Cowboy4d2 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 (edited) Hello! I’m trying to delete all the extra midi tracks when “all” is selected in the mixer. I’m opening the midi environment, selecting midi instr, but I can’t figure out how to delete only certain tracks. Some of the midi tracks are being used. They send midi to Fractals. But anything I delete will delete ALL the midi info. This is a live playback session. Everything works fine, I just want to clean up all the unused tracks. Worried that they are using CPU. I’m not sure how all these tracks got there in the first place, or what the small squares in the environment are. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Edited February 19 by Cowboy4d2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polanoid Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Could you share screenshots of your Mixer and Environment please? Might help clarify a few things like what kind of tracks you’re trying to get rid of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution David Nahmani Posted February 19 Solution Share Posted February 19 If your MIDI tracks are part of a multi-instrument and you want to hide only certain MIDI channels, you can click a channel's square on the multi, and deselect "Assignable" in the inspector, which will hide the corresponding channel strip in the Mixer: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy4d2 Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 (edited) Thank you David! That’s it! I don’t quite understand why my 3 external midi tracks are in a multi-instrument like that though. They are 3 seperate tracks created at seperate times. And they all output on different midi channels. What is the best way to setup a track to send midi cc and pc to a fractal? Edited February 19 by Cowboy4d2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 20 minutes ago, Cowboy4d2 said: Thank you David! That’s it! I don’t quite understand why my 3 external midi tracks are in a multi-instrument like that though. They are 3 seperate tracks created at seperate times. And they all output on different midi channels. What is the best way to setup a track to send midi cc and pc to a fractal? Do you need them to send on 3 separate MIDI channels? If you don't, then you could create a simple MIDI instrument (New > MIDI Instrument) instead and that would give you only one single channel strip/track to deal with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy4d2 Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 They do need to be on seperate channels. The cc/pc info is different for two Fractals and a Tascam vocal processor. Each on its own channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Then I would create 3 MIDI instruments, one for each device. You can select the desired MIDI In and Out ports and MIDI Channel for each instrument in the inspector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy4d2 Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 This is what I thought I was doing. But when I create the midi tracks, I select external, not instrument. Then deselect the “use external plug-in” box. Is this automatically creating a multi instrument? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 2 minutes ago, Cowboy4d2 said: Is this automatically creating a multi instrument? Yes it is. If you want more control over what kind of objects you want in the MIDI Environment, I recommend you open the MIDI environment, create the desired objects, delete the undesired ones, then drag and drop the objects you want to use to a track header to assign them to a track (so that you can record/edit/playback the program change events). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy4d2 Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 Everything is working fine with the project. I just don’t quite understand the multi instrument/ midi environment. I thought I had single midi tracks. But I might just deactivate the channels I’m not using as you previously mentioned, and leave it be. Thank you as always for the help and insight David. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 If it works then don't worry about it. The multi-instrument was designed to control external multi-timbral synthesizers (you know, violin on ch1, piano on ch2, trumpet on ch3 etc...). You're welcome. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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