I had a chance to dissect the 2 MIDI files.
I pulled them into Reaper and found that deleting track #1 allows RB 2016 to load the files without crashing.

I'll see if I can look at track one to see what is there, most likely there is a SysEx (or something similar) but unknown SysEx are supposed to be ignored by a Synth that doesn't understand them, so RB should just be passing the SysEx on to the external synth module and not crashing.

If anyone gets a chance to confirm the crash with the file I posted the link for earlier that's fine, but it appears to likely be a new buglet in RB 2016 that is choking on something in a SysEx.

Thanks,
Burt