RESOLVED
Thanks rharv, Bob and Silvertones.
Bob's comment about the 'offset box'prompted me to check my Bar Offset settings.
The first bar of the song was -2 (containing nothing), the next bar (-1) had a quaver pickup into a drum fill, 0 was the drum fill. The song's intro began at 1.
The Bar Offset setting was set at -3.
I deleted the first bar (after moving some volume midi controller settings) and then changed the Bar Offset setting from -3 to -2... and voila!
Thanks again. What a great support community.


Mike Garry
BIAB 2025/RealBand, UltraPak, Kontakt, EZmix, Ozone 9 Elements, Hybrid 3, Audacity, MSi PC, Windows 11, 64bit, 16GB ram, CPU: Intel i7.

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