Hello everyone!<div><br></div><div>I&#39;ve been doing home recording on my Ubuntu Studio for a while now but I&#39;ve only recently delved into MIDI. I&#39;m also playing keyboards for a band, and have just started to use LinuxSampler on stage, so I can play the very nice &quot;Maestro Concert Grand v2&quot; SoundFont. The problem: I need to switch between LinuxSampler and a couple of programs from my hardware synthesizer (which is the keyboard I&#39;m playing) while playing, sometimes during a song.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The connections are as follows: The keyboard/synthesizer connects via MIDI to my laptop running LinuxSampler and the Concert Grand. The keyboard/synthesizer is also connected via audio (two 1/4 inch jacks for stereo) to a USB audio Interface on my laptop. That interface then outputs a stereo signal (again, two 1/4 inch jacks) to the mixing console and the PA system.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What I&#39;d like to do is have the Concert Grand on LinuxSampler be &quot;channel 1&quot; and, say, the &quot;Rhodes&quot; program on my synthesizer be &quot;channel 2&quot;. Then I would just change the output channel of the keyboard when I want to change between the two. Is there any way to manage the MIDI channels this way? I&#39;ve tried a couple of MIDI managing tools (forgetting the names right now...) but haven gotten it to work.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I hope I explained it well enough, it seems pretty complicated in my head... ;) Cheers and thanks for any advice!</div><div>Kevin</div><div id="-chrome-auto-translate-plugin-dialog" style="opacity: 1 !important; background-image: initial !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; top: 0px; left: 0px; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; z-index: 999999 !important; text-align: left !important; display: none; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; ">
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