What is the difference between a track and a channel?

In the Sequencer, a track is like an audio track on a tape recorder. You can record an instrument’s performance on it. In the case of the keyboard, you are recording MIDI information, not audio. There are 16 tracks in the sequencer. Typically, they are assigned sequentially to MIDI channels 1-16, so that you can record 16 different things and send
them to 16 completely different instruments (timbres). But they DON’T HAVE TO BE. You could set all 16 tracks to Channel 1 if you wanted to. In other words, a track is a discrete recording of MIDI information. The Channel setting lets you decide which timbre (instrument) you want to
send it to. Why would you want to set multiple tracks to the same channel? A trick I’ve used a lot: record the left and right hands of a complex piano part separately, on different tracks. Assign them to the same MIDI Channel and you’ve still got the hands’ MIDI data separate but they are both playing on the same piano. This is done using the MIDI Channel assignments on (3.1-1) and (3.1-2) [Menu]->[Parm1]->
[MIDI..8/16]

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