Re: [Lmuse-developer] vsti output madness

[Tim E. R. <ter...@ro...>]

> hi guys - just using my SampleTank2 within muse and found this to be a 
> very tiresome process. ST2 has 32 outputs (and yes i use most of them) - 
> i have to create 32 audio output 'tracks' which i have to do 1 by 1 and 
> then connect each output and it fills up the arranger page ( i know we 
> can hide them but that's not the point here)-  we have mixers why don't 
> we use them? the outputs from ST2 should appear in the mixer and with a 
> patchway  we could connect them directly to jack or muse tracks.
> 
> all audio I/O ( groups/outputs/inputs/aux's) should be in the mixer not 
> the arranger - a button on the mixer strip could be used to add them to 
> the track pane for automation editing when required.
> 
> 
> such a pita without any meaningful reason to be imho... what do you all 
> think?
> 
> best
> 
> g
> 
> 
> 

Yes I feel your pain.
We talked about this before. It was the best I could do at the time.
I reeeeally wanted to make MusE a fully multi-channel-tracks application,
 instead of the maximum 2 channels (stereo). Thus a sampletank Synth Track 
 would have 32 channels right off the bat! 
But that's a lot. Management of it all? It got real muddy fast. 
Way too complicated. For ex. the routing, and the mixer strips... oi !

So I had to leave audio tracks alone at stereo (that includes multi-channel 
 synth tracks as you see!), and give us all at least a chance to connect up
 the rest of the synth's channels by routing them to more stereo or mono 
 audio tracks, be they Group Tracks, Wave Tracks, Audio Outputs etc.
 
Now, could we have a button on multi-channel Synth Tracks which says 
 'create a bunch of tracks now, and connect all this synth's channels 
  to them' ? Maybe, but you'll have to tell it what /kind/ of tracks you
 want to create - Wave Tracks, Group Tracks, and mono or stereo...
I think that's sort of what you are after, right?

Tim.