I noticed a few weird things when using the Editor (v0.9.37) with Ableton (v9.5) with multiple instances. I’m not sure the intended behavior though, and would appreciate a quick cap of what to expect.
The way I’d like to use the Editor in Ableton is creating and External Instrument device and the Editor plug-in, then group them together into an Instrument Rack. That way, I can configure 8 parameters and map them to the Macros.
When using in this way, it seemed that the controller information from one lane got mixed up with the other. It didn’t exactly correlate, but resulted in the sound breaking up and muting when I tried to have two instances play at once.
I thought setting them to discrete MIDI channels would keep them happy, but it did not. Each instance did retain it’s respective preset, but going back and forth between them resulted in this quirky behavior.
I tried not grouping them into an instrument rack, but then the MIDI channels would follow each other… one instance would take on whatever value you set in the other one, and vice versa. The preset, too, would follow in a similar way.
As I understand, only 1 instance can be active at once? I work with a MIDI track and PRINT track anyway, and print to audio before moving onto the next part, but here it seems like multiple editors interfere with each other, and aren’t kept separate (presets, controller info, etc).
If I’ve got it all wrong, please let me know! It’s different concept from soft synth entirely – with one hardware to communicate with an effects plugin. Should I expect to be able to run multiple instances with separate presets, and be able to go from one to another to work on separate parts?