? Best way to setup midi for more than 16 audio instruments (all AU's) ?

Well, yes, you can use more than 16 "standard midi instruments" (aka plain instruments) to send midi to a huge number of midi streams....only depends on how many "midi ports" you have, either virtual or real (hardware device), or (I suppose) even IACs.

There are several ways to setup and use more than 16 midi streams at one time. I'm just asking if there is perhaps a best way, or if there is some reason why I might be getting what seems like unidentifiable midi data on one of my tracks.

Perhaps I'm asking what has worked best for everyone. Right now I have 21 midi instruments connected to 21 AU instruments (via the hybird audio instruments that can handle either midi or audio). The only reason to connect them to the midi instruments is to be able to control which midi PORT they use. And the only reason to do this is you have more than 16 midi streams of midi data (or...more than one port can handle.)

Help?
S.

No, sorry, Fred. I have midi data in the sequencer on all 21 tracks. I've disconnected the SUM output from the Physical Input, so that the global passing of all midi data doesn't happen. Then, I've used the Midi Instruments to choose the Port and Channel of each track. On the Arrange page, each track has a different Midi Instrument selected, and in the Environment each Midi Instrument is cabled to a different Audio Instrument that is loaded with an AU sampler instrument.

I tried it the way you suggest below, with no better luck. That's how I started, actually.

My guess is that either way probably works, and that what I really have going on is some other kind of problem.

I've isolated the issue to (apparently) one track. At a certain point in the sequence, that track begins to receive audio that sounds like a delay loop, a very rhythmic bonk of the E just above middle C. There is nothing on that track or another that's anything like that...I've checked the matrix, the events window, the hyper edit window, etc. Nothing.

Which I suppose means that somehow, at some point, a midi (or perhaps audio?) feedback loop gets triggered. But I can't find any automation data or anything else that is triggering this repetitious bonking.

Depending on exactly how I cable everything together and how I assign the midi channels, the bonking takes on slightly different qualities.

My next attempt will be to use an external device (either standalone sampler or physical midi device) to play that track. I'll have to port the audio to an Input Device, but if I can work that out, it might work.

Help?
S.

Hi, Randall. When you setup an AU instrument, you have to specify a midi channel on the Channel strip. That number only goes to 16. Are you saying the number chosen there doesn't matter? That I can just ignore it, and all of the data on each track will only be sent to itself? If that's the case, I didn't realize it. I'll give it a try then.

- S

Amazing. I've read every manual and training manual, and nowhere is this spelled out. I suppose if I hadn't started in the old days of room-sized computers, I wouldn't have assumed such a thing.

So if that's the case, then the Event List assignment of channel for each piece of midi data is also NOT RELEVANT?

Thanks!!!

- S.

Hi, Matt. This does work. However, when I bypass the external midi device, it seems that my system is very taxed...quite a few snags and stutters in the sound.

Is this logical?

I still have some kind of glitch on one of my tracks....not sure what that is. An instrument that uses a sustain pedal plays short notes even when the sustain pedal info is there. This only happens when I play the track from the beginning, not when I start the sequence just prior to the entry of the instrument.

I've searched all the data windows for a clue. Any suggestions are welcome.

- S.