Yeah, we assigned different channels like that too, it was nice to have the channels.

Lighting does eat up some midi channels, but with a little forethought...
Towards the end we would use a computer equipped with a couple different midi ports, which, with PT, added channels everytime you added a port!
PT with an SBLive and M-Audio for midi, and a Roland workstation keyboard sync'd to PT (utilizing the 'thru')..
gave us quite a few routing options.


I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
Make your sound your own!