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Fire up Fruity and do a File > Import.

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You’ll see the ‘Import Dialog’, leave it selected to the default (import all tracks, start new project & create new channel per track). Check to complete.

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You will now see all your tracks, each in it’s own Channel with the MIDI data display in a Piano Roll window. These channels will belong to the same Fruity ‘pattern’. Dbl-click on the Paino Roll window to bring up the editor… here you can move note position, even quantize the info (but why defeat the purpse of our AS composition).

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These tracks all now belong to the same Channel Group.

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The MIDI Out generator takes care of the GM sounds.

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You can change the GM instrument to play around with different sounds quickly.

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In the Project Browser you will see all the cool MIDI information AS stores in it’s tracks. You can open any of the windows and draw your time curves… sweet!!

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At this point we want to have VSTi’s play our tracks so what I recommend is starting in  a new ‘Pattern’ (this can be Pattern 2 if you like).

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Now, time for a little fruity workout. Your tracks will still be shown in the new pattern, but with the MIDI Out as it’s player. We want to insert new VST Channels to play our tracks. So, create 6 new Channels (Channel > Add one). Now, keep in mind to select & name the appropriate VSTi’s. Once you’ve create your 6 select all these new Channels (not the original channels) by cntl+drag on the green blip to the right of the Channel name. Then put these in their own Group (Channels > Group selected). I called mine VST

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Now,back to our original imported tracks. Open a track in the Piano Roll view, select the entire track and Copy.

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Click on the Piano Roll selector and a list of all your Channels will display. Select the corresponding new VSTi Channel.

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And paste in the notes.

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Here’s a nice view of our new track.

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Or you can do it the quick way. In the Project Browser => drag a VSTi preset onto one of the tracks and your GM/MIDI Out player is now replaced by this VST preset!! Again…sweet.