Reference Manual

185 Routing and I/O
Feeding an Additional MIDI Track Into an Existing MIDI Track to Reuse its Instrument.
This is accomplished by setting the new MIDI track’s Output Type chooser to “Pad.“ Note that
the Output Channel chooser now offers a selection of destinations: We can either feed the new
track’s output into the input of the pad track, or we can directly address the Simpler. The “Track
In“ option in the Output Channel represents the pad track’s input signal (the signal to be record-
ed), which is not what we want. We instead select “Simpler Ch. 1“ to send the new track’s MIDI
directly to the Simpler, bypassing the recording and monitoring stage. With this setup, we can
choose to record new takes on either track and they will all play the same pad sound.
The Instrument Has Been Isolated in a Dedicated Track.
We might be bothered by the fact that muting the pad track (by turning off its Activator switch)
also mutes the other MIDI track. To be precise, the other track keeps playing, but its MIDI is