Good Afternoon, 

My name is Keith and I'm currently having some issues with certain instrument changes in my Sibelius scores using VDL. I have a fairly large score consisting of 21 instruments.  I have four instance kontakt 5 available.  I have programed instruments changes that work on the vibes to slapstick, vibes to vibrslap and from a concert snare to a piccolo snare.  

However....I am trying to program an instrument change from Rack Combo A & B to Thundersheets.  These are not working for some reason.  Any help would be greatly appreciate it.  

My set-up includes:

MacOS High Sierra

Sibelius 7.1

Kontakt 5

VDL 2.5

Korg Microkey

Hi Luke, 

Sorry i didnt get back to you sooner and thanks for helping me out with this issue.  As of now, my four instances are not filled up entirely.  I have attached screen shots of the four instances.  So far all of my instrument changes have worked except for...

Wing Gong

Bowed Gong

Thundersheets

I've been trying to add these following instruments to Rack Combo A and BD/Gong Combo.  Actually these instruments havent worked on any other staff in the score.  

Thanks, 

Keith

Hey Luke, 

Normally when I load an instrument change, I'll go through Sibelius's instrument change selection process, select the instrument and kontakt would automatically load the right instrument in the Knotakt instance and all was fine.  For some reason when I try to load a thundersheet into the rack combo A staff, kontakt will load a rack combo B instrument into the kontakt instance instead of thundersheet and this instrument comes back sounding like a concert tom

I have actually try to load the instrument myself, which then also sounds like a concert tom.  I then tried to load this instrument myself and find the correct midi channel for the correct playback sound.  That didnt seem to work either.  Its odd, because other changes work just fine.  For instance, I have a vibe player playing a vibraslap, load the change into Sibelius, Kontakt finds the right insturment and playback sounds like a vibraslap.  

I've loaded some screens shots in the hopes that it might help.  The first screen shot is my kontakt 2 instance, it loaded a rack combo B instead of thundersheets.  play back sounds like concert toms.  The second screen shot is the score itself and where i loaded the instrument into.  

Thanks a lot, 

Keith

Hey Luke, 

So i finally got a chance to try what you said.  I made the change in Sibelius, then I went and opened my last Kontakt Instance, loaded the Thumdersheet in manually.  Played in the part on the staff.  However, it still automatically loaded a Rack Combo B and playback came out as a Concert tom.  

Any suggestions?

Thanks, 

Keith

Has this issue been solved already?