Ableton/Live/UG/12 Editing MPE/06 MPE-Multi-channel Settings
- The MPE/Multi-channel Settings dialog sets up MPE output for hardware synths with particular zone needs, or for multi-timbral plug-ins that can be played from an MPE controller without official MPE support.
- It opens from the Ext. Instrument device, from a MIDI track's I/O section in the mixer, or from the context menu of an MPE-enabled plug-in.
- Ext. Instrument: pick a target in MIDI To, choose MPE in the second menu, then open that menu again and choose MPE Settings….
- Mixer I/O section: with the target device chosen in the track's MIDI To, choose MPE in the second menu, then reopen it and choose MPE Settings…, in either the Session or Arrangement mixer.
- Plug-ins: right-click the device's title bar.
- The dialog chooses the MPE zone (lower or upper) and how many note channels it uses, or switches to multi-channel mode with any range of note channels.
- Each zone has a global channel for controls that aren't per-note: channel 1 for the lower zone, channel 16 for the upper. The number of note channels sets the zone's polyphony, for example 1–11 for the lower zone and 12–16 for the upper.
- A track outputs to one zone only, so using both zones takes two tracks. Zones apply only to MPE output.
- Two tracks routed to the same MIDI output, one per zone, can drive two MPE synths chained through MIDI thru, or two sounds in one synth.
