AU Instrument Keyswitch Workaround

I have a virtual instrument library 8Dio Adagio Violins via Kontakt 5. Great product, however all patches are sets of articulations using keyswitches.
For my setup I have built a template using a mixture of orchestral instruments and selecting the best of each library. I am foregoing keyswitches for a one Midi track per articulation approach. However this library does not offer separate patches for each articulation and this is problematic for me.
1. I cannot preselect an articulation per Midi track
2. All articulations are loaded no matter whether I want to use them
Does anyone know a way to trigger the keyswitches in Logic Pro (which use notes in a predefined register) another way?
Ideally I want to switch Keyswitch when I select a Midi track in the Arrange menu. I tried presetting a Program change in the track settings of a Midi track (which is cabled to the AU Instrument), then adding a transformer that converted said Program change to a Note number. This did not work.
I have seen plenty of solutions to create Keyswitches from several instruments but not the other way round.
PS I am using Vienna Ensemble Pro, is there a way to do it in this?

Hi
(I answered this over at LPHelp, but for completeness...)
UK Old Schooler wrote:
Does anyone know a way to trigger the keyswitches in Logic Pro (which use notes in a predefined register) another way?
Ideally I want to switch Keyswitch when I select a Midi track in the Arrange menu. I tried presetting a Program change in the track settings of a Midi track (which is cabled to the AU Instrument), then adding a transformer that converted said Program change to a Note number. This did not work.
This Transformer seems to do the trick:
The Transformer is selecting incoming PC messages on any channel and converting them to KS note On events with Velocity 127. The map 'translates' the PC number to a note number, in this example (using the K5 Factory String Ensemble patch)
PC 0 = C0 (note #24)
PC1 = C#0 (note #25)
etc
The Multi Instrument is simply there so as to provide "Labels" to the PC numbers using the Patch List. A simple Instrument object would work except that you don't see names for the PC/KS selected. These names also show up in the Event List if you need to switch mid part, which is easier than trying to remember all the different PC/KS combos. Channel 1 is switched on in the Multi.
A more advanced setup might need MIDI channels to be considered.
I often enter PC messages either from my iPad or a MIDI controller, and these need to come into Logic on a channel other than Ch 1 (which can call up Channel Strip "Performances"). I have therefore 'fixed' the MIDI channel in the Transformer.
CCT

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Message was edited by: R2B

R2B wrote:
Cheers Rounik.
I would have never in this life suspected "Slow response" in audio preferences to have anything to do with muting MIDI tracks independently.
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I'm trying to replay to the O.P question
multiple MIDI tracks to one instrument?
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Blueberry wrote:
Hmm, I don't really understand your problem.
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I only have 1 incoming channel
- I don't know what you mean with "MIDI object". An external channel strip? That channel strip doesn't allow to define a channel as an input. It only has a MIDI port and channel as an output. The input for all channel strips is always a workspace object (which is abstract and doesn't have a channel)
In MS2 there is a new object called Midi Object that seems to act as a replacement for a keyboard object, except it looks like a little bubble and doesn't display any layers.
What I am trying to do is create a patch that is comprised of either two external instrument channel strips or one softsynth channnel strip and one external instrument channel strip where the external inst channel strip is used to send a midi program change to an external effects processor. In either of these two cases, I have found that if I make the midi input the same as my EWI (channel 1), even though it (the external effects unit) is configured to only receive data on channel 5, it still receives note information which appears to be program change messages. The only way to remedy this is to create either a second keyboard object or one of the new midi objects and assign it's input to EWI on midi channel 5, which technically is nothing since that incoming channel from the EWI, doesn't really exist. It seems like a bug to me because, using a patch bay like a MOTU MTP AV and assigning channels to unique pieces of gear helped to prevent any commands from going from one input device to an output device unless you wanted them to.
Again, I don't really understand your problem.
I know I am probably not explaining this well.

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