Just ONE MORE question (Reaper & Sampletank)

Moliere just helped me out, immensely, regarding a couple of questions that I had. My aim was to wait until later on, today, to try a short piece of music while being armed with he info he provided. But 'waiting' is something that I just couldn't do. I was TOO excited and anxious. Anyway, I just gave it a shot - and I am ecstatic over the fact that I have some degree of a handle on (at least) that part of my concern. However (and I promise not to come back here with any more questions, for a GOOD while :)), I have just one more thing to ask about. Attached, is a shot of this window which jumps up when I call Sampletank into play. Clicking 'Yes' in that box loads a setup in Reaper which confuses me. I can lay a track down, but there is no responsiveness on any track after this first one. Now, if I had clicked on "No' in that window, I would be able to make some ground. But I am sure that the way I am doing it is akin to a 'back door' approach. Allow me to explain: In that second scenario I call up an instance of Sampletank for track 1. I record on that track and then render it as a new take. Following that, I close out that instance of Sampletank, and open up another for track 2. If I don't do it in that manner, then I wouldn't b e able to get anything to sound when that 2nd track is activated. Yes...I just KNOW that I am doing this thing in a round-a-bout manner, but forgive this MIDI fledgling. The thing is that I am one of the members of a singing group, that has a show coming up on the 5th of November. We're doing covers, but the other members have asked if I would write an original for us to also do. I am nowhere even near being THAT good of a keyboardist, to just sit down at the piano and instruct them in that design. The magic of sequencing affords me the opportunity to lay everything down - music and all vocals, which would enable me to present to them a fully laid out musical & vocal blueprint of what I had in my head. And that is why I am so energetic about getting myself into a working understanding about this thing - and with the quickness :).

That dialog is only handling Reaper's part of the routing. So, if you hit Ok, Reaper builds all the needed tracks, but still in Sampletank itself, everything is routed to output 1/2 (or maybe it's called something like Output 1 inside Sampletank, if it only handles stereo outputs... that's just semantics). You still have to tell Sampletank to route it's other channels to it's other available outputs. Reaper can't do that for you. Alas, I can't tell you specifically how you would do that in Sampletank, but it must be somewhere in it's gui. That would allow you to play all of Sampletank's channels and mix them on individual tracks in Reaper. You don't need to have individual instances of Sampletank. Just use different MIDI channels for each sound. Hey, and you're welcome to come back with more questions any time

Yeah, that's the spirit :).

The outputs for Sampletank are the "1+2" at the end of the instrument layer (you'll see "out" at the top of the column) to change them click and drag the numbers up/down, likewise for the midi channel. Steve