Can you map Gadget across multiple MIDI chans?

soundwrecker · Post by **soundwrecker** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 12:17 am

I want to:
1.) Connect my electribe2 to my iPad via MIDI, with audio out of the iPad into the external input on the electribe.
2.) Then map multiple synths in Gadget to multiple MIDI channels from the electribe (like 12 - 16, top right 4 pads).
3.) Send MIDI to Gadget from the e2. The e2 will output midi on channels 12 - 16 in this example.
4.) Gadget then executes the midi on 4 internal synths. Audio is sent out of the iPad and into the e2's audio input, mixing into the other electribe channels. (individual mix done on iPad)

So that's it. I'd end up with an electribe that has 4x Gadget synths at the ready. I think this would be bad-ass.

Has anyone done it?

Bald Eagle · Post by **Bald Eagle** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 12:25 pm

Everything is fixed on midi channel 1. It would be nice to have a channel per track setting.

Steinberger · Post by **Steinberger** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:00 pm

Also Gadget only receives MIDI to the active gadget (yellow button on mixer or the opened gadget). Doesn't matter what channel it will receive on all of them.

soundwrecker · Post by **soundwrecker** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 12:23 am

Bald Eagle wrote:Everything is fixed on midi channel 1. It would be nice to have a channel per track setting.

Oh man, this is unfortunate. I hope they change this in the future. It doesn't seem like a limitation that involves CPU speed or even anything particularly difficult. Paired with an electribe an iPad + Gadget could be a force to be reckoned with.

I guess I'm going to have to go with my MS Surface Pro 2, ableton live and some synths from Native instruments instead.

Munibeast · Post by **Munibeast** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 9:06 am

Bald Eagle wrote:Everything is fixed on midi channel 1. It would be nice to have a channel per track setting.

If it only received on channel 1 at least one could route a controller through something like midiflow or ChordPolypad before Gadget but unfortunately Gadget is receiving on all channels with no way to disable any source. If anyone knows a fix for this I'm all ears!

Gadget really needs some better midi configuration possibilities. It shouldn't be so hard to do.

Hankastral · Post by **Hankastral** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 2:47 pm

I think they are implementing multiple midi channel support in the next update (only a few weeks away) when they launch their new bluetooth nano controllers. check out the official 2.0 update video. Towards the end different channels are muted from the hardware.