VST Plugin and Patches

sgulics · Post by **sgulics** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:46 pm

Hi all,

I am kinda of a newbie so please bare with me. I just got Live 5. I loaded Steinberg's Hypersonic plugin. I was wondering how do I load this plugin only once and access its patches in multiple tracks. For example, if I add the plugin to Midi track 1 and 2. I want track 1 to play patch #5 and track 2 to play patch #6. I can do this by adding a new instance of the plug in to each Midi track but it seems like a waste of memory. I assume there is a way to load the plugin only once and have it be used by multiple tracks.

I am coming from a Sonar background where this was a lot easier.

I hope this made sense.

Steve

mikemusicked · Post by **mikemusicked** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:19 pm

I believe you have to load it on each track if you want 2 different sounds at the same time. You would then assign each track to a different MIDI channel. If you want to use 1 instance and make a program change, then you can do it on just one track. I don't have Hypersonic but I don't think it would draw that much more memory. I use multiple plug-ins a lot of the time with no trouble.

Michael-SW · Post by **Michael-SW** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:22 pm

It depends. Some plugins are multi timbral, ie can actually play multiple patches at the same time, but it is not that common.

If you use a multi timbral VST you have to use different midi channels.

No idea about hypersonic though.

sgulics · Post by **sgulics** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:40 am

OK I figured it out. This would probably work with any sampler but I tried it with Hypersonic and Korg Legacy

1. Start new Live Set
2. Added Hypersoniec to 2 MIDI
3. Loaded the following samples in the banks:
1= Black Hole
2 = Thump Bass
3 = Digital Choir
4. Added new MIDI tracks: 3 MIDI and 4 MIDI
5. Highlight 3 MIDI and click I/O
6. Change MIDI To = 3 MIDI
7. "Under MIDI To" I can change the "track in" to Hypersonic 1. This will play the black hole sample
8. Do the same for 4 MIDI except I chose to play the digital choir sample

I think thats it. Thanks for the hints above.

ben_blue · Post by **ben_blue** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:06 am

instead of track in you will want the output of each midi track to be
"hypersonic -1" , "hypersonic -2" etc.

if u choose "track in," the track with the actual vst wont play any midi data on its own track.

deckme(N)tal · Post by **deckme(N)tal** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 6:49 am

3. Loaded the following samples in the banks:
1= Black Hole
2 = Thump Bass
3 = Digital Choir

Sorry if i don't understand....i was thinking about doing the same thing with my korg legacy plugin....but i don't know how to load different samples in the banks...i mean, if i load the plugin in one midi track i can only choose 1 sample at time can you load 3 different samples in just one track and after route them to different midi tracks?...please explain this would be really usefull....thanks a lot...