@ Mac ... I was running 292, but have since updated to 294. Didn't seem to make any difference.

I am perhaps being less than clear. I am wanting the channel options to by 'system' based, not 'song' based. I did set the channels as I wanted and then finished a song I was working on and saved it. The channel settings came back with the song. I suppose I could make a blank song with the channel settings I want and just open it each time and use 'save as' to get those setting.

@ Andrew ... I am trying to it on all tracks except thru. As you can read above, I guess I'm asking if the channel settings is a song parameter or a system parameter.

So you can understand why I am trying to do this, my synth has a GM bank along with other banks. If I turn the switch on the synth to directly address the GM bank, I can't then use the other banks. I have to send the bank select messages to be able to access all patches. That's why I want to set up the midi channels to open each time with the prober bank select, MSB and LSB, in the program to default address the GM banks. The patch numbers are of course the same.

I didn't really want to have to go in each time I change a song and readdress the channels.

I hope this makes it clear.

Prado