Roland Clan Forums

I emailed and got a response from Roland about this issue. It's a known problem and they have asked their engineers in Japan if it can be fixed in a firmware update. I'm hoping since the APRO keyboards are still being sold they will be more inclined to follow through with an update, but I'm not hold...

I just bought an A-800PRO second hand to use live with my computer-based keyboard rig. When performing, I want to quickly switch between two VST instruments on different MIDI channels using the Upper and Lower keyboard buttons, but after setting the channel numbers, the Upper mode resets to channel ...