Routing question

[Nika]

Hi,
When routing Kontakt into Reaper, I saw in tutorials that you have to create 2 tracks per instrument:
- 1 for the MIDI to be sent to the Kontakt Host track
- 1 with the audio sent from Kontakt
Is there a way to create only 1 track that would both send the MIDI and receive the audio?

[hopi]

not really and depending on how complex what is loaded into Kontakt is, it might not make sense to do that...
but if you just have a single instrument loaded, you can have the midi right on the Kontakt track and when it is OK, freeze that track

[Tod]

Originally Posted by Nika

Hi,
When routing Kontakt into Reaper, I saw in tutorials that you have to create 2 tracks per instrument:
- 1 for the MIDI to be sent to the Kontakt Host track
- 1 with the audio sent from Kontakt
Is there a way to create only 1 track that would both send the MIDI and receive the audio?

What hopi says, and there is a action to do what you want but I can't remember what it's called. Somebody might come along with an answer, but I'm with hopi, I use separate midi tracks, it's much safer.

[Nika]

Thanks guys.
That's what I thought. I use the one instance per instrument just now but keep seeing orchestral templates with several instruments loaded in one instance.