Loopy Pro: Create music, your way.

What is Loopy Pro? — Loopy Pro is a powerful, flexible, and intuitive live looper, sampler, clip launcher and DAW for iPhone and iPad. At its core, it allows you to record and layer sounds in real-time to create complex musical arrangements. But it doesn’t stop there—Loopy Pro offers advanced tools to customize your workflow, build dynamic performance setups, and create a seamless connection between instruments, effects, and external gear.

Use it for live looping, sequencing, arranging, mixing, and much more. Whether you're a live performer, a producer, or just experimenting with sound, Loopy Pro helps you take control of your creative process.

Download on the App Store

Loopy Pro is your all-in-one musical toolkit. Try it for free today.

IAC- Can set ports, but midi channel is greyed out?

pax-eternapax-eterna
in General App Discussion

Anyone have an idea about why the MIDI channels are greyed out in the IAC app?

I can set any number of ports, however the MIDI selection boxes on the right are all greyed out, even when the Apply button is clicked.

Comments

  • pax-eternapax-eterna

    No ideas or even links to where i can research this? (already done research, but nothing at Apple nor in the general web)

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @pax-eterna said:
    No ideas or even links to where i can research this? (already done research, but nothing at Apple nor in the general web)

    There seem to be a lot of youtube videos and web pages about IAC midi setup, have you watched any?

  • pax-eternapax-eterna

    @espiegel123 said:

    @pax-eterna said:
    No ideas or even links to where i can research this? (already done research, but nothing at Apple nor in the general web)

    There seem to be a lot of youtube videos and web pages about IAC midi setup, have you watched any?

    Yes and they all say select the MIDI channel in and out, but on my Mac they are greyed out, hence the question.....and I did post in the OP I had already done searches ;)

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    Can you post screenshots of what you are seeing?

  • uncledaveuncledave

    @pax-eterna said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @pax-eterna said:
    No ideas or even links to where i can research this? (already done research, but nothing at Apple nor in the general web)

    There seem to be a lot of youtube videos and web pages about IAC midi setup, have you watched any?

    Yes and they all say select the MIDI channel in and out, but on my Mac they are greyed out, hence the question.....and I did post in the OP I had already done searches ;)

    Could you post a screenshot showing this? From what I can read, you specify the ports, and the number of connections through each port. Nothing about MIDI channel numbers. This would be consistent with iOS, where apps can connect to virtual MIDI ports. How they deal with MIDI channels is determined by internal settings in the apps.

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    In IAC, all one does is activate IAC and publish ports. All actual channel choices are made in the apps accessing the IAC ports.

  • pax-eternapax-eterna

    @espiegel123 said:
    Can you post screenshots of what you are seeing?

    yep...

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    You may not actually be able to change the number of connectors there -- and I don't think you need to. Those aren't midi channels.

    All you need to do is create and name the MIDI ports you want to be available via IAC.

  • pax-eternapax-eterna

    @espiegel123 said:
    You may not actually be able to change the number of connectors there -- and I don't think you need to. Those aren't midi channels.

    All you need to do is create and name the MIDI ports you want to be available via IAC.

    Yes, but read the last line of the instruction...the MIDI in and out cannot be edited or altered.

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @pax-eterna said:

    @espiegel123 said:
    You may not actually be able to change the number of connectors there -- and I don't think you need to. Those aren't midi channels.

    All you need to do is create and name the MIDI ports you want to be available via IAC.

    Yes, but read the last line of the instruction...the MIDI in and out cannot be edited or altered.

    I don’t believe you need to alter those fields. IAC seems to work fine without changing them.

    Did you encounter a problem using IAC?

  • pax-eternapax-eterna
    edited September 24

    @espiegel123 said:

    @pax-eterna said:

    @espiegel123 said:
    You may not actually be able to change the number of connectors there -- and I don't think you need to. Those aren't midi channels.

