08-13-2021, 02:37 AM
Hopefully the final word on this. It turns out my whole approach to this was an unnecessary circuitous path to a result, and the best avenue is significantly more efficient. Before I go on, let me just say I'll be happy to delete this entire thread if it's too DAW-centric and not useful enough for MRCC discussions.
Anyway, making the MIDI signal flow through the DAW doesn't require any new 'External Devices' to be added for the MRCC ports, so long as any controllers, keyboards, and instruments being used are added that way. Then each one of those needs to be setup to either receive from itself in the prepopulated dropdown lists, in the case of a USB keyboard to PC connection, or from the relevant MRCC port in the list, if being routed that way. The external instrument being used for a track, if being fed MIDI from the MRCC, must be setup with the chosen controller from the previous step, and the MRCC port in the 'send to' option selected, and that's all. It's much simpler than I thought, though not particularly obvious at first glance. I did also see something in a tutorial that referred to a way of using an instrument prior to being in a track, but I need to review that again to work out that possibility.
Anyway, making the MIDI signal flow through the DAW doesn't require any new 'External Devices' to be added for the MRCC ports, so long as any controllers, keyboards, and instruments being used are added that way. Then each one of those needs to be setup to either receive from itself in the prepopulated dropdown lists, in the case of a USB keyboard to PC connection, or from the relevant MRCC port in the list, if being routed that way. The external instrument being used for a track, if being fed MIDI from the MRCC, must be setup with the chosen controller from the previous step, and the MRCC port in the 'send to' option selected, and that's all. It's much simpler than I thought, though not particularly obvious at first glance. I did also see something in a tutorial that referred to a way of using an instrument prior to being in a track, but I need to review that again to work out that possibility.