- First one inserted must be an instrument plugin, like a DSSI or VSTi; these are plugins which accept MIDI as input and spit audio as output. Second one and following should or may be audio effects plugins, like LADSPA or VST are; that way you can chain dedicated audio effects to the output of the (head) instrument plugin, which is responsible to render the MIDI track's audio synthesis in the first place.
- If you happen to drive any outboard hardware (or external soft-synths) from those MIDI tracks, I am sorry to tell, that no plugin inserted on that track will have any effect to that purpose; they won't affect the audio rendered; that would need you to feed their respective audio outputs back again to qtractor audio inputs, or use some other external effects rack.
Plugins on MIDI tracks works this way:
- First one inserted must be an instrument plugin, like a DSSI or VSTi; these are plugins which accept MIDI as input and spit audio as output. Second one and following should or may be audio effects plugins, like LADSPA or VST are; that way you can chain dedicated audio effects to the output of the (head) instrument plugin, which is responsible to render the MIDI track's audio synthesis in the first place.
- If you happen to drive any outboard hardware (or external soft-synths) from those MIDI tracks, I am sorry to tell, that no plugin inserted on that track will have any effect to that purpose; they won't affect the audio rendered; that would need you to feed their respective audio outputs back again to qtractor audio inputs, or use some other external effects rack.
Cheers.