Music Creator 7

Hi guys, I have been away for a while. Was having too many problems with MC4 and windows 8. I upgraded to MC7 today. Its a lot different. I tried to insert the tts1 soft synth like I did before  and that worked. I just cant seem to change the instrument or the channel of each midi track. How do I change the instrument for each midi track that is associated with the tts1? I believe you can have 16 different midi tracks all assigned to different channels and instruments,
thanks

image from another post with a big red arrow showing the location of the track options buttons. Click the one in blue.

you are doing it correctly.
 
as for Sound Center, it has MUCH better sounds than TTS-1 does, but it works differently.  TTS-1 is "multi-timbrel"  In other words, it allows more than one (it has 16) channels of different instruments you can use.
 
Sound Center is only ONE channel.  One input, one output.  you choose the patch in Sound Center and you can only have that one patch for your MIDI track(s).  (you can send multiple MIDI tracks to it, but you wouldn't want to do that except in the case of something like separate drum hits on different MIDI tracks or something like that).
 
so if you have, for example, a Violin and a Cello and you have them on separate MIDI tracks and you want, of course, the Violin track to play Violin sounds and the Cello track to send Cello sounds.  so you have to insert Cakewalk Sound Center one time for the violin, open the violin patch you want, then set the MIDI track to that Sound Center input.
 
then insert ANOTHER Sound Center and find the patch for Cello and send the Cello MIDI track to THIS Sound Center.
 
hope that helps.

Very old versions of EZDrummer show up as dfh.

Are you using the 64bit version of MC7? If so, you need to make sure to install the 64bit version of EZD. I am not sure copying the dll works for Toontrack plug-ins. I make sure when installing their products to specify the install locations.

They are different installers and IIRC, Toontrack required the 32bit version before installing the 64bit version. So, if you only ran one installer, you have the 32bit version installed.

It matters. EZD 32bit does not run reliably in 64bit hosts. A good rule of thumb is "if a vendor makes a 64bit version of their plug-in use it instead of the 32bit version when running a 64bit DAW."

I am not current with EZD. The last version I bothered to downloadl was 1.3.3 and there were two installers in the zip file, one for 32bit and one for 64bit. IIRC, the readme was pretty clear about the install process.