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Updating first post since the thread has gotten so muddled...

If automation was able to be preserved and the snow could accept 16 channels of automation, it would allow a snow user to preserve these performances and re-adjust patches and parts after they have been recorded to audio without having to shuffle tracks and automation data in their DAW.

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Selectable inputs for the snow's 4 parts would make it easy to mute MIDI source tracks and continue assigning new automation parts as you move past 4 patches/layers in a project. Returning to a part that you recorded as audio would be as simple as loading your saved preset, re-assigning the part to your desired MIDI input and your existing automation assigned to that channel would continue to be valid.

This wouldn't increase the capability of the snow. It would still have all the same voice and part limitations, but would make it more flexible in rendering your MIDI source to audio and then returning to tweak if necessary.

Thank you for responding Marc

Well, this would have been one of the very earliest versions of the OS for Virus Ti 1. Around 2006.

I didn't have first hand experience with the snow then, but a colleague has told me numerous times that he had 16 channels available (but would of course run out of voices quickly).

So that might be incorrect.

The main workflow problem that I encounter is that when I run out of channels and would like to render a part to audio to free one up, there is no easy way to do so and retain or save the previous work for that MIDI channel.

I have to copy automation to a new placeholder track, move all the midi data over and then delete the old automation and begin trying to establish a new patch in it's place. It's time consuming and very inflexible and causes me a lot of production headaches. Especially if I need to go back to a patch and tweak it.

Had I access to more channels of MIDI (Even if only 4 were available to be active at any time), it would give me the ability to save those performances without having to do any track shuffling/juggling. I could just mute or deactivate that track and continue with the next patch. It would make the snow a much more powerful production tool.

Hope I'm explaining that well... I can be more thorough and supply screenshots if that is desired.