A few things to try (that I have done):

1) When I'm using Kontakt in RealBand, I turn off the "route all MIDI to default DXi/VSTi"; otherwise, you will not hear your MIDI input in the Kontakt instrument. If you have tracks that want to use the default (TTS-1 or Coyote or whatever), then just explicity use it on those tracks. Takes a couple of seconds to set up.

2) Make sure all your MIDI data on the track is on the channel you want it to be. I've found problems just using the right click and setting the track to, say channel 2. Instead, highlight the entire track and select the MIDI command from the menu to rechannel everything to channel 2 (by setting Old Low Channel to 1 and Old High Channel to 2, and then New Low Channel to 2 and New High Channel to 2 - this will rechannel everything to channel 2 - adjust accordingly for the channel you want). Then right click on the track and set it to Channel 2. That way, if you record anything new, it will all be on channel 2.

3) In theory, you should be able to select one instance of Kontakt for each of the tracks as long as you assign each of the Kontakt instruments in your rack to the channel each track is set to. So if the track had bass on channel 1 and piano on channel 2, then load the bass you want and the piano you want in the Kontakt rack and set the bass to channel 1 and the piano to channel 2 in Kontakt). If you have problems with that, then use step 4 below instead.

4) Load a new instance of Kontakt into each of the tracks. Not by just selecting Kontakt from your list of VSTi's, but instead doing the following: right click on a track and move to "Port" and then select either "Load DXi/VSTi Synth into Unused Slot" or "Load DXi/VSTi Synth into Specific Slot". These commands will load separate instances of Kontakt on each track. Then go to your first track, launch the Kontakt interface and select the bass sound you want (using the example above) and match the channel in Kontakt. Then go to your other track and do the same thing. You will now see only one instrument loaded in each instance of Kontakt (instead of a rack of multiple instruments).

All that being said, loading separate instances of Kontakt will incur a heavier load on your machine. Too many and it gets bogged down. I will often use separate instances, but then render the track to an audio track, then disable the instance by clicking the little check box next to Kontakt on the VSTi screen. That frees up resources for the other tracks.

Also, the above works the same in both RealBand and PowerTracks.

Hope this helps. I know it works on my machine; I hope it works for you.

John

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