[Rosegarden-user] newbie Q.: setting the instrument/timbre ?

[Andrew <no...@fl...>]

Hi, all i'm a happy new user of RG (> 2 weeks). 

But I can't seem to find how to *permanently* assign ("hard code" into the midi file) a particular instrument/timbre to a track.

When I play back my recordings through an external midi device, that device switches to the default instrument, the first one in some list

I am pretty sure what I want is possible, since playing back in RG some midi files i downloaded, i hear the correct, intended timbres. (Other ones i downloaded have incorrect instrumentation, however)

please forgive the newbism - i've been all over the RG pulldown menus and searched the handbook, to no avail.
(also I'm also fairly new to midi, in general (only dabbled in it over the years)

TIA

Andrew