Is it possible to have a midi track's associated isntrument track automatically selected

Is it possible to have a midi track's associated instrument track automatically selected when the midi track is selected? Just curious as this would make bouncing tasks faster.
 
Thanks,
Mahlon

Hmmm... maybe I'm thinking about this wrong. I guess it wouldn't be possible because the midi track is sending out the data to the vst and the vst is sending back the audio, so the midi track is not really associated with returning audio.

I think what I'm trying to get as is, if I have a midi track called "trumpets" and it's output is triggering an external softsynth (VSL VE Pro on another computer). If I want to bounce that trumpet down to a new audio track so I can work with audio instead of midi, I select both the midi track and the instrument track it's associated with (the track receiving the audio data from the vst) in order to get the bounce done.

With one track, that's not a big deal. But sometimes I'm picking 6 tracks to bounce out of around 120 total tracks and it would be efficient if those 6 tracks' instrument (vst) tracks were selected when I selected the midi tracks. Would just cut down on a lot of screen scrolling to get everything selected.

Which brings me to another minor point. Who thinks it would be a good idea for Sonar to have something like "selection sets"? Sets of multiple selected tracks or busses which could be remembered as a set, and their selection could be recalled with the push of a single button or keystroke.

Thanks,
Mahlon

Thanks for your help. I think I'm confusing the terminology. I shouldn't say instrument track. I really mean an audio track which has it's input set to receive input from a soft synth, not the hybrid Instrument Track. I guess I was calling it instrument track just because I never use the hybrid "instrument track", and when I set an audio tracks input to something other than "None", the tracks icon changes to a half midi/half instrument track.

Multiple bounces of tracks in Sonar are working fine; I just wanted a short cut to automatically selecting that audio track (the one with it's input set to the soft synths output) when I select any midi track sending data to that soft synth. Or have selection sets where I can quickly select a number of tracks by clicking on just one track. I'll have a look into grouping.

Thanks for the help.

Mahlon

Mahlon

All good points. I'll try it.

I'm using the bouncing at the end of the composing stage to take everything to audio for mixing.

Mahlon