From: "Race, Paul" <pdr@ccspo.daytonoh.NCR.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list <cakewalk@lists.colorado.edu>
Subject: Splitting trax
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>Hi,
>This is my first post, hope it works.
>My problem now is how to split one track into 16 tracks.  I did my sequence
>on ROLAND JW50 WORKSTATION. I save on the floppy disk from JW50 and >load
it
>into CAKEWALK.  Then I found out the original 16 channels are squeezed into
>one
>track.  How can I split them?
>THANX!
>Y Hu

Your JW50 saves MIDI files in a modified "type 0" format, in which all
events are on one track, makes it easier for the synth to play back that
way, but doesn't do you much good when you load it into a real sequencer.
If you have Cakewin 2.0 or later, it's possible to create a CAL routine that
sends each different channel to a different track.  Chances are somebody
else will give you more detail on that.

But, even if you're laboring along with older software, though, there's a
way to do this.  Hook your JW50 up to your MIDI input.  Get the sequence in
question ready to play on your JW50.

Go to the Settings menu on Cakewalk, go to the Channel/track assignment
function (called Channel Table in CakeWin).  Set it so incoming information
on channel 1 goes to track 1, channel 2 goes to track 2 and so on.  Then
click the box to "Enable Translation For Recording."

You should also set Cakewalk to slave to the JW50, if you haven't already
done so (Try Settings/Clock/MIDI Sync).  Then put Cakewalk in Record mode.
 It will say something like "Waiting for MIDI clock" (I'm doing this from
memory, so give me a break).

Then play the sequence on your JW50.  Cakewalk should sync to the JW50,
record each channel's input on a different track, and, voila, when the
sequence is done, all you have to do is save the track.

BTW, this seems much more complicated than it is.  Once you've done it a
time or two, you won't think anything of it.  Although you may have a new
appreciation for sequencers which use Type 1 files.

Good luck.

paul.d.race@daytonOH.ncr.com