Hi Larry...

Well, I can say with certainty and great joy that I can put an end to this thread... Everything is working as it should!!!

After a couple of hours of still getting nowhere, I was getting ready to give in and throw the Roland back into the junk drawer from whence it came. But before pulling it apart, and out of frustration, I pushed the button on the Midi Sport 2X2 to the "USB Merge" position... in other words, to the "in" position. Suddenly, because I was still hooked up to the Roland, it started working fine. I had already set up another midi track for the Ketron, so after changing the plug into my midi controller, it too worked as it should. The other thing I discovered was when assigning a patch to a track, I choose "omni" in the "channel" drop-down box. For some reason or another I had my brain wrapped around this "channel" thing, thinking it was very important to assign one to each patch. (Hey... what do you expect from a pain in the butt newb?) I guess it would be safe to say that I can put "channels" out of my head for now.

I recorded on both tracks and playback is beautiful. I also was able to get my desk back as it was buried by the miles of temporary "test" wires that accumulated. Life is good.

I wasn't planning on, nor will I be using the JV-1010 in BIAB because I usually only use BIAB for bass and drum tracks and I sometimes keep the guitar and/or piano tracks that I import into Sonar and do the rest of my song there. The Ketron looks after these imported tracks very well for me, as it has been doing for a long time.

That being said, the JV-1010 has, for instance, something that could be like at least 20 (I haven't actually counted them) different bass patches that are at my disposal... giving me a LOT more choices than what the Ketron offers.

When things were up and running I did some exploring in the JV-1010. I had forgotten how many patches this thing has. The "64 voice grand piano" is spectacular. It has loads of cool sound effects that I'm sure I'll have a lot of fun with. While I was playing around with it my wife came in to see where these strange sounds were coming from.

Just want to thank you once again for teaching me about "Ports" and how to set them up and use them. Without learning about this, the JV-1010 would have been tossed back in the junk drawer two days ago. Also, thanks for your patience... so much appreciated. Perhaps after this adventure I'm not quite a complete and total newb anymore. smile

Bobby