MIDI Out from Palette to DAW

Hi,

Thanks for your reply Andre!

So, to confirm, this part is as it should be?

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When I switch between this:

and this:

in the Audio/MIDI Setup -> Global Instruments tab, I do not hear/see a change in output simply by doing that.

If make the change and then use the headphones icon, then I hear/see the result of the change.

Should it be happening immediately?    

If not, is there a proper way to make the change "live"?
 

Are other things besides playing chords on the palette affected by changing the destination setting for the Chords GI?

I'm trying to get to a really simple one-touch way to change palette chord output from internal to external, and I would also like to be able to have "Both At Once".   And, I would like to do this without casting side-effects all through the program!

I know what I'm aiming to accomplish, but I don't know   a) if it is currently possible, or  b) how best to phrase a specific enhancement suggestion if not.

Very offhand, since my understanding here needs to increase, it seems like a place to define and toggle on/off a secondary palette chord destination might be a good way to "untangle" things.

Very interesting suggestion, juergen.   Thank you!

I've made some headway with it, getting the dual output I want when I click a chord in the palette.

However, when I do so, the play arrow highlights and the chord keeps repeating.  

I just want the chord to play once-per-touch, either sustaining when triggered with a quick mouse click, or being held during a downclick-hold-release cycle of the mouse button (the "normal" palette behavior, if I may put it that way).

I expect this constant repeat can be defeated, I just don't know how to do it!  (yet)

This constant playing is total mess.   It seems to have something to do with Sketches, or my Sketch, but I'm not sure.

Questions:

1.  What causes the main playback arrow to fire when I click on a Palette item?  (I do not want this.)

2. What causes the repeated clang - clang -clang ... form of output?    (I don't get this when I manually click directly on the playback arrow myself.)

    

    

Hi.   I appreciate all the comments so far, though the solution is still elusive!

FWIW, I am not looping back, thanks.

I have made a short video to demonstrate my configuration and the outcome experienced.

I believe this will clarify the situation, the need, and the questions.

https://www.screencast.com/t/Wpe4eMlT

If Cognitone staff (or anyone else interested) could kindly watch this and respond to it directly in whatever detail necessary to clarify what is/isn't possible and how to achieve it, I would much appreciate it.

Thanks again!

Andre,

Yes, the external outs in/of themselves work here, as the video showed.  I'm glad you confirm they work for you also.  It sure would be strange if they did not!

The point is that setting up those external outs (in the way shown) results in losing the ability to hear the palette in Synfire itself.  

Please for the moment disregard whatever might or might not be going on in the rest of the studio ...

The goal is to be able to send the palette MIDI out, -and- to still be able to hear it (in Synfire).

Is there some combination of Matrix Instruments, Sketches, Global Racks, Global Instruments, etc. (?) that will allow this?   Or not?    I'm asking for information/answer from someone with deep knowledge ;^), since I do not myself have that.

Conceptually, this is what I am asking for:

Is there a way to mimic that using existing capabilities?

If not, could exactly that be accepted as a literal TBD enhancement to the product?

P.S.  Though I begin from only being concerned with palette output, the more I think about it, the more the idea of multiple outs makes sense to me for all 6 of the global instruments.   However, if the quickest, best answer from the development viewpoint would be to place a single alternate out destination setting on the Palette page, that would still be a great enhancement.