No no. Plain and simple the problem is that because I've never had more than one midi device hooked up to my pc at once, (I just recently got my akai) I've always had that one device set to omni. Which means it pretty much runs everything that's midi right? So now if I hook up a second device and the first device is set to omni that must by why the second one is not doing anything. Alright frosty I'm gonna try setting my akai to track 10

That might be the problem but if you have all your inputs set to omni any attached MIDI device should still work, it's just that they will all play all tracks. If one isn't working at all I doubt that's the problem.

You've got all input echo buttons lit on the tracks you want to hear? You'll have to turn them on only one will be on by default.

I did not have the input echo buttons on. But I restarted my computer, and now it's working fine now? Anyways I've never use any channel other than omni? I heard someone mention that the default mpd channel should be 10? So let me get this straight you set your midi device to a specific channel, then whatever tracks are set to receive midi data from that channel, will respond whenever the controller that's said to that channel triggers something, right?

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I did not have the input echo buttons on. But I restarted my computer, and now it's working fine now? Anyways I've never use any channel other than omni? I heard someone mention that the default mpd channel should be 10? So let me get this straight you set your midi device to a specific channel, then whatever tracks are set to receive midi data from that channel, will respond whenever the controller that's said to that channel triggers something, right?

No FFB is talking about ports. Each device including soft synths have ports. Each has 16 channels. A lot of devices don't use channels and will respond no matter what channel is fed to them. Others need a channel to work. 

Alright here's another question of mine, I got a soft synth open that I do all my drum tracks on with the mpd. Once the tracks are laid I want to split the kick snare high hat etc into their own tracks for processing. Would I have to open another instance of my soft synth for each type of drum or is there an easier way to split them?

If the soft synth supports multiple outs all you need to do is set the drums out to the audio track you want. If you use SD 3 it supports multiple outs. Most drum sample players do. 

I've got a couple I'm sure at least one supports multiple outs. So it will allow me to adjust the input and output on a per pad basis rather than the instrument as a whole?

Again that's down to the synth. To see what I mean open Session Drummer 3 and go to the mixer page. You'll see at the very bottom of each drum an output number. Set to one by default. You can change each drum output to the one you want to use.

In the case of SD3 twelve but it is a synth setting. Once the output has changed select that as an input to an audio track and you'll have that drum through that audio track.

There's a track template included that will set Session Drummer 3 up like that for you.

I have 2 midi keyboards daisychained.  The first is connected to the PC via USB.  The second is connected to the first via a midi cable.  Although Sonar only "sees" one device, it receives midi signals from both and responds to controls and keys from both simultaneously.  I set the two devices to different channels whenever I want them to trigger two different midi tracks.

I am not sure if this setup would suit you, but it may be worth trying.

Damn that's genius. That would definitely save me a USB input. My mpd is USB though, so is need a cable that's half USB half midi jack to hook up to the Yamaha, and another one that's have midi coming out of the Yamaha and half USB going into the computer, would that work?