Instruction Manual

1208 Beginner’s Guide to Cakewalk Software
MIDI
If your interface only has one output, and you chain several instruments to
that output by using the MIDI THRU ports on the instruments, you can use
the individual instruments’ own control panels to choose what MIDI
channels they will respond to. That way, an instrument can ignore any
notes or other messages that are meant for a different instrument on the
chain. This setting is usually called MIDI Receive, and might be
abbreviated on an instrument’s control panel as MIDI RX.
Since most projects have several tracks in them, and each track is usually
assigned to a different sound, how do you control what sound you hear
when you press a key on your MIDI controller? In Cakewalk programs,
one of your tracks is always a tan color, because it has the focus. Whatever
track you click grabs the focus, and the sound that’s selected for that track
will sound when you play your keyboard.
For more information, see:
Audio
Audio Hardware (Sound Cards) and Drivers
MIDI Channels, Interfaces, Inputs, and Outputs
MIDI Drivers
MIDI Files, Projects, Tracks, and Clips
Controlling Which Sounds You Hear
MIDI
MIDI channel
Output
MIDI channel
Output