I put together my set list pile with a Linked Rack underlying the whole thing:
I’m using this monotimbrally for now:
- Addictive Keys Piano
- Addictive Keys Rhodes
- Kontakt Player with Lots of Stuff as a Multi (1 Midi channel per sample set)
From Brad’s tutorial, I created a rack state with a unique MIDI routing for each device, with the Kontakt sounds disambiguated by MIDI channel.
This works well except when I’ve forgotten to include the VST in the rack and I scratch my head wondering why it took 20s to load ahem
I see there are a few alternative ways I could be doing this:
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Existing Each rack state that uses Kontakt has its own route. Kontakt sounds are in a multi selected by changing the channel filtering.
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One route to Kontakt. Each rack state changes the MIDI filter to the appropriate output channel.
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Kontakt embedded rack, each rack state sends the appropriate channel change message.
What are the tradeoffs to each approach? The current application is in my stage setup. I have 16GB of RAM, but no SSD unfortunately.