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All midi instruments play when only one midi channel selected. Not good.

I have maybe five instruments all set to five different midi channels. I have an external midi controller, of course to trigger the instruments. But when I match the midi channel on the midi controller to the instrument I want to control, all the instruments play at the same time. I know that it's not my midi controllers fault, cause I tested both of them. And this never happened when I was using my digi002 just for protools. This also effects my Rewired program Reason2.5. A sound or drum loop in that program will play at the same as the midi instruments. I can have 5 midi instruments set to channels 1-5, and select channel 16 on my midi controller and it will still play all those instruments at the same time. Maybe I'm not the best Logic, but I read the manual, and still can't figure it out. This is fustrating because what I want to do is use my MPC sequencer to construct my instrumental, then record the midi onto the midi instruments. I know that to here the midi instruments, it has to be record unabled or something like that. Maybe that's wrong. I don't know what I'm doning wrong.

G4 Tower Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Dec 9, 2005 6:57 PM

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Posted on Dec 9, 2005 7:35 PM

Your MIDI controller should stay on the same channel. The channel it's playing is designated by the track that you're on by the channel parameters in the parameter window on the left. If you're using external MIDI gear that's Multi timbral then you need a Multi Instrument some where in your Environment. If you name a Multi Instrument the same as your external MIDI gear it's pretty easy to find from a track in the Arrange window.
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Dec 9, 2005 7:35 PM in response to jdubz101

Your MIDI controller should stay on the same channel. The channel it's playing is designated by the track that you're on by the channel parameters in the parameter window on the left. If you're using external MIDI gear that's Multi timbral then you need a Multi Instrument some where in your Environment. If you name a Multi Instrument the same as your external MIDI gear it's pretty easy to find from a track in the Arrange window.

Dec 9, 2005 9:38 PM in response to A Witt

Your MIDI controller should stay on the same channel.
The channel it's playing is designated by the track
that you're on by the channel parameters in the
parameter window on the left. If you're using
external MIDI gear that's Multi timbral then you
need a Multi Instrument some where in your
Environment. If you name a Multi Instrument the
same as your external MIDI gear it's pretty easy to
find from a track in the Arrange window.


The only place in the environment window where I see physical and sequence input icons in the Click and Ports window. So I put a multi Instrument icon in btween the Physical Input icon and the sequence input(to recording and thru) icon. No matter where the Multi Instrument icon is positioned with reference to all the other icons such as the Inport Nodes icon, agrey box will appear saying, "Cable and Channel ports are set. Do you want to remove the channels port setting?" Then I have the option of selecting "no' or "remove". And I still have the same problem, which is that all the record enabled virtual instruments are playing at the same time when triggered by my external midi controller, no matter what the channels selected are.

All midi instruments play when only one midi channel selected. Not good.

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