I've just come back to BiaB from a fair absence and I'm finding a problem with some stuff I used to be able to do (at least I think I did).

Basically I want to input a melody directly from my midi keyboard with a BiaB style set up.and have it recorded on the melody track.

The problem I had was in setting a midi patch for the melody track. No matter what I selected as my patch, nothing appeared to be inserted. The only way I was able to achieve this was by inserting one single note on the melody line. Following up from this discovery, I started over again. Now I selected my melody patch in the orignal song. This time I went ahead and recorded my midi, even though I could still see no patch inserted in the mixer grid. But ..., I COULD hear the melody as I played and, when the melody was complete and I had accepted the midi, THEN the patch showed up in the mixer grid and I was able to use it for further recording.

I can't remember this behaviour. I'm fairly sure that the patch appeared in the grid when selected.

Am I doing it wrong?