SI-Drum/MIDI problem in MC6

I've been trying off and on for the past 10 hours to get Music Creator to cooperate with me and I'm still having problems with it. What I'm trying to do is import a MIDI file of a drum track I wrote in another program (TuxGuitar, sort of like a free Guitar Pro) and exported as a MIDI and get either the Sound Center or the SI-Drum Kit to play it for me. I've successfully gotten it to do three things: 1. Nothing 2. Play the drum track the way it sounds with the cheap samples in TuxGuitar, rather than any of the Studio Instruments or Sound Center synths, and 3. I think this is the furthest I've gotten I was able to get the SI-Drums to play the MIDI file, but I was hearing drastically different combinations of cymbals, kicks and snares then what I had written out in the file. I think this might be a drum mapping problem but I couldn't follow most of what I found in Cakewalk's help guides.

Can someone explain to me how I can get MC6 to use either SI-Drums or the Sound Center to play imported MIDI tracks that may or may not be mapped differently?

Many thanks in advance.

Simplified explanation: if you do not understand something .... just ask for more details.

The first time you do this,..... I would recommend opening a new NORMAL project. That gives you the 2 tracks and nothing else is in the project to confuse you... just a recommendation. I still do this BTW with all my new synths when I try them for the first time....So...

Insert 2 new tracks. One audio & one midi. 

Copy the midi data into the midi track....

In teh audio track FX bin, click to insert a synth in the FX bin..... select the synth you wish to use from the available list. This will insert the synth and activate it. You generally will need to choose a patch or a sample set (instrument) for the synth to play. If it's a drum synth, you choose a kit. 

return to the midi tracks and expand the view of the track inputs and outputs. On the output, click and look at the options. You should see the name of the synth you just added to the audio track. select it. 

At this point..... you should have music on playback. 

More stuff on synths is available on my website Music & Recording pages on midi and channels and such things. 

In the sound center... did you load an instrument?

Another option is to work the step by step setup in TTS for drums.... it's on my website under the Recording and Music page. It uses TTS on channel 10 (default channel for drums in TTS/midi) and the process is very simple. 

If that works then it should be easy to do the same with CSC. 

If neither works then we will need to dig in deeper to check setting and such stuff. 

jim, 

can you get audio files and tracks to play in MC? 

Guitarhacker, when I follow your "How to enter a drum track in MC4/5" I definitely get something to play the notes I wrote out, but it's also definitely not playing all the notes, and it sounds like a piano instead of a drum kit.

Drum mapping is usually not needed... just set the channels and you're good to go. 

You still have missing notes? What sound card are you using again please?  Also did you increase the buffer size? 

Bounce to Audio is the one I use when I finish with the midi track.

I use freeze to test it and reduce the processor load because freeze shuts the synth off while the track is frozen. 

highlight both the MIDI and the output track associated with the MIDI and then choose TRACKS>BOUNCE TO TRACKS


NOTE:  this is only for MC6/X1 for MC5 and below, it's EDIT>BOUNCE TO TRACKS 
just in case MC5 and below users are reading this.