Hi all - thanks for adding me to the group
Recently got hold of a Command Station, hoping to use it as the main sequencer in a live hardware based rig. So far its been really good, and a huge step up from the Electribe I was using before, but having some major issue integrating with the rest of my gear - basically it doesn't seem to be behaving logically at all, so I can only guess I'm missing a setting somewhere. Hoping someone can help out, or at least tell me to give up, as I've been trying to solve
this for days now...
Basically, all I want to do is turn "Rechanellize Input" off, but despite the setting, it seems to behave as if its set to "on record": To try phrase it briefly, if I have data coming into the midi-in of the CS on multiple channels, is there any way not to record all this data into the currently selected track? Logically, it should just direct the data to the appropriatete tracks based on the channel settings, but I'm beginning to feel that I'll have to settle for only the channel that the currently
selected track is set to?
In more detail:
We have 2 sequencers (one of which is the CS) running into a patchbay to control some shared
sound modules, and some of these shared modules are running internal
sequencers too. As a small section of the problem, I have a drum
machine acting as the master clock, as well as doing some percussion on
its internal sequencer (its on e.g channel 15). While its playing I
would like to record a bassline into my CS. So I set the CS to track 12
which is set to channel 12 (ext) and play my bassline off a sampler
receiving on channel 12. All good so far - I can play the bassline
either from the pads, or from my external keyboard set to channel 12
(remember this is all going through a patchbay).
As soon as I hit
record though, the percussion data (channel 15) ends up being recorded
into Track 12 AS CHANNEL 12 data and in fact I can't even play the
bassline anymore, because is keeps getting the "note-offs" from the drum
machine too... This is what I imagine re-channelizing should do... the
problem is that there doesn't seem to be a difference now between
having re-channelize set to "off" or "on record". I want it OFF - ie
only to accept channel 12 data on track 12, and discard the other stuff.
I'd be fine too if it would even record multiple channels, but I want
the channel 15 messages ending up in track 15, because thats assigned to
channel 15, but it sounds like only one track at a time is possible.
If I try it with track 12 set to MultiA, which preserves the channel info, as track 12 is external, the drum machine
starts to double trigger - I can't stop to explode the data either (with track 15 directed somewhere harmless), as
I'm intending to be doing this all live, not having everything
pre-recorded beforehand, and would like to tweak the pre-recorded stuff too, but basically can't do anything at the moment as hitting the record button just wants to record everything incoming to whatever track I've selected, regardless of its assigned channel or the rechannelize setting...
Sorry for the long first post, but any help would really be appreciated.