Max as midi channel changer
I have been looking everywhere for this info and cannot find. My problem is I am trying to use my midi keyboard plugged into my interface as well as another midi keyboard going through my USB midi cable into my DAW (FlStudio)
I have found no way to put these two midi controllers on two separate channels so that I can control two seperate VSTi's at the same time. I am now trying Max/Msp to split up the two signals into two channels and send them to two VSTi's.
Can someone tell me just were to begin? I have absolutely no idea and have found online help to be unhelpful.
Most keyboards (even simple ones) have a way to set the outgoing channel in hardware, see if that works, that should solve it. Aside from that, they should also be on two different ports, so in Max and your other DAW's you should be able to set those. In that case I think the channel won't matter.
The issue might be that in Max, with [notein] or [ctlin], if you don't specify a port, it'll listen on all ports, so if things come in from 2 ports on the same channel, you'll have all of it coming from the same object.
Thank you for the quick response, however my keyboards are really cheap and do not have anyway to change midi channels on them. So although they are coming in on different ports, they share the same channel.. midi channel 1. I cannot seem to separate them to different channels no matter what software I use. This may not be relevant in other DAW's but FL Studio seems to let you only play two different VSTi's if they are set to two different midi channels.
Besides that, if I do end up splitting the midi keyboards into two different channels how do I send them to Fl Studio as 2 different midi streams?
Please tell me if I am approaching this all wrong