I am quite confused.

I use Battery 3 with Sonar, and have a custom kit I created in Battery 3, where each drum cell gets assigned to its own outputs, and then I simply created a bunch of tracks in Sonar and assigned each track to one of the outputs.

And separately, I frequently load multiple instruments into Kontakt 5, making multiple output assignments, and also have no trouble with Sonar having separate tracks pointing to the various outputs from the multiple instrument outputs coming from Kontakt 5.

From the above, it would appear that Sonar doesn't have any issues with assigning the tracks, and it would seem that for instruments that Kontakt also does not have issue with presenting multiple outputs to Sonar, so it would seem that closer examination of exactly what you are doing within Kontakt would be of value.

I will play around with what you are trying to do and post back later today on what I can figure out.  I have to leave early this morning for a doctor's appointment, and will be back here in the early afternoon, so I hope to have some additional information for you by late afternoon or early evening today.

Bob Bone

The Drummer libraries all have dedicated compressors, EQs, Reverbs, etc. so I though they were designed to do everything inside and just get sent to a stereo track in a DAW (at least that's how I use them).
But anyway, it looks more like a Kontakt issue to me... 

I am interested in this question.  I haven't bought Abbey Road (though I may), but I did just buy the full version of Kontakt and don't know how to send individual drums to separate tracks as with Session Drummer 3 or EZ Drummer (which make it obvious).

Hi folks,
I actually do this all the time. Once I get into the studio this morning I'll see if I can get you an example of how I do it.

Hm...I actually have track templates and project templates for this...I wonder if I can just put one of those somewhere you can get it and then you could D/L it, open it and reverse engineer it. Anyone know if that works for track templates?

Dean

OK, let's see how well track templates transfer from system to system. I've put a track template of one of my multi-out K5 setups here:

http://www.fade.net/NI-AR-Sparkle2.cwx

It uses the Abbey Road Modern Drummer Sparkle Kit and has some production done to it (just with Pro Channel). As long as you own that kit you should be able to just open it up and have a look at how it's set up.

Let me know if/how that works for you...I've not sent track templates to anyone before so I'm kinda curious if this will work great or fail spectacularly 


Dean

Thanks Razorwit, I will download the template and see if that helps.  I will let you know.

Thanks,
Mike

Hey, just wondering if that track template worked out for you. Kind of curious about their portability...

Dean

Hello Dean,
Thanks again for the template.  I was able to import it, and it does work.  However, it is not very clean.  The track names in Kontakt don't exactly match up with what I see in X2.  In some cases, I had to figure out by listening what insturment (snare for example) belonged to which track.
 
Here seems to be some hand shacking issues between Cakewalk and Kontakt, with regard to breaking the instrment out into seperate tracks, and names.
 
I will see if I can take some screen shots post them so you can see what I see.  I wonder if you see the same thing.
 
Thanks,
Mike

Hi Mike,
Sure, throw up a screen shot if you can. Are you hearing (for example) the kick mic's out of a Sonar channel other than the one labeled "Kick"? If so, I suspect you may have the Kontakt Mixer set up differently than I do and it's causing routing problems, but I'm curious.

Dean