Seperate volume on expanded midi tracks?

I have several midi files I am working with. I start by inserting Midi file. Reaper asks if I want to expand Midi tracks to seperate Reaper tracks, yes I do. I have a pet VST (actually dxi) plugin I use often. A GM player that plays 16 midi channels with effects and low latency... It's Cakewalk TTS-1) It's terribly handy but... what I really need is for the Volume controls on the Reaper tracks to work :-( the TTS-1 has up to 4 outs but really I don't care about the separate outs I just want to be able to adjust seperate track volume(s). Is this possible ???? Pleeze... Thanks in advance, standing by with crossed fingers/baited breath

Go to Preferences->Media->"Adjust media item volume by dragging" and make your choice. You may find the volume knob easier at first. Adjusting the volume this way is done by scaling the velocity values. There's another way. On a send channel there's an icon like a MIDI socket. Click it and the send volume control sends MIDI cc7 (volume) values. You can of course automate this. You can't use the audio volume faders on the tracks because, well, they're for audio! Steve

You can actually use the track volume and pan fader/knob for MIDI volume CC7 and pan CC10, but it's a real pain to set up. In the track context menu you find "MIDI track controls" -> "Link track volume/pan to MIDI channel" and then the submenu for the 16 MIDI channels. You have to set it for each of the tracks individually :(. If you do send routing to the instrument make sure you don't use [All] as send destination, but explicitly the channel this track is using - otherwise the track's volume/pan fader data gets multiplied and sent for all 16 channels (seems a bug??). Also double check that the MIDI-socket button in the send (the one bradleyfilms is talking about as well) is enabled for this. I say double check, because it seems to disable itself under some circumstances (when you change send destination channel, I think) but leaves the button lit until the send dialog is reopened :o.

Thing is, not only is it hidden deep and bold to set up, there is also no indication of it on TCP or MCP after you gone through all the effort (there could be at least a little "You've DONE it!" fanfare and a colorful banner on the MIDI tracks :)). Only the tooltips that come up when you hover above volume/pan controls reveal it. Doesn't even tell you the channel... There has been so much talk about this feature missing but since it's implemented no-one talks about it anymore. You would think that means it is all well and intuitive, but I doubt that :D. If I was actually needing MIDI volume/pan faders in my mixer, I'd be all over testing and requesting improvements on this.

I think in an ideal world the meters would change to nice MIDI "meters" and a completely new *CP element would display and edit the MIDI channel linked to. But first and foremost it must be way easier to set up. For example when multiple tracks are selected, it should be possible to chose the first track's channel and the other tracks get assigned incrementially. There should also be assistance to set up the track sends to incremential MIDI channels. For the OP's usecase - import a multichannel MIDI item - it would also be very cool if there was a fully automatic set up of all that's needed to get the faders working. It would need to read the MIDI that exists on the created track and decide the channel from there. Having a track with a VSTi selected could make the MIDI import create nifty MIDI sends to that track. And - if that's possible - I think MIDI linked track controls should be pre-FX. Then they could also affect VSTi on the same track. That would afford linked controls to be decoupled from their audio function - which I think I wouldn't mind, if I could toggle to and fro. OP, we're letting our fantasy meander quite a bit here, but at least it's not completely off the topic. Hope you don't mind too much. If you get stuck on the process (I know I do at times) please just ask away and we'll be back to earth in no time and do our best to help if possible.

Got it 

Thank you so much. :-) :-) :-). At first it didn't work. I went back, opened up i/0 dialog and clicked on midi plug icon .... Volla OMG. I see why you mentioned the "double check". It does turn off :-(. Whet a pain...