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Originally Posted by DarkStar
-- Are you using Kontakt's Host parameter automation or its MIDI CC automation?
-- How are you changing the MIDI channel for the CC messages?
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I have half an idea that the routing is not quite right.
Try this:
(a) right-click in the Track Control Panel (TCP) area below any existing tracks,
(b) select "Insert virtual instrument on new track",
(c) select the VSTi (Kontakt),
(d) click [Yes] on the "Build Routing confirmation" window; that will create tracks for all of the audio outputs from the VSTi,
(e) open the FX window for the VSTi track (click the [fx] button),
(f) select [Options] >> "Build 16 channel of MIDI routing to this track",
(g) disable RecArm on the VSTi track,
(h) if Input Monitoring is Off for the "MIDI" tracks, select them all and turn it on (and turn it on in Preferences >> Track / Send Defaults >> Record config, for future use).
Now you will have 16 tracks sending MIDI (
on channels 01 ... 16 respectively) to the VSTi and several tracks for the audio outputs from the VSTi.
Within the VSTi, load your instruments and set the routing for each one - receiving MIDI on a particular MIDI channel AND sending its audio to a particular audio output pair; depending on the VSTi you may need to do some additional configuration work within the VSTi itself (e.g. to create / enable the output channels).
And use the MIDI CC automation to map the CC numbers as needed (CC#01 is automatically mapped to the ModWheel I would think).
Back in Reaper, you can delete or just hide the tracks that you do not need. Name your MIDI tracks for their destination instruments (Violins 1 MIDI etc) and add / record the MIDI. Name the audio tracks too (Violins 2 audio). Colour the tracks as you wish. SAVE them all as a Track Template.
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Now, Recarm, say, the Violas track, Playing the keyboard should send the MIDI notes to that track and thence Send them to the Kontakt track (the Send switches the MIDI notes onto MIDI channel 03) and then into Kontakt where there trigger the instrument that is listening to [A] 3. The sound will be routed to the Kontakt Mixer channel then out of the plug-in to the Kontakt track and thence Sent to one of the audio tracks.
Here's a pic of the set-up using Kontakt 4 (!):
Big pic >>>
https://i.imgur.com/9tK3b4n.png
And the routing from and to the Kontakt track:
Big pic >>>
https://i.imgur.com/3jSqLdZ.png
And, finally, attached is a test project that you can explore. Add Kontakt and yur instruments and set up their routing within Kontakt.