X1 V700 Roland Ryan Munnis etc

So I'm a little disturbed by this.
No idea what the scoop is but I made a template in 8.5. 8 Audio tracks and 8 Midi.
Two synths.
Fantom VS and Studio Instruments drums.
Set each channel for the Fantom and assigned each channel to an insttrument.
Works fine.
Channel 10 drums SI.
Fine.
Save that template and open it in X1.
Press the buttons on the console and the midi note sounds.
If I uncheck Console in Midi preferences the consople wont work.
 
After a week or moire I decided to call tech support and ask what I need to do.
This is the first I've noticed that Cakewalk had dumped support for the V 700.
Now Rolnd handles it.
Is Ryan Munnis with Roland or Cakewalk?
He has been the guy that's helped me with support in the past and been great.
 
Just trying to get a working template.
I can continue to use 8.5 P but I'd like to move up since I bought X1P and Expanded.
Is the Roland Cakewalk marriage strained these days?
Thanks anybody
WSS

They are joined at the hip. Software inconsistancies persist between versions when transfering entire projects from one version to another. I experienced the same thing when moving projects from version 7 to 8. Once transferred just the audio and Midi data to new tracks in a template I made in the new version, I had no problems. I beleive it's due to labels pointing effects and softsynths to the original version in the original project. It was necessary to create a new project template, install the synths and effects. Then the saved synth and effect patches would work in the new versions project. There's some kind of a rollover tag missing there.