Routing MIDI to 2 or more SCII cards individually

[Rational Punk]

I apologize in advance if the answer to this question can be found somewhere in the SCII documentation or online, but I haven't found a definitive answer yet and I need to know if what I'm contemplating is workable before I buy any additional SCII cards on eBay.

What I want to do is use two or more SCII PCI or Nubus cards in a single Mac and be able to address the cards individually from a pair of MIDI controller keyboards. I know one could just set one card to receive only on channels 1-8 and a second card on 9-16 in a pinch, but is there any way to make all 16 channels available on every card and be able to route MIDI from each controller to the card of your choice, perhaps by using two MIDI interfaces or an interface like the Opcode Studio 5 that has multiple inputs?

I know just getting some hardware samplers would be simpler, but I have a big SCII library and I'd like to just use what I'm already comfortable with for recording in a live context as well. Thanks in advance for any light anyone might be able to shed on this.

[jeffro]

I tend to think that this could be done with a Patch in OMS on a Studio 5, but I have never set this up myself so I can't guarantee it.

[Rational Punk]

Hi Jeff. After posting the question I opted to switch over to Kontakt on a laptop instead, but thank you for your answer.

[Kevan Staples]

There's only two ways and you've already figured one out.

Samplecell editor can only receive 16 channels on any one bank at a time despite how many cards are being used so channel split 1-8 and 9-16 is the only option for two cards.

To get more than 16 channels you'd need a host app. Any sequencer capable of multiple inputs and you're fine. Take Cubase for example. Set one track to midi channel ANY and it's input from keybd 1. Set it's output to Samplecell 1. Set another track the same way with it's input from kybd 2 and it's ouput to Samplecell 2. Both tracks of the host app need to be record enabled. I'm not sure if Protools can do this but if so then it would be a good choice for a host app. Especially if the SC cards had the TDM cards as audio could then be routed digitally back to your main computer. Aaaahhh lovely ;-)

Keep in mind that the SC host computer needs a midi interface as well as one for your main computer....but of course you know that.

Kevan