that's an all inclusive on the MIDI concept there is! you don't need to create any MIDI channels in any way: it's all there for granted!
each and any MIDI device, port or cable, is inherently conveying all and any of the 16 MIDI channels, because these are not physical rather just logical entities: a MIDI channel is a number (1, 2, ..., 16) or address that is stamped to a MIDI message at the transmitter device (eg. a MIDI keyboard controller) and eventually read on a receiver device (eg. qsynth/fluidsynth); it is on the receiver port that the MIDI message is possibly filtered and routed accordingly to its MIDI channel address (eg. qsynth/fluidsynth respective 1-16 instrument slot or preset if any).
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that's an all inclusive on the MIDI concept there is! you don't need to create any MIDI channels in any way: it's all there for granted!
each and any MIDI device, port or cable, is inherently conveying all and any of the 16 MIDI channels, because these are not physical rather just logical entities: a MIDI channel is a number (1, 2, ..., 16) or address that is stamped to a MIDI message at the transmitter device (eg. a MIDI keyboard controller) and eventually read on a receiver device (eg. qsynth/fluidsynth); it is on the receiver port that the MIDI message is possibly filtered and routed accordingly to its MIDI channel address (eg. qsynth/fluidsynth respective 1-16 instrument slot or preset if any).
hth.
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