[LAU] Re: MIDI routing in Ardour

Robin Gareus <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:01:58 +0200

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On 2025-10-10 20:45, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 03:16:01PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
>   
>> Have you used the Channel Selector Dialog, and set it to "Use a single fixed
>> channel for all playback"?
> 
> Ha, that solved it, many thanks. Had to search a bit before I found
> this in the track header menu.

Great. It's still odd that after "splitting by channel", each of the 
individual MIDI tracks played on channel 1.

Unless you imported a MIDI file with different tracks (all channel 1).

>> Do you mean the dropdown in the track-header itself? That is a MIDNAM
>> channel Display (check the tooltip).
>   
> What is MIDNAM ? Lookup it up in the manual, it talks about 'patches',
> a 'model' and files in ~/.config. But I still have no idea what it is
> all about ...

It is an official midi.org spec to provide human readable names for 
various MIDI elements and attributes.

It allows one to name programs/patches, provide names for notes 
(commonly used for drums), specify which controls are available for 
which channel, etc.

Ardour comes with some 400+ MIDNAM files for common hardware synths, and 
LV2 plugins can directly provide one.

Cheers!
robin

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