Analogue-sequencer

I just love it when i hit the wrong button and my empty e-mail goes into cyberville.
 Anyway, got my P3 the other day and boy is it a beauty. Thanks Colin!
Being of the "i'm too cool for manuals" school. i dove right in. Uh huh......yea, i'm an idiot. I don't have much of a working knowledge of midi to begin with, so i guess it's time to crack the book. Right off, what i don't understand is the setting of the basic midi channel per track or or anything else. On the select channel page where it says
"select channel" then (trk=1)  ...what am i missing here? the number givin is the track #. does pressing the track button change the channel??  so pressing button #1 changes the track midi channel to 1? If not, can someone say this another way? i'm not groking this to well. Is the P3 a blank slate that you have to enter note info for it to fire off anything?. Eager to get something going right off, i just plugged the thing into my Proteus ( midi channel 1), set the scale to C major and hit run. It runs alright, but none of the modules that i'v plugged into it register any  midi information being received. that was a couple of hours ago and i'm still drawing blanks here. I know i'm real dense and i'm still turning pages in the manual so i still might have some luck later on tonight, but............. can anyone give me a swift kick in the arse here and bootload me into reality?  LMAO!!!
kind regards
john duval

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