OT as Multitrack MIDI Looper for Nord Drum 3p

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I’m having a hard time understanding if it is possible to record multiple MIDI tracks at the same time on the OT (or if can only record to the active track), so I can live loop drumming from the ND3P pads. I would ideally like to individually control CC messages and muting for each of the 6 ND3P voices. I’ve been able to live record individual tracks one at a time, and figured out recording all 6 voices just from the global ND3P channel to an individual MIDI track on the OT, but I would like the flexibility of recording to individual MIDI tracks on the OT. My failed experiment is below:

  • turn off Local Control on the ND3P
  • set ND3P pads to individual MIDI channels
  • connect ND3P to send MIDI to Octatrack
  • set OT MIDI tracks to corresponding MIDI channels
  • send MIDI back from OT to ND3P to trigger voices
  • send audio from ND3P into OT Input A
  • set audio track 1 to a Thru Machine to listen to Input A and add trig for the sound to come through
  • Live Record on OT to record MIDI

This ends up recording all MIDI onto the actively selected Track on the OT as opposed to Pad 1 recording on MIDI Track 1, Pad 2 to Track 2, etc. I think this answers my question that multitrack MIDI recording isn’t possible but I wanted to see if any of the wizards here can correct me, thanks!

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You can’t set the pads to (output on) individual channels. The 3P always sends all triggers on its only/global channel.
You could you use a midi hub, between the 3P and OT, to convert the 3P pads note triggers to individual midi channels though…

[edited for clarification]

I can recommend the Blokas for that, I did the same to combine 3P and Syntakt.

If the OT can record midi on multiple tracks at once though, I don’t know.

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Welcome.

Unfortunately OT can’t record multiple midi tracks.

It can record on multiple audio tracks, receiving different midi channels.

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Thanks to the both of you for the clarification!

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