MIDI Noodle · Channel Swapper & Mute

One tap, another synth.

Channel Swapper sends everything passing through it out on the channel you pick. Several synths on one DIN chain? Tap a pad and your keyboard plays a different one.

Keystation 61USBChannel Swapperto 2 · next beat12341Juno-1062Pad synth3Bass synth

Swap the channel on the fly

The Channel Swapper card shows a pad per channel: the ones your synths are named on, or 1–4 to start. Tap a pad, or press 1–9 with the card selected, and everything leaves on that channel.

For example:the keyboard plays the lead synth in the verse; tap 2 and the chorus is on the pad synth, without touching a cable.

On the beat, with no hanging notes

While the transport runs, a swap or a mute waits for the next beat, or happens instantly if you prefer. Notes already sounding either finish on the old channel or are cut. Nothing is left droning.

Beat 1Beat 2Beat 3Beat 4Ch 1: held note finishesCh 2: new notestap
Tapped during beat 2, the swap lands on beat 3.

Mute channels live

Channel Mute shows a pad for each channel playing through it. Tap one, or press its number with the card selected, to hold back its notes; controllers, pitch bend and sustain still pass, so nothing gets stuck when it comes back.

Pads come and go with the channels that are playing, or you can pin and hide them by hand.

Squarp Hapax4 tracksChannel Mutenext beat · let notes finish12310MIDI OutMiniFuse 4Tap a pad to mute or unmute. Pedal, bend and CCs still pass.
For example:a hardware sequencer plays four synths over one DIN cable: drop the drums out for 8 bars, then bring them back on the beat.

Many mono synths, one poly instrument

Channel Splitter spreads the notes you play over a range of channels, round-robin or to the lowest free one. Give each mono synth its own channel and a chord plays across all of them.

KeyLab 49Cmaj7 heldChannel SplitterCh 1–4 · round-robin1Mono synth · C2Mono synth · E3Mono synth · G4Mono synth · B

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