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VST Instruments and Instrument tracks
• The second button is used to activate or deactivate the
VST Instrument.
When an instrument is selected from the instrument pop-up menu, it is
activated automatically, i.e. the on/off control lights up in blue.
For some instruments you may also bypass the instrument by clicking the
Bypass button to the right of the on/off button.
• Click the Edit (“e”) button to open the control panel for
the VST Instrument.
• Below the Edit button is a small LED that will light up
when MIDI data is received by the instrument.
• The rightmost button allows you to activate the desired
output for the instrument.
This is useful when you are using VST Instruments that have a large num-
ber of audio busses, which may be confusing. Click entries in the pop-up
list to activate/deactivate output busses for this instrument.
Instrument tracks
An instrument track is a combination of a VST Instrument, a
MIDI track, and a VST Instrument channel, in other words:
it is a track coupled with a sound – it allows you to think in
terms of sounds rather than in terms of track and instru-
ment settings.
Adding Instrument tracks
To open and use an Instrument track, proceed as follows:
1. Open the Project menu and select Instrument from the
Add Track submenu.
You can also right-click in the track list and select “Add Instrument
Track” on the context menu.
2. The Add Instrument Track dialog is opened.
You can select an instrument for the track from the pop-up (but you can
also leave this until later if you wish). Specify the number of instrument
tracks you wish to create in the “count” field. If you click the “Browse
Presets” button, the dialog expands to show the preset browser, where
you can browse for sounds.
3. Click OK to add the Instrument track.
When you selected an Instrument in the Add Track dialog, the new track
will get the name of the instrument. When no instrument was selected,
the track will be named “Instrument track”.
An instrument track in the Track list.
Properties
• Each Instrument track has a corresponding channel
strip in the mixer.
• In the Inspector, you can select a VST Instrument from
the Instrument pop-up menu.
When you select an instrument from this pop-up, its control panel will
open automatically.
• You can also exchange the “sound” of an instrument
track (i.e. the VST Instrument and its settings) by extract-
ing these data from another instrument track or a VST pre-
set, see “Extracting sound from an instrument track or VST
preset” on page 308.
• On the Input Routing pop-up menu, you can select a
MIDI input.
Instrument tracks have only one MIDI input.
• To open the control panel for the VST Instrument, click
the “Edit Instrument” button in the Inspector.
• As with MIDI tracks, you can perform the usual MIDI ed-
iting procedures on the instrument track, like duplicate,
split repeat or lock the track, use the In-Place Editor, drag
and drop the MIDI parts of an instrument track etc. For
more information, see the chapter “MIDI realtime parame-
ters and effects” on page 315.
• As with MIDI track inspector and track controls, you can
adjust track delay, choose MIDI input, work with VST Instru-
ment panels, choose drum maps etc. For more information,
see the chapter “MIDI realtime parameters and effects” on
page 315.
• Instrument tracks have all options that VST Instrument
channels have, i.e. Inserts, Sends, EQ, etc.
Ö VST Instruments used in Instrument tracks do not ap-
pear in the VST Instruments window.
For an overview over all used VST Instruments, open the Plug-in Informa-
tion window via the Devices menu. For further information, see the sepa-
rate manual “Plug-in Reference”.