It's been a long time since I have used Cubase.. I remember way back.. that there were pluses and minuses of using a MIDI track as opposed to a instrument track.

ie you could do things on one that you couldn't on the other. but I can't remember what the specifics were and some of it was not obvious (to me at the time) in the manual.

have they changed any of this since version 4? like in reaper where you can do whatever you want on a track? instead of small limitations on both?

what were the limitations again on a instrument track as opposed to a midi track agian? and vice versa.

I know sonar finally switched this in x2.

instrument track - essentially for VSTi purposes (picks up all VSTi's automation parameters etc)
midi track - works better for hardware, which doesn't have dedicated VSTi interface (eg Access Virus)

thank you!

Instrument tracks don't support plug-ins with multiple outputs. This is the only limitation this time. This is also true for external hardware if they using more than 2 channels.
There is also some (rare) limitation for plug-ins using some kind of midi routing to work (controller plug-ins for external hardware). This works not with instrument tracks and needs a midi track.

Yeah, no.

A midi track connected to a vi results in a vst channel, which per exposed automation parameters is not restricted at all.

an instrument track is restricted to the one possible midi channel; you don't even have access to the assignment. unless this is changed by C6?

the advantage to instrument track is presets showing in the inspector.

if you require a mulitimbral instance of the vi, you have to use midi tracks.