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With one working track template, you can insert as many instances in a project as you wish.
Yeah, I understood that, although I didn't relay so well back to you. I would put two, three, or more instance of GURU in my template. I would delete the leftovers if I didn't need them after the fact. Thanks again! I really think this will work for the time being!! I am really trying to get off of GURU dependencies and move towards a more efficient workflow. I now have Maschine, Motu BPM, Geist, GURU and a host of other tools. I use a lot of them standalone, but I find myself almost always rolling them back into Sonar to beef up with hardware synths and other Sonar goodies.
GURU really ticked me off because they didn't design an intelligent search mechanism into it before they discontinued it. This means that as I have to move samples to new drives or got a new machine. GURU would prompt me to search for every stinking sample assigned to pads (potentially 512 samples = 4 layers x 16pads x 8 banks) whenever I tried to open up old GURU song files. It took me over a year to convert all of my GURU kits over. When trying to convert my Sonar 8.5 projects to Sonar X1, this was 90% of my time consumption. All because I had to manually search for each stinkin sample on my own. Poor design!!! So I am trying to migrate to something more dependable like NI products, which will at least search your directories for you on its own. The whole non-64-bit version of GURU was the straw on the camel's back for me. Historically, Fxpansion dropped support for DR-008 back in the day and went to GURU. Then they dropped GURU and went to Geist. Now they focus more on synths and other tools more than Geist. So it's probably next. I want out. It's a shame it was my only drumming tool prior to Maschine. 100's of my kits and songs use it. The only reason I may use Geist is for the effects and envelop capabilities not found in Maschine.
---Of course, none of this would have ever been needed by me if Cakewalk would have matured their Step Sequencer to allow for real-time time midi recording as opposed to single note entry. I needed a robust live midi recordable drum sequencer that Sonar didn't have. Hence, Guru, Maschine, BPM, Geist. I gave up waiting.
Okay-- I'm starting to sound mental here. Fxpansion struck a nerve. Good company. Just don't follow through products long enough for me.
Thanks again for your help.