Happy to say I recently acquired Ableton Live! I wanted to have all sensors available in the SP plugin within my daw, so I got a good deal on the Standard version and am currently learning the ropes.
From my understanding so far, Ableton only allows a single channel of MIDI to be sent out of plugins, is that correct? So I’m wondering what workarounds might exist if I want to trigger two or three different virtual instruments at once. The only thing I can think of is mapping only a specific note range to each plugin, avoiding overlap, but I’m curious if there are any others.
Since I’m pretty new to Live itself, I’d also appreciate any tips or resources anyone has for using SP within it!
If you are sending the same notes and CCs to two or more different instruments, then you can just select Sensory Percussion 2 Plugin and Sensory Percussion 2 as the input and sub-input on two or more different MIDI channels hosting virtual instruments:
But, if you need to send different CCs and notes to different instruments, then you need to employ a workaround. Luckily I just tested the following workaround, and it seems to work well.
Create multiple virtual MIDI buses on your computer (IAC on Mac, various 3rd party options on Windows).
Enable the buses as Input Ports in the Ableton settings page:
Be sure to select different input numbers for the input badges, which will correspond to MIDI routers and MIDI notes generators producing MIDI on the edit pages of your sets.
Select the virtual buses as the inputs to virtual instruments in your ableton session:
