thisismarshall Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 I'm teaching myself this home recording malarkey, and just about getting the hang of it...until this. I was recently given an AKAI MPD218 midi controller. It's fantastic and great for tapping out drum patterns. However, I'd love to get a midi controller keyboard to work alongside it. So my question is this... Is it possible to use the two controllers in tandem? Then I could use one for making drum patterns and the other for keyboard parts. My DAW is Cubase LE AI Elements 9.5, running on mac. Help appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 2 minutes ago, thisismarshall said: ...Help appreciated! I use a different DAW (Reaper, with a PC...), but I think it must be common to have, for each track recorded, a choice of which MIDI device to use. For a drum track, select the Akai; for a melody track select the MIDI keyboard. The software will sort out which device to 'listen' to when recording. Hope this helps Subject to correction, completion and/or contradiction from others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songofthewind Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 I think it will work if you set each midi device to send and receive on different channels. Long time since I used Reaper, but there should be a drop down list of midi channels in each track panel. Harder to explain than to do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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