Programming a Single MIDI Part Requiring Multiple Kontakt Instruments

SquireBum
Check out http://tencrazy.com/gadgets/mfx/.  There is a MIDI fx plugin called Channel Switch that uses CC values to specify channel that seems like it would satisfy your needs.  It is available in 32 and 64 bit versions.  I have not tried this specific plugin, but I have used the CC Map 64-bit plugin with no problems.  The plugins are Free to download and if you find them useful, you can Donate.  The developer is a forum member: http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3057137.
 
Hope this helps,
-- Ron

robert_e_bone
I use a single midi track to record any articulation for a given instrument - the EastWest instruments seem to have on average the most articulations available for a given instrument in my collection, so for a violin instrument I will record note data on 1 midi track, and anytime I need a different articulation, that gets recorded on a 2nd midi track that also points to the same soft synth violin instrument.
 
For me, I would have legato and differing levels of vibrato articulation data both recorded on that 2nd midi track for the violin sound, as it makes it pretty easy to see that one has been inserted.
 
Bob Bone

PeteL

ralf
To move midi data from one track to another without changing the position, use the track view. There, you can drag selected midi events with the mouse and prevent position changes by holding the shift key.

Yes, in the Track View you can easily constrain the horizontal movement when dragging notes.  But I can only seem to drag the notes within the source track, not from the source track into a different track.  Is there a method to do that I'm not aware of?
 
[Edit: forgot to proofread, so fixed some typos.]

robert_e_bone
Wow - that's a stumper - I would probably find a different flute instrument that was more easily controlled through articulations than that one.

robert_e_bone
Have you tried contacting either the support folks for whoever makes that flute instrument, or perhaps posting on their user forums - or even contacting Native Instruments technical support to ask them for ideas?
 

Slugbaby
Why can't you include the key switches on the same MIDI track as the notes?  

Slugbaby
You could still do it on one track (i think) by creating a "flute map" that is just the notes and keyswitches listed.  There are 3 panels in the PRV - one for the piano roll notes, one for a map, and one that shows velocities.  By using them in the same PRV, splitting the view screen vertically, you could see the notes aligned to piano keys, and still have the mapped/named keyswitches.
 
EDIT:  I'm not at my DAW right now to confirm, so i may be wrong.  You MIGHT have to direct the MIDI track to a "flute map" with the key switches, and then reroute it to the synth once you've programmed the switches...

bitflipper
It depends on the instrument(s), but consider this: a single instrument with many articulations necessarily has the same total number of samples as separate instruments with one articulation each. 
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The library in question has 5 instruments of 6 unique keyswitched articulations each.  The only way I currently see to make tracks correspond to a single articulation is to load each of the 5 instruments 6 times each, and manually pressing the appropriate GUI button to set the desired articulation for the track/instrument instance.   That will lead to the 30 tracks previously discussed.  But, unfortunately, each of the 6 instances required to separate the articulations within the instrument will also contain the samples for the other 5 (unused in the single-articulation track) articulations.  That will obviously take up more memory!
 
Ideally one could purge the 5 unused articulations per single-articulation track, but I'm not sure how readily that is done.  I envision having to first write and play a "Prepare for Purge" sequence a particular articulation track in order to exercise every single sample within the articulation to be contained in the track, and then purging and saving the single-articulation-instrument.  Not only would I have to determine how many velocity levels need to be exercised within the "Prepare for Purge" sequence, I'd also have to exercise round robins, legato/non-legato, and probably other samples within the articulation.
 
Boy this is getting complex!  Maybe I should just stick to a single articulation/velocity and create "robot music!"
 
Seriously, though, I'm currently leaning toward 5 tracks for the 5 instruments (and associated keyswitch tracks), as I keep finding ways to make that scheme work easier.  For instance I've found (thanks to this thread) that I can now quickly copy-cut/paste from one track to another in PRV at the exact same timing by (1) selecting notes, (2) SHIFT-G to automatically set the Now Time to the start of the selection, (3) CTRL+C, (4) click the destination track in PRV, and (5) CTRL+v.  That is actually quicker done than said.
 
But still thinking and optimizing the workflow ...
 
Pete
 
[EDIT - For some reason the formatting has gotten all dorkec up when displayed, even though everything looks OK in the edit mode.  I'll try posting it again below.]

PeteL
You mean when creating the drum map set up 30 unique keyswitches (one for each articulation), route them to the appropriate MIDI channel (instrument), and remap the notes to the appropriate note in the range of C0-F0?
 
If so, THAT IS BRILLIANT!
 
I was just setting up something similar, but not with all the conveniences you mention (if I'm understanding correctly).  Time to go edit that ...