Why is the only synth working Cakewalk TTS-1?

maybe the note values in the sequence don't match up with the note values of the drums in the module. maybe try selecting all the note values in the sequence and move them up or down. maybe worth a try

I think the drums in TTS is on midi channel 10, so maybe your midi notes are inserted as that channel. Maybe try "forcing them" in the channel selection to another midi channel (1).

Dan Barnes
I have a MIDI drum track sequenced.  With no other synths in the Synth Rack, I add, say, SI-Drum Kit.  When I open the SI- Drum Kit window, I can click the drums and I can hear them, but as soon as I hit Play, nothing.  I hit Stop and when I click on the drums, nothing, no sound.  This is the way it is with all the synths except TTS-1.  It works fine.
I've checked the  Event List, but there is nothing there to cause it.
 
Any ideas what could be the problem?

it sounds like the MIDI-track you've got has a MIDI event where the volume is set to zero.
 
check the MIDI event list on the drum track and see if there's a MIDI-controller message 07 or 11 there somewhere set to zero. (CC07 or CC11)
 
EDIT_____
haha.. sorry.. just read your post again and saw you already checked for MIDI events.. :P
just ignore my post! :)

wetdentist
maybe the note values in the sequence don't match up with the note values of the drums in the module. maybe try selecting all the note values in the sequence and move them up or down. maybe worth a try

 
No, it's not just the drums, also the keyboard, bass, strings etc.  None work on anything but TTS-1.

 

doncolga
Is your sequenced MIDI drum track set to output to other VST's?  That would do what you're describing.
 
Donny
 
 
There is only one VST in the Synth Rack, so can't be that.

post edited by Dan Barnes - 2013/08/11 16:07:50

robert_e_bone
Since you can hear the drums on preview, it sounds like as noted above a channel issue.
 
Just under the FX Bin on the midi track, try setting the Output Midi Channel to channel 10, AND look at the midi channel setting for whatever synth you are trying to use to play the drum events through.  The accepted normal channel for drums is midi channel 10.
 
You can highlight the midi track and click View>Event List, to see the midi channel that was recorded for the drum events on the track, if you would prefer, then make sure you set your drum module to that same channel.
 
Bob Bone
 

Had done all that, just did it all again.  The MIDI track is set to channel 10 and the synth track is set to channel 10.
 

The fact that TTS-1 works fine, and none of the others should be telling me something, but I have no idea what.
It would make more sense if no synths worked, but TTS-1 does.  Damn.  I'm dead in the water.

Load (2nd) SI-Drums from the Browser (audio+MIDI) and record something in the newly created MIDI track just to make sure it works fine. Then delete this clip and drag the original drum clip(s) from the original MIDI track. If you hear the drums right (make sure it's in the right ocave), then you can delete the first SI-Drums from the Synth Rack (and the associated tracks) and you're all right. But if you want to find out what was causing the problem, before deleting the synth and the tracks you might want to widen the track strips as wide as possible and select "All" from the Track Control pulldown and then compare each option selected on the two MIDI tracks' strips.

Are you sure the audio engine is on?  Sometimes when the buffer is set too low....this will happen and you have to either up your buffer setting or turn the audio engine back on up on the toolbar.

The TTS-1 is the only multi-timbral softsynth that comes with Sonar. For all other softsynths, you have to load a separate instance of it to have it play more than one instrument sound. 

Save your project with another name. Such as Project A or B etc.
 
Select all the tracks with the problem, Open the Even list. make sure that the RPNs and NRPNs are the only things visible. Delete the RPNs and NRPNs, save your project, close Sonar and reopen it.
 
HTH

I never found out what caused the problem either. 

Glad it's working.  I had a stereo bus effect stop working all of a sudden.  Stopped Sonar, restarted, then all was well.  Been fine since then.