Mystic, I am not at all sure why you think I had issue with you or anything you have posted about Kontakt.

Ah - I think you meant by my reference to 'all that nonsense' - I certainly did not mean it as such - I did not mean anything untoward you or your post at all.

I just was trying to end that sentence without re-explaining all of those steps - I was just meaning for the time it took to do all that.

Your post was SPOT ON for the SAME set of steps I had gone through long ways back, when I was working through the same set of issues.  It's been quite a bit on that and my memory was a bit hazy on what I had attempted in trying to deal with that.

What I was trying to say was that having to do all of that is just a lot more work than just loading up a 2nd instance of K 5 and using the batch function to create the outputs for each instrument, and it's MUCH faster to just do that.

I PROFUSELY apologize to you for any slight - I think the world of your posts.  I greatly appreciated you jumping into the thread and taking the time to list all of that out.  Your logic was quite sound - it was the same thought path that I reasoned out.  

I just took it in a different direction - to avoid that whole thing, by just working within whatever bugs or limitations are within K 5 to as efficiently as possible have as bulletproof a methodology to getting access to the number of instruments I needed access to through using Kontakt 5 in Sonar.

OK?

Bob Bone

I saw the exact same behavior as Curtsong. After unassigning the aux outputs everything looks and acts normal. Mystic38's procedure works...

Ken

Thanks Ken.  

I'll try that.  

Bob Bone:  I generally don't use more than 4 instruments and 4 outputs for in Kontakt.  However, I'm working on a huge orchestral score and I love the Track Templates and Project Templates in Sonar.  X1 & X2.  I've been using them for quite sometime now.  You are right.  It's very time consuming to set it all up.  Hence, me setting up the large orchestral project templates.  When I do so, I also, create track templates of all the instances i.e. woodwinds, brass, strings, percussion so I can pull those up when I need them.  But, even those templates had been altered with the output assign issue.  

It would just be nice to have the outputs working properly.  Hopefully, Kens suggestion will get me there.  

Thanks everyone.  

Ok.  This is just crazy.  I just loaded up SonarX2 and dropped a track tempate I crated with 8 outputs for strings and the freakest thing.  The problem is gone.  All the assignments are fine now.  This is weird.  Must be the ghost in the machine.  Hmmmm.  

I don't know what it was or how it was fixed.  I must have rebooted my system at least 3 times each day over the past 2 days.  I just booted it up and everything was fine.  You saw the video.  I don't know what to say.  Keep an eye out for this phenom.  

I don't trust that kind of "It fixed itself" kind of voodoo thing.

If that works and keeps working, cool.

For myself, I found that just using the 2nd instance avoids even having to worry about it in the first place.

Glad you got moving forward again - however it happened :)

Bob Bone

So here's a thought, and this is also in response to Ken's suggestion.  Are the Aux1-Aux4 assignments interfering with the other output assignments?  Because Aux1 assignment was sharing the same audio output as the 6th audio output which is where the problems started occurring.  Is that what you were saying Ken?

I do agree - I think Mystic's steps DO work - and again didn't mean to imply that they didn't.  I found that for my pea-sized noggin that remembering to limit to 5 per instance was just easier on my sanity.

At least there are a couple of ways of doing this, versus none, so we got THAT going for us - hee hee.

Bob Bone

I can relate to the sanity factor.  LOL  

Always more than one way to skin a project.  :)

I'm just happy you are able to move forward with your project.

We want you to be as happy when you are recording as you are in that profile picture from 20 years ago.  :)

Bob Bone

Bob "Bad To The" Bone!!  

You are very kind sir.  Thank you for your fair wishes.  I'm happy to move forward too.  And that pic is from last year.  :)  And I'm still smiling.  :)