[jhwater]

Hi Sherry and thanks for your suggestions. I have experimental at length with this keyboard and cannot get it to behave like my other one (different brand). So I have concluded that the simplest solution is the best and it seems likely that the Casio synth is the source of this problem. What I am going to do is make the 1st measure empty in my Composer piece. After pressing play, I have plenty of time to choose the patch that I want played on the synth. I have tested this out and it appears that control characters are sent when pressing play, but none are sent while the piece is playing. This will allow me to record without issues.

Thanks,
--Jerry