TLDR: Let’s have an option to create named groups of MIDI ports.
I asked for this many years ago. I’ll try again…
Wouldn’t it be a useful feature to be able to create ‘groups’ of MIDI ports? The ‘In All MIDI’ feature is fine, but it’s an ‘all or nothing’ option - effectively one ‘group’.
No, I don’t want my Roli Seaboards to be included in ‘All MIDI’, but I would like to be able to use them for my MPE-capable instruments. As it is I have to exclude them from ‘All MIDI’ and allocate them individually on separate tracks. If I could allocate them to an ‘MPE Controllers’ MIDI port group, and select this group as the track input, then it would solve this.
Or how about grouping velocity-sensitive and non-velocity keyboards? Or channel aftertouch/poly aftertouch, keyboards/bass pedals, left-hand side of the studio/right-hand side, full-sized keys/mini-keys…
Also, how about being able to group MIDI output ports too? Maybe I could create a ‘String Machines’ group and play them all simultaneously via a single track, from a single keyboard.
To me this seems a worthwhile development and improvement of the inflexible ‘In All MIDI’ feature, which is essentially a single MIDI port ‘group’.
Anyone else feel the same, or can anyone shoot the idea down with something I’ve not considered?