using Garritan sounds with sonar home studio QUESTION

jjvibes
HELLO ALL!
 
I know how to have the Aria plug in speak to cakewalk, although my question is:
 
If I have 4 tracks or many tracks how do I load aria in  FOR ONLY ONE INSTANCE?  if I load aria keeps coming up per tracks and to the default channel..
 
love being self taught!
 
thanks for any insight.. j

Not sure exactly what your question is, but Garritan's Aria player is mult-timbral, as many samplers are.  That means each instance of this VST plugin instrument that you insert into a project can have up to 16 tracks, or instrument sounds.  Or one sound per MIDI channel, 1-16 if desired.  There are two Aria VST versions, one with only a single audio output, and one with 16 audio outputs. https://usermanuals.garritan.com/GPO5/Content/loading.htm#sequencer
 
So to Sonar, the Aria player is an "instrument", but within Aria, each slot can be used for a different Garritan instrument.  By using different MIDI channels you can trigger up to 16 different sounds from 16 different MIDI tracks in Sonar.  Or you could stack several sounds on the same channel for a layering effect.  EDIT: you can have 16 MIDI tracks in Sonar mapping to the same single VST instance of ARIA.  Each MIDI track has two output options you can choose from.  The first one lets you select the VST instance that you want to route the MIDI data to, the second one will let you select the MIDI channel in that VST that you want that track to play.
 
If you use the VST version with a single audio output, all instrument sounds within that one instance of Aria will be mixed together and will return to Sonar on a common audio bus or track.  The mixing will need to be done in Aria.
 
If you use the VST version with 16 audio outputs, the instrument sounds within that one instance of Aria can be individually routed to their own independent audio tracks in Sonar for further FX processing and mixing.
 
You could also insert as many simple instrument instances of the Aria VST player, using the single output VST, as your Sonar computer can handle.  Then load one sound in each VST if you wish, until you better understand the flexible MIDI and audio routing capabilities within Sonar.  Though taking advantage of the multis is where the real power is.  http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Music%20Creator%207&language=3&help=SoftSynths.11.html