Cakewalk won't send midi notes to an external synth HELP

[Hubert Müller]

Hey i am having an issue with cakewalk.

I want to sequence external gear (volca fm)using a midi cable.

I have the midifile running in cakewalk and set cakewalk to be the midihost. the drivers for the usb to midi cable are correctly installed and cakewalk finds the midi out

If i start stop the sequence the internal volca starts playing so its in sync but cakewalk doesn't send the midi notes.

i don't know how to change it, i got it to send midi notes yesterday but today it won't work

please help

[msmcleod]

Make sure:

1.  The output port of your MIDI track is set to the MIDI Output for your Volca
2.  The MIDI channel of the track is set to what the Volca is expecting to receive on.

This can be set either within the track header, or in the inspector:

[TVR PRODUCTIONS]

I used to have to jump through hoops to send midi from cakewalk to my external Roland XP50 years ago.  The problem was the XP50. I had to go into the midi settings and set it to receive the data over the correct channel.  I would set up so that channel 1 was on midi channel 1. Channel was midi channel 2, etc