nerdtronic5000 Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 (edited) 20 hours ago, nerdtronic5000 said: . . . let's map those sounds to the right MIDI channels . . . . . . I can get basically whatever patch on my main synth to play back on MIDI ch 1... . . . I can't get the app to map to the other 2-16 channels . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . Sonar indicates activity on all channels, then I play - I can see it's receiving MIDI data... Are you using a hardware synth? If so, did it get changed to a mode where the gear only responds to one channel and/or only responds with one patch (i.e., non-multitimbral mode)? Are you using a software synth? If so, what MIDI channel are you sending data on? Is it a multi-timbral soft synth? How are you directing the data to different MIDI channels? What MIDI routing method are you using? For example, sometimes (with a usb keyboard and either a soft synth or hard synth) I will have different presets on different MIDI channels and just change the global (transmitting) channel on the keyboard. This gives me a single track with multi-channel data that plays different sounds on each different midi channel. Other times, I have tracks dedicated to specific MIDI channels and use the the MIDI output widget to force the data from they keyboard onto a onto a single, specific midi channel. With this type of track routing setup, it doesn't matter what channel my keyboard sends (and Cakewalk records) because I am forcing the data to a specific MIDI channel. Also, how are specifying the channel, bank, and patch? If you are using the track widgets, does it make a difference if you insert a patch change command in the Event List? Edited June 12, 2020 by User 905133 to add some words that were left out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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