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Yea, Believe me, I absolutely agree that if you read it or think about what the setting is called, it doesn't make any sense. In fact I was going to address that point the last time I posted but figured that perhaps there were other possibilities, like different os, ect. But I swear on my xl-7 that this is the section I do mean and that's how I've used it. Maybe it's designed to be for something else but when I needed to mute whole tracks, from numerous patterns at once, in song playback, back when I first got it, I found this and tried it and it worked. I never checked the manual to see what that section was for, it worked so that's how I used it ever since. And as I've said, I've done it many, many times. Again I do agree that it doesn't seem right "on the surface" But my problem was solved, I didn't care if it made sense.
In fact, several months ago, I hadn't recorded (individual tracks to protools) in a while and when I went in to the midi section to do this, I was even confused by the name. I had always just scrolled through looking for the 'midi ch #1: on' in the display window not really looking for the name. This particular time I was thrown, and scrolled up and down looking for something that made sense. But that was the only screen that had the options I was looking for, so I changed the settings as I had so many times before, and it did just what it had always done. So I stopped thinking about and got back to work.
I'd say try it on your machine, turn all midi channels except one off and play back a song. Only the midi channel/track # left on will send any sound out of any output. All others will be silent.
However that was not my question. It was only background on what was going on.
I promise I'm not crazy, well...actually maybe I can't promise that
Thanks for trying to help though guys. I really do value all your wisdom.

--- On Wed, 5/19/10, duncan wrote:

From: duncan
Subject: [xl7] Re: Frozen midi settings
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 4:41 AM

>>If I go into the "Midi> Receive Program Change" area and set any of the choices from track 1a through 16b to off, when I play back nothing on those tracks will sound. <<

are you absolutely sure you mean "receive program change" & not just "midi"? read out loud what you're saying... it doesn't make sense that simply disabling the PC reception on a channel would mute it.

I too use this all the time- I disable the PC reception so that control of which patch is playing stays with the sequence or the multisetup.

on the other hand, I disable midi reception completely on some channels when there are other modules being used to play those channels. this is a DIFFERENT menu item.

hth-
duncan.

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