Environment wizards: Kontakt 2 access 16 channels on one track?

Question

Hello everyone,
I just found an extremely helpful environment tool created by kai at the VSL forums. What it does is gives you access through splitter objects to multiple EXS instruments, allowing you to change articulations through midi CC messages. What this means is that you can load all the articulations for a single instrument on multiple EXS instruments, and access them via CC messages from a single track in real time! Best of all, since they are midi CC messages and not key switch information, there are no extra notes in the score! WAY COOL!
I'm curious if there is a way to achieve the same functionality with Kontakt 2. I have already setup my system using a multi instrument object connected to the k2 instrument track, though in order to access all 16 channels, I have to have 16 tracks in the arrange page. Is there a way to achieve similar functionality to kai's articulation tool and allow me to switch between midi channels on a single track using midi CC messages?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. If you would like to check out kai's tool for yourself, you can download it at http://www.elvenmusic.com/vsl/tool/tool.html

Answer 1

However, to me, it looks like you can only record meta events
"after the fact" while I'm looking to change midi channels of
K2 in real time.
Not at all, you can use transformer objects to change virtually anything into virtually anything else, or use faders to generate meta events, and all sorts of clever stuff in real time.
Just 'cos someone demonstrates it one way, doesn't mean you should assume it's the only way it can be done. In Logic, there are often many paths to a given solution.
Anyway, to give you more help, I'd have to dive in and get my head around exactly what this tool does and how.
If all it's doing is transforming a few controllers into meta events, and routing them to your instruments, it sounds pretty trivial. Like I say, create an Articulations instrument as your starting point, and select it in the arrange window.
From the articulations instrument, it goes through whatever transformers and cabling you need, so now, when you play your keyboard on a track assigned to Articulations, your live midi gets routed through your little environment patch. Should be quite straightforward.
Looking at that post, that's exactly what he's done. His object (labelled "Instrument") is the same thing as I describe - the instrument object I called "Articulations" in my example.
He has "Instrument" assigned to an arrange track, so live MIDI and/or recorded MIDI will all be sent to "Instrument", and then on through the spliters/transformers, and then cabled to the resultant audio instruments. Just set it up as he describes and it should work (without me looking any deeper into what's it's doing exactly).
Remember, MIDI data flows between objects via cables in exactly the same way as if you were rigging up real MIDI gear. Just follow the signal flow, and be clear on what you want to achieve. You should put monitor objects in the paths so you can see exactly what's happening to make sure the bahaviour is what you want.
If I can I'll take a look at it a little later...