Thanks for responding.  I tried that, and yes it works.

I select the output of the midi track to be the Eventide plugin side chain, enable write and record on both, and the mod wheel will control the ribbon.

The manuals make it sound a lot more straight forward than that, so it threw me for a loop.

Hard to believe you haven’t gotten a lot of people asking about it, but I guess that either most people don’t read the manuals, or decide they aren’t going to use it that way.

Anyways – thanks again for helping to preserve my sanity.