Okay -

So right now my setup uses an M-Audio Ozone and a M-Audio XSession Pro.
The Ozone is coming in through the MIDI of my Firewire 410, the XSession
is direct USB connection.  I cannot for the life of me get them into
different MIDI channels - they both default to channel 1 and when I map,
a lot of the commands overlap.  i'm sure there is a really easy way to
fix this, so i figured i throw it out to you guys.  i tried using this
freeware called MidiPatchBay where you can supposedly do this, but it
just doesn't work.

side note: in MLR, there is a way to "write midi settings", how do you
read them again?

I think that an Oxygen8 fires up always on Ch1 so I'm not surprised 
those do too.

Should be only a few button presses to change channels though, right?