Editing Problem

welcome, jonateemik - how are you editing those tracks?  in the PRV?  Staff view?  or maybe you're trying to edit by using your keyboard and re-doing the parts?

Sorry about the long reply wait.  I know it makes me look like I don't care very much, but I do.

I edit the tracks through Track View.  I can't figure out the event view and staff view doesn't let me add effects (or does it?).

Guitarhacker:  I record from my keyboard and each note shows up in staff view exactly how I played it.  I believe this is called a MIDI file?

I can hear the music I have just recorded yes.  I can get it to come out of my computer speakers or out my keyboard speakers.  It sounds just like the way I have played it.

When I record a second track, it does the same as the above.  I can either solo that track to hear only it or I can hear all of the tracks together (which is what I want as the finished product).

Yes the second track is in sync. with the first one.

I mean that if I try to, lets say, fade out Track 1, Track 2 would fade out along with Track 1.  So "somehow they are connected so what gets edited in one is automatically changed in the second" as you would say.

I can use staff view to edit notes and what not but not to add effects such as fade.

I just want to be able to fade or set a different volume for Track 2 that doesn't do the same thing to Track 1.  If I change the volume of Track 1, Track 2 is also set to that volume.  If I set Track 2 to fade out at a certian point during playback, when it fades out all of the other Tracks fade out along with it.

I really don't care about adding effects such as arpeggiator, I really just want to be about to set Track 1's volume without it doing the same thing to ALL of the other Tracks in the project.  The main thing I planned to use this product for was to record myself playing, convert it to mp3, and email it to family/friends.  I could care less about all of the other things I could do with MC5 (although it would be nice to know them).

And I can't make one track grand piano and the other electric piano because they are Midi tracks.


Sorry if I'm confusing anybody, I'm trying to be as descriptive as possible.  Thank you so much for helping me becuase I was begining to see no hope in MC5.

It is possible to group tracks and busses together so be sure they are not grouped. In the console view, simply click on the track fader and be sure it's a right click... the new window that opens will have GROUP as an option. You can select, or see the group that the fader is part of. When you pull the fader to the bottom, it will be touching a small colored rectangle to the lower left of center. That color light shows the group at a glance. If two tracks are in the same group, the actions to one affects the other.

Right click the fader and select the top option in the window.... remove from group to release it.

 from the way you describe it, that's what it sounds like to me, they are grouped.

The actions in one track should NOT affect the actions in a different track.

I don't think you can add FX in staff view.... you must be in the track or console view and click on the FX bin to add FX.

Gcolbert.... you are correct however......

TTS is a 16 channel synth and each channel can operate independent of the next.....PLUS.... with TTS in (lets say track 1) on track and tracks 2 thru 10 having different patches and drums in 10, you can also control the levels of the instruments by the faders in the DAW's tracks.

I have not used TTS in a long time but I do remember that from back then. I still use the midi track fader to adjust or "fine tune" the volume levels as well as the synth audio track fader.

Back in the days when I was starting, I would set up one instance of TTS and pop in a bunch of midi tracks, assign each one to a channel in TTS and place a patch in each one. I would have many instruments playing in one instance of TTS and have total control of the levels of each individual track/instrument.

Now, I tend to use the one instance=one instrument synths...and run as many instances as I need.

What you guys are saying makes sense.  Just to clarify, Im recording straight midi.  It comes in midi from my keyboard and goes out through my keyboard speakers.  Just thought I should say that incase it changes anything.

Ill try your suggestions and get back to you soon. Thanks.

 gcolbert deleted message - Bad answer.

So it sounds like what you are trying to do (we are all still guessing here) is record more than one track of MIDI on your keyboard anf then play the multiple tracks back on your keyboard.  If this is the case then you don't need TTS-1 or any of the soft synths that MC has.  You are using your keyboard as the sequencer and as the synth and as the amplifier.
 
The first question you need answered in this case is "is your keyboard's synth multitimberal?"  If it is relatively new I would imagine that it is, but this may not be the case.  If it is, then you need to set up each of the MIDI tracks in MC to a different MIDI channel.  Be sure to set both the input for the track and the output for the track to the [your device] channel X.   Then set the patch on each channel on the keyboard to the settings that you want to play on that track.  For example, set the first channel patch to piano, the second channel patch to strings.
 
If your synth is not multitimbral you will want to completely change your approach and use MC as the synth (utilizing TTS-1 or SFZ or any of the other available soft-synths) and play the sound output on your computer instead of your keyboard.  In this case, you would set the input for the track to a channel (or even OMNI) for your keyboard.  Then insert a soft synth and set the output of the MIDI track to that soft-synth.  Set the output of the soft-synth to your PC speakers or sound card or whereever you get sound out of your computer.

Ok I'm still messing around with thoughts.  About to look at your website Guitarhacker and see if that clears it up. 
I keep hearing the word channel and not really sure what/how they work.  Gcolbert your description saved me on that one...  Let me try that really fast and get back to you.  Not sure if my keyboard is a synth multitimberal... It's a Yamaha YDP-S30 if that helps.  I got it about a year ago so it is relatively new.  Ill mess around with everyones comments and see what helps.

I plan to convert this to Mp3 (which I think I know how to do since Cakewalk tells you how to but I need a cable.)  I just want the end result to sound good.

Ill be back with results.

When I speak of channels I refer to the "channel" pf the midi signal.... like a radio channel or frequency. Since it's all on the same wire, it has to have a unique channel to keep all the data going to the correct synths ..... you set the channel address on the midi keyboard, and that data is only picked up and used by a synth with the same recieving address.  Another synth with a different address will ignore that data since the channel address doesn't match.

By using the channels, you can send data from lets say 5 different midi tracks.... on channels 1 to 5, and send the data to 5 different synths all with unique channel input addresses, and the data goes to the proper synths..... in the case of TTS, that one synth is multi-timbral or multi channel... in TTS's case, up to 16 unique channels in that one synth, So.... data can be sent to 16 channels in TTS, and each one will play a totally different and independent sound patch.

Hope that helps a bit.

Once you get it, it's really pretty simple.