User guide
Tracktion 4 Reference Manual
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If you want to experiment with virtual instruments, Tracktion ships with a built in sampler. Chapter 3.4
explains how to use this sampler lter.
In summary, to use a virtual instrument, just add it to a track in the same way that you would an effect
lter. That’s really all there is to it!
Software Instruments With Multiple Outputs
While most virtual instruments offer only a stan-
dard stereo output, there are some, typically drum
machines and samplers, that have multiple outputs.
If you wish to use these instruments to their full po-
tential, rather than only using the main stereo output
channels of the instrument, you will need to wrap
them in a rack lter. Rack Filters are extraordinarily
powerful, but also a little complex. As such they have
a whole chapter (Chapter Nine) of this manual to
themselves. Here we will just look at using them for
this one specic task.
• Place the multiple-output VSTi on a track as normal.
• Right-click on the VSTi lter, and select the
wrap this lter in a rack option.
• The VSTi will be replaced by a rack lter, and the rack editor should be visible. (You should see
something like Figure 4.3.6).
With your rack ready, you simply need to place copies of it on as many tracks as you have outputs (Fig.
4.3.7).
Keep in mind that mono outputs will need a track to themselves.
• Click on each rack lter icon in turn. This will show the rack properties in the properties panel.
• Choose from the
left/right output comes from boxes, the VSTi output(s) you wish to connect to
the current track (Fig. 4.3.8).
• Click the
racks button, or press CTRL + G (CMD + G for Mac users) to hide the rack editor.
Figure 4.3.6
Figure 4.3.7
Figure 4.3.8