So after having so much trouble trying to the the instrument tracks refer to my external midi devices, I saw I had some time ago set the bass to padshop. I didn’t like the sound that much and went through the choices and most seemed horrible to me. I decided to try Halion and there I found a lot of bass sounds that I liked. I tried another track for another part and found also many sounds I liked and I thought I should maybe just start making all my assignments to this and forget about my synths. But I was having several Halion windows and each didn’t show the other tracks. I stopped and went to read more in the manual and learned some things but it got into stuff way beyond what I needed to do while not clearing up this basic thing for me. At one point it seemed I had gotten 3 tracks sounding into the Halion and soloing or muting worked for them. But when I added in
another on 3, I couldn’t get it to sound, at all though it showed loaded, and then the other tracks didn’t show any activity within Halion though they were playing and soloing or muting there made no difference. Should I remove the extra Halions and just load one. In the picture the 3 muted tracks play and track 6 is flashing. Track 3 which is soloed, I can get no sound from. Am I supposed to have a Haion for each track? doesn’t seem to make sense with 16 tracks in a window.
I wish someone could explain some of this to me. I have sounds I chose and like, like the bass, but in the inspector, it just says program selector and if I click that I don’t know if what it shows is going to change what I selected in Halion and lose it. Likewise with the others. And now I have 6 Halion racks, because I couldn’t seem to get the sounds from more than one in any to sound. And is there any relation between the 16 channels and midi channels? I’m just going stop and save before I ruin what I got. Maybe stuck thus all weekend with no phone help.
What is this OC that the track I can’t get any sound from mean. The others don’t show that.
Seeing your first screenshot, it seems that you are using an instance of HALion Sonic 7 for each track. It should work, doing things like that, but you can also have one instance of HALion Sonic for all the involved tracks, using the multiouts implementation of an Instrument track :
HALion Sonic is loaded as an instrument track
In the Right Zone > VSTi panel, select HALion Sonic and choose the wanted outputs (one per sound needed).
In HALion Sonic, select all the presets needed on different MIDI channels
In the Mix page of HALion Sonic, select, for each channel the wanted outputs.
In the instrument track, click on the Automation icon that appears when hovering the mouse on the left of its header : you’ll see all the HS7 outputs previously activated appearing (they’ll appear also in the MixConsole as individual strips).
In the track inspector, each time you’ll change the MIDI output channel, the corresponding sound will be played, as indeed, each number on the left of the HS7 presets frame is the MIDI channel number required to trigger the sound.
So I went back to the project. I started with the one with the melody track, which lights up. I went to the other tracks to see what Halion setting they had and put that in the inspector and activated an input on the Halion track with the melody. I’d double click on the right and make sure that the channel responded to change. I did the same with all the others. I was able to get mel hi sounding that wasn’t before. I decided to add mel lo which was going to the Akai z8 to the Halion. I was getting no sound though after changing and when I clicked on the icon in the inspector a new Halion popped up. I was able to verify that in the starting Halion that now had 5 channels, that if I double clicked on any track, some things on the edit page would change showing it recognized they were implented. However when the song played, only the melody track would show activity and only it could be muted in Halion while the others still played.
I reread your suggestiong and opened the midi and mixer pages. The midi channels are the same and at first all were directed to main, I changed to the numbered channels corresponding, but either way, only the inital melody lights up and can be muted.
I am confused, as I was told by the tech that with Instrument tracks if they have different midi data, they will all need separate Halions, as only if they are all the same data and you just want assigned to different instruments, then you use one Halion.
And so, if you want the different tracks to play different parts in one Halion they need to be midi tracks. The reason I had copied the midi tracks to instruments had been to use Halion instead of their original synths, so this was an unecessary waste of time?
