Question

hey guys, hope you can help

im trying to transform a multi out instrument (kontakt) to audio..

i have an instance of kontakt, with 3 sounds , each routed to a diferent output

there are also 3 instrumnent tracks in my arranger , each going to a diferent midi channel 

now im trying to transform that to audio, ive tried doing it in several ways ..

i select the first instrument track and click transform to audio, i deselect "render all channels" and "remove instruments" is actualy grayed out, cant check it.

this transforms the first channel properly. the first channel is now audio, the 2nd and 3rd are still playing from their kontakt output. but when i try to transform the 2nd and 3rd track, it does not produce any audio. i can see the midi notes, but no audio information.

when selecting all instrument tracks and trying to convert them together, i get the same problem. the first track is rendered properly, the 2nd and 3rd does not produce any audio, and there is no audio image for the tracks, its just silence.

when selecting all instrument tracks and trying to convert them together , this time using "render all channels" will actualy render all 3 tracks, however for each instrument track selected , studio one produces all 3 outs from kontakt. so what i get is 1 audio channel with the information from the first track, and then 2 silenced tracks.

then another 3 tracks, this time the first and the third are silenced, and the second channels is rendered correctly

and finaly the last 3 channels, this time only the thrid one being audio and the 1st and 2nd are silenced.

so i actualy get the 3 tracks renderd but i also get 6 silenced tracks...

how do i get over this problem?? is there a solution that i have yet to discover? is it a bug? is it by design?

pls help

thanks

Answer 1

also, when just trying to transform one channel by itself does not produce any audio (exept for the first channel)

Answer 2

I also have the same dilemma just this 2021. And sadly no one got to answer my question as well. But I think you won't be able to do it since Kontakt is a single VST on its own.

I suggest you just bounce of the tracks one by one instead of rendering it and just mute and hide your instrument track. Or use an individual kontakt player per instrument.

Sorry if i'm not able to answer you properly

Answer 3

A sort of workaround is to turn off Render All Channels and transform each track individually. When the last track has been transformed it will dump the VST. The only slight problem is when you transform them back to midi it assigns all tracks to channel 1&2, so you have to you have to reassign the tracks to their respective channels.