this as far as I could figure out. For instance the Motu Midi Time Piece has 8 midi ports. it connects to the computer via USB and these 8 ports show up in Logic. In Logic you can only assign output ports to External Midi tracks. That part works fine. But not being able to specify a midi in port leaves only auto remix based on midi channel which is not as easy as being able to assign a midi in port. If you could assign a Midi in port it's as easy to route your midi gear as assigning an in port for audio.

Is there anyway to setup LPX so that a channel strip only listens to a specific midi port? This was easy in Cakewalk Sonar as there was an an option to specify a midi in port just as you would specify an audio in port. LPX only seems to allow you to specify a midi out port. This is fine if your recording one midi track at a time. I understand the recording option to auto demix based on midi channel. However, it was be much easier not to have to worry about midi channels when you have external midi gear hooked up to a multi midi port outboard gear like the Moto MTPAV which has 8 physical ports and allows you to do the routing and filtering. Also, some of my outboard midi gear sends multiple channels. My guess is that if this is possible it would require messing around with the environment in LPX. Seems like this is one option that is missing from LPX, to specify a channel strips midi in port. Although this makes things easy when recording one midi track at a time, it makes recording multiple midi tracks unnecessarily difficult.