> When choosing a MIDI keyboard controller, is the abillity to split > the keyboard into different zones an essential feature of the > keyboard itself, or can it be done with software for keyboards that > don't provide this ability built-it? I did come across ace, "a > command line midi splitter/processor especially suited for live, > keyboard-driven use together with csound," although I don't know if > a) this is the correct tool or b) if it works in a jack/alsa based > environment (e.g. put in other words, I load my virtual instruments > and they appear in qjackctl as MIDI writeable clients, and I plug in > the keyboard and it appears in qjackctl as MIDI readable clients. > The question is how can I divide the MIDI output from the keyboard > to different instruments based on keyboard range.) there's also qmidiroute, as found on alsamodular.sf.net. The splitting is hard coded, but if you're a bit familiar with coding try to follow the qmidiroutr programming tutorial by the author, Matthias Nagorny. Cheers, ce
