Since the malletkat it difficult to program-even changing its output midi channel is a bear with this old one, and the Yamaha wind controllers default to midi channel one, had to understand-not to use global mode settings for the individual song recorder tracks. All I had to do was dedicate my malletkat track to track 1-actually it has a setting for outputting 2 midi channels at once for layering-which confused me at first-even can do 3 midi channels from one midi out-I had to make sure i set all other tracks to a dedicated midi channel other than 1 or 2 and even 3 if I called up the program in the Malletkat that outputs 3-then I was able to record directly from the malletkat one one track-and the Yamaha WX wind controllers.
Global, as many of you probably already understand-enables recording as many tracks at once directly-depending on the "Global" midi channel setting-the master midi channel output on the global menu page, not within the song recorder tracks. So if I wanted to record a multi-layered sound at once, I would set whatever sound programs i want to include in those layers to the song recorder global setting for each individual track I want to combine-which will now respond to the "master" midi output channel in the Global page.
The important aspect to this-I had to understand the difference between the "Global" midi channel in the global menu page vs. the global midi setting for each track in the song/sequence recorder. As much as I've studied this monster workstation and all its convolutions and imperfections-part of the fun for me has always been-to connect the dots to make music, taking the puzzle pieces and constructing something that sounds at least passable..or maybe a bit better.
PS-another Fusion cryptic i had trouble grasping-there is a group of midi "filters" used in the recorder track section. Fine! However-even though there is a huge category of items that can be turned "on" or "off"-the logic is backwards, maybe I'm backwards. If I turn the filter for say "notes" off, the midi filter is actually "on", you can't play notes and etc. for all the other settings. So in order for these functions to work, I need to mark the checkbox-as if I am turning the filter "on". seems a little screwy to me, but then I am left-handed so maybe that has something to do with it. took me 60 years to work a right-handed scissor.....
