Omnisphere in X3 - Needs Channel 1

This actually started, randomly, while I was on Sonar 8.5, and has now continued over to Sonar X3 (I just upgraded today).
 
If I add an instance of Omnisphere, I can't control it from my keyboard until I select Midi Channel 1. HOWEVER, it appears my problem is worse now in X3 becuase there is no Midi Channel selection on an instrument track...
 
Sure enough I can add a Midi track, set it to Channel 1 and output to the Omnisphere instrument track, but that's a lot of steps. I thought I could maybe do a Track Template, but the Track Template would then point to the first instance of Omnisphere, so no matter what I'd have multiple extra steps...
 
It's not just Omnisphere... Kontakt behaves in a similar way (requires a midi channel to be selected) and others as well. And then some don't need a Midi channel to be selected and just work right away...
 
Any ideas?
 
Thanks so much everyone.

Man you're the 3rd person to tell me this! haha. I was SO excited back when the simplified instrument track became a thing (Sonar 5 maybe? I forget) and I've been using them ever since but apparently no one else has haha. It's so weird cause everything USED to default to channel 1, but then at some point they started defaulting to omni which of course is what caused the trouble. The difference is that in Sonar 8.5 I was able to then choose the channel for the instrument track... In X3 you apparently can't choose a channel for them...
 
Anyway, I guess I'm just gonna have to suck it up and start using the 2 separate tracks again. ORRRRR now that I've figured out how to insert an audio and midi again (it's been FOREVER haha)... Maybe I'll just make templates for Omni and Kontakt and any other multitribral synths i have and keep on using the instrument tracks... MWAHAHAHAHA :-)
 
 
 
(I'll probably just suck it up and start using the separate audio and midi tracks)

For instrument tracks, at the bottom of the Inspector there will be an Audio and a MIDI tab.  Just switch to the MIDI tab (Audio is the default) and you can set the channel, bank, patch, etc.
 
I personally use SITs most of the time and use the traditional split design for multi-timbral instances.  You can, of course, also split a SIT into a MIDI/Audio pair and recombine it afterwards if needed.   Flexibility is a good thing.

Guess what everyone...
 
So this past weekend, I was having an issue where my keys had been transposed and for example when I hit an A on the keyboard, it was really hitting an F# and so on... So I looked up how to totally factory reset my keyboard... Fixed the problem and moved on...
 
Then today, I just randomly without thinking loaded an instance of Omnisphere and started tapping away on the keys without setting Channel 1... It works like it used to!!! YES! I'm so happy haha. I guess it's good to know how to do the track folder with the separate audio/midi tracks, but for most cases I really don't need it and now I can finally go back to doing it how I used to.

polarbear,
 
It's still worth setting up a track template for Omnisphere. You just do it once - set up 8 channels of MIDI, and either different Omnisphere outputs to go with them or (as I do) just have everything come out one set of outputs. The instance of Omnisphere is part of the track template - so if you want another instance of Omnisphere - just use the same track template again ;-)
 
After that - do it once for Kontakt (there are lots of threads about this) - then you're set forever (well, for a while anyway...)

 
I'm glad that helped!
 

Oh yea. Having options is always best :-)