    All you need to do is create and name the MIDI ports you want to be available via IAC.

    Yes, but read the last line of the instruction...the MIDI in and out cannot be edited or altered.

    I don’t believe you need to alter those fields. IAC seems to work fine without changing them.

    Did you encounter a problem using IAC?

    Yes I am trying to have a device in (uses only chan 1) to re-route to a few apps but on a different midi channel. And yes, it is again the issue of Lumbeat drum apps being IAA only.
    So, if I set them each up on a different midi channel and then have IAC re-route the "in" to an altered channel it might help....mind you I am still not sure if it will work as I suspect that all of the drum apps will still play at the same time regardless haha! Still working on that.
    Even tried loading one each into several "Spaces" and then jump between spaces, however MacOS still sees all spaces, no matter which one is being used as "live" and not pushed to the background. Vexing!

    Just keep hoping some bright developer will create a AUM Mixer, or AudioBus app for MacOS. Camelot Pro is good, but even it is having issues.

    I sometimes think it might be the best to simply open and close the Lumbeat app as needed. Adds time between songs, but at least it will work hahaha!

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @pax-eterna said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @pax-eterna said:

    @espiegel123 said:
    You may not actually be able to change the number of connectors there -- and I don't think you need to. Those aren't midi channels.

    All you need to do is create and name the MIDI ports you want to be available via IAC.

    Yes, but read the last line of the instruction...the MIDI in and out cannot be edited or altered.

    I don’t believe you need to alter those fields. IAC seems to work fine without changing them.

    Did you encounter a problem using IAC?

    Yes I am trying to have a device in (uses only chan 1) to re-route to a few apps but on a different midi channel. And yes, it is again the issue of Lumbeat drum apps being IAA only.
    So, if I set them each up on a different midi channel and then have IAC re-route the "in" to an altered channel it might help....mind you I am still not sure if it will work as I suspect that all of the drum apps will still play at the same time regardless haha! Still working on that.
    Even tried loading one each into several "Spaces" and then jump between spaces, however MacOS still sees all spaces, no matter which one is being used as "live" and not pushed to the background. Vexing!

    I don’t believe the field you are talking about is related to midi channels. It is “the number of connectors”.

    IAC doesn’t do channel routing. It just provides virtual midi ports. You will need to use some other app to do channelizing/routing as far as I know.

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @pax-eterna : you might find this discussion useful: https://www.logicprohelp.com/forums/topic/121814-request-did-apple-quotbreakquot-iac-driver-in-mojave/

    (Confirms that those fields have nothing to with midi channels and have not been editable in recent memory).

    I think it is a long-standing u.i. bug. Those fields shouldn’t be there for IAC. Connectors are the input and output nodes you can data connections to/from in the MIDI Setup pane and aren’t relevant to IAC

  • pax-eternapax-eterna
    edited September 25

    @espiegel123 said:
    @pax-eterna : you might find this discussion useful: https://www.logicprohelp.com/forums/topic/121814-request-did-apple-quotbreakquot-iac-driver-in-mojave/

    (Confirms that those fields have nothing to with midi channels and have not been editable in recent memory).

    I think it is a long-standing u.i. bug. Those fields shouldn’t be there for IAC. Connectors are the input and output nodes you can data connections to/from in the MIDI Setup pane and aren’t relevant to IAC

    Ahhhh, ok cool - gotcha. Will still read that link though. And yes it would be a good thing for Apple to remove them! Makes it bloody confusing!

  • wimwim

    You could always try using good ol’ MidiPipe to alter the channel number. Just route to MidiPipe, then MidiPipe to the target app.

  • AlfredAlfred

    Of use mozaic with the channelSwitcher script.

  • uncledaveuncledave

    @Alfred said:
    Of use mozaic with the channelSwitcher script.

    I believe that doesn't work on MacOS. IAC is a Mac feature.

Sign In or Register to comment.

© Vanilla Keystone Theme 2024