I've worked at this and can't seem to get it to mess up. When you save the song it saves with a program change based on the instrument that is up there. The best I could do was to set the midi channel of each instrument to 0 and also set each instrument to ----. Then save the song. Open a different song and play. Then reopen the song I saved with the striped out program changes. Open the MIDI monitor to verify that there are no program changes happening. All tracks still play however they are using the instruments that were being used in the previous song. If I then close the program thus resetting the Forte so that all instruments are reset then the only thing I hear are the drums as channel 10 is locked to "standard Kit". I then change each instrument to something and the song plays.
Bottom line for me here is that EVERYTHING is acting as it should.This issue.

John
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