Midi input 'omni' question?

I am using a very old synth - Korg Poly 61 retrofitted twith midi (Mody Poly). As such (according to the Mody Poly’s manual) I need to do the following:

‘‘Make sure your DAW only receives on one channel, not omni.’’

Where in Cubase can I confirm/check that I am not receiving on omni?

Thanks for all your tips!

on the midi track in cubase, go to inserts and then add midi monitor, with the midi monitor you can have a detailed look at the incoming midi data on this track

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In the Inspector of the MIDI track, under Routing, in the drop-down list “Any” means “omni”, but you can just select the MIDI channel you want for that specific MIDI track.

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This is excellent advise… for Cubase 13. However OP used the Cubase 10 tag, so it won’t help them.

@Philipp123
By default Cubase 10 will receive data on all 16 channels. If that is a problem, you need to filter out data that is coming from other any channel but 1.
Either globally in Edit → Preferences…
grafik
It is hard to see on my color settings but on this screenshot channels 2-16 will be filtered.

Or by using the MIDI Input Transformer, set to Filter mode.

I wonder why this would even matter, what possible problems could this cause? Does the Korg do something weird like send the same Note out on every Channel?