S88 MK3 - change global midi channel transmit?

Alright, well short of any other better answer——I've gone and built 16 templates. Each one outputs a unique MIDI channel 1-16. All 16 templates are identical, based off the Default Template included with the controller. The only difference between each template is the channel that the notes, pedals, wheels, knobs, buttons and touch pad transmit on.

The different template channels can simply be called up by pressing the "Previous" and "Next" arrow buttons, which is not too inconvenient. You just need to make sure you see the name of the Template, like "Channel 1" on the screen before hitting Previous or Next. If you're in Kontakt and seeing a VI on the screen, you need to press the "SETTINGS MIDI" button to see the template name, and then you can start pressing "Previous or Next" to change channels. And then once you change channels, you can press "PLUG-IN" to go back to seeing the VI.

I've attached the zip file with all 16 templates for anyone that's interested.

I think this solution is sort of silly and will be a bit of a pain once you start customizing templates, but short of any other better answer, at least this gets us going transmitting on the 16 channels in a basic way.

And this leads me to a feature request: It would be nice if there was a global way to change channels on the fly without having to switch templates. Switching templates simply for a different MIDI channel makes a lot more work once you start customizing templates.

Hope they're useful to someone else.

Global MIDI for most of us would be a single parameter on a controller keyboard that changes the MIDI channel for all the parameters being transmitted. So, you choose channel 12, and everything the keyboard transmits is transmitted on channel 12—-all the keys, wheels, knobs, etc. The NI keyboard doesn't work that way.

So, regarding your second question: "How do you change the channel for a single template." The simple answer is you cannot. That was the whole reason I started the thread, to ask that same question. The answer is——whatever template you're on at the moment, if it transmits on Channel 1, and you want it to transmit on Channel 2, there's no specific single place you can go in the settings where you can just choose Channel 2 and all the keys, knobs, buttons, pedals, wheels, touch strip all change to channel 2. For the keyboard to transmit everything on a different channel, you have to into the settings and change ALL of them manually—-every button, wheel, knob, touch strip, pedal, and of course the keys. That's why I took the default template and made 16 of them—one for every MIDI channel. It's actually quite easy to arrow up and down with the Previous/Next buttons. Buuuut, if you want to change the template to have different controllers or knobs/buttons to have custom names names, and then you want that template to transmit on a different MIDI channel——-well, then you have to duplicate that new template and then manually change all the MIDI transmit channels. Not super convenient. I wish NI could develop a setting where you can override the current MIDI channel settings of the current template and transmit the entire template on whatever MIDI channel you want. It could be a setting that's turned on and off.

I found an error in my original 16 templates that I uploaded here. Control 65 wasn't updated to change channels with each template—-not that I ever use #65, but I've corrected the error. That control was on a page 3 in the template…..didn't see it originally.

I'm offering the new 16 templates to replace my original upload.

-gabe