Multiple Midi Controllers by Channel

[sondod]

So I'm having a lot of trouble with this. Basically I'm trying to have two VI's be controlled by two separate controllers. The way I thought it would work would simply be isolating their Midi channel. So controller one is on ch 1 and controller two is on midi two. When I do this I can see that logic is receiving the messages on the separate channels but no matter what it seems to go to the selected instrument in the Arrange window. The parameters of that instrument could even have the channel set to 8 and it'll still respond to the controller (either one) which is sending midi only on midi ch1 and ch2.

 

So next I tried David's VI switching template which is set-up to separate between the two channels and I'm still getting the same result. Logic is responding just to the selected track. In the template if I'm on Instrument 1 which is ch1 but my controller is on ch2 it's still triggering Instrument 1 and all of it's changes.

 

Any thoughts?

[Fred B]

Go to File > Song Settings > Recording... and check the box 'Auto Demix by channel...'

 

This mode is called 'Multiplayer Recording'. See reference manual page 122.

[sondod]

So the tracks must be record enabled for this to work? There's no way to do this without enabling record. The reason I ask is because simultaneously (this is live performance) I would like to be able to have audio tracks for say a guitar, and on the fly record 8 bars of the guitar (in an 8 bar loop cycle) then disable record. But if the midi control tracks are enabled as well they will record data which I don't want, but will want them to continue being played (yes there's more than one set of hands).

[Fred B]

As we all know 'everything is possible' with Logic's environment.

 

Try cabling like this:

 

Physical Input --> Channel Splitter --> VI's

 

Here you don't need any VI tracks in arrange and hence no conflicts with audio recording.