Disable MIdi channel from Song Part?

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Totally new to all this and in the final stages of evaluating GP …

I can successfully change tones on channels 1-4 (which is the stepping stone to emulate how I have been using the keyboard (Roland RD-700GX) previously.)

Then next thing I need to be able to do is either

  • Set the selected tone for the selected midi channel to be blank (can’t find any reference in the MIDI Implementation Guide to indicate if this is even possible?); or
  • stop sending any midi (note messages) on the selected channel.

Any suggestions, ideas or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Help me, what is a tone?

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Tones are sounds.

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Who is sending this note messages?

Can you post a drawing of your setup?

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What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to patch change plugins across four different midi channels to access your sounds?

I only ask because if you are trying to make GP work like a hardware keyboard (using MIDI channels to access different patches, etc) you might be approaching it all wrong in the GP paradigm.

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Yes, we definitely need clarity on what you are working on.

Are you looking to change the “tones” on your hardware keyboard from GP?

Are you using plugins within GP at all? (Kontakt, V collection, etc.). If so, how?

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Sorry for the poor description. New to the whole MIDI thing and GP too …

I don’t have any VSTs so wanting to use my stage piano/keyboard (like I have done in the past) but instead of making sound/instrument/tone selections on the instrument I am trying to get GP to do this by using midi messages from song parts. The idea is to also use GP to play backing tracks but that will be the “easy part” …

At this stage all I have is my laptop with GP linked to the Piano/Keyboard using MIDI cables and the sound comes out of the Piano/Keyboard.

I often need to layer sounds and I have managed to get the setup to work so that midi channels 1-4 can be used to change the sound/instrument/tone on each of the four channels I want to use on the Piano/Keyboard … but for one part of the song I might only want the Piano sound (on midi channel 1) and none of the other parts (CH2-4) to play anything.

In the next part of the song I might want to have no piano (turn off channel 1) but use other sounds/instruments/tones on midi channels 2 and 3 … and then maybe go back to Piano on CH1 (so CH2 & 3 turned off) and then I might want to use CH 4 for a solo part for some other bit of the song …

I can assign the sounds/instruments/tones to the 4 channels but I need to be able to silence them (EITHER stop sending midi messages on some channels some of the time OR remove the instrument from the channel).

I can set the instrument on channel 1 like this:

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How do I “turn off” channel 1 temporarily? (i.e. stop sending midi on CH1 or set CH1 to have no sound/instrument/tone assigned.

Part of the challenge I have is that I don’t know enough about what I’m trying to do to even use the correct terminology …

I get it if it’s all too confusing but sincerely appreciate the fact that there have been some responses.

Thanks all!

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  1. turn local off on your keyboard
  2. Use MIDI in blocks connected to MIDI Out blocks to send midi messages to your external hardware to actually play them
  3. Use different rackspaces for each sound and just arrange for the Midi Out blocks to set the progr a number
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I think I have realised that “stop sending midi on CH1” is not a solution because this is internal on the Piano/Keyboard …

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DOH! Thanks DHJ - this is something I think I tried first but I could only set one sound/instrument/tone and I may need 2 or 3 for each rackspace.

I was trying to use variations so maybe that’s where I went wrong?

What I have now managed to do I think will help me to get it all working … I think I am just more accustomed to simply working in the physical realm with instruments, cables and the like …

Thanks for taking the time to read and respond.

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[I’m wrong. Deleted]

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Multiple MIDI Out blocks, one for each channel.

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Great, thanks - this is exactly what I was looking for.