Re: Re: Assigning Midi in Cubas and Kontakt 4 for Z-tar

8 Kits and the rest empty. Got it. 
I stayed up till 3 AM last night struggling with all the details and no cigar.

I looked around in the first kit after initializing and cold starting my Ztar. I made sure Zone 4 wasn't active on channel 1 for example since I'm only using 3 zones. I made sure Solo was turned off and checked other settings. If we assume the Ztar is sending channel assignments correctly for the sake of argument, Cubase is not receiving on different channels I've assigned in the Ztar. Perhaps it's something in the way Cubase is set up or I'm doing it wrong within a project. 

I've created 3 Ztar Zones with three Maps. I've turned off every note outside of each map/zone just to make sure they won't bleed into the other zones. I left an area of the fretboard without a zone assignment and it doesn't play anything so that's one clue. 

The other clue is that if I make a fixed volume for a zone, the area which is playing that sound (bass) that is outside of that instrument's zone, is not using the fixed volume feature. The bass will still slap if I play in the place outside of the zone but within the zone it won't slap as I've instructed it. How is that possible if all the notes outside of the zone have been turned off. It's as if there's a zone/map still active either one of the ones I've got assigned or one of the other zones which has not been activated.

Also effects placed as an insert on the lead guitar zone are applied to the rhythm guitar. Not good. 

I'm running separate iterations of Kontakt 4 and have assigned on the front panel of the Kontakt 4 instruments their midi assignments Channels 1,2, and 3 respectively to match Zones 1,2,and 3 plus maps 1,2 &3 all of which are on channels 1,2 and 3 respectively. 

On the face of Kontakt 4 just above the place to create channel settings is a place for outputs. There's only one option so that's what I've chosen. Maybe I have to create a new option with a different configuration. Kontakt 4 has never needed something like that before but I don't know about the Ztar's zone requirements to make the hardware and software work harmoniously together.

I've looked for the thing you said about Cubase remapping everything to channel one but didn't see that. 

Thank you again for your valuable time and attention.