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Question When sequencing into Cakewalk Sonar, the drum MIDI kit does not establish itself. It is a pitched instrument. I do sequencing with my 8th grade students. We just put in new Kork X50 keyboards a few weeks ago. The old ones Korg N5ex read MIDI and drum MIDI with no problem. I have the X50 set to MULTI. It produces MIDI with the other instruments, but not percussion. Any ideas how to get the drumkit through the Cakewalk Sonar program? I have it set to channel 10 as always with percussion. Thank you.
Answer It is difficult to help you because this problem is most likely related to the specific settings within the Korg and Sonar... and there are a lot of them!
It is not necessary to always use channel 10 - any channel will do as long as the MIDI track in Sonar that is playing the percussion notes is transmitting on the same channel as the Korg is set to receive, and that the Korg has a percussion (drum kit) library loaded into this channel.
So... to start, set Sonar to transmit on channel 10. Then, still within the Sonar track, set the bank and patch to a General MIDI percussion library. Make sure Sonar is set to "patch/controller searchback before play starts" - this is in the MIDI OUT tab of the PROJECT OPTIONS menu.
Now usually, the Korg should load up the library you have assigned into the channel 10 slot, and you will be good to go. But the Korg may be set to ignore external bank and patch changes, or it may not exactly follow the MIDI standard... so check these things.
Also, make sure Sonar is not transmitting anything else on channel 10, and ensure that the Korg is set to "LOCAL CONTROL OFF" so that it will respond to external MIDI data rather than its own keyboard.
Hope this helps. Let me know how it goes and please follow up with any further questions or info.
