Unable to assign an instrument to a second midi track in Ableton Live

adiecidue · 2025-07-28T23:33:33+00:00

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I use Ableton Live and I'm new to Kontakt 8. I have 2 midi tracks and I'm able to assign an instrument to one of them, but not to the second one. I can preview the instrument while in Kontakt, but the midi track in Ableton is silent. What is going on here?

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JesterMgee

Screenshot of your tracks showing the midi settings and also the midi and audio channel settings setup in Kontakt

If you use an "external Instrument" device in Ableton you can send MIDI from a track to your Kontakt track then if you setup audio output mapping in Kontakt to a second audio channel you can then receive that on a second track making it possible to add discrete FX.

Uwe303

Hello,

do you mean like this:

https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ins-and-outs-multitimbral-instruments-live/

But as already mentioned, a picture would help to see the issue, best with a external instrument track selected to see those settings on the lower left as in the picture of that article.

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