Hello All,
I am relatively new to GP and am now trying to increase my usage of it. I am trying to incorporate the midi-player but having an issue. I have a song in Ableton that has 4 separate midi tracks (4 synth/pad and 1 drum). I am trying to export the midi in such a way that all 5 tracks appear under the same ‘song’ in the midi player. I can get separate midi files for each track, but they are loaded in as separate songs:
Or you load 4 MIDI File Players and in each you load the corresponding MIDI clip from Ableton.
With the sync enabled in all MIDI File players the start/stop at the same time when you start/stop the global play button.
Thanks for the quick responses @pianopaul. Admittedly, I am just starting to get my head around ‘routing’. I use a PC with loopMidi and have done some work with it in Ableton so I agree with your opinion. I will mess around a little bit to see if I can’t get the setup correct in Ableton, but I like there is a backup option as well. Again, thanks.
Just a follow-up to this situation -
As @pianopaul described, Ableton was not very helpful in trying to export multiple tracks with different output channels (it appears Ableton will always assign Ch. 1).
Someone else pointed me towards a different post that refers to the free software MidiEditor. This didn’t help ‘directly’, but here is what I was able to do:
a) I did find a website that can combine all the midi files into 1, but I still have the output channel issue.
b) I took the ‘combined’ file, loaded it to MidiEditor and I can select all the events for a given track and change the Output-channel for each track.
c) After changing the (5) tracks to point to their own channel, I loaded the file to the GP midi-player, and it appears to come up the way I would expect. I still needed to adjust routing a little bit with different VSTs and the Midi-Constrainer was another helpful find.
So, I think I am on my way, albeit, using the scenic route.
@rank13 - I think what was tripping me up was a limitation in the plug-in I was using. So, yes, I can just use the routing (and the constrainer) out of the MFP. Thank you.