User guide

Chapter 38 Working in the Environment 903
Activating and Selecting Sub-Instruments
To select a sub-instrument (to address a specific MIDI channel number within the multi
instrument), click the appropriately numbered square (button) on the multi instrument
object. The first time you click it, the sub-instrument is activated, making it available in
the Track Assignment menu of the Arrange track list (accessed by Control-clicking a
track). To avoid menu clutter, you should only activate as many sub-instruments as you
actually need, or the external MIDI device supports.
As with any other Environment object, you can remove sub-instruments from the Track
Assignment menu, by deactivating the Icon checkbox in the Object Parameter box. The
button for the sub-instrument channel will be shown with a diagonal line through it
when deactivated.
In the above screenshot, sub-instrument 1 is selected, sub-instruments 1 to 8 are
activated, and sub-instruments 9 to 16 have been removed from the Track Assignment
menu.
Note: If you want to select the entire multi instrument (to reassign the Port parameter,
for example), rather than a particular sub-instrument channel, click the top edge (icon)
or name field of the multi instrument object.