TStorms
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Sex and Drugs and RocknRoll
Now that I have your attention....  Hey folks! Is it possible to have a single instance of a soft synth, Dimension Pro, for example play different patches during the same track? For instance, can it play a flute patch in bar 1 and a piano in bar 4 of the same track? Or, is it necessary to insert a new instance of the synth for each sound I want in the project? Thanks a bunch... 
post edited by TStorms - 2011/11/06 16:12:07
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Re:Sex and Drugs and RocknRoll
2011/11/06 18:12:52
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Possibly. You would be limited to 4 different instruments. Load one on each page and just automate DP to turn each one off and on when you need. All the instruments would have to be on one midi track and not play at the same time though.
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Re:Sex and Drugs and RocknRoll
2011/11/06 19:27:58
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Possibly. You would be limited to 4 different instruments. Load one on each page and just automate DP to turn each one off and on when you need. All the instruments would have to be on one midi track and not play at the same time though.
Thanks! I'll give that a try... It's good thing I just ordered Simon Cann's Cakewalk Synth book... hopefully, it will help me figure this stuff out!
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Re:Sex and Drugs and RocknRoll
2011/11/06 20:29:17
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DP is quadra-timbral - meaning its 4 elements can each be assigned to a differnet midi note. As long as you aren't doing multi-elements per voice patch, you can have 4 different patches running.
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TStorms
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Re:Sex and Drugs and RocknRoll
2011/11/06 21:36:08
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AT
DP is quadra-timbral - meaning its 4 elements can each be assigned to a differnet midi note. As long as you aren't doing multi-elements per voice patch, you can have 4 different patches running.
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Thanks AT! For the most part, anything beyond a preset with these soft synths pretty much baffles me... but, I do recall that one of the patches I'm using uses 3 elements. I might be better off to just suck it up and use a new DP instance for each patch...
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Re:Sex and Drugs and RocknRoll
2011/11/07 14:57:35
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DP is quadra-timbral - meaning its 4 elements can each be assigned to a differnet midi note. As long as you aren't doing multi-elements per voice patch, you can have 4 different patches running.
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Thanks AT! For the most part, anything beyond a preset with these soft synths pretty much baffles me... but, I do recall that one of the patches I'm using uses 3 elements. I might be better off to just suck it up and use a new DP instance for each patch...
That's what I'd do. I've run up to about a dozen or so in the past without problems.
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Re:Sex and Drugs and RocknRoll
2011/11/07 23:33:22
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I see two issues here. - Does the synth respond to patch changes - IIRC Dimension pro, like most other sample players does not. loading the samples takes time so they are not ideally suited to real time patch changes.
- Is the Synth multi-timberal. As other have said Dim Pro has four parts but its streaching it to call it multi-timberal.
With Dim Pro I would recommend a seperate instance for each patch. One, you won't have to mess so much within Dim Pro, and two, its easier to apply different effects to the different sounds during mix down. With a fully multi-timberal VSTi, like Kontakt only one instance is required, however I would still have a seperate MIDI track for each patch, and route each patch to a seperate output channel in Sonar's mixer. Synths like TTS-1 can respond to patch change so you could put everything on one track - I am not sure why you would want to thought.
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Re:Sex and Drugs and RocknRoll
2011/11/08 09:43:48
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Thanks for the suggestions and info guys... I seem to have come to my senses and decided for multiple DP instances when I need different patches for that synth. I'm also using IK Sampletank and have found that I can have a single instance playing multiple MIDI tracks (I still need to figure out how to route the individual sounds to separate output tracks - pretty sure that can be done tho). My original intent for having one DP instance play multiple instruments was to save resouces. Which, on my last computer, was always a huge concern. But, it seems that with my i7 870 running X1 64Bit w/8GB RAM, multiple synth instances don't even make a blip on the resource meter... a guy could get spoiled... 
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