vox,
things I like,
give the project logical editor a look,the PLE for those suitably inclined is an incredibly powerful tool.
find and audio track thats a bit sloppy timing wise, select it then open the quantise window, check the audio warp button and then hit quantise…Bam…audio quantised like midi in the arrange window,perfectly.
Export audio mixdown: when you’ve finished working with your VI’s just open the export audio menu and just check the instruments you want to bounce, they;ll all be rendered as audio in one go. I do it in two stages 1: all my tracks I want mono (snare,Kick etc) then 2: all my stereo tracks…simples…
media bay, Track presets;
Track presets don’t work for multi timbral VI’s so I’ve started using instrument tracks instead.
so I now have for example individual orchestral sections saved as separate instrument tracks eg one instance of play holding EWQLSO violins with expression and the same for violas/cellos/basses and then the whole lot saved as full string section. So I have them as track presets accessible in the media bay
I don’t there are any performance hits using separate instances of play/kontact/halion per section rather than multi-timbrally.
The Listen button:
Just select the tracks you want to ’ listen’ to and hit the ‘L’ button and all the other tracks Dim. Very handy as you can check tracks but not in total isolation.I have a key command set up for this.
Midi plugins: don’t forget about those.
Control room : if you’re tracking it’s a piece of genius especially with steinberg hardware as you get zero latency, independent monitor mixes.
Have fun.
MC