Whenever any instrument I have loaded has any Key Switches that could lie in the range of notes I might play, I just edit the Key Switches to drop them down however many octaves I need them to go to get them out of the way of playable notes.
 
i learned this because I was accidentally changing the sound once, whenever I would play octave bass notes with my left hand.  I eventually figured out that the existing key switches for that instrument would get triggered by my low bass notes, so that prompted me to edit them to be lower than what I would normally play, and that solved the key switch issue for me.  I would save the instrument to a modified name from the original, to show I had edited it, and that would also protect any existing projects that used the original key switch definitions.
 
Bob Bone
 

I have made drum maps to move keyswitches to different positions and mute notes that I constantly kept futzing up due to my lousy keyboard skills

Ditto for using drum mapped keyswitching.

While adding the soft synth, select Midi Source (instead of Simple Inst. Track) and the First Synth Audio Output (or All Synth Audio, etc.., else there won't be any audio output).
 
Then you'll be able to access the screen below :
 
Plus or minus the keys by 12, 24, etc.. to get your correct sound octave.
 
Extra usage for wind instruments : 
This is also the place where I will transpose it -2 (Bb) or +3 (Eb), and all of these will in turn respond to the project's master key change. So, I can enter notes in concert pitch and display in the correct transposed score in staff view.
 

 

Thanks! I have never in all my years of sequencing come across this problem and I am once again very thankful for all the knowledge here in this forum. Thanks, fellas!