I think that's what they are talking about, not much use for midi effects really. So I think you mean VST instruments.
It's very easy to have any combination of tracks for midi. You can clone, copy, separate at any note value and create 2 or 4 or 6 tracks for each part and on and on. Because midi is just data it is easy to work with. This has been going on since 1980's and has not really changed or improved much. Any DAW will set up midi tracks the way you want. Even the one your already using.
I think what you want to do is import a piano part and then assign that one or 2 tracks to a number of different soft synths.
No version of Cakewalk allows multi outputs. You have to have a midi track for each instrument. You can assign as many tracks as you want to one soft synth but not the other way around.
So like your piano part, you import the 2 tracks and assign them both to True Pianos.
Once you have your tracks you then need to insert and assign a soft synth for each track.
So all you need to do is
clone or Copy that original track as many times as needed and change the outputs of each to the desired synths.
Cloning = All editing will effect all the tracks globally.
Copying = The tracks can be edited individually.
If you use TTS-1 as a synth for GM sounds you would want to change each tracks channel. TTs-1 is a multi channel synth. You can create 16 instruments with one instance of TTS-1. Synths like True Pianos are only one channel. But you can insert more than one instance if you like.
First you have your piano part playing then you can layer up other sounds.
You could take your left hand piano part and assign it to an Acoustic bass.
Take the right hand part and assign it to a string section as example.
You certainly will have more and better quality VST instruments to use if you upgrade to Professional from Home Studio. I believe your cost is only $99 so a heck of a deal really.
There is very little difference in all versions of Cakewalk so if you have mastered Home Studio that's a big part of using a newer version.
Spend as much time as you can watching the tutorials and reading the help files or pick up the Sonar Power book. You'll soon be a midi wizz.
post edited by Cactus Music - 2015/02/07 13:15:22