Thanks for all that. I actually understood it and have re-done my little learning project to use that method.
Before I did, just want to share something really weird that happened to me–not really asking for help on this, it was just weird. I had about 14 Instrument tracks loaded, each going to a VST: some were HALion, some were SampleTank, and a couple to Kontakt. Right in the middle of playing through a test run, about half the tracks just stopped playing; the ones that stopped were all SampleTank or Kontakt tracks, but some of the tracks to those VSTs still worked. I could pull up the VST interfaces, play notes on their virtual keyboard and have the level meters on the tracks bounce, everything looked good but if I tried to play the track or use the virtual keyboard in the key editor: silence. Again, only some tracks were affected and I couldn’t find a pattern. If I deleted the project and re-imported the original MIDI file, then re-assigned some VSTs to the instrument tracks, they’d work until I saved the project and re-started Cubase; then they’d go silent again. During this time Cubase started acting oddly, taking several minutes to start up (I actually force-quit a couple of times thinking it would never start). I re-booted my Mac a couple of times and it didn’t seem to help.
Like I said, just odd.
I have the tracks in as MIDI now, and the VSTs I want set up on the Rack, and everything seems to be working just fine in that mode so I’m not going to spend a lot of time puzzling out what was happening with the Instrument tracks.
Anyway, thanks again, and I’ll definitely check out YouTube for some good tutorials!
