Hi Everyone, Question: 1 instantiation of Kontakt…with 2 instruments in the Multirack…I need separate volume controls for each instrument…Please show me All options…ie. whether its separate channels, separate midi blocks, or how to route volume controls within kontakt…etc…Yes, I know that I could make 2 separate instances of Kontakt and load each instrument to its own block of Kontakt…But I want to go deeper…Thank you!!!
Why not use multi out in Kontakt and the route to separate gain controls.
Take a look at this blog article for how to do this using @pianopaul recommendation
I guess I read your question a little differently. By Multitrack, are you referring to layering more than one voice into a single sound? If so, here’s how I do that with Kontact VSTs.
For a particular song I play, I have the keyboard split where I can play Organ with my left hand and a layered piano voice with my right. The panel looks like this:
I combine a DX7 sound with a grand piano to get the sound I want.
My wiring view looks like this:
Pressing a key in the upper octaves of my keyboard result in a note played by both the DX7 and piano VSTs. I use one og the GP mixers to balance the volume between all of the voices. But my foot pedal is set to control the voulme within the Kontact VSTs directly by learning that pedals controller to the Kontact volmue slider.
The volume controls in the panel are mapped to the mixer volume and the level meters are mapped to the mixer levels.
Notice that even though the DX7 and piano both use the upper end of the keyboard, I still use individual MIDI in blocks. 1. I’ve seen problems on occasion with using the same block to drive both VSTs. 2. I may want to transpose one or the other by an octave or two and that’s easily done in the MIDI block.
So, my right hand gets a nice grand piano sound along with a bell type ring each time a press a key. I have others where I might add a pad type voice like choir to a percussive voce like piano. This is how I layer the voices and have had no problems with it.
Referring to a single contact instance, I select the VSTs directly from GP.
Now, once you add a Kontakt instance, you could do your layering within Kontakt. But then you have to find a different means of managing individual instrument volume like setting up a widget for each MIDI channel in that multi. That didn’t appeal to me.
If I misunderstood your question, I apologize. If I understood correctly, I hope this helps.
What problems have you seen?
(while your post was very interesting, as one of the developers, I’m always wanting to know about issues)
You’re asking an old man to remember what happened a year or so ago… 
I don’t think I recall enough of what I saw to be of use to you. And it was version 4. I would hate to send you off on a witch hunt. Best I recall, I attributed the problem to the NI VSTs I was using. Some of those do not play well with each other - or at least didn’t back then. The ones I have had the most problems with in the past is trying to use the Stradivari Violin with Session Strings. Also had issues if you send more than one simultaneous note to that violin VST.
So, I made a mental note back then that I would just always set up a MIDI in for each voice, partially because of the problems I saw back then (in GP4) but also because I often require different settings for each voice - most often transposing up or down one or two octaves.
Oh, OK — but that’s not a bug with using multiple GP MIDI In blocks
In general I lean on GP for pretty much everything I can over the plugin itself (volume, splits, etc.).
Thanks, but no, I was talking bout something else…Problem solved!!
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@dhj actually, multiple midi in blocks was the solution. Trying to use a single block with multiple Kontakt voices was the problem.
Using a single block to multipe voices should be fine too