Hi,

I'm back looking again at RB and am still finding some things very odd. I imagine again that I'm missing or misunderstanding something, but I can't yet see what or where, so...

I have the default synth set to VSTSynthFont64, setup IIRC via [MIDI Devices]. I've also there turned off Re-Route MIDI playback to default Dxi/VSTi synth. Tracks seem to play suitable instruments OK. I don't know which synth.

Now on a track in "Tracks" view, I click the down-arrow on the track to which I want to add a VSTi, to expand the VST control tab and click [Edit VTSi/DXi...]. Up pops the DirextX/VST Window. So far, so good.

On this window, the top entry says ">> VSTSynthFont64 (Default) <<", which seems reasonable-ish, though I don't knowingly have any tracks named thus. If I click on that box, I get a drop-down that offers lots of tracks. Scroll to the top and I see my named trackes. Select a named track, some things flicker and the DirextX/VST Windows reverts to as it was. Not what I expected.

Go down that window to the first plugin box showing "<VSTi> VSTSynthFont64", click it and select Kontakt. Some flickers and the window opens now with Kontak. OK. Find and double-click an instrument and after a pause it appears in the window. OK.

It seems that I can enter multiple instruments here into Kontakt but and these instuments now appear on all tracks when I click that [Edit VSTi/DXi..] button. That seems odd. All of the track description boxes still show "MIDI: Microsoft GS Wavetable synth" ... and I suspect that's still what it's still playing. It's certainly not yet playing the Kontakt instruments.

Presumably, somewhere, there's some kind of MIDI routing for this, but at present I can't find it, though I think I've succeded in the past in getting a VSTi to play here.

The PGM video for VSTs shows only effects, not VSTis.

The RealBand Manual shows only CoyoteWT, which offers a drop-down with "channels"(MIDI?), but Kontakt does not.

So how, please, do I connect a track to a VSTi instrument?

It also seems to lose Kontakt after saving and reloading. Again that isn't what I expected.

Any pointers, please? Thanks.

Gordon.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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