# Output specific chord note to specific midi channel

**URL:** https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/output-specific-chord-note-to-specific-midi-channel/11564
**Category:** Scaler 2 Feature Requests
**Created:** [September 10, 2022, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/output-specific-chord-note-to-specific-midi-channel/11564 "2022-09-10T09:41:38Z")
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#### Post date: [September 10, 2022, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/output-specific-chord-note-to-specific-midi-channel/11564/2 "2022-09-10T11:51:36Z")

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> [@Maximumraver](#):
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> Scaler to be able to output to multiple midi channels\*

There are a variety of ways that this can be achieved, but as you state not internally in Scaler at this time. The approach depends on what your DAW capabilities are. Most DAW’s recognise channel number in the MIDI stream, but Ableton Live (for example) does not. So even if Scaler could allow channel definition by rules, Live wouldn’t recognise this from a single port (there are some caveats to this, for FAPP it’s the case)

Of the several ways to achieve this (and setting aside Divisimate for now) a possible solution with Scaler as it is, is to process the rules externally to the DAW, then feed them back in.

> [@Maximumraver](#):
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> \*channel, not port,

One rational for using ports is that if your DAW was Live, these are recognised, whereas channels are not. See a trivial example at

> [@Playing with multiple MIDI ports (post 1) - (very) poor man's divisi](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/playing-with-multiple-midi-ports-post-1-very-poor-mans-divisi/10816):
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> [Note : you can do all this in Live, but I find setting up the tiny key ranges in the effects rack fiddly and tedious.] I have been looking again at Spitfire’s BBC SO, I wanted a simpler way to link to Scaler rather than the heavyweight templates provided for Live. I have found Catabile very useful, and it has really excellent (and simple to use) midi handling [https://www.cantabilesoftware.com/](https://www.cantabilesoftware.com/) Step one was to set up output midi ports with loopMIDI [https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/l…](https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html)

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