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Thanks @Jokeyman123, I think my issue was more with Ableton than the Casio. Since responding last time I found the change message within the MIDI channel on Ableton and now it's a very simple task. Embarrassingly simple, but I'm still pretty new with Ableton. MIDI can be frustrating but it enables some incredible things! Thanks again to everyone who offered their help.

Hey thanks everyone for all of your help and work on this issue. I've never dealt with change messages before so it took some research to get a basic grasp of the concept. Unfortunately I cannot provide a lot of insight into what worked exactly, but I finally got it working. Basically it required me changing the sound to the desired sound while the MIDI passage was playing in Ableton. Before I had Strings selected and then I pressed play, and the Piano sound was recorded. Now that I changed to the string sound while Ableton was in the process of playing the MIDI passage, the correct sound comes out. Furthermore, it continues to play the proper sound if I stop and start it now. Thanks everyone for all of your help.

Thanks for the advice Jokeyman123 and also nice avatar, I love Zappa. I'm on a Mac so I cannot use Midiox, apparently Snoize is a mac equivalent. The thing that confuses me is that I'm not trying to record MIDI information in Ableton, I'm trying to record an audio signal. I'm sending MIDI from ableton to the CDP130 and the notes are being played but only with the piano sound. Sorry if I'm missing some basic information about how MIDI works, I've been using it for a while but not to this extent.

Hey everyone, I'm having some MIDI issues with the CDP-130. I am trying to send MIDI information from Ableton Live into the CDP-130. I have the keyboard set on the "strings" setting, however the "Grand Piano" sound is what is recorded in Ableton. The MIDI notes are reaching the keyboard properly, but the wrong sound is coming out. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Thanks for any and all help,