"Insert midi track" defaults to echo off

Cakewalk please review this:
 
This is X2 issue, not sure of previous versions.
Maybe I am missing some bigger "concept" here, but this is what is bugging me.
 
There is a checkbox in midi prefereces "Always echo current midi track"
 
Whether it is checked, or unchecked, it forces me to have to then properly set the "midi input state" (either "auto", "on", "thru", "off") to get the most commonly desired setting, e.g. I always simply want to hear tracks (NOT turned "off"), and tracks only sound if playing the controller assigned to it (NOT set to "auto").
I would prefer a default behavior that prevents me from having to change the midi input state every time I insert a track.
 
Here is what I find the default does, and what I always have to change it to:
 
When "Always echo current midi track" box is checked:
Newly inserted tracks get defaulted to "Auto", and I have to always change it "On"
Trust me, if you use multiple controllers, you will see why. As you click between tracks, you will end up not hearing a midi track, and then you'll find out the problem is all tracks have to be "on", NOT "auto".
 
When "Always echo current midi track" box is unchecked
Newly inserted tracks get defaulted to "Off" (unbelievable! you can't hear what you are playing), I have to always change it "On".
Obviously you cannot hear the track when midi input state is set to "Off", so why would that be the default setting of a newly inserted midi track?
 
But maybe there is other reasons why it is the way it is.
 
 
 
 

I am trying to use Sonar as a live host and maybe that is why I have different expectations of what should happen. For some reason the way it works is always causing me to figure out "why no sound?". Or why everything is playing from one controller.
Even after my explanation above I now have no sound on synth and cannot figure out why. I am a good trouble shooter- and it is wearing me out.
Of course I will have to discribe the problem again in better detail when I get more figured out.

FastBikerBoy

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One reason for having a MIDI track turned off is that "none" as input is actually omni <snip>

IIRC this is true if "always midi echo selected track" is turned on. If "always echo" is turned off, then "none" is none. Or it was, I haven't checked in X2 yet.