Fabio - did you ever get your extra Piano sound issue figured out? I just happened to read through this thread again, and maybe I have left you hanging for quite a while on that problem. Please do let me know, and I will try to help you if help is still needed.

(edited - I just realized there were 2 more pages to the thread - my it has gotten pretty lengthy - hope folks are not too bogged down in it to get assistance. - anyways - if you still need help please let me know)

Bob Bone

After purchasing some sound sample sets from Boulder Sounds, i downloaded and installed the free Kontakt5 VST2 synth player, per instructions. - After some time, the free Kontakt5 plugin for Cakewalk stopped working, with the words "Activate". - Unfortunately, nothing happens when the "Activate Control Center" button is pressed.

robert_e_bone
Fabio - did you ever get your extra Piano sound issue figured out? I just happened to read through this thread again, and maybe I have left you hanging for quite a while on that problem. Please do let me know, and I will try to help you if help is still needed.

(edited - I just realized there were 2 more pages to the thread - my it has gotten pretty lengthy - hope folks are not too bogged down in it to get assistance. - anyways - if you still need help please let me know)

Bob Bone

Hi Bob. Just saw this, sorry. Thanks for checking back. Honestly, I've given up for the moment as it was so time-consuming getting this up and running. Between the echo issue, selecting the right midi control from the midi-controller, recording to the separate channels didn't seem to have the same kind of options as just running Kontact as a simple instrument. Don't remember specifically, so I know that's no help. I guess I ran out of time and patience. 
 
I'll revisit again soon and have another go at it as it would be good to learn to use it effectively.
 
Cheers

I never use Simple Instruments, but to the best of my knowledge, you cannot load multiple instruments into a single instance of Kontakt, when using Simple Instrument Tracks.
 
So, you may be burning through a bunch of memory needlessly - just be aware of that.  As you get into more and more complex projects, memory utilization may become an issue.
 
And really, if you load let's say 4 instruments into an instance of Kontakt, it will automatically assign midi channels 1-4 to them, in the order you added them to the Kontakt instance.  If you then use the batch function to configure each loaded instrument to have its own stereo outputs, rename those outputs, then all you have to do is match up the correct midi instrument to a midi track, set the midi track's midi output channel to match the midi channel for the instrument in Kontakt, add an audio track, and set it to pick up the correct output from the instrument from the Kontakt instance.
 
All of the above takes only maybe 3-5 minutes at most, and you will get that time down to super quick in no time at all, as you do it more often.
 
Bob Bone
 

robert_e_bone
I never use Simple Instruments, but to the best of my knowledge, you cannot load multiple instruments into a single instance of Kontakt, when using Simple Instrument Tracks.
 

Actually, you can - I've done this many times.   The limitation is that all instrument outputs will route to that single track in SONAR.   But otherwise it works well IMO.

Yup - I guess that is correct.  I always want to route audio for each instrument separately, so for me, that means never using Simple Instrument Tracks for a multi-rack Kontakt instance with multiple loaded instruments.
 
Bob Bone
 

Thank you for the great tutorial.

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Hey Guys - perhaps you can help me figure this out - Followed all of these steps - however - sonar sees errors on outputs 7 and 8?  

I myself always limit the number of loaded instruments in a single Kontakt instance to 5-6, and never have issues.
 
Could it also be possible that the particular Kontakt dll you inserted was the one with only 8 outputs supported?  There are 3 versions, one has 8 outputs, another has 16, and I think the other supports either 32 or 64.  I always use the 16 output one, and then limit my instruments to a max of 6 (12 outputs used out of the 16 it supports).
 
If you look at the properties and then details, for a given Kontakt dll, it will show you how many outputs that one supports, and I think you can see them in a name/desc field too.
 
Bob Bone