How to play but not record an instrument while other tracks are edited?

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I’m doing some sequencing of Renoise instruments using Puredata.

I trigger instruments via OSC or MIDI. This is synchronised via the midi clock.

I’d like to be able to jam on or otherwise edit a track in Renoise whilst this sequencer is running and not record the notes into the pattern.

Is it possible to set a particular instrument or track to not record whilst others do?

Or is this possible via some other method?

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Maybe: If you want a track to ignore midi messages, tell it to listen only on channel 2, and have your pd code send on channel 1 (or 3, 4, etc). The tracks that should record can be assigned whatever channels are in use by pd.

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Thanks, Brit. Sadly doesn’t work though.

I want to play two sequences at once but only record one. The second you press escape all of the input starts to get captured.

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Have you assigned different MIDI channels to each track? And make sure that nothing is sent on the channel to the track you want unchanged?

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I want to play along to an generative and evolving pattern - sent to the channel I don’t want to record on yet.

I guess the best thing to do is record a section of it, put in the drum/whatever pattern and then enable and go back to tweaking the generative patch again afterwards…

I still love to flag these instruments as not to record though!

Thanks for helping me think this through!

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I want to believe this is do-able : ) Maybe I’ll play around to see how it might be done. Give me an excuse to go back to pd.

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have fun man! thanks.

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