R!Soc,,, thanks so much for posting this!! That helped me a lot!
I made a Peformance called Sonar Set Up, and put it in the first Patch spot as you suggested. Everything is working fine now. Taking this a step further, and since I now have the benefit of Track Templets in Sonar 5, I've created my first ensemble set up.
To do this, I set up a stereo audio track routed to the input of my soundcard that I use for the XP input and a MIDI track from the Synth Rack. I then cloned 3 tracks of that MIDI track, because I wanted 4 voices in ensemble. I needed to change the MIDI channel of the three cloned tracks to subsequently be channel 2,3, and 4. Now I selected the voice I wanted on midi track one in the first track, and repeated that for each of the next three tracks. I then saved this as a Track Templet in Sonar, and created a folder for XP Ensembles to store it in. Woo Hoo,,, I now have a track templet for my first XP ensemble. Doing this is the equivalent of creating a Performance, in the XP, but it's all stored in a Sonar track instead. This is the way I've wanted it to work all along!!
This is the equivalent of a Combination in Sampletank.
In the "olden days" I used to set up performaces in my multi timbral synths, and save them. Then I set a performance patch change command at the beginning of a track to select the performance for the project, but you needed to assign the voices in the synth, instead of the instrument definition lists in the sequencer. I see that if I set up something and I want to save it in the synth as a performance, I can, by making edits to this basic set up and saving it to a different performance location. This gives us the best of both worlds, while keeping the patch selection conveniently in Sonar.
Thanks again for the help, you guys!
And thanks Brett, for tolerating me jumping on your thread.