CAKEWALK PRO AUDIO User Manual page 99

playback at the beginning of a song, the bank and patch settings for the
track are set to these initial values.
Many instruments have descriptive names for their banks and patches.
Pro Audio stores these names in an instrument deÞnition. For more
information about instrument deÞnitions, see Chapter 10, Using
Instrument DeÞnitions. If you are using an instrument that supports
general MIDI, your patch list will contain the 128 sounds that are
deÞned by the general MIDI speciÞcation.
Note to Experts:
Different MIDI instruments use different types of commands to
change banks. Cakewalk supports four common methods for changing
banks. For information about the bank selection method you should
use with your MIDI gear, see the UserÕs Guide for your MIDI
equipment.
Note that a single MIDI channel can only play one patch at a time on
each instrument assigned to that channel. Therefore, if two or more
MIDI tracks are set to the same port and channel but have different
bank and patch settings, the patch of the highest-numbered track will be
used for all the tracks.
In some projects you want the sound played by a track to change while
playback is in progress. You can accomplish this using the Insert-Bank/
Patch Change command. When you start playback in the middle of a
song, Pro Audio searches back through the track to Þnd the correct patch
to use Ð either the initial bank and patch or the most recent bank/patch
change. Note that the Track view only shows the initial bank and patch,
even while a different bank and patch are being played back. The only
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