Problem: Multi Channel/Single Track

For some reason this used to work, but now it isn't.

I have a track which has different note assigned to different MIDI channels. But from some reason its all being played on a single MIDI channel.

How do I get it to work properly again. (I assumed I clicked somewhere I shouldn't have.

As you discovered, assigning a midi channel to a track overrides the channel numbers in the individual events in the track.

What is it that you want to accomplish by assigning a midi channel to the track? I don't understand your comment about relative channel numbers.

--Larry

I guess the problem is that track numbers and midi channels are totally unrelated. It seems that you have some idea about which midi channels are being used in which tracks, otherwise, in your example, you would not know to set track two to channel 5.

How about this, use the "Split Channel to Track" CAL routine to create tracks with data for only one midi channel each. Then, assuming that you don't start with multiple tracks containing data for the same midi channel, you can have tracks and midi channels correspond in whatever way you want. I've seen a lot of midi files and, unless they are type 0 midi files, tracks tend to have data for only one midi channel. I don't know why you'd have multiple midi channels in a single track in the first place. However, the Split Channel to Track CAL routine can make things simpler in some sense. You said it would be good to make life simpler -- having data for one midi channel in a track really is simpler.

--Larry

You certainly have a good reason for multiple midi channels per track! Thanks for that explanation.

I'd guess that you are not going to find the feature you want - on the other hand you say it used to work. You have made me curious so I'll look for an option.

You might be able to write a CAL routine that would determine what track it is working on and then adjust the midi channel numbers accordingly. Or the CAL routine could accept a parameter specifying the first midi channel number to use. But you would still need to keep the channel number for the track set to "--". Running a CAL routine probably isn't what you want to do all the time but once run on a track you can save the results.

I just realized that we never established which Cakewalk product you are using. This forum is for the Pro Audio product but sometimes people just think it is for discussions for professional audio people. Are you using the Pro Audio product?

--Larry