Thanks for your response!!
Correct, but I am using one MIDI track to drive one multi-timbral synth for each instrument. The articulation maps allow you to not only insert a keyswitch, but also convert the MIDI channel on all events under the articulation to a target MIDI channel. I am doing all this due to the screwy way that Spitfire Audio has their patches set up for the Studio Orchestra libraries. For instance, for strings I want to separate longs, shorts, pizz/col legno and tremelos/harmonics to 4 separate audio outputs for each instance of Kontakt. I've set Kontakt up to have 4 stereo audio outputs: Longs, Shorts, PizCol and FX. Unfortunately, there is no single patch that has all articulations, so I have to use 1, 2 or 3 different patches for each type of sound to get all of the articulations. For instance for Violins 1 (8 players) I have a legato patch (longs - 2 articulations), a core techniques patch (longs - 8 articulations), a decorative techniques patch (longs - 2 articulations), a core techniques patch (shorts - 4 articulations), a core techniques patch (pizz/col - 3 articulations), a core techniques patch (trem/harm - 2 articulations), a decorative techniques patch (trem/harm - 13 articulations) and an FX patch (trem/harm - 11 articulations). Each of these patches is assigned to its own MIDI channel, in this case channels 1-8. When the articulation is encountered as it is playing, it sends the keyswitch on the appropriate MIDI channel, then sends all events to that same MIDI channel. As you can see, it's insanely complicated, but what I am trying to do is boil it all down to one MIDI track for the 1st violins feeding one instance of Kontakt using several dozen articulations which I have set up in an articulation map to try to simplify the situation when I am attempting to be creative and not think about all of the routing. When using my AKAI MPK88 keyboard, I can either select the articulation directly in the patch or use a keyswitch then set my output channel on the keyboard to use the correct MIDI channel (which is kind of awkward to do). The real problem is the new MIDI expression controller (3 faders) that I bought that only transmits on channel one. My solution is to use this midiChs plugin that I found to translate the MIDI channel. Attempting to use it is where I ran into the problem with the input assignments to MIDI outputs on the virtual synths. I hope this explains it.