Noel96 and Mac, Thanks for help.

Noel, my channel set up is the same as yours, except for the patch number. I am using 67 tenor sax.

Mac, I am using cakewalk TTS-1 Dxi version vsc. All the controls are set to the proper volume.... in this case, all set to 90.

I have decided to waste no more time on this; all my other compositions have no problems so I am reading this as a glitch somewhere along the line, poss. in the original 2004 version. Rather than rewriting the entire number again I have copied the soloist track to the melody track and edited it there. In rendering to my audio editor, I have duplicated the track and then edited out the melody and soloist on the various tracks.... a long way round, but it has worked.
So once again, thank you very much for the time you have put it on this and if I ever find out the problem I will post it up.

lfu2