The synth Control Panel I was refering to is the Control Panel you get when you click on the DXi Synth button in BIAB. In this case, I had Coyote Forte DXi selected as the default. I used the Midi Monitor button today to see what was coming in on midi. I like it pretty good.
I did some testing today and found out that, as far as using the keyboard input to BIAB, it doesn't matter if Local Control is On or Off. It works either way. I'm guessing that's because it's midi input into a soft synth. It does matter if I'm using the keyboard's internal sounds and the Line Outs to feed my mixer. I just couldn't figure out how/why BIAB was turning it On and Off because I had it set in preferences not to do that. It was anyway. I tried looking in my Yamaha manual to see if I could turn the volume up in midi and I tried but it had no effect. I did change the setting. Default was 100 and I changed it to 127. Couldn't hear any difference in BIAB.
Basically, I think everything is working correctly now, except that the volume level on the "thru instrument" is not loud enough to play with a BIAB song that is playing. I have the "thru" volume on 127. Guess I could turn the volume down on all the rest of the instruments, but I don't know if I'd have enough overall output level then. Probably would work, but I haven't tried it yet. I'm going to start working mostly in RealBand anyway, and that works good on my machine. I want to work in RealBand because I can use a different synth on each track. That way I can use TruePianos on the keyboard track and something else on all the rest. I've been having fun, today, just playing, using Cantabile and my new TruePianos software. Today is the most I've played using it and I'm really liking it.
What's worrying me is that last night nothing was working correctly in BIAB. I turned it on this morning and it only took a little fiddling to get it all right. I wonder if it's going to stay that way or blow up again.
Thanks for your input.
Keith