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So I want to record from two MIDI keyboards at once. I want to emulate the feel of a hammond double manual organ. I have the midi keyboards and I've been waiting to by a MIDIMAN 2X2 to see if it was possible. I would plan on running DSK B3x in two seperate tracks. Then recording them simultaneously. I'm pretty sure this is beyond LMMS's capabilities but I was hoping maybe somebody here has thought of doing the same. I plan on just using REAPER... again . I just wish there were some solid patches to solve all these limitations with LMMS. It takes away from the creative flow, having to switch programs. Once you get a feel for it, LMMS is such an intuitive DAW. Should I just skip the whole MIDIMAN and just go record off a Hammond and pay for the studio time?

Did you find a way cccnycwood?

I was just searching for how to do this (or if it was even possible), then after not finding any solutions, tried something a bit unconventional.. I ran two copies of LMMS, and set one copy to record from one MIDI keyboard, and the other copy to record the other. I then copied the data out of the piano roll from one instance of LMMS to the other. It's a but clunky (because the tracks need to be aligned manually), but it works.

My current setup is Ubuntu 15.04 using the kxstudio PPA (which provides LMMS 1.1.3, though 1.1.3 appears to be in 15.10 by default), using a Yamaha MX61 and an M-Audio Keystation61 MkII, which both provide MIDI data over USB, and do not require specific drivers under this version of Ubuntu (actually they both work very well).

On a tangent, aconnectgui is very useful for connecting MIDI devices together, such as the Keystation61 (which is just a MIDI controller) to the MX61's MIDI ports (which routes via the computer over USB).