Layering up 2 instruments on the same midi track?

Neil-Kendall wrote on 3/6/2019, 6:56 AM

I have created a backing track for a song, and one track is a piano. I was wondering if it's possible to layer 2 keyboard sounds on the same midi track, for example piano and strings, and if so how do I do it? Or would I simply have to change the piano sound to a piano + strings patch? I can't find any decent piano + pads/piano + strings VSTis as of yet, so if anyone knows of any, that'd be helpful!

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browj2 wrote on 3/6/2019, 12:51 PM

Hi Neil,

No, as far as I know, you can only have 1 instrument per track. However, it should be possible to have the output from one track go to multiple tracks, each with a different instrument. I don't know if this can be done in Samplitude Music Studio 2016. I'm sure that I did this once, but I haven't been able to do it again. I have been looking in the manual, at Kraznet's videos, in particular:

but I didn't succeed in getting it to work. I looked through posts on the Samplitude forum but didn't find an answer. I'll post the question on the Samplitude Forum.

John CB

browj2 wrote on 3/6/2019, 6:39 PM

Hi Neil,

I received a reply. What I was trying to do cannot be done in Samplitude, only using third party plugins like you see in the video.

The only thing that you can easily do is to create the MIDI file and then copy it to other tracks to play back with other instruments.

Did you look at what is available from DSK?

Here are a couple of links that I was given on the Samplitude forum that may interest you:

https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Software/Vienna_Ensemble_Pro

and:

https://kushview.net/element/

John CB

Neil-Kendall wrote on 3/7/2019, 6:47 AM

Hi Neil,

I received a reply. What I was trying to do cannot be done in Samplitude, only using third party plugins like you see in the video.

The only thing that you can easily do is to create the MIDI file and then copy it to other tracks to play back with other instruments.

Did you look at what is available from DSK?

Here are a couple of links that I was given on the Samplitude forum that may interest you:

https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Software/Vienna_Ensemble_Pro

and:

https://kushview.net/element/

John CB

Cool thanks, I'll give this a try!