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Hi - I'm a first-time poster. Like dalemccl I'm an ex-Sonar user trying to get into Cakewalk-by-Bandlab after a long absence. I don't understand why Cakewalk now blocks user access to some normal MIDI events like some initial program and bank changes (and who knows how many others?), but it at least explains some of my recent frustrations. I've always spaced out MIDI events a little to work with marginal hardware (e.g. some MIDI interfaces and processors, TC Helicon harmonizers, DMX512 or especially MIDI mergers), but that's all now a bit flakey. I also can no longer open a MIDI file, have it play using an SYXG50 VSTi, fix a few events and exit all within a minute or so. I've watched endless Youtube videos just to get any sound out of my MIDI files on Cakewalk, and even then, most don't relate to the latest Cakewalk. But John Vere's tip (above) has at least let me hear MIDI files (albeit using the TTS-1 VSTi), so hopefully I can work from there to replace it with the SYXG50. There are a lot more topics also discussed above which sound very worthy of further investigation - so my thanks to all contributors here in this oasis of useful tips. Are there any other places where out-of-touch users like me can learn more to make our time with Cakewalk more productive? Thanks, Tony