can i run more than 16 midi tracks in cakewalk?

[r0cker]

hi there, apologies for my ignorance, i am sure you can run more than 16 tracks of midi at once in cakewalk pa9 but i am pretty new to midi and don't know how to do it. i am selecting the midi channels in track properties but it only goes up to 16 and i am triggering samples on the ram on my turtle beach soundcard. if anyone could let me know i would be eternally grateful (no, really i would be, i can't get a track finished without more than 16!). so any replies much appreciated, thanks in advance
r0cker

 

[AlChuck]

r0cker,

16 channels of MIDI is all you get per device. For more, you need multiple devices and interfaces to them.

For example, the SB Live card has two separate hardware synths that can be addressed, Synth A and Synth B, for a total of 32 possible MIDI channels that can be used. There is also a Creative software synth that adds more. (Which Turtle Beach card do you have? I would think the Montego II or the Santa Cruz cards would be comparable to the SB Live, feature-wise.) I believe other softsynths work pretty much the same way.

The built-in synths are all using virtual MIDI interfaces between Cakewalk and the soundcard. Then you have as many other MIDI devices as you can add, potentially. For example, if you had a MIDISPORT 8x8, you'd have 8 separate MIDI interfaces to address, for 8x16 = 128 channels. Of course you'd have to have the external synths to plug in to actually use that many...

I hope that helps...

-AlChuck