Separate instances are common for many VST and DXi instruments. But the TTS1 gives you 16 channels per instance. YOu should assign a separate instrument to each instance saving channel 10 for drums. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephanie Pieck Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:19 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: channel question Hi, Is there some other way to set up tracks? I thought you had to have a separate inserted DXI track for each instrument anyway? (Now I KNOW I'm missing something!) Stephanie Pieck ----- Original Message ----- From: Gordon <mailto:dbmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Kent To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:32 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: channel question Stephanie: If you want to have different instruments on each track, you have to have each track set to a separate midi channel unless you are inserting a separate instance of tts for each track, which would use up a lot of system resources. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephanie Pieck <mailto:stephpieck@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:43 AM Subject: [ddots-l] channel question I have been setting all my TTS1 tracks to Channel 1. Should I assign different channels for each individual track? If so, why is this? It's been working with everything using channel 1, but I could be missing something ... Stephanie Pieck