Preparing VSTis for Per-Output Instrument Tracks

[msmcleod]

The 2020.01 release saw the introduction of Per-Output Instrument Tracks, which allows you to create multiple Simple Instrument Tracks routed to a single instance of a VSTi.

In order to use this feature however, you must map the MIDI channels within your VSTi to the relevant output. This must be done inside the VSTi itself, and each VSTi handles this differently.

For example, to do this in TTS-1:

[msmcleod]

For Omnipshere, the procedure is as follows:

[msmcleod]

For Kontakt, the process is a little more involved.

The easiest way to do this is to create a default output profile for the VST Plugin instance of Kontakt:

You may also want to enable multi-core support for Kontakt. This ensures that Kontakt's CPU usage is spread across all your CPU cores:

To assign an instrument to an output:

[fitzj]

Thanks for these. Handy to have.

[Glenn Taylor]

Thanks for making it clear, I’m struggling with Kontakt setup in Cakewalk