simplicio..just a guess ..
by any chance are you useing midi traks you got from somewhere ??
look in the events window or midimon.exe and see if there are any commands
overwriting your settings. sometimes creators of midi traks
embed commands that override.
you have to delete such commands embedded in the midi file.
then set your own.

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