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Several MIDI Tracks Playing the Same Instrument
Consider a MIDI track containing a virtual instrument a Simpler playing a pad sound, for
example. We have already recorded MIDI clips into this track when we realize that we would
like to add an independent, parallel take for the same instrument. So we add another MIDI
track. We could now drag another Simpler into the new track, but we would really like to
reuse the Simpler from the pad track, so that changing the pad's sound affects the notes
from both tracks.
Feeding an Additional
MIDI Track Into an
Existing MIDI Track to
Reuse its Instrument.
This is accomplished by setting the new MIDI track's Output Type chooser to Pad. Note
that the Output Channel chooser now offers a selection of destinations: We can either feed
the new track's output into the input of the pad track, or we can directly address the Simpler.
The Track In option in the Output Channel represents the pad track's input signal (the
signal to be recorded), which is not what we want. We instead select Simpler Ch. 1 to
send the new track's MIDI directly to the Simpler, bypassing the recording and monitoring
stage. With this setup, we can choose to record new takes on either track and they will all
play the same pad sound.
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