Transpose Problems Can Anyone Help Out A Farmer

  Hi, Farmer George here,
    I have been using Music Creator 6 for about 2 weeks now. Perhaps someone can help me find out why I have trouble most of the time getting Transpose to work. Weather I have a segment from the sequencer or directly played into cakewalk from my midi piano, TRANSPOSE only works about 5% of the time.  Most of the time the TRANSPOSE lettering is not in dark but light color form and can not be clicked on.
                             Thanks
                                         Farmer George        or     newjerseypotbellypig@comcast.net
                                               farmergeorgepotbellypigs.com

How are you selecting Transpose? From the 'Process' menu?
I think an easier way is to insert the Transpose plug-in in the MIDI effects (FX) bin, and if it turns out well, select the MIDI track and then Process>MIDI>Apply MIDI Effects.
But, I don't have MC 6 and don't know if the Transose plug-in I have is from an earlier version of a Cakewalk program or not. I can't imagine that they would remove such a handy function that's been with Cakewalk since the stone age, though.

In regards to transposing..... are you referring to after the fact or from live input?
 
As I said I don't use midi very much but I do recall....way back in the day, using TTS as my synth, I could change the key the synth was playing in easily.  Most synths do have a transpose function built in to them.
 
This is for live input. But it also worked after the fact for changing the key of the original recording. If you recorded a piano part for a vocalist and then either decided the vocal needed to be in a different key (higher or lower) or you got a different singer who needed the song in a different key...no problem, simply transpose the entire part in midi.
 
Referring to TTS: In the set up menu for midi channel and volume and patch, there was also a box marked KEY.  Leaving a default 0 in that box retained the key you played in.  So if you played in the key of C major and the box was 0, you heard music in C major. If you changed the 0 to a 2, you played on the keyboard in C but the music you heard was in the key of D.  you could also use negative numbers.... I used this to play the bass by inserting a -12 in the box and the music came out one octave lower. I also used it to play something in a "difficult" key for my fingers.... such as E major. I would enter a 4 in the box and play in C on the piano and the music would be in E.  
 
I don't know if that's what you are referring to or not.