Before anybody gets upset.... I already tried to search these forums and the Cakewalk support pages for this issue. Didn't see anything.

I can create a track envelope for volume or pan on any track. The problem is, that the envelope defaults to channel one. If, I am trying to add a volume envelope for a midi track on Channel 12, I have no problem creating the envelope. However, once I hover the mouse over the envelope the message says: Volume (default Ch 1). Channel one will respond.

I even get this message if I Enable the Automation Write Feature [W].

I use Sonar Producer Rev6.2.1. Any ideas?

That's a weird one.

Yes, I see this in Sonar 8 too. It's a bug and has been there forever. If you open the context menu to the Envelope area, the defaults show channel 1. Yet, when I insert the envelope, it controls that particular track/channel.

I ignore these choices anyway. Don't you have a "MIDI..." option at the bottom of your context menu? Use it, and you get a dialog that lets you assign CC# to any channel.

I figured out a work around.

1) Press Control + T to bring up the Track dialog window.
2)Make sure that the "Channel" matches the Midi channel that you are using.

For some reason, if the midi channel is set to "None" and the Input is correct, Sonar happily records all note events, but struggles with the envelopes. Since it doesn't know where to direct the envelope data, it defaults to channel one.

I use Sampletank a lot. Since I setup the Midi input to match the output of my Midi Keyboard, and the track output to go to Sampletank, the soft synth works fine. Sonar did not know where to direct the midi data that I was generating within Sonar. It's starting to make sense now.

Thanks for posting your workaround, Piano39.  Four years after you posted it, I ran into the same problem with Sonar X1.  Your workaround still works.  It's not really a Sonar bug, I guess, but it should be clarified in the documentation.