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I’m trying to dive into some modular synthesis with Cardinal, but for some reason Cakewalk isn’t being very friendly with this virtual instrument. When working in Cardinal it’s rather important to have access to the search function, as there are literally hundreds upon hundreds of modules. However, even with the "Give All Keystrokes to Plug-in = Enabled" button on, I can’t type in the search box. Whenever I try, there’s simply an error sound and nothing is typed. I’ve tested Cardinal in other DAWs just for reference and nowhere but Cakewalk has this problem. So it’s definitely not an issue with Cardinal. In any other DAW I’ve tested, I can simply click the search box and type. Even though these DAWs have hotkeys of their own, they will not trigger when the search box is in use. Is this something Cakewalk needs to fix? Is there perhaps a work-around to use search inside of Cardinal in Cakewalk?

Thanks bitflipper! Now I’m getting it and that was exactly what I was doing wrong. This part of the DAW confused the heck out of me. I was dragging and dropping the instrument from the right-side plugin browser and picking “Simple Instrument Track”, in the belief I could expand the number of tracks as needed later. Getting all flustered as every MIDI track I created went to the same channel in TX16Wx, wondering why I couldn’t just pick Channel 2-3-4 etc. Now, when I instead start by clicking the “Add Track” plus button and choose the number of tracks I want from there to begin with, everything works more as expected. Appreciate the help! Thank you so much for testing it out for me User 905133! I thought I hit a wall there, starting to think Cakewalk was way more limited than what it actually is. A little unintuitive perhaps, but now I’m getting it to work too. TX16Wx is a pretty neat tool, so glad I could spread the word. This is all good to know, thank you JnTuneTech. If I run into these particular issues again, I know now that digging into the instrument settings might be a way to go. Turns out my issue was a little bit more basic, as I had initially created my instrument track in a way that limits my options. Didn’t realise my choices when creating the track would be permanent like that. AHA! This part I found a little confusing as well, so thank you for clearing this up. I was indeed messing about with the MIDI Channel overrides in the belief this might be where I select the next MIDI Channel for my instrument. No wonder it didn’t work! Appreciate the input msmcleod. Yeah, sorry. As someone who used to be quite familiar with the Cubase workflow, I thought I could skate by on my intuition. AH! This is good to know if I want to send notes to different channels from the same MIDI track. Appreciate the input, thanks scook!

I can’t seem to figure out how to rout multiple MIDI channels to one VST instrument. I assume there must be something I simply don’t understand, because this not being possible seems like a bit of a terrible oversight. For instance, TX16Wx can have up to 12 different patches loaded, but Cakewalk seem to only be able to send MIDI to Channel 1 exclusively. Any other channel receives no data regardless of how I attempt to rout MIDI to the instrument. HALion has 16 different channels that all can load patches, but again Cakewalk only communicates with MIDI Channel 1. Seems like such a silly waste to load an entire instrument like this, only to use one single channel. VSTs that transmit MIDI like EON Arp seems to meet a brick wall in Cakewalk too. In pretty much any other DAW it’s simply a matter of selecting to receive MIDI from EON Arp on the instrument track you want arpeggiated, but no such option in Cakewalk? This can’t be right. Or is it?