Very bizarre. What do the TTS-1 meters show? Open its interface and with MIDI 2 "in focus" hit a few notes.

Do you see the meter of channel 2 on the TTS interface move?

Another thought. Did you change the patch on channel 2 in the TTS interface or via the track? Check the instrument setting on the TTS interface not in the track header.

Yeah that's the odd thing.
With Either track 1 or 2 selected, both track meters are active and always only channel 1 meter on the TTS GUI 
Instrument track 2 meter never works even if selected.

On the TTS GUI, CH 1 says piano and CH2 says organ.
In it's system /options /outputs, Part 1 is piano, part 2 is organ, and organ is set to output 2 and multiple outputs is checked.

MIDI 2 is def set to the TTS and channel 2?

It may be some sort of project corruption.

Might be worth setting it up in a fresh project and see what happens.

Erased all tracks and TTSI
carefully followed the same instructions
unfortunately to the same results.

Thanks for your time on this. I have learned a lot and I do have a fallback position where I simply do a second (or more) instance of TTS1 for other tracks and set the CH 1 to another instrument..

Hmm, very strange. I'm not sure what else to suggest. Perhaps a second set of eyes over my instructions just to make sure they are clear enough and I'm not assuming or missing something obvious would help.

As a real shot in the dark try changing the inputs on the instrument tracks to the stereo outputs of TTS-1. That shouldn't make a difference but perhaps there's something in that. I'm clutching at straws though TBH.

Anyone else reading this thread care to give them a try or chime in if I've missed something obvious?

If I was the OP just strating out with mIDI I would experiment with a basic track.

One midi instance- in this case TTS
One audio track with gat.

Use the audio track from the midi event  to send to the compressor on the gat track.

I have a feeling that since he is using two channels on the TTS he is screqwing something up. I can't visualize exactly what is happening here.


Is the OP familiar with setting up sidechaining between audio tracks?

As the thread progressed, I was concerned about lingering existing issues so I made a new project to explore simply getting two instruments to play from one instance of TTS-1
I am fairly familiar with sidechaining between audio and was able to duck the guitar (comp on the guitar, do a Send to the comp from the control track) under the MIDI in the first instance.
That started the idea of 2 instruments with one TTS-1