Midi output selection method changeable?

Hello everyone,

I'm thinking about purchasing Sonar X1 so I tried out the trial, but I found one thing that's bugging me:
when I open a file on a different PC, I have to reselect the MIDI outputs for each track. Which is logical because I have a different output device on the other pc, but sonar 7 allowed this by simply selecting the output that had the same number.

This is a problem for me, because I work on projects on different pc's very often.

Does anyone know a workaround for this?

Thanks in advance for your responses.

Thanks for your reply, I know about changing multiple tracks' outputs, but I was hoping there'd be an easier way.

I borrowed this version of Sonar X1 from a friend so basically I am using his version as a trial.

Arvid0

Yes, definitely:

press P -> Midi ->devices and put your default midi out on top of the list
and you are done

anyone?

Ahh, that was it.
I was searching nuts in menus and context menus and in the help file.

Thanks, John!

That is because the project you are loading is looking for the devices it had when you created it.

Actually you can ignore it as a message. But you will have to assign the MIDI devices on the current machine to its devices and the tracks that use it. For example, if you have a MIDI interface and its different from the one on machine you created the project on you should select all the tracks effected by this and output to the device you have on that machine. The same would go for audio devices and so on. It not much different for using a soft synth on one machine and not having that synth on another. X1 will alert you that its missing. 

Once you do the reassign if you save it you will have the same issue if you open it on a different machine with different devices. 

It was in Sonar 8 and above for sure. I also have a XV 5080, a great synth.

I know of no way to get around this. Really it doesn't harm anything. Yes one can view it as annoying but it is meant to be helpful. It does alert one to the mismatch and that one will need to assign outs.

I posted the old midi output selection method as a feature request to cakewalk.
Thanks for all the replies.

I'm a bit lost here myself. The 'new' method was put in because a lot of people complained about the old one.

As already stated the pop-up box warning you about missing MIDI devices allows you to re-assign a particular output (synth?) for another en masse or you can choose to completely ignore it, but then you'll need to re-assign it manually.

It's no different to the old method except that you have control over what output gets re-assigned where - as opposed to an output being arbitrarily assigned somewhere else. It also uses MIDI device names as opposed to port numbers, apart from that it serves the same purpose but with user control.

A much better system IMHO.

Yes it used to happen automatically, but unfortunately it would automatically make the routings I didn't want it to make. I guess it's not a big deal if you only have the odd one or two ports attached but if you have several it was a nightmare.

The new system still makes the routing/selection changes but you need to tell it what to change from and to first, or not at all if you click cancel.

Arvid0


Yes it's a good system, but everything used to work automatically. So now you have control over which port gets reassigned, but it would be nice if it could also do it automatically (as before). This has to be toggleable of course. I know it's not that big a deal, but it would be nice to have the option. 

 
 
CW, please don't go back to the old way. For those of us with numerous ports/devices it was awful. It took so many years to get it fixed.
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