I actually understand what you're saying for the most part. Since I know about guitar pedals and signal chains, that's helped me understand a bit easier working with VSTs. Can't recall what moved me to think about setting up VSTs in parallel, but I dabbled in that area. Connecting the wiring got confusing, but at least I know it's an option. Creating multi-out for a drum kit is more important for me, at the moment.Peter Widdicombe wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:08 am Yeah, without using a rack, you may not get both functional on one track. Remember - most MIDI plugins will NOT respond to audio input, so will be silent. Similarly, MIDI "note events" without a VST can't be heard. If you really MUST do this, you probably need a rack, so you can send the audio in to audio out, and midi IN to the VST you drop into it - and it's audio ALSO to the output. You can also have a rack with multiple VST's in parallel, so MIDI in on that track hitting the rack can feed all of the VST's in the rack; and their output all combined in the output.
There are probably about 3 other ways of doing that MIDI overlay thing... but you can save a rack as a preset if you have odd combinations you use often. Like keyboard splitting -
1. Create a rack and drop 2 VST's into it.
2. Drop a MIDI filter in front of each to block keys above/below a given key
3. Route MIDI in to both filters, and one filter to each of the VST's
4. Audio out on both VST's to L/R output.
Now when you play the keyboard, low notes go to one vst and high notes go to the other.
If your keyboard already HAS keyboard-split to different MIDI channels, replace the filter with one that filters based on MIDI channel input.
I have one keyboard with pitch bend and no mod wheel. Using these tricks and MIDI modifiers, I can reverse that and use the pitch bend wheel as a mod wheel instead.
Good tip on how to create a split keyboard (my Arturia is as new as WF, and I haven't learned all the ins and outs of that).
I have more pressing problems now. I've discovered that some of my Izotope plugins aren't working. Imager doesn't pass validation. Ozone 9 does, but when I load the plugin, the sliders and everything else doesn't respond. So I'm going through all my plugins.
I'd rather have a root canal, than to do a clean reinstall of the OS, which is really quick. It's all the plugins and authorizations. I may post in the Problem Plugins thread, or write support whether the latest update is problematic. I may check the Tracktion website and see if there's earlier versions of WF 11, and maybe install the version prior to the last 2 updates. Inevitably, I'll toast my system, and be forced to do a reinstall. I haven't had so much trouble since Win 98. And I lost all my earlier restore poinst. Something's up with my computer, and it's only a year and a half old.