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  • Getting more than 16 channels in V-Stack?

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    If I should need it at one point; What are the workarounds?
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    Just to clarify: that's 16 virtual ports, each supporting 16 MIDI channels. So, in the case of,say, K2, that would give you 256 MIDI channels.
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    @Christian Marcussen said:

    If I should need it at one point; What are the workarounds?

    Use Chainer as well.

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    @strawinsky said:

    Just to clarify: that's 16 virtual ports, each supporting 16 MIDI channels. So, in the case of,say K2, that would give you 256 MIDI channels.

    But as VI is not multitimbral this only equates to 16 MIDI channels.

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    Assuming that's what he's referring to, then that ain't a lot of channels. Hmm...
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    @strawinsky said:

    Assuming that's what he's referring to, then that ain't a lot of channels. Hmm...

    Well this it the Vienna Instruments section of the forum..... [:D]

    DG
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    Quite.
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    @strawinsky said:

    Assuming that's what he's referring to, then that ain't a lot of channels. Hmm...


    Right... [;)]

    Chainer eh? Along side with V-Stack, or loaded into V-Stack?
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    @strawinsky said:

    Assuming that's what he's referring to, then that ain't a lot of channels. Hmm...


    Right... [;)]

    Chainer eh? Along side with V-Stack, or loaded into V-Stack?I would imagine that there might be problems running them side by side, but in any case you can load it into a channel of V-Stack. How it addresses that MIDI I couldn't say, having never tried it.

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    I'm confused why you want want more than one MIDI channel, since the whole point of the player is that you can do it all on one track and channel. You use controllers and keyswitches to change presets, right?

    If you want to send data from more than one track in your sequencer, you can just assign them to the same channel.

    What does Chainer get you?
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    @Nick Batzdorf said:

    I'm confused why you want want more than one MIDI channel, since the whole point of the player is that you can do it all on one track and channel. You use controllers and keyswitches to change presets, right?

    If you want to send data from more than one track in your sequencer, you can just assign them to the same channel.

    What does Chainer get you?
    More MIDI channels than 16?

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    @Nick Batzdorf said:

    I'm confused why you want want more than one MIDI channel, since the whole point of the player is that you can do it all on one track and channel.


    One of my PC's will have Percussion and Harps on it. This will exceed 16 channels I think
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    Each instrument in V-Stack can access 16 MIDI channels. If you need more, open up another instrument and send it MIDI on another port. I'm using MIDI Over LAN, and every slot has access to every virtual port, so there are far more MIDI channels than anyone would ever need.

    Why do you need Chainer to get more MIDI channels?
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    Good point Nick. I am on MOL - this would work perfect!


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    @Nick Batzdorf said:

    Each instrument in V-Stack can access 16 MIDI channels. If you need more, open up another instrument and send it MIDI on another port. I'm using MIDI Over LAN, and every slot has access to every virtual port, so there are far more MIDI channels than anyone would ever need.

    I don't understand. If you load a Vienna VI into 1 channel of V-Stack how do you get more than one MIDI channel on that port?

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    Hi Daryl,

    With MOL (midi over lan), you get 8 'ports' for each PC. You have a cooresponding port on the main Daw. Each 'port' then has 16 midi channels available 8 x 16 = total 96 seperate midi channels / parts on each slave (via MOL).


    Hope that explains OK.


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    @Rob Elliott said:

    Hi Daryl,

    With MOL (midi over lan), you get 8 'ports' for each PC. You have a cooresponding port on the main Daw. Each 'port' then has 16 midi channels available 8 x 16 = total 96 seperate midi channels / parts on each slave (via MOL).


    Hope that explains OK.


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    Sorry, that doesn't explain OK. As far as I can see it is irrelevant how many million MIDI channels MOL or any other MIDI interface, virtual or not, gives you. If you have one Vienna VI in one port of V-Stack how can you use more than one channel on that port when VI is not multitimbral? Whatever the MIDI channel number on that port it will still go to one instance of VI.

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    The answer is in your question, DG: the player is not multitimbral, so it only receives on one MIDI channel. Anything you send on other channels is ignored.

    If you're using a multitimbral instrument in V-Stack, such as Kontakt set that slot to receive All Channels. Then you tune the individual slots inside Kontakt to the channels you want.

    You can't use all of Kontakt's 64 channels, if that's what you mean. I believe it has to be run stand-alone for that.
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    Note that there are two settings in V-Stack slots: the MIDI port and the MIDI channel. Each V-Stack slot has access to a maximum of 16 channels, in other words.
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    Actually, that's not even true - a V-Stack slot can access All MIDI Inputs, so it can play back as many channels as you send it.

    I take it back.