Strange problem using MIDI

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Hello there, I recently started recording some stuff using a midi keyboard, Sonar 4, and soft synths. My problem is like this: I'll record a piano part using the midi keyboard(with the midi track connected to some DXi or VST) and during this i'll be pressing down on my sustain pedal now and then. This works out fine. However, when I try to record a new, overlapping track using the midi keyboard, this new track will have the sustain parts at the same spots which were from the old track which i had just recorded. For example, if i pressed on the sustain pedal 3 times in the old track, the new track i'm recording will have the sustain information at the exact same times. How do I make it so that each midi track is independent of all the information from the track before it? I hope this makes sense. If anyone has any ideas or solution to this problem, it would be greatly appreciated, thanks everyone.
 
tracks are not the same as midi channels - you can have 10,000 tracks all send data to the same midi channel (which is in effect the same instrument), but it is still ONE instrument.

What you seem to be doing (assuming that both tracks target have the same midi channel and port as output) is send both midi tracks to the same instrument. Try selecting another channel for the second track.
 
Let me get some things cleared up so that I understand what you are saying(sorry, I'm new to this). On Sonar each track has Input, Output, and Channel.

For all tracks, I'm making the output be my DXi(which is Garritan Personal Orchestra).

And for the input, i have it on "MIDI-Omni." So, I'm assuming you mean changing the midi channel on the Input? But the DXi only sounds when I have the Input either on "MIDI-Omni" or "MIDI-Channel 1", and i've tried changing between these channels for the second track...the problem still occurs.

Do you know what can be going on? If not, thanks for your help nonetheless, Fraserhutch.
 
I don't think the input channel is not the issue here. In fact, it's neither the input OR output, it's the channel.

If both tracks are outputting to the same channel, then they are outputting to the same instrument, and thus your controller information (pedal, etc) will apply to both tracks.

Select a different channel for your second track, assuming this is the case.
 
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