I have two e-drum kits connected to a Mac, with MIDI Translator Pro running in the background and Addictive Drums 2 as the drum instrument. With MIDI Translator Pro, I can translate the MIDI signals, and AD2 lets me map each sound because it supports multiple inputs—enough for both e-drum kits.
The issue comes up when I run AD2 inside GarageBand while MIDI Translator is running: the MIDI signals get mixed up. If I don’t use GarageBand and run AD2 standalone with MIDI Translator, everything works perfectly. But when I load AD2 as a plug-in in GarageBand and use MIDI Translator, the MIDI signals conflict.
I really need to solve this issue. I’ve done as much troubleshooting as I can with my current knowledge, so I’m looking for help.
As far as I know Garageband doesn’t allow you to seperate different MIDI controllers for each device track you have. You would have to record them separately by selecting the track you want to record to. Whatever MIDI devices are availble will be recognized on the selected track.
If you want to divide your attached MIDI devices by track, you would need another DAW. Most paid DAW applications allow this. I think Reaper is free (or donation) so you might want to give that a try and then run AD2 as a plugin for a track there.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
Oh and Garage Band monitors ALL known MIDI inputs so if you don’t want it to monitor a given MIDI device you somehow need to disable the devices you don’t want. I think you have to do this somewhere within MacOS. I’m not quite sure how to do that though. I don’t think Garage Band has a way to “ignore” a given MIDI port.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
Thank you very much for your reply, Steve, it’s very helpful. I’ll try other DAWs, since what you point out makes perfect sense. I’ll post an update in this same thread once I have one. Best regards, and thanks again.