On Jan 31, 2005, at 11:06, Colin Shapiro wrote: > I see no advantage in creating "clones" of an audio instrument. The big advantage, as I see it, becomes obvious when you are working graphically with automation. With the concept "8 clones = 8 midi channels" you get access to not only the the RMX plug-in part volume but also the plug-in parts aux sends. > If > you lower the fader on one clone, they all drop. In effect, there is > no separation of control. (Just lots more objects in your environment) Yes, that's the same as with the "midi multiinstrument cabled to RMX instrument" method. All eight faders affect the RMX audio instrument fader. Unless you put transformer in between to filter out cc 7 data. But since the midi multiinstrument faders do not connect to the RMX plugin's eight part volumes I see no advantage in doing that. BTW, last week I saw a post recommending to use the RMX midi learn function to map those faders to the RMX parts, but this doesn't work since RMX does not recognize the midi sent by those faders. Any ideas? > If you create a multi-instrument (call it RMX mult) and cable it to > an audio instrument with RMX loaded, you can simply have 8 tracks in > the arrange (RMX mult1/2/3 etc) and do exactly what you explain above > - i.e. drag regions from one track to another to play the different > channels in RMX. I do it all the time. But it would not let me work with Logics graphic automation on the same track as the midi regions were dropped on. That's the big disadvantage as I see it. I like the "audio instrument clones" method because it's neat and easy. If those seven extra audio object clones in the environments give you a bad day you can simply stuff them away somewhere where they can't be seen. > Similarly, automation can be done for each RMX channel. Yes, but only if you open up extra automation tracks inside the main audio instrument automation track. You cant write automation on the same track as the corresponding midi region is located. That's what buggs me with the Spectrasonics method. > There is even > an advantage with this multi-instrument method because each track of > the multi will show up in your Track Mixer, Yes, they do, but I do not se this as an advantage (se below) > allowing you control via > fader of volume, the ability to group, etc. No. Moving the Track Mixer multiinstrument fader does not correspond to the part inside the RMX plugin. Have you found a fix for this? Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen --- http://www.looproom.com (international) http://www.boysen.se (Swedish site) http://www.cdbaby.com/perboysen