I would like to sequence my TI2 desktop but not use Total Control for some workflows. I also want to use all three analog stereo output pairs. Let's say i want to use digitakt, modstep or Xequencer to sequence three or more parts. I understand how to do this. Put the TI in SEQ mode and load up patches into the parts from 1 to N. Then have the digitakt or iOS sequencer send on those channels to a DIN cable connected to the TI2 on the correct MIDI channel. That part is easy to understand and works great.
The part I'm not getting is achieving 3 stereo outs. I want to route the six mono / three stereo outs of the TI2 to a mixer so I can integrate with my AR mkii. I can only get a maximum of two stereo outs.
I can get three stereo outs in Ableton using total control; I can easily map the audio for a part to any of the analog outs in the common section. However when I am away from my DAW and menu dive into the desktop using the edit button I do not see an equivalent section. I see the 'surround' section so I played with that. I can change the output to 1LR, 2LR, 3LR and any of the mono channels as well. I soon figured out that I could change balance from -64 to +63. The result would be that if I turn it to +63 I can send all the audio to the selected stereo channel. Great! Assume I sent to 3LR
Of course I store the patch thinking this would stick to the part or the patch. If this works analogously to the total control this setting should be saved for the part not the patch but I store anyway.
When I go to the next part and wanted to send to 2LR and turn balane to +63 this would appear to work but when I went back to the previous part, that part was now sending audio to 2LR and the value I had earlier made 3LR is now 2LR. In both cases the balance was remembered. I had hoped I was saving the output setting per part because the balance was being remembered however whenever I changed it it stuck for all the parts.
In the end I can send audio to a maximum of two stereo channels. I can always send the audio of a part to 1/2 by making the balance -64 even when the output is set to anything other than 1/2. I can always send to one of the other stereo channels by setting balance to +63.
Is this expected behavior? Am I missing a something?
Kithara