I've read about this subject both in the VE manual and in a few threads on this forum, and I have some questions. I was able to open VE as a multi and assign each instrument to its own aux channel in the mixer, but I've had some trouble figuring out how to get MIDI into each instrument appropriately. How is this generally done? After messing around for a while, I figured out something that seems to work, but I'm not sure if this is the best setup. Here's what I did:
I set up a software instrument track with VE (multi) and created two instruments in it--piccolo and flute. I assigned the piccolo to outs 1-2, so that playing my keyboard with the VE instrument track selected plays the piccolo sounds. I assigned the flute to outs 3-4 and created an instrument object on a new environment layer, cabled to the VE instrument and sending on channel 2 (the flute track was assigned channel 2 by default when added to VE). As I said, this works, but I'm wondering if there's a better/easier way before I create a whole orchestral template this way. Does anyone have any suggestions? Or, if anyone wouldn't mind sending me a template they've created that I can study, that would be great. Sorry if this is very basic info, but I have very little experience with multis.
One quick semi-related question: sometimes when I add an aux channel (using the + on the instrument track in the mixer) it appears directly next to the instrument itself, other times it appears next to Logic's main outs. Any ideas on why this happens? I'd much prefer the auxes to always appear next to their instrument.