What happened to the Split Instrument/ Instrument track Icons?

[Xoo]

If you have multiple MIDI tracks feeding one synth or multiple audio tracks being fed by one synth (one output of the synth or many), the concept of "a" Simple Instrument Track is meaningless.

[Bass Guitar]

1 minute ago, Xoo said:

If you have multiple MIDI tracks feeding one synth or multiple audio tracks being fed by one synth (one output of the synth or many), the concept of "a" Simple Instrument Track is meaningless.

Remove the word Simple. It’s exactly the same thing as the split with the addition of it can also have midi data in the same track. 
 

Is this all a misunderstanding of what the ( simple) Instrument Track is? 
 

What does multiple audio outputs have to do with this. That’s a function of the VST which can exist in both types of instrument tracks. 
 

As well as both types can be fed by as many midi tracks as possible.  I do this a lot. 
 

 

[msmcleod]

The only difference between a Simple Instrument Track and a Split Instrument Track is that the Simple Instrument track is shown as one track in the UI.

A Simple Instrument Track is in fact still two tracks, it's just that in the Track View, the header part shows the audio track, and the clips view shows the midi track.

The reason they're called "Simple" instrument tracks, is that they're generally created with a stereo only output, and the MIDI track part is sent to the synth on all MIDI channels.  That, and the fact they only use up one track space in the UI.

Up until the introduction of Per-Output Instrument Tracks, using split instrument tracks was the only way to properly leverage multi-timbral synths.  Now you can use either for multi-timbral synths - it's really down to preference, and whatever you're used to in your workflow.

As a rule, we try our best not to introduce anything that would require users to change their existing workflow - and obviously there's the backwards compatibility thing with older projects, so both options still exist.

FYI: Per-output instrument tracks are really just Simple Instrument Tracks where:

1. The synth is set to have more then one stereo output
2. The audio track is set to receive audio from the synth on a specific audio output
3. The MIDI track is set to output on a specific MIDI channel.

... and those audio output channels / MIDI output channels are incremented each time you "append" a new per-output track for that synth.