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Sequencer channel mutes via pads

Sequencer channel mutes via pads

19 Oct 2006, 16:52
Looked in the faq and also ironically found myself answering somebody else's question about midi vs audio muting (using F3 in mixer mode), so here goes:

Is there a way to use the 16 channels to mute and unmute MIDI sequencer channels (like the alesis MMT-8) so that one can bring in and out MIDI sequence data without having to mute the audio from a particular channel? I want to be able to drop in occassional hits from a patch (multisample) that has midi data associated with it, but want to be able to stop the midi data when dropping in those hits. Using the audio mute is not exactly what I want because it is always actually generating the sound (like an analog mixer mute button) so when you unmute it, you still hear whatever would have been going on. I want to be able to control the PLAY/MUTE status with pads.

Thanks,
UMS

Re: Sequencer channel mutes via pads

19 Oct 2006, 22:38
you can mute parts using the mixer in performance mode. You can't mute midi channels. Muting a part just seems to lower its volume to 0. The pads only mute internal parts. No luck if you want to mute midi data going to external gear.

Hope this clears it up.

Pad mute is on page 105 of the pdf manual i have here.

Re: Sequencer channel mutes via pads

20 Oct 2006, 07:37
Well, this is something Roland killed with the XP-80 and didn't import into Fantoms.

XP-80 gave more control over MIDI Transmit and Receive options. You could turn off MIDI transmit in MIDI filter.

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Remember that there are only 3 MFX + 1 Reverb + 1 Chorus in Fantom-S/X and you have to share them across 16 parts (patches) in a song.

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Re: Sequencer channel mutes via pads

23 Oct 2006, 22:26
That seems like a very complicated solution. I guess the answer is "no" unfortunately.What I need is for restarted (unmuted) sequences to come in synced to the beat, so I guess the only way to do it would be to make RPS assignments to pads and trigger them that way. That's more complex than need be too! Ah well. THanks.

Re: Sequencer channel mutes via pads

24 Oct 2006, 14:14
You COULD do this with some planning.

Let's say you use Channel 15 for such tracks that you want to mute. You could change the Channel of those tracks to Channel 16 when you want to turn off the MIDI on that track, and have channel 16 play a muted patch (all elements turned off)

Just a thought

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Remember that there are only 3 MFX + 1 Reverb + 1 Chorus in Fantom-S/X and you have to share them across 16 parts (patches) in a song.

live a musical life
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Fantom-G6, Motif XS6, Korg M3-m, Korg Z1, Roland MC808 and MC909.

live a musical life

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