Working with different MIDI Ch. per note

I find it much more flexible to keep different midi tracks for different midi channels.

Now, with drums, I have a single midi track set to channel 10, and (I use Battery 3) I have all of the audio output channel routing managed from within Battery 3, so that each cell goes to a different audio output channel.

This gives me complete control over each drum/cymbal/etc.

Could you please elaborate on why you have all of these different channels contained within the same midi track?  It just is not making too much sense to me at the moment (not your fault there), and if I could understand your reasoning better, perhaps I could better engage in discussion on this topic.

I am particularly confused about the "changing channels per note" comment you make above, and on the 'neat and organized' part, too.

Thanks, 

Bob Bone

With EWQLSO, you don't need to set up different for different articulations for the same instrument. If your 18 violins patch is on Midi Channel 1 then all of the aetics for that instrument will also be on Midi Channel 1, unless you explicitly change it in the Play Engine.

I have created separate drum maps - 1 for each instrument - in order to control which articulations are being played, and you can view both the Map and the normal Notes pane simultaneously with the PRV, one above the other.

The only time different Midi channels comes into play is when dealing with a different instrument

No, don't get your hopes up with that one Bob - I only access 1 Midi channel at a time when using a Drum Map - but I have many hidden from view only accessible via a screenset.

For instance, all of my Orchestral work is done in one huge, monstro template of - at last count - 136 tracks.

I have a different screenset for Strings, Brass, Woods & Percussion. Then, each screenset in the PRV contains the 2 Midi tracks for each instrument - the one for notes and the drum map for the artics. The 3rd track, Audio, is only visible in track & console view

I can see that using DXF's and doing complex layering is going to take a more complicated setup. The KS patches contain just barely enough to get by as it is with my 136 tracks (percussion of course doesn't have KS patches, the different percussion instruments are each allocated a single Midi channel.)

I'm currently missing out on loads of artics just to keep this thing manageable.

A possible workaround would be to have separate projects for different orchestra sections
Another one is to simply expand my current template to incorporate the X mod stuff. The only reason I stopped building this when I did was that I was unsure exactly how this was going to affect system resources, but even fully loaded as it is, I use about 15% of my 32Gb of RAM