> Set up 16 Audioinstrument 1s (or whichever one you're using for > Kontakt), each assigned to a separate MIDI channel. It'll look like > you have 16 Kontakts assigned, but there's only one. The faders all > move together, but you can assign each one to a separate output path > and the output assignments in the Kontakt plug-in will apply. > > I have this whole thing on a separate Environment layer and screenset > for convenience, but if you look at a layer with just Audioinstrument > 1, you'll see just one Kontakt. > Your suggestion is very similar to the tutorial in the Logic section of Computer Music this month. I tried it for GPO which uses NI's player. One problem is that you don't see the instrument in the channel strip anymore. So you have to go to that environment layer to change GPO patches. And that is made more difficult by some behaviour on Logic's part. I have two arrange pages - one for each monitor and on one I can click on a track to pull up the environment, and the other not. I forgot what combination of "track name" or "instrument name" I have - but they are obvioiusly different and if you don't have the right one, then you can't bring up the environment to change the patch. In fact, you can not even select the newly created multi instrument unless you have the right combination on the arrange page! Furthermore, you have to go through the same effort to add plug-ins since you only see a midi channel on the channel strip. And forget about having separate eq or reverbs on different tracks (e.g. violins, cellos, etc). All in all, I think its better to do it the simple way and just define one instrument per one track, and then you can access the patchs and plugs conveniently from the Arrange page.