Craig Lerch

This is finally solved. Thank you all who invested in this. It took deletion of all the CbB registry entries to solve it. And, thanks to Ashwin!

Thanks for the heads-up. I never change from the MME, so it didn't occur too me that the grey-out is from the project being open.

Thank you , Promidi. I checked and re-checked your list: In preferences - MIDI - Devices your MIDI port that the Motif XF is connected to is present and enabled. I have the MIDI driver set correctly. It's all been working perfectly other than the MIDI signal being received. In preferences - MIDI - Playback and Recording - tried both MME and UWP (I find MME to be most reliable) The YSFW driver is what I use (the MME is greyed out). Set your MIDI track's input to the MIDI port that the Motif XF is connected to. I checked track-by-track to make sure. All MIDI channels set to 1, (Motif XF, MIDI track input. MIDI Track, VSTi synth - or at least to Omni ) Because of recording to/from the 16-track sequencer I have to assign each track to its own channel which all works perfectly, until this glitch occurred. Local Echo on Check. All volumes up Check No Controller events turning down volumes in MIDI track Check. I just don't understand why the computer plays and receives 16 tracks simultaneously, but the keys aren't received any time (except in all the other apps). These all are excellent ideas. The condition didn't improve. It's something else, yet. Hmmm. Thank you so very much for putting the time in to help me out! And, thanks for the MIDI Monitor tip. To my amazement, I had the box checked already, but nothing in the system tray I'll check that out, too. I appreciate it all!

Scook, I had a brain lapse-of-sanity when I responded (you must have thought "this guy's nuts"). What I should have entered is, I use the Yamaha Steinberg Firewire ASIO Motif XF driver that carries 16 channels of MIDI and unlimited audio simultaneously from synth to computer and back. I appreciate the link - the MIDI driver mode is greyed out when I use the YSFW driver. I've been intermittently fighting this since it occurred seemingly in the middle of nowhere, so thanks so much for your response!

Thank you for the response - they both use the ASIO driver that comes with the Motif XF through firewire. Neither program shares the drivers, so I have to exit one to work with the other.

Thank you for the checklist - I followed it all just to make sure I didn't skip any entries. All my check boxes are accurate, and MidiOx shows in and out signals (I don't know how to get the CbB MIDI monitor into the system tray), but, alas, nothing records in CbB, just SPlat (as stated earlier). I'll figure the next step out. Thank you for your advice. I so appreciate it!

Thanks so much Cactus Music. The virtual keyboard plays and records in Omni CbB, as well as SPlat. Still, my synth does only in SPlat. Interesting. I appreciate the hints, tips and tricks. I'll use this to dig around some more and see what I can come up with. I'm probably getting closer. And your tutorials page(s) is extraordinary! Thanks!

Thank each of you for your advice. These are great ideas. There is no assignment to a control surface (cuz I don't have one :), and all 16 tracks' input echoes are on. But it's something I never would have thought of on my own. Thanks so much to both of you! Having left a legacy copy of an earlier program gives great benefit to troubleshooting. I should have included that on CbB, MIDI input isn't received, but output is great. So until I get under the hood deeper I'll have to use my SPlat install as a work around. Again, thanks to all!

I'm working in CbB Version 2022.06 (Build 034, 64 bit). During finishing a song by MIDI editing I found that my MIDI input suddenly was no longer being received. Upon checking all the driver and configuration settings I find that everything is as it should be, as nothing changed. To check if the keyboard (Motif XF) is sending MIDI signals, I opened Sonar Platinum on the same computer from a few years back and it works flawlessly. I also confirm that the keyboard input is working perfectly through Sibelius. Side-by-side comparison shows that all of the settings in Preferences are identical. I un/reinstalled the same Cakewalk version with the same fail. My questions is: is there a bug some people found in this version, and what can I do with it? Thank you for anything anyone may know!