Actually, these are not the specific stumbling blocks I am encountering. Here is where I'm coming from:

I have a Roland with 16 MIDI in Channels, of which I am using 2=bass, 3=piano, and 10=drums. So for sound generation, I have at my disposal whatever tones are on the RD700GX (and these patches are listed at the back of their manual)

I have from the MIDI file (I believe, and here is where I am unclear) basically note/volume/etc. sequences assigned to various MIDI channels; the files I am using have MIDI ch. 2=bass, 3=piano, and 10=drums ... so these align with the Roland MIDI tables

But patches have not been mentioned, and this is where I get confused. I'm presuming that the RD700 .PAT file that downloads from the PGMusic site has the table for the various RD700 patches. I can't find any drum kits, and I know that there are at least four drum kits on the RD700 that I can use. So I looked for a .DK file to see if these might have the patch information needed.

So on one side I have the Roland tables (MIDI ch + patches)

On the other side I have the MIDI sequence file and BiB or RB augmented by the .PAT and .DK files that describe the patches inside the Roland. So these should basically serve up the MIDI sequence with the right patches to the Roland. I can't assign the patches inside the Roland, I need to do this in the software (maybe RB is best for this)

So my question would concern how one takes the basic sequence information, and adds the patches and drum kit selections that would apply to the Roland (since I seem to need to make these selections inside BiB or RB).

I have had luck in assigning the .PAT patches ... but they don't always stick (this may be Sysex information as you say in the MIDI stream). But I can't find the Roland drum kits on the menus that come up for patch selection.

Perhaps there is a sections of the manual that I should be reading through, but I didn't see this directly addressed anywhere in the manual

Again, any help would be greatly appreciated

Thank

Chris