Kurzweil PC4 sound loading problems

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Hi all, I'm having a couple of weird issues with my Kurz lately, wondering if anyone has had the same problems and might offer some insight :)

One, albeit minor issue is: I have a KB3 sound stored as a Program, and on it a custom effect chain I made, which has a lot of drive and the distortion gain is controlled by CC pedal. When playing a live show, most of my sounds are in Multis but this one is just in a Program since it's the single sound I need for this particular song. Sometimes when I play a Multi and then switch to the Program, it sounds like the effects failed to load, there is no distortion on the sound, but somehow the pedal still works, it only makes the sound louder? I checked and the pedal is turned off on all other parameters, other than distortion gain in the effect chain. Hitting MIDI panic seems to solve the issue, but I can't figure out what's causing it, I also have difficulty reproducing the issue, as it seems to happen randomly.

The other, much more annoying issue is: When I play with my wedding band, I use a Kronos as my second keyboard, where I have all the songs stored in a setlist, and when I select a song it sends Program change messages to the Kurz, where I have all the songs stored in Multis. This works fine, unless a Multi on the Kurz contains a KB3 program. For some reason, when the Kurz receives the program change and switches the Multi, all KB3 programs in any Multi sound like they failed to load completely. There is sound coming out, but it's really bad, there is no rotary, no effects, it almost sounds like pure sine waves instead of the organ sound I get when I load the program manually. I've checked that the KB3 Channel parameter in the multi is set correctly, and that Kronos is not sending any messages on the KB3 channel. Reloading the multi manually also fixes this issue (sometimes, sometimes it just won't work and I need to restart the keyboard), but as you can imagine this is extremely annoying in a live setting where I need to switch patches fast and have no time to play a bit to see if everything loaded correctly.

I'd appreciate any advice very much, thanks! :)
 

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