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How to record multiple midi channel data to multiple midi tracks in Logic?

Dear All,

I have an electric organ from Yamaha, and it has 3 keyboards, upper keyboard, lower keyboard, and pedal keyboard. They are all running in different midi channels:
i.e. upper keyboard: midi channel 1
lower keyboard: midi channel 2
pedal keyboard: midi channel 3

When I try to create 3 midi tracks in Logic to listen to the 3 keyboards, I found that their midi signal just mixed together. Meaning, all 3 midi tracks can listen to all 3 keyboards...

Please noted that I am using a single USB Midi interface (1-in, 1-out) to connect the electric organ with macbook.

Can someone give me a help here? I suppose I can setup 3 midi tracks in logic to listen to 3 keyboards signal separately.

Thanks,

Eric

macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Aug 14, 2008 3:34 AM

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Aug 14, 2008 8:32 AM in response to joesample

I had a similar situation when I first got LS and received this useful reply from Apple-

in Settings>Recording, check the box for "Auto demix by channel if multitrack recording".
Be aware that the Settings are song specific, compared to Preferences, which apply
to all songs. Set your controllers to send on specific MIDI channels and set the same channels in the inspector of your tracks.

I have a 2x2 midisport however, so I don't know if you will have an issue because you have only 1 I/O.
If so, you might have to learn about 'Multi instruments", I haven't had the need.

Aug 14, 2008 10:59 PM in response to Ahrenshof

Ahrenshof wrote:
I had a similar situation when I first got LS and received this useful reply from Apple-

in Settings>Recording, check the box for "Auto demix by channel if multitrack recording".
Be aware that the Settings are song specific, compared to Preferences, which apply
to all songs. Set your controllers to send on specific MIDI channels and set the same channels in the inspector of your tracks.

I have a 2x2 midisport however, so I don't know if you will have an issue because you have only 1 I/O.
If so, you might have to learn about 'Multi instruments", I haven't had the need.


Yes, this is correct. We have two recording stations with ESI M4U 4x4 midi interfaces. We are recording 4 instruments at the same time and they all send their data on a different channel. I created midi instruments for all of them in Environment just to have them more easily available in the Arrange window. Also make sure you have the correct midi channel set per track in Logic.

When the option to "auto demix by channel" is set and you are recording, it may seem that Logic is recording only on one channel (only one region being created). But as soon as you hit stop, it will expand to multiple channels.

How to record multiple midi channel data to multiple midi tracks in Logic?

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