Hi folks,
I would like to know if Elektron Gear can handle this kind of split stuff.
I have been able to manage it on my Nord Lead 4 which gets its notes from Ableton Live via USB and its transport from Multiclock via MIDI which is very nice the moment you work with arps for example.
For the time being, using ‘usb + midi’ for MIDI IN and unlike the Nord, my Elektron gear receives transport from both sources. I tried to somehow prevent Live from sending transport but I couldn’t manage to do it.
Is there by chance anyone out there who managed such stunt?
Thank you in advance.
K
Hi, I think that transport is considered a midi realtime message (as opposed to a cc message).
I’m not very competent with Ableton so I can’t confirm this (maybe someone else can) but google seems to think that you should be able to filter the outbound midi messages coming from Live:
To filter out MIDI realtime messages coming from Ableton Live, navigate to the Ableton Live Preferences, go to the “Link/MIDI” tab, and then select the specific MIDI input port you want to filter; within the port settings, you can choose which MIDI messages to receive by enabling or disabling specific MIDI control types like “Note”, “Controller”, or “Program Change” depending on what you want to block out.
So, this is talking specifically about inbound midi but I suspect it’s the same for outbound as well, I just don’t know.
While there may be a better or more fundamentally appropriate way to do this, perhaps you can at least try this method in the meantime and see if it gives you the correct option to disable the transport commands coming from Live.
Aside from that, Elektron devices aren’t equipped with any midi filtering utilities, however third party software or some kind of external device like blokas midihub or plexus midi router have some user configurable filtering capabilities.
Since you’re already working in the DAW I’d probably look at freeware options first.
Hi shigginpit, thank you for your reply.
I was not aware that Live exposed such granularity and I’ll definitely look into it.
I thought about Blokas Midihub which I own (and like a lot) but when it comes to Multiclock I always favour direct communication because I suspect that any middleman would interfere.
Thanks again for your insight.
No problem. I can’t speak to any latency in multiclock (or Ableton) by using midihub as an intermediary and my knowledge of multiclock operations is remedial at best, so I would personally aim for the settings in Ableton as a first attempt, but that’s not to say there isn’t an alternative using what you already have on hand. Perhaps someone else will have additional insights on this.
Just wanted to give you some basic information in case it would help. Good luck, hope this works out for you.