Hold on here Mike. John-Luke's idea convinced me to keep trying to work this. Actually it does work, it's simpler than I thought and makes some sense.

So what I'm doing is I'm using a Motif Rack module that I've loaded the .ins ( patch map ) file into BIAB. As in the past, I select a patch from the higher banks of the Motif for the melody track (channel 4) which BIAB plays on playback, as it always has, with no problems.

Then on the Thru track (channel 5), I select different Motif patch from the higher banks that I want to play "live" on my keyboard. I hit "save". That's it, nothing else needed...but there's a slight catch.

If I now go to another BIAB song, open that..the Thru track will play the patch from the first song above. So I change that to what I want on the second song and hit "save" on that song.

Now, I go back to the first song. Guess what? The Thru track displays correct patch name for the first song but if I hit the keyboard it plays the patch from the second song!

I've done this over and over again on a dozen songs, and each time BIAB remembers the patch selected for the Thru track of the previous song but displays the correct patch name for the Thru track of the current song.

But here's the catch: If I hit play on that first song, the Thru track changes to the correct patch sound I selected with that song.

I guess what's happening here is that BIAB is sending out MIDI info each time play is selected not when you first open up the song which I originally thought it was doing. Live and learn.

I do appreciate you guys jumping in here to help. It spurred me on to find a workable solution.

Jeff

Win11, Intel i7 7700K 4.2Ghz, 32Gb RAM, 2x1Tb HD, 500Gb NVMe, BIAB/RB 2025, MOTU 828MK3 audio, MOTU Midi Express, Yamaha Montage 7, DX7II, TX802, Motif XS Rack, Roland Fantom XR Rack, Oberheim Matrix 1000, VoiceLive3 Extreme, Kontakt 6, SampleTank 4.3