Renaming Lanes in Mixcraft 9

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Renaming Lanes in Mixcraft 9

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I've been using multiple instruments in one instance of kontakt and creating lanes for each one to produce sound in independently. The process works and I get my individual sounds, however, when I assign a MIDI channel to each of my lanes, the default names are "Channel 01", "Channel 02", etc. Is there a way for me to modify the names of these so they reflect the instrument playing within them? It can get confusing really quick when I have more than 3 instruments. Thanks
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Re: Renaming Lanes in Mixcraft 9

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Hi,

There's no option to rename the lanes, but you could have each instrument on its own track using Route To Track. Instead of choosing a virtual instrument for a track, you choose another track that has Kontakt on it it. Each track can be set to its own MIDI channel, and you can name them anything you want. See page 288 of the Mixcraft 9 help manual for details.

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Re: Renaming Lanes in Mixcraft 9

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Acoustica Greg wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:43 am Hi,

See page 288 of the Mixcraft 9 help manual for details.

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Re: Renaming Lanes in Mixcraft 9

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hpharley90 wrote: Sat Apr 17, 2021 12:50 pm
Acoustica Greg wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:43 am Hi,

See page 288 of the Mixcraft 9 help manual for details.

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Re: Renaming Lanes in Mixcraft 9

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I’m curious.., what are the benefits to setting up a Multitimbral VST this way outside of being able to name the tracks, and select different track colors? I use several Multitimbral VST’s.., one being Korg Triton. I typically set up lanes and assign the appropriate midi ch’s. I tried this suggestion and while I was able to name tracks and select colors, I found a major disadvantage to be that every time I selected a different voice on a selected part, MixCraft “priority” defaulted back to the “main VST track”.

I had 4 parts assigned in the VST, each with the appropriate “route” method mentioned. I had drums on part 1. In MixCraft I clicked on the appropriate track for part 4. It played the sound assigned to the part via my midi keyboard, but if I selected a different sound, MixCraft changed back to the “master VST” track, and I’d be playing the drums assigned to part 1. I had to keep reselecting track 4 every time I selected a different sound.

I’m guessing this route is a “have your patches preselected” method.., or am I missing something. Using the other method of simply assigning lanes doesn’t do this.

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Re: Renaming Lanes in Mixcraft 9

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Hi,

It was created for people who wanted to work with tracks instead of lanes for whatever reason when using multi-timbral plugins.

Normally, the selected track gets the MIDI, so it's normal that you'd have to reselect the other track after selecting the master track.

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P.S. As a side note, here's another use for Route To Track in a video from Acoustica Chris (circa 2016): MX8 MIDI routing awesomeness
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Re: Renaming Lanes in Mixcraft 9

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Thanks!
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