[Solved] Sonar & Native Instruments

I'm using NI's Session Horns on a Sonar track, which is reading MIDI note data. I have 'write' enabled on both the track and in the NI instrument window. I press 'record,' using Sound on Sound. I change the horn section dynamics throughout the piece, thinking I'm recording them. But during playback, none of the control data has been recorded.
 
I'm able to do this with NI's Vintage Organs, toggling the Leslie speaker (pitchbend wheel). So what am I doing wrong with Session Horns?

The kind of automation you are attempting is not the kind that the R/W buttons are for. To record midi performance changes like you are doing means you are recording midi continuous controller changes (CC).
 
By far, the easiest method is to have a keyboard or midi controller with  a few controllers on it. Then, right click in your instrument (Session Horns) on the item you want to control and select "midi learn", then wiggle a controller on your keyboard or midi controller. Start recording normally and move the controller to capture your changes.
 
If you don't have a hardware controller handy, you can manually add a CC lane in the PRV and map it to your instrument, then use a mouse to draw your controller messages. This is the hard way.
 
Regards,
Dan
 

gbar

dcumpian
 
By far, the easiest method is to have a keyboard or midi controller with  a few controllers on it. Then, right click in your instrument (Session Horns) on the item you want to control and select "midi learn", then wiggle a controller on your keyboard or midi controller. Start recording normally and move the controller to capture your changes.
 
 
Regards,
Dan
 

 
Doh, that's a better answer. 
 
For some reason, I automagically assume somebody is going to try to record controller info after the notes are already there.

That's the beauty of this method. You can record the controller changes after the notes are there.
 
Regards,
Dan

Velocity is not a CC so I'm a bit confused. There is one velocity value for each note. It's a note property like pitch is. You can edit velocity in the PRV though.

Ricebug
Velocity = touch sensitivity.

Ok, but those are 2 very different things. Aftertouch is a CC. Velocity is not. That's why I was not quite understanding your goal.

In Session Horns the Velocity Switch uses Velocity not aftertouch. In the Performance instrument for example, you can set velocity to control normal / Crescendo (FoPiCre). High velocity (strike the keys harder) causes a Sforzando (FoPiCre). 
 
But I don't see any way to change the velocity switch with a midi CC or keyswitch. You might have to set up separate tracks for each velocity switch you want to use or use something like Transmidifier to map keyswitches to midi channels. For that to work you would load a separate instance of the single articulation instrument and set each to a different articulation and midi channel. Then set up keyswitches in transmidifier that map to the different channels. Not a quick fix but once you got it up and running it should work well.
 
One option might be to load a separate instance of the single articulation instrument into Kontakt for each articulation you want to use. Then go into instrument options (the gears) and set a different velocity range for each articulation. You'd want to control dynamics with CC11. I'm not sure if that would work.
 
eInstruments should have allowed the articulations to be automated with keyswitches.