severial midi decives hook up

[Modern_Talking]

hi guys ! quick question . i have 6 midi modules. jv1010, 01R/W, X3R, ROLAND XP10,ALESIAS D4 DRUM ..

I guess I have them all daisy chained up, which i guess is not a good idea ..

What I'm thinking of is getting the M-Audio 8x8 interface and hooking all these modules up to the midi in on the interface ..

First question, is this the right way to hook all those modules up ..

Second, question is, right now (not hookup to the m-audio interface but all modules are daisy chained) when I hit play on Cakewalk (I already programed all my tracks in cakewalk) I hear all the sounds form all the modules playing at the same time... here's my layout ..
TRACK 1 - PIANO -- ROLAND XP 10 KEYBOARD
TRACK 2 - BASS -- KORG O1R/W
TRACK 3 - STRINGS 1 - JV1010
TRACK 4 - STRINGS 2 -- JV1010
TRACK 5 - GUITAR -- X3R
TRACK 6 - RHYTHM -- X3R
TRACK 7 - RHYTHM 2 -- JV1010
TRACK 8 - SAX -- ROLAND XP 10
TRACK 10 - DRUMS -- ALESIAS D4

Now i would like to balance everything out .. meaing i would like for example only the piano coming out of the xp 10 only and not from ther other modules. same goes with track 2, 3 and so on .. But right now, every track seems to come out form all the modules.
I guess maybe this is happening because the modules have been daisy chained and when I get my m-audio 8x8 this will solve my problem .. Meaning, only those modules will play the sounds which the track has been assigned too in cakewalk .. or if anyone has another way to creat this kind of setup, i'd really love to hear about it ..

[manning1]

modern. re all playing. i could be wrong but my suspicion is your midi channels for send and receive are not set up correctly.
for example. try this...
pctrack// midi channel send (software)// channel receive(midi module)
===============================================
1*********1 **********************1
2*********2 **********************2
etc etc

10 (drums)**10**********************10
and just set your module patches.
hope this displays ok.

[drstawl]

You should have 16 channels available for each MIDI port, so with an 8-port MIDI controller that would translate to 128 channels!

All the I/O is mediated by the MIDI controller so you just hook up all the MIDI ins from your devices to the MIDI outs of the controller and any of your devices that send MIDI information get their MIDI outs hooked to the MIDI ins of the controller. Then the controller is hooked up to your computer by either USB/Firewire/parallel port (ancient) which is already bidirectional.

[Modern_Talking]

o geez ., .. i didn't even know i had 2 replies in here ...

anyways thanks guys for the replies . i will try out your suggestions and will reply back with a next message to let you know how i made out . the m-audio midi interface hasn't arrived yet, so i'm still playing around with the daisy chain thing. but appreciate everyone's response.

[Riverdog]

The MidiMan will solve your problem...

But for now - you need to know that each sound you use must be transmitting and receiving on a different MIDI channel much like a Television set transmits programs on different channels...

Also check your devices and make sure the MIDI "Omni" setting is set to off...