#1

With a Max4Live patch is there good way to send midi down multiple channels and then route those midi streams back to Ableton Midi tracks filter by the channel?

It seems that Ableton strips the channel info when I route midi output from the track hosting the max4live patch to another midi track.

As a work around I could send that info to another Max4Live patch in another track, but I was hoping to avoid that if possible.

#2

This is one of the reasons I gave up on M4l many years ago.

As far as I know using sends is the only way. And if your working in the audio realm, this adds latencies to you signal path.

Can always make a max patch external to live and pipe the midi in the traditional way.

I wish max for live could be able to create things outside of the track structure in live. Like multichannel patches that feed into separate channels for mixing and processing

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#3

Just ran into this – this topic informed me, thanks.

I found that Ableton was sending M4L midi CCs to all instruments on the same midi device/port regardless of their midi channel. Modulate a CC on one synth and all synths listen: not very practical.

The workaround for me is to use a midi interface with multiple midi IO devices and use an entire device – with its 16 midi channels – per external instrument.