MIDI channels from laptop and onboard sounds

[ferchis]

hi to everyone! this is my first post here, and would like to ask a question:

is there a way to configure MIDI channels so that I can control a soft synth (such as Kore 2) and at the same time use the onboard sounds from a digital piano?

let's say I have a digital piano with very good piano sounds and I want to use them live, but would also like to control the sounds from Kore and assign them to different parts of the keyboard while still playing the onboard digital piano sound... should I do this with a proper configuration of MIDI channels or is it impossible?

thanks a lot!

Fernando

[Solderman]

Most DAW software have seperate I/O destinations for VSTi's(soft synths) versus the external hardware Midi output, so channels would not be the issue here. Rather, you'll have two receiving tracks and one sending track with the sequence. Set the soft synth as one track's destination, then the external Midi output as the destination for the second track.
Set the output Midi channel on the second track to the one your piano is listening on. Of course make sure the hardware Midi output is connected to the piano's Midi input. Both of these tracks are listening to a third track which actually contains the sequence.

If your DAW does not allow tracks to receive from other tracks, instead of a third track, you'd copy the same sequence into the original two.