Multitimbral instruments in Live

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eegee
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Re: Multitimbral instruments in Live

Post by eegee » Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:08 pm

Hey M - thanks for the reply - was just curious how other people work this. Curious- do you also group your tracks for a multi instrument? I havent found any good reason to, but was curious what others discovered.

EG

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Re: Multitimbral instruments in Live

Post by mholloway » Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:57 pm

eegee wrote:Hey M - thanks for the reply - was just curious how other people work this. Curious- do you also group your tracks for a multi instrument? I havent found any good reason to, but was curious what others discovered.

EG
I've never had any reason to group stuff from kontakt, no; I like to load a bunch of instruments in and then route them out accordingly using ext. instrument and just keep a single mixer track for each instrument. the whole idea for me is to just treat any given kontakt instrument like it's own VST. that said I've recently noticed the CPU hit isn't all that greater when loading one instance of Kontakt per instrument, so the multi-timbral out may not even be necessary depending on your setup.

-M
my industrial music made with Ableton Live (as DEAD WHEN I FOUND HER): https://deadwhenifoundher.bandcamp.com/
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eegee
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Re: Multitimbral instruments in Live

Post by eegee » Fri Jan 07, 2011 9:35 pm

Interesting. I may try the one instance per track. The one thing I dont like about the single vst is that managing the vst window becomes cumbersome when you have a bunch of track linked to it. It's not always up when I want it to be even when workign on a track sending midi to it, and I have to change the options to not "auto-hide" vst windows to get it to work the way I want.

EG

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