S. Christian Collins Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 My feature request is to be able to choose a default MIDI input device that will be applied to all newly created instrument tracks. Perhaps this option could be added to Preferences -> MIDI -> Devices as an additional column in the MIDI input list. This feature is present in Mixcraft and Studio One, and it makes life a lot easier with my complex MIDI setup. When creating an instrument track, Cakewalk defaults to "Omni" and pulls MIDI data from all enabled MIDI input devices. This can be a problem in some advanced setups where you don't want MIDI recorded from a certain device most of the time, but you need it to be available for certain tracks in the project. In my case, I route various velocity and MIDI CC transformations to different virtual MIDI cables/channels for use with specific plugin configurations. Having to manually change the MIDI input device for every single instrument track I create seems unnecessarily cumbersome. For reference, here is Mixcraft's MIDI device preferences: By default, Mixcraft's default MIDI input device is set to "All MIDI Devices", but you can see here I have set it to "Midi Through Port-0". Note: this screenshot was taken in Wine, which is why it looks like Windows 2000, haha. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daryl1968 Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Bumping this. Same problem here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoseC Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 On 13 de noviembre de 2020 at 6:08 PM, S. Christian Collins said: My feature request is to be able to choose a default MIDI input device that will be applied to all newly created instrument tracks. Perhaps this option could be added to Preferences -> MIDI -> Devices as an additional column in the MIDI input list. This feature is present in Mixcraft and Studio One, and it makes life a lot easier with my complex MIDI setup. When creating an instrument track, Cakewalk defaults to "Omni" and pulls MIDI data from all enabled MIDI input devices. This can be a problem in some advanced setups where you don't want MIDI recorded from a certain device most of the time, but you need it to be available for certain tracks in the project. In my case, I route various velocity and MIDI CC transformations to different virtual MIDI cables/channels for use with specific plugin configurations. Having to manually change the MIDI input device for every single instrument track I create seems unnecessarily cumbersome. For reference, here is Mixcraft's MIDI device preferences: By default, Mixcraft's default MIDI input device is set to "All MIDI Devices", but you can see here I have set it to "Midi Through Port-0". Note: this screenshot was taken in Wine, which is why it looks like Windows 2000, haha. I can not check now, but I think that this might be saved with a track template. I tend to insert instruments with track templates, so they come with their color, icons and even favourite presets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Kells Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Agree completely with Christian's suggestion! Much needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Morgon-Shaw Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Good call Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenLight Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Agreed. In connection to this, my suggested feature "A MIDI input chord analyzer module in the Control Bar" could be tied to this default device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland-Music Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Yes +1 As I don't have this now, I use a workaround in my case: save this Track i.e. with Mixcraft's default MIDI input device as Track Template and insert the new instrument from Track Template. Works ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daryl1968 Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 bumping this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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