AFAIK, this should result in MIDI notes on Channel 1 to activate Instrument 1 only, and notes on Channel 2 to activate Instrument 2 only. However, that’s not the case and I can’t understand why.
What actually happens is that any note on any channel activate whatever instrument is selected in the Instrument Tab. This also means that if I select another Instrument as the notes are coming in, the newly selected instrument will start playing and the old one will stop.
I doubled checked that the routing is correct using both “Show Routing Overview” and the plugin “MIDI Management Console”.
In the screenshot attached, as a test, I’m generating notes on MIDI Channel 4 to see if Instrument 1 gets activated. And indeed that’s what happens. Despite Instrument 1 being assigned to MIDI Input Channel 1, it still gets activated by notes on Channel 4, as you can see from the scope at the top.
any hint?
many thanks in advance, and excuse if I’m missing something obvious.
I’ve researched online and in the forum to no avail.
Good lord I’m dealing with this too. It’s drivin me crazy! It’s like midi inputs just go where they want. I noticed the cursor position is important in writing the notes in the right track column, but why??? If I select the kick for example, it should just record kick notes in the kick track column. I group the drum kit together, and the basses together, and the leads etc on their own tracks so but swapping from instrument to instrument records on the same column. I managed to stop this behavior earlier by switching to channel B but it stopped working again so that’s why I’m here too. Love the concept of a tracker. I can already tell I’m going to produce my best work yet with Renoise. Just gotta work out these frekin bugs. Let me know if you figure out the problem as I’ll do the same.
I have tried this with a MIDI controller keyboard and it works correctly under Windows 10. It is only necessary to make sure that each instrument is correctly routed:
Selection of the input device
MIDI channel selection.
Selection of the destination track.
These three steps for each instrument (you can also assign a range of notes).
Note: The version of Windows 10 is not the same as for Linux. It is possible that there are problems in one version and in the other they do not exist and vice versa.
Do you both have the midi device set as your master keyboard in Midi Preferences, as well as routed to specific tracks? Master keyboard will play where your cursor is at.
