John, thanks for the step by step. Unfortunately, I run into problems when I do the pulldown list to the left of GM2 ... there are no drums (there are some percussive things like synth drum and wood block, but no standard or drum kit entries)
The other think is untangling the Melody track ... I have selected 16 part as Melody, but don't see any way to assing the channels to the other instruments ... I'm exceedingly interested in drums and bass, which would be Channels 10 and 2, but I can't find any reference in the manuals to how to do this.
Is there a specific reason for running everything through Melody? It would seem reasonable to have access to MIDI channels right from the start.
Chris