Thanks so much. That explains it very well. Sounds right because the patch coming through is very high (57ish). I didn't realise you could blank out these options for patches. I'll play around with this dialog box and add the Nova back in running from the Voicelive 2 thru. I really like the step editing. Nice and clean. No need to use a mouse.
I have one of these from about 25+ years ago which should be handy for sending messages around. Life after death for it
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~wayrich/synth-history/sequencers.html