[mp3ireland2]

Long press your song, then tap Edit Song, go to the MIDI tab, tap the plus button on the right to add a new MIDI command, change the dropdown to "Control Change", enter 7 for number and enter your volume in the value field. That's all you need to do if you want to trigger the volume change when the song is loaded. Alternatively, you could assign that same command to a smart button and drop that button on your score. You could then tap the button when you want to change the volume.

Mike

Thanks for the response, I mixed up in my question control change and command change...are they the same thing? My manual uses command change. I had been trying that very thing with no success, control change with number 7 and the value of volume but didn't seem to make any difference :-(

EDIT: Further research led me to continuous controller and control change are the same thing so it should work. Maybe there's some synth setting i'm missing, the Roland XP-50 responds perfectly to the patch select and the system exclusive transpose commands I send it for each song.