
You will create one track for each device you want to control. For MIDI tracks, you’ll be able to choose the controller you want for each track. To use two MIDI controllers in Ableton, you’ll need to click the “i/o” circle on the right in session view, and a couple of drop-down boxes should display up for each track. You’ll be able to get them all to work simultaneously. This article will explain how to get multiple MIDI controllers used with different DAWs Ableton, Logic, and FL Studio.

Each controller draws a different performance and triggers various sounds on multiple instrument tracks. You can use two MIDI controllers at once, just as you can record multiple audio performances simultaneously on multiple audio tracks.

Rather than plugging and unplugging every time I want to change around, is there a solution to make a DAW play nicely with multiple controllers?Īlso, I was looking for a way to assign the keys of the drum pad to communicate directly with the different sounds but then be able to quickly switch over to, say, a piano emulator and have full passage to all of the notes on my piano controller. I’ve been doing quite Googling, watching YouTube videos, and reading through Reddit to figure out how to do this, and for all of the tutorials I have come across, none of them seem to work for what I’m trying to do.
