Apologies if this may have been covered in some way or form in another thread; I've searched in the Forum for quite some time and have not come across something similar.
 
I am running X1 Studio on a PC W7 64bit. I am not the youngest kid on the block anymore, either - so thanks for bearing with me.
 
Wondering if there is a 'simpler' way to load SMF and assign sounds than what I do: basically, I Open SMF (not Import); let's say a file consists of 6 MIDI tracks. I then insert one soft synth as 'Single Instrument track' and load the instrument I need; then I drag / move content of one of the 6 MIDI tracks onto the soft synth track. And so on. Eventually, I would have inserted 6 softsynths as Single Instrument Tracks, and dragged content of one of the six MIDI track to each of them respectively.
 
It works - but is rather time consuming. Does anyone recommend an easier / quicker way of doing this? Maybe via a multitimbral sound module (I have Kontakt & M5; I've seen some posts using TTS as 'multitimbral' sound module - but I don't have TTS, and the Sonar version was older than my X1)? In which case I would have no idea how to assign different MIDI tracks to different outputs within one multitimbral soft synth......
 
Any guidance/input/comment is much appreciated, thank you.
 
 

All you have to do is change the output of the MIDI track to the softsynth. You don't need to drag it to the softsynth track. 

If you have X1 Studio, you should have Cakewalk TTS-1 as one of the softsynths. If not, re-reun the installation and tell it just to add the TTS-1. Look harder though because you should already have it. 

And don't use instrument tracks.

You have the MIDI tracks all you need is an audio track with a synth in it. Use TTS-1 or other synths in multiples or Kontakt or the like.

Many thanks, Gents!