I've seen the light, leaving Logic for good...

[bradswan]

The are doing something significant. In DP6 VI's will pre-render, just as FX plug ins do now speeding things up. Also there will be no need to print VIs to audio prior to "Bounce To Disk."

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This is all true, and I'm sure it will help. If this makes a significant difference, I'll be one of the first to sing DP6's praises. Believe me, I would prefer DP to be my main squeeze.

[grimepoch]

It would of course be easy if I had told you the right thing!

(1) Select the last track you created and go up to the menu and select "New with next MIDI channel".

Just tested, does exactly what you want.

Another AWESOME thing I just noticed. Let's say you accidentally created an AU as stereo but you wanted multi-out. Well, that is easy, you go to the plugin and just select the multi-out version of it. All parameters and settings stay the same.

IT GETS BETTER

Now you have a multi-out instrument. Well, in the beginning I do not mind if all the outs come out the main out. The way their implementation works, if there is no aux output attached to that instrument for other outputs, it actually still comes out main out!

Example

I created a multi-out Battery 3 when working on a song. At this point it takes up ONE track and all outputs come out on that one track EVEN THOUGH in Battery I have different cells going out different outputs. When it's time for mix down, I go to the mixer and use the [+] to generate the other channels and they instantly populate with the next OUTPUT out of that plugin. Likewise, the audio starts coming on that location instead of main. Brilliant.

[ewtwolf]

Cool, thanks for the clarification...One last thing, is there any way to mute the multi tracks in the arrange window without muting them all? Say, track 3 of a multi Kontatk instance I want to mute, right now if I do it all of my Kontakt multi tracks are muted. Currently I just mute the MIDI regions on that track, but it would be nice to just mute the individual tracks instead.

I'll try out the corrected tip for adding tracks when i get home. To make things more confusing in my life, I use Sonar 7 at work.

[grimepoch]

What I do for this is basically put the AUX track into the arrange. You can do this by creating a track and then right clicking on it and assigning one of the aux tracks to it you just created for your multi-out instrument. Then, I can control that aux directly in the arrange window.

No, not very elegant. There are other ways too involving LOTS of environment usage and I say NO WAY. In this case you just mute the audio since the MIDI cannot be muted. Unlike DP, software instrument tracks do not control MIDI like the external instrument MIDI tracks. They really need a hybrid in there to get the best of both worlds (logic/dp).

[quincyg]

Where it fails for me is things like I can go in and mute individual notes inside a region in Logic if I want to just test turning off a few notes that I am playing with.

There's been one or two times where I tried using the Mute tool on a MIDI note because it just "felt" like something I should be able to do. It would be a lot quicker when trying variations of ideas to mute and unmute rather than duplicate takes and edit or whatever alternate method.

MIDI mute and velocity tools are among my favorite features in logic, along with "capture take as recording"