How do you guys set up this combo?
Say I have a song of 8 patterns and two parts in OT and 3 melodic patterns in MnM programmed. I’d like to use OT’s arranger to put all pieces together. My initial approach was as following: melodies are programmed in MnM, drums in OT. Everything worked fine until I’ve noticed that I can’t control mutes of monomachine tracks from OT’s mixer and quick mute mode for obvious reasons — OT does not send any notes to MnM. After reading through monomachine midi reference kinda workaround popped up — it is possible to send midi CC to mute particular track. I tried this and it worked, so the only thing i had to do is to p-lock this CC message in OT to mute/unmute tracks where needed. Very clumsy and not very flexible solution. And also MnM could not play the very first note of the pattern if midi CC for unmute this track came at this moment. Then I also realized that program change messages are bound to the part in the OT (in midi note setup window), so it seemed that there is no way to have more than 4 monomachine patterns per octatrack bank.
The other way to do this is to use OT midi sequencer instead. This allows quick mutes and more friendly to arranger, but has some disadvantages also. When no data stored in pattern Monomachine will lose kit assignment to that pattern (am I right?). Need to switch between midi and audio modes in OT when programming. Monomachine sequencer is not used. From the other hand, OT’s sequencer is more advanced…
So the question is: how to set things up if I want to keep MnM sequencer and be able to make mutes from OT, and have arrangement of following structure:
OT MnM
(Part 1)
B1 E8
B2 E8
B3 E9
B4 E9
(Part 2)
B5 E10
B6 E10
B7 E10
B8 E10
Please throw some links if this question was already answered.
Thank you