Midi Effects not working

I'm not sure why it is greyed out under the Process menu but it is the same here.

You can, however, right click on the clip and select Insert Effect>MIDI Effects>your effect.

To answer your own thread hijack:

On the toolbar above the box where you enter text in your message, there's a Insert an Image (CTRL-G) icon, just to the right of the font combo boxes. I've done it for your image:

jshep0102


Thanks for the reply. I have no toolbar at all!?!

Perhaps it's browser specific. I have them in Opera and IE9

In X1, Process > Apply Effects now works the same with MIDI FX as with Audio FX; the FX has to first be set up in the FX bin of the track, and then it can be applied.

Sorry, I've never used an Alphtrack, so I don't know how the mapping is set up. You might try PMing Bitflipper. IIRC, he was extolling the virtues of the Alhatrack in a recent thread, so he may have the answer.

Sorry, not me, either. I have long raved about the now-discontinued Tranzport from the same company, though.

jshep0102


I have IE 8. guess I should try upgrade, though it didn't work in IE7. Had Sonar since Sonar 5. - Crap, I'm on XP, no IE 9 for me...

These icons flash and disappear if you've got your viewing scaled at 125% (bottom right corner of IE).  Make that 100% or 150% and these icons will magically appear!  (This had me stumped for ages...)
 
(Yes, forget IE9 unless you want to go mad trying to use this board...)
 
John

What am I doing wrong here?

Sorry, Shep, I thought this was an AlphaTrack problem and therefore thought I had nothing to contribute. Then I looked at your OP and the screenshot and realized what the problem is. Brundlefly answered it in post #8: "apply effects" means to destructively apply whatever is in the fx bin, whether it's an audio or a MIDI track. If there are no effects in the fx bin, the menu selection to apply effects will be disabled.

(1) Make sure you're using the Smart tool (click the star)
(2) In piano roll view, lasso (or Ctrl left click if they're not all adjacent) the MIDI notes you want to involve.
(3) Move the PRV out the way a bit so you can see the track.
(4) Right click on the part of the track that is shaded because of having made the selection in (1) above.
(5) From the right click popup list, select Process Effect, MIDI FX, Cakewalk FX, etc.

Oops, yes forgot that one, thanks brundlefly!
That method enables you to stay in PRV without having to go and right click on the track:
(1) SAME - Make sure you're using the Smart tool (click the star)
(2) SAME - In piano roll view, lasso (or Ctrl left click if they're not all adjacent) the MIDI notes you want to involve.
(3) Click on the select tool (arrow) top right of screen, or press the mouse middle button to bring up the tool selector.
(4) Right click on an empty part of the PRV.
(5) From the right click popup list, select MIDI plugins, Cakewalk FX, etc.

- You could also start at (1) with the Select tool, but I work all the time with the Smart tool as default.
- Don't forget of course when opening the PRV, to first click on a blank area where there aren't any notes in order to deselect all notes which is the default when opening PRV in X1.  Cakewalk cling to this is an advance on all previous versions when it patently isn't.  You go into PRV to do surgery on some notes, not all.  If you want to work on all of them you don't need to open the PRV.  It would be far more sensible if this behaviour was user-definable in the Preferences, MIDI section.