You could tidy things up using the new mixer feature to hide channels that you don’t want to see and save this in your template (assuming that sort of thing saves of course).
I also tend to move (drag) the instrument output audio channels to be underneath their respective midi channel in the project window (the mixer follows this). Helps avoid a lot of confusion.
I’ve had times when I’ve been up against CPU power due to complex orchestral composition, and all I’ll say is that it was due to me lazily creating a few too many instruments when I should have been using the multi-outs of just one or too! A right pita to rejig it was but once I’d done it I was back in business. The less I’ve learned is to keep a tidy and efficient project as I go along…
Mike.