Strange behaviour when sending / selecting a program change

[Eddy Mulder]

I am a newbee to Sonar , this said, having a long history in using sequencers (until i came around this nice program which is allowed to be used for free for non comercial use , which is great to experiment and check if the application can do what i want to do ...

The 1st issue i am having is when insert a bank/patch change .. I noticed that (at least on midi tracks as this is where i can easily monitor the traffic), that after the selected patch/ program change value is send, another program change is send with value 0 ... I cant figurer out where it is coming from.

I tried different instruments, even created a new one , but all behave the same.. 

Also when i on my keyboard do a program change, this change is forwared to the midi interface , but also directly after that a program change value 0 is send.

This prevents me to select the appropiate sound .....

i am convinced it is something within cakewalk as when i do the same using Pocket Midi, this strange behaviour isnt there...

Hopefully some one can point me to the right direction which parameter to change or just confirm it is an undocumented feature (a Bug)...

 

regards

 

Eddy

[Bass Guitar]

Where are you entering the patch changes? 
 

The way Sonar works is that the track header is where you can enter channels, banks and patches. 
Entering them in the instrument user interface will be over ruled by the data in the track header. 
Downloaded midi files might have a patch change that is not on zero. 
Open the event list and look for them there. 
Any events showing on the list like CC7 will override changes you make. Delete all unnecessary CC events. 
 

Sometime the patch changes don’t show up on the event list. This has always been a mystery to me. But they should show up in the track header. But sometimes there is another patch changes later in the song. 
 

There’s a free app called Midi Sequencer that I like to use sometimes because it is very easy to see all the midi data that is often elusive in Sonar.