Hi everyone,
I’m new to Ardour; I switched from Cubase.
I’m trying to configure Orchestral Tools SINE Player with Berlin Orchestra Inspire/Free Orchestra in Ardour 9.7.
My goal is to use only one SINE Player instance:
- MIDI channel 1: Violins a8
- MIDI channel 2: Violas a5
- MIDI channel 3: Celli a5
- Additional instruments on further channels
I created separate MIDI tracks for each section and routed them to a MIDI bus containing one SINE Player instance. The notes in each region are stored on the corresponding MIDI channel.
However, I’m having trouble with soloing and isolating tracks. For example, even when the empty Violins track is soloed and the Violas and Celli tracks are muted, SINE still produces sound during playback. It seems that MIDI may still be reaching the shared SINE bus from another route or input.
What is the recommended Ardour 9.7 setup for this?
- Should SINE Player be placed on a MIDI bus, an instrument track, or another type of route?
- How should each MIDI track’s output be connected to the shared SINE instance?
- Should the source tracks use playback channel remapping, or should the notes be stored directly on channels 1, 2, 3, etc.?
- How should solo and mute be configured so that soloing one MIDI source track prevents all other tracks from feeding SINE?
- How can I ensure that a physical MIDI keyboard or another instrument track is not also feeding the shared SINE instance?
- Does SINE require each loaded instrument to be explicitly assigned to its corresponding MIDI channel rather than Omni/Any?
Thank you very much!