Instrument definitions -- CC across channels?

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I was going to make an instrument definition for my Model:Cycles, which has 6 tracks, but each track receives CCs on a separate channel and as far as I can tell, Hapax instrument definitions do not allow you to specify a channel for a CC.

If you want to use the Cycles like 6 separate monosynths in “POLY” mode on Hapax, it’s fine, but if you wanted to use it like a drum machine, it’s gonna be tough. Since DRUM mode has the facility for triggering notes on different channels, it would be really cool if this functionality was expanded to allow for addressing CCs on different channels as well…

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Same problem with the Nord Drum 2. I believe I submitted a feature request a while back.

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I think it would come in very handy to be able to set a midi channel for every assigned knob. Would lessen the need for external midi controllers.

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This would be a really good feature indeed. Would add a whole new dimension to instrument definition customisation.

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Bumping this one up.
The roland SP 404 MkII has 5 FX buses - you can sequence and therefore automate for each seperate effect, but they’re on channels 1-5. (CC parameters available per effect are things like: effect on off, effect selection (eg delay, reverb, phase, distortion, beatrepeat, etc), 5-6 parameters per effect.

You can get some super cool effects happening here, especially combining more than one effect bus on top of each other or doing parallel processing.

The problem is I’d need to give up 5 channels currently, even though there are only ~8 CCs per effect.

Definitions would just need a channel parameter per CC, that could be defaulted to the track channel, if undefined.

This would also help for the weird note programming wiith SP-404MkII, which is spread across channels for different sample banks.

I can imagine other cases where this would be useful, as mentioned above - things like drum machines that require different channels per instrument where CCs are also per-channel.

Currently the way I’m thinking of getting around this is by using a single definition with more CCs used up, then using a device like my blok.as midihub to then re-channelise and re-map the CCs. This is a real pain though given the power Hapax has.

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+1 Running into this with my Syntakt. I only need to address a few CCs for the instrument but they are spread across 8 midi channels…

Any chance this is on the roadmap? @Thibault_Squarp

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Yes, it’s even something I want for myself too, but we unfortunately have other things to prioritize at the moment. Eventually :sweat_smile:

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so you can set 2 tracks to the same output channel. i know this is not the solution you want but it will work until the fix you want is in

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wanted to add that this would be a very handy feature for me as well, since I have an MBase 11 on one drum track and TR-8S for all else, but I want to automate parts of the MBase 11 independent of the TR-8S which isn’t possible right now.

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I’ve got one of these unassembled: https://www.tindie.com/products/Robertron2084/pico-midi/

I’ve been meaning to try using this to solve the channel problem with the Analog Rytm.

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there is also an effect that can send a copy to another channel or/and output. there are 7 slots. theres some possibilities in the matrix screen too. it may be enough for what you want

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