I'm going to try another question. I don't know if I'm close to figuring this out or close to giving up.
I inserted the Cakewalk TTS-1 soft synth in my project. I inserted two MIDI tracks and assigned them to that synth. I want them to have different voices. I opened the synth's control panel and it has 16 columns of voices(?) When I play a key for the first MIDI track it activates voice 2. When I play the other it activates voice 1. How? I don't think I ever picked those assignments. Now to make it more confusing if I change a voice in voice 2 it changes the sound. But if I change a voice in voice 1 it always stays on Piano 1. Why?
Am I supposed to create one soft synth and then assign different MIDI tracks to it to get different instruments? Or should I insert the soft synth in the synth rack multiple times and assign different voices to voice 1 in the different synths? Or should I add each sound as a separate synth as separate MIDI and Audio tracks in the Add Synth dialog box? I've looked over the help files and I don't find where it explains how to organize MIDI tracks. Can someone point me to a tutorial that will guide me through the basics? I want to record instruments from MIDI and use Audio tracks for vocals, then "bounce" the MIDI tracks to Audio tracks for the final mixing.
Thanks, Steve