Old guy here trying to get back into music after 20 years...picked up a few used synths I used to use back in Cakewalk 3.0 (yikes!)... Songs still open! OK...great...now let's map those sounds to the right MIDI channels and get back to work...um...that's where I am failing.... I've spent hours trying to figure it out and I'm sure it's something stupid... I can get basically whatever patch on my main synth to play back on MIDI ch 1... the rest of the channels? crickets. I can't get the app to map to the other 2-16 channels by selecting them or whatnot... I've tried manually assigning them, channel 2, channel 3, etc... Back in the day, I'd pick a channel, say channel 1 on a track, set the patch on my synth (Roland JV-90)...insert a new track, set channel 2...pick a new sound, etc...simple... I'm sure it's still that simple, but - I'm a dufus now apparently and can't seem to figure it out.... I am *fairly* confident my MIDI routing is correct, I remember that part - plus, Sonar indicates activity on all channels, then I play - I can see it's receiving MIDI data... Any help would be grand...
MIDI Instrument Mapping Issue
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Old guy here trying to get back into music after 20 years...picked up a few used synths I used to use back in Cakewalk 3.0 (yikes!)... Songs still open! OK...great...now let's map those sounds to the right MIDI channels and get back to work...um...that's where I am failing.... I've spent hours trying to figure it out and I'm sure it's something stupid... I can get basically whatever patch on my main synth to play back on MIDI ch 1... the rest of the channels? crickets. I can't get the app to map to the other 2-16 channels by selecting them or whatnot... I've tried manually assigning them, channel 2, channel 3, etc... Back in the day, I'd pick a channel, say channel 1 on a track, set the patch on my synth (Roland JV-90)...insert a new track, set channel 2...pick a new sound, etc...simple... I'm sure it's still that simple, but - I'm a dufus now apparently and can't seem to figure it out.... I am *fairly* confident my MIDI routing is correct, I remember that part - plus, Sonar indicates activity on all channels, then I play - I can see it's receiving MIDI data... Any help would be grand...