How do I change the MIDI channel of a note?

[perrinstanden]

I have multiple VST plugins, many of which don’t have keyswitch, and require me to open up multiple instances of instruments within the plugin, and assign different articulations and such to different midi channels. How can I enter a note that doesn’t go to MIDI channel 1? I’d hate to have to create new instruments for every single articulation…

[ASM]

In the Key Editor you can select the note event(s) and set the MIDI channel in the Info Line.

In the Inspector set MIDI Out channel to Any to ensure the channel information stored in the events is sent to the Instrument. Otherwise it will be overruled by the Inspector channel setting.

[raino]

Another approach is to use an Expression Map to change the Channel on-the-fly based on the currently active Articulation. Then you can just leave the Notes alone and let the Articulation Lanes control what goes where.

EDIT

Here’s an example of changing the Channel via an Expression Map - although for a slightly different purpose.

I want to use expression maps with midi channels. Can I have more than 16 articulations?

If the library lets you select Articulations via Keyswitchs then typically you can use a single instance of the Instrument to play X different Articulations. If you add a 2nd instance and put it on MIDI Channel 2 you get another X. Another instance on Channel 3 gives you 3X. Here is how I set up something similar for Session Horns Pro which has 9 Articulation ‘Slots’ but a total of 16 Articulations. So the first 9 Articulations are on Channel 1 while Articulations 10-16 are on Channel 2. [im…