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I have problem routing Kontakt through external instrument. I am working on a new template. Got 3 groups with 6-8 tracks each completed. It all works OK, but then tried the next group and got stuck ! I remember this same problem from about a year ago, and I was hoping it got fixed.
The problem is that as some point External Instrument plugin gets messed up and I cannot figure out how to get it back to work as expected.

THE PROBLEM:
I place Kontatk on Track1
I place External Instr. on Track2
When I want to route Kontakt through it the slot 1 is unavailable.(this is in the Audio From field). So the slots start from St.2, St3,....

However, on my other tracks created previously in the same set I do not have this problem. I do not know what affects this behavior but it really, really sucks ! I have not used KONTAKT routing for some time because of this problem as it takes so much time to deal when something goes wrong. Reported this to Ableton, but so far no fix.

Since I have had 2 Kontakt groups routed properly I must be doing it the right way,....but something is tripping me up,...

I wonder if there are any tricks to get this to work ? Please share

Because "slot 1" or channel 1 is occupied/used by the track you have loaded Kontakt onto. Additional outputs 2-16+ are available as optional outputs.

Just think of the track you have the instrument on as "Channel 1" and additional tracks with the ext inst. as Channel 2+ and setup your instruments accordingly.

Can create a rack and save as a template to save time.

OK, Finally I figured this out. Thank you for your time, now it works OK.