Thanks for taking time to read this (and possibly help me out).

I have been dabbling in Logic Pro since I bought it and am slowly getting the hang of the program, but need help figuring something out.

I have Logic Pro, as I mentioned, with some EWQL products, more specifically Gold XP is what I need help with. Those who know the library will know that you can have up to 8 slots per instance of the program/plug-in working.

What I'm trying to figure out is how to get one instance of the program open and all 8 slots filled up (thereby using only one instance of the program for every 8 instruments I need - IE. One track, one plug-in, 8 instruments). I assume if this is possible you'd have to somehow reference other tracks data back to this particular track and a midi channel... but what do I know. I'm can compose well, I just know very little about music technology.

Currently I have to set up a new plug-in instance for each instrument I want to use, and needless to say it probably bogs down the system a lot. I have a lot of RAM (8 gigs to be frank) but all the open instances and data, etc, adds up quickly...

Can someone tell me if what I'm looking to do is possible and if so, how to do it? Or an alternative or if you know what I'm trying to do, let me know how. Both the Logic documentation and the EWQL documentation have been no help.

Thanks in advance!

Uvee

Maybe someone out there can correct me if I am wrong, but my experience is that you will only be able to use one slot for every instance. AFAIK, Logic limits the addressing of every sampler instance to one channel, even when you can set more channels internally. I'm not an EWQL user, but I tried the same thing with Kontakt and couldn't figure it out. Seems to me the eight slots are for when the sampler is used in stand-alone mode, not as a plug-in instrument. Anyone???

This post has been edited by kwasi: Thu 8 Feb 2007, 09:11

To me it seems a logical answer, but do correct us if it's wrong. I hope it is, because it would suck to waste RAM - then again I really don't know how much ram an instance of the program really takes up... it could be negligible or not. If you know the answer to this then please post as well!

I might be reading your question wrong, but would it be possible to set up these plugins as a bus or aux? And then send them to each of the 8 tracks? As send 1.

I thought of that as well... but I wouldn't be sure how to do it... as I said, I'm still quite new to music and technology and have only a very basic understanding of what a "bus" is. Any help would be nice!

set up 8 instrument tracks

To the left of the arrange window is a box containing options like track name, transpose, midi channel, and track assign.

Track assign lets you take, for example, Instrument track 1, and turn it into a Rewire track (among other things.

So, for each of your instrument tracks 1-8, insert your synth onto track 1, and assign this instrument channel onto track 2-8, BUT then change the midi channel for 2-8 respectively

Inst 1 - synth instance
inst 2 - assign as inst 1, midi ch 2
inst 3 - assign as inst 1, midi ch 3
repeat

hope this helps

Thanks Jez, I will give this a try and let you know how it works out. Sounds solid enough.

Thanks again,

Will be in touch!

Thanks again Jez, it seems your suggestion worked!!!