Midi Event Filter basics

I've added it as an FX on a MIDI track with the output routed from that track to a softsynth track.

I'm not clear on how you've got this set up. You can't route the output of a MIDI track to another MIDI track; you assign it to a soft synth in the synth rack, and that's the end of the line - unless maybe the soft synth has a MIDI Thru capability and has MIDI Output enabled so that it can act as an input port for another MIDI track (probably not the case here).

EDIT: I'm guessing what you have is a Simple Instrument track (a combined MIDI and Audio track) with a second MIDI track assigned to the same synth. I didn't think SONAR would let you do that because I know it won't let you create a Simple Instrument track when more than one MIDI track points at the same synth, but I just tried it, and it does let you add a MIDI track and assign its output to a synth that is already part of a Simple Instrument track.

In that case, what you've got is two MIDI source tracks for the one synth, and the MIDI track that is part of the Simple Instrument track will not see anything coming from the other MIDI track, filtered or otherwise. They're both driving the synth as parallel inputs to it.

The output of this track is routed to the soft synth track which has the midi event logger on it. 

Sorry, but it's still not quite adding up. As I said, you can't route a track to another track, so the way you are describing the routing still doesn't make sense. Are you saying the "Soft Synth" itself is a MIDI event logger plugin?


In any case, The MIDI event filter functionality is pretty straight-forward. Initially, it passes everything. If you want to block something, you check the box for that event type, and raise the lower limit or lower the upper limit to narrow the range of what passes. If you want to create a "hole in the middle" where events above and below a specified range are passed, you can set the "upper" limit to a lower value than the"lower limit". The way this is set and displayed is a little buggy, but it works.


If you describe exactly what you're trying to filter out, I might be able to help. But I think there may be something wrong with your setup for seeing the effect of the filter.

Okay. Since you are trying to create the "hole in the middle" as I described, you are probably running into the buggy behavior I mentioned. See the post linked below for how to set this up. In this case I wanted to filter out CC123, but the principle is the same:

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?high=&m=2084133&mpage=1#2089027

Sorry bout that. Seems they've changed the way message linking works, or maybe it's because it's in the old SONAR Producer forum. Anyway, try the revised link.