MIDI recording "All Inputs"

[Colin Nicholls]

I've been using Cakewalk/ProAudio/Sonar since 1996 and I've never realized that I could select "All Inputs" and record simultaneously from multiple controllers.

This is great! I feel such an idiot for not realizing it.

I know, I know.... it's not like it's labelled "secret mysterious mode" or anything, it's literally called "all inputs".

Do what you will with this information.

(Context: It all started with a fairly recent acquisition of a Expressive-E Touche SE and a Ghost Note Audio slider controller. Yes I've been using different MIDI tracks to capture the data. No more!)

Edited February 23 by Colin Nicholls

[57Gregy]

I think it's a recent addition.

[msmcleod]

Actually, "All Inputs" has been there for as long as I can remember.

"All External Inputs" was recently added however, which ignores the outputs of any software synths.

[Colin Nicholls]

For the longest time I had two MIDI interfaces connected to my DAW: My venerable USB Midisport 2x2, and sometime later my ECHO Layla PCI Audio interface added a third port, which I didn't use. My controllers (one keyboard and one drum pad) where both coming in via the midisport. I got very used to selecting the A port on the Midisport explicitly for any MIDI recording. After a while  (15 years!?!)  I think my eyes just filtered out the "all inputs" option; I just assumed you had to select a specific input to record to a MIDI track.

Since my studio rebuild this year I now have one physical DIN input from my Quantum; and three "new" USB MIDI sources - Keylab MkII; Touche, and the Ghost Audio sliders. Suddenly that "all inputs" option makes a ton of useful sense. 

I decided to post this revelation in case there was one or two other sad individuals out there who shared my "feature blindness"