NOOB ALERT - how do you play MIDI tracks simultaneously?

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2012/09/15 07:39:44 (permalink)

NOOB ALERT - how do you play MIDI tracks simultaneously?

Dear Everyone! My computer is an IBM PC with Windows XP, max memory, hard drive with just under one terabyte free. Gigabyte motherboard, quadcore processor. I know it's fast enough for Sonar. I've got Sonar X1. I'm disabled, have to do everything with a mouse, hence why I'm working like in the following paragraph. I've got my notation package, Quick Score Elite Level 2. I've MIDI-Yoked it to Sonar. I know the MIDI-Yoke-ing is working because if I select any ONE Sonar output track, I can hear the instrument assigned to it. The problem is, I can only hear them one at a time. Only the selected MIDI track in Sonar plays, none of the other ones make any noise. But I can select any of them and get the correct instrument sound, so I must have gotten that part right. Now I'm HOPING, very deeply, this isn't a complicated MIDI-ins-outs problem because my brain's hurting enough already with learning all of this. Nothing in Sonar is soloed. Nothing in Quick Score Elite is soloed. Everything plays individually fine. How do I get the whole virtual band playing simultaneously? Sonar won't let me use CTRL-Click to select multiple tracks at once and soloing all the tracks simultaneously (if you follow me!) doesn't work either. Yours frustratedly Chris.
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    ulrichburke
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    Re:NOOB ALERT - how do you play MIDI tracks simultaneously? 2012/09/15 07:41:57 (permalink)
    For some reason, I can't make this forum keep my message layout - it ignores any paragraph breaks I put in. I suppose I should have used CTRL-Return but didn't realise I'd need to - sorry, all, for the solid block of text. Chris (let's see if this gap stays!)
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    Re:NOOB ALERT - how do you play MIDI tracks simultaneously? 2012/09/15 08:01:34 (permalink)
    Get them all to play by turning on the Input Echo button (looks like [*)))] ) for all the tracks you want to drive with MIDI yoke. You can also turn off the setting "Always Echo Current MIDI Track" in the "Edit > Preferences > MIDI - Playback and Recording" section. Re gaps in your post: Cakewalk's forum doesn't play well with firefox.
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