It's totally possible because it's happening. And there's a reason.

You need to understand, if you don't already know it, that midi is channel dependent.

All Midi data is transmitted with a channel designation on one of 16 unique midi channels. You will also find another option called OMNI... which is essentially telling a device to either transmit or receive in the OMNI mode which simply means it will listen on all 16 channels at once and play anything is sees on the data bus as opposed to only playing the data on a specific channel.

If you set up a synth to transmit or receive on a specific channel... lets say channel 5, it will only play data on the bus assigned to ch 5. It ignores everything else. If another device in the loop is set to omni, it will play ch 5 as well as everything else it sees.

This aspect is what makes midi so useful. Compare it to a computer network where the data is all on one wire/network but the individual computers on that network get only what they are supposed to get.

So if both midi synths are set to OMNI....and Omni is often a default setting so that the synth can be made to produce sound easily from any channel source, they're both going to see the signal, recognize it as OMNI and respond to it. Many software companies which make synths set them to default to omni mode so that the novices can easily get sound and get things rolling without having to learn about midi channels and such things. One step at a time so to speak. Once you get ready to step out to 2 synths then it's time to start learning about the channels.

The solution is to set up channels and assign each synth a unique channel number. I don;t use coyote. I use TTS which is a multi-timbral synth.....meaning it has the ability with one instance of TTS to play all 16 midi channels at once, using a unique patch on each channel. If Coyote is like that, I'm sure it's setup for Midi channels is similar to TTS. Look on my website under the recording page on "TTS advanced setup". I tell you how to set TTS up to play 3 different instruments at the same time without getting the data crossed up between them.

It's all in the midi channel assignments.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 06/23/14 04:10 AM.
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