Paul P


The word 'instrument' may be a bit confusing in the case of multi-timbral synth/player.

To Sonar, the TTS-1 is the instrument, but this has nothing to do with any actual musical instruments like trumpets, pianos or cymbals that are being played by the TTS-1.

I'm also new to all this midi stuff and I find it simpler and easier to understand to create the components separately. For example, I insert a synth (eg. TTS-1) to the synth rack with nothing attached (uncheck all the boxes in the form). Then insert as many midi tracks as are needed to control the different channels (musical instruments) in the synth. Then insert as many audio tracks as are needed to receive the output of the synth.

Finally go through everything and set the appropriate ins, outs and channels.

Just like you'd do in the hardware world.

I imagine that the Insert Synth dialog does all of this for you in various configurations, and I may end up letting it set things up for me, but for now I have little idea what the different options actually do. The simple instrument track for one is obscure in that it hides some of the created components from sight.

+1 - I also know that the insert soft synth dialog bo supports many different ways of doing things, but I too prefer to only have the Open Synth Properties check box checked, then I manually add audio and midi tracks as needed for that instance of synth, and set up routings.  I choose to be manually deliberate in my track setups.


There is, however, nothing at all wrong with checking as many boxes as you wish - it's really just personal preference, as long as you understand what each box is actually doing for you.  If you are not sure, once in that dialog box hit F1, and context-sensitive help will open for that dialog box - containing an explanation of each check box.


Bob Bone