Abstraction of MIDI Control Inputs

[RickRepsher]

Yeah… I didn’t 'splain that very well, did I. I guess that shows the depth of my confusion.

Before I start, my objective is to move 4 hardware synths into a Cantabile setup with 2 keyboard controllers, a handful of expression pedals and foot switches, and a small control surface for mixing (I’ll hit on that later.)

So… I see that you (as in the people that are using abstraction) are using different racks to handle the abstraction. I found a lot of info in this thread :

Organise routes and bindings for pedals, switches, control surfaces?

I’m contemplating how best to organise routes and bindings. Today I have C3 as the centre of the universe and use the background rack to manage routes between C3, Reaper, Ableton, LivePrompter, BOME and all the hardware. I have an embedded rack within the background rack which contains all of my bindings, but this is getting unwieldy now with lots of entries. I’m thinking about putting each type of control hardware in its own embedded rack within the Background rack with its own bindings. Rac…

From what I’m reading, it looks like I should be creating two racks for each keyboard… one for notes and one for aftertouch, modulation and pitchbend. And then another for the expression pedals and foot switches. I also have an Icon iControl that I plan to use to adjust my Organ sim and overall mix. I am guessing that would go in it’s own rack also.

That part I get… I’m just not grasping how to get there. Are you sending ALL MIDI signals to ALL Input Racks, and then filtering the signals to only output what you want? And if that is so, how are you doing it?

Thanks!

Rick