IDEA: Midi Channel Switch

[ewanchapman]

Hi.

I've been wondering: Wouldn't it be great if you could use an input (any input set to switch, I guess) on MD to select between two Midi channels? My reason for suggesting this is that this way you could manually select between two instances of Superior Drummer (or any other vsti).

You could, for example, rig up a switch on a snare drum strainer and run two identical instances of SD but with one of them set to "snare wires off". That way you could actually switch the snare wires off and on on-the-fly.

Obviously, there's lots of other use cases for running separate vsti's on separate midi channels and switching between.

What do you guys think? Can it be done already?

[airflamesred]

Change to a different config on MD or VST or DAW
. I do agree though, that a physical switch might ne useful.

[dmitri]

Can SD be configured to respond to MIDI PC messages? If yes, then switch inputs can be configured to send MIDI PC messages and control SD.