Playing / Recording Multiple MIDI tracks Simultaneously

well, yes, but technically you're not recording DimPro itself, just the MIDI data.  just set up a separate MIDI track for each MIDI input source and it should work fine.

ok - you may have to use the INPUT ECHO ON.  I know I've done this before and didn't think it was a big deal but maybe I'm forgetting some small detail.

Another quirk: Sonar goofs up when recording the same midi channel from two different midi ports, another reason to set your keyboards to two different channels.

Bill B.

UPdate to my problem:

i went back and set it up as follows:

synth A on track 1 with the midi input selected for keyboard X omni

synth B on track 2 with midi input selected for keyboard Y omni

when i click in the track pane for track 1, and play keyboard X, i can hear synth A, but playing keyboard Y results in no noise
when i click in the track pane for track 2, and play keyboard Y, i can hear synth B. but playing keyboard X results in no noise

next i armed the two tracks for recording, then clicked record. i could only hear the synth that i had last 'clicked' on. i.e. in focus.
both tracks recorded the right midi data from each controlling keyboard respectively, and when i played back the data, i could hear the two synths.

i'm  stumped here, as i would really like to be able to have two musicians in the same room each playing their own midi controlled synth live together and hear the sounds their virtual instruments are producing in real time.

i tried toggling the input echo on the two tracks, but as soon as i clicked on the other track pane, the other synth went quiet again.

could someone else try this and let me know if they got it to work.

i would be really grateful!!!

thanks again in advance

cj

Bear in mind that input echo for MIDI track has three possible settings. You should check out the reference guide pages 214-216.

Child

i will look into the midi merge issue next....
it seems like all the midi trigger input information is coming in to each of the synths properly.

as i said, when i played back the recording, but the synths were making the noises associated with the recorded midi data on the two tracks.

to me, this implies that each track is set up more or less correctly in terms of having the controllers routed properly.

it's seems like this question of 'focus' is the problem. will the 'merger' issue correct this?

i'll keep trying.

Thanks for letting us know, I'm glad you asked and confirmed it as I only just noticed that feature / explanation in the guide the other day (I'm always cussing when I go on my limited jaunts in to midi because of the way they toggle around the three settings and I'm I'm only using one input device!).

Cheers,
Child

Triggering live multiple midi tracks simultaniously = enabling "input echo on" within each midi track. Got it!
 
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