Hey, so an observation ...

- everything going good, triggering recording, etc then the Drumtraks plays a cymbal note C#3 and the Drumtraks STOPS sending MIDI to the Reaper recording track BUT the Drumtraks keeps playing; AND if I tap any instrument pad, it will start sending MIDI again to the recording

- somehow its getting a message to stop sending MIDI at the same moment it gets that note?? Maybe some how somewhere that note is set to a MIDI off signal or something AND you can see from this picture that all the notes are going along nicely until it gets that cymbal note and then you see the All Notes Off

... 07 you can see all is normal and recording properly
... 22 you can see that MIDI data has stopped coming into the track because Note C#3 was recieved (cymbal on the drumtraks)
... 24 I tapped a pad and the MIDI started up

Everytime Reaper gets a MIDI command to paly C#3, Drumtraks stops sending MIDI, every time I then tap any pad, Drumtraks will again begin sending the song right where it left off

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Maybe not applicable, but I know there is a bug in Cakewalk where if a patch number is above a certain number, it will do weird things with bank selects before finally setting the proper patch. This all happens on the same tick, and isn't normally noticeable, but if you dive in to the midi data, it's clear as day. Wondering if maybe Reaper has a similar quirk with that specific note?

Try running Sema's test files and see if anything else does it as well. Files are towards the bottom, try out the "test-all-xxx" files.

https://github.com/jazz-soft/test-midi-files

Jay, glad you got it sorted!

Just for future reference, leave the original post as is and reply to it. It makes it much more useful for others who come across the thread later. 😀

Not sure if you edited the whole thing or it glitched and lost the other parts? Your original question is gone, as are Geoff's replies.

Jason, oh man, no, I edited it but didn't intend to erase as much as I did. Geoff, if you read this, sorry man! Thanks again : )

Jason - Thanks for your comment regarding Jay's 'edits' to this thread. I was planning on saying something, but probably less polite, so didn't.

This however OUGHT not to be possible. I work on a number of forums, and all others (I think) allow a finite window wherein the OP can edit the post, but this is maybe for a few hours ONLY. If this forum leaves this window open indefinitely, this is surely WRONG.

As I see it, any posting here is serving a 'greater purpose', that leaves a record of problems, possible causes, possible solutions and, hopefully, actual solutions. ALL of these details are equally important, and could well help future enquiries and anyone merely searching the web via Google, even where the new problem is something different. Even a part of the information in this thread may shed some light on the new problem, might rule some things out, might suggest other options. Even if this thread does not result in a 'solution', or the solution that does appear is nor really related to the problem as it was initially presented.

The more information that is gathered into the thread, the more chance that a later Google search might usefully find it, and gain even a tiny hint of help.

Geoff