External Instruments Configuration in Cubase 8.5

[BasariStudios]

Hello and Thanks...i know how to configure and use an External Instrument,
i mean a hardware Synth configured as External Instrument but i never used
them before so they are kinda new to me. My question is, how do you get
MORE of the ONE??? My Modular i use on 2 MIDI Channels but there is one
MIDI Cable going in. Now when i configure it i can only open 1 Instance and
that's it, you can't open anymore...what am i missing? Like for example to
use the Same Instrument twice on a different midi channel. What i can do is
also create 2 EXI for each Channel, 1 and 2 but how do you set that up in
MIDI Devices? There is no channel selection, only MIDI IN and OUT.

Thanks

[Scotty]

If I am understanding you correctly all you need to do is create another midi channel. Put the output to the external synth in Cubase 8.5 and set the midi channel in the inspector. I trigger multiple channels of my Virus C that way. One instance of the external synth... multiple midi channels with their outputs set to send to the external synth.

Hello and Thanks...i know how to configure and use an External Instrument,
i mean a hardware Synth configured as External Instrument but i never used
them before so they are kinda new to me. My question is, how do you get
MORE of the ONE??? My Modular i use on 2 MIDI Channels but there is one
MIDI Cable going in. Now when i configure it i can only open 1 Instance and
that's it, you can't open anymore...what am i missing? Like for example to
use the Same Instrument twice on a different midi channel. What i can do is
also create 2 EXI for each Channel, 1 and 2 but how do you set that up in
MIDI Devices? There is no channel selection, only MIDI IN and OUT.

Thanks

[vegaron]

For me, creating one track with the external instrument and adding MIDI tracks for more than one channel was the only way to get it running. Like Scotty said.

But I found that concept so ugly that I went back to using MIDI and Audio tracks. There were just soo many inconveniences:
- (Aesthetically) It felt as if one MIDI channel deserved to get a master like external-instrument-track and the other channels get slave like MIDI tracks.
- Every audio-in-bus assigned to an external instrument became "locked", so I couldn't use it for audio tracks anymore.
- Furthermore, for every audio output the (physical) instrument has you have to define a new external instrument.

It really, really may be that I got (or remember) it all wrong but at the moment I don't find Cubase's concept of external instruments useful if there are more than one channel involved.

[BasariStudios]

Thank You very much guys, that fixed it.

[sin night]

I quote what vegaron said.

I don't use the external instruments feature, for me using an audio track with a midi track is a more flexible solution.

My template has a midi track and an audio track for each synth, grouped in folders (a folder with midi tracks, one with audio tracks). It works fine enough.