Midi channel switches/changes (solved but not really. Feature request?)

You can insert a Channel change via the List View though I do not recommend that What I do is use a different track. A track for me is the same as a channel sort of. The widget in the Inspector handles all channel data for me. 
 
Usually a key switch can be done on the fly and you shouldn't need to preload the articulation. Often key switched articulations are marked as such when you load the samples.  

If I understand you yes it would stay until you put in another one. 

Sonarians often set up drum maps to do keyswitching and/or channel switching, because you can remap input notes to any output note, channel, or port. You can even do velocity offsets and velocity scaling, if appropriate. You only have to go through the hassle of setting up a drum map for your instrument once, and then it's ready to go.
 
Drum Maps are kind of a prehistoric Sonar feature...I haven't used them for this application, but quite a few users have commented on their suitability for this purpose.

Guitarpima
Does this mean I have to put notes below where the notes are played but they just trigger channel changes?

I was talking about how I do things not how you would. The Inspector can deal with only one channel at a time. You set it there and it will stay on that channel. The Event view is for inserting changes over time. 
 
Craig mentioned Drum Maps for doing this but I think that might be over kill. Drum Maps are very flexible and would work but you can do the same thing within the Event View. The Event View has a column for channels all you need to do is change that. However. you would need to change all the notes you want on a different channel.
 
I would split the track and put the new channel into a different track. Each track would be its own channel.   

BTW - Thanks for the input!

Guitarpima
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On second thought, it seems ludicrous that you can't do it. Imaging having to have up to 8 midi tracks for one part if you write for an orchestra? Hundreds of midi tracks. Crazy!

You can select whatever notes you want in the PRV and their channel can be changed in one shot with the event inspector.  No need to futz with the event view for that.


You guys know this, but to clarify, "channel" is an event attribute.  It's a nibble of each channel specific event byte (of which note-on is one type).  The channel-out setting for the track will override the channel attributes within the track.  I think of the track's channel-out as a re-channelizer.  So if you really want multi channeled events in one track, no problem, just set the track's output channel to none.  Each note event will then transmit over the channel coded into it. 
 
For note insertion, the channel attribute will be whatever is set in the event inspector.  Of course you can't change that unless at least one note is selected, so changing it will change the currently selected note(s) as well.  Depending on your process, this can be inconvenient - as implied by advice given earlier in the thread.  (BTW, if you happen to have had several notes on different channels selected - the event inspector will show blank for channel, as expected - and looks to me like the next note inserted will be given the channel of the last note selected previously, whether or not it is selected at moment of insertion.)  But if your process permits you to insert first and channelize later, should be pretty straightforward.
 
Key switch recording to change synth configurations is perhaps a more complex proposition, but hopefully made simpler with the above basics in mind.  The input midi port should be set to omni.
 
HTH someone.  -Ron

Just an update. It took less time to create the midi tracks and assign each it's own channel and then just split the tracks as I went. If I remember correctly, I can view them all at once in the PRV and edit the lengths and other stuff. I just finished the first part  and only have 3 more to go.
 
My first experience with midi was with the MC500mkII which IIRC, was a Roland product. It was the early 90s and back then the RD1000 was new. I never thought it sounded like a real piano so I mixed it with a string sound from another synth, an M1r IIRC, and then I thought it sounded like a real piano. Those were fun times.