MIDI NOTES/CONTROLLERS AFFECT CONSOLE

Although everything looks right in the preferences, moving the pitch wheel on a MIDI keyboard moves the faders on the console.  MIDI notes flash button lights on the console.  Internal things I can't see may be happening as well.

Ideas on this?

Thanks, but that isn't it.  A senior Sweetwater tech is looking at the system via remote control and we are temporarily baffled.  All the preferences stuff looks OK.

Hey, man, I have actually had a dozen other major issues not even documented here and have spent 5 weeks with Sweetwater trying to get all the pieces working.  It all seems to be OK now.  This one was very simple but subtle for someone not used to X1.  Plus my brain is fried.

In this case, VS-700 was top of the list in MIDI devices so every MIDI track defaulted to output to the Console.  The default tracks Cakewalk creates in a blank project did this as well.

Solution: 1-Uncheck the Console in MIDI preferences.  2-Move selected devices to top 3-Reselect Console.  4-Change output of any already-existing tracks to something other than the Console.  Now the default will be to Port A of my M-Audio interface because it is at the top of the list.

Sounds silly and obvious now, but the output box is really small in the lower left and the entire interface is very different from older Sonar.  We tried a dozen exotic things before discovering what a dumb and simple thing was wrong.

Question, though: Why would anyone ever want the console to be the default output for MIDI messages?  Seems like a goofy default.

Thanks for the moral support.