Midi out to freestyler

i’m going nuts and can’t seem to find this situation elsewhere. i am on windows 10, using 8.6.0 and am trying to use it to send midi commands to freestyler dmx software while playing backing tracks. i have installed loopbe1 and have freestyler looking at it. i have drawn midi notes and tried to get freestyler to learn but it is not receiving any signal from Ardour. what information can i give to find the solution that i’m sure is staring me right in the face?
the midi track has the input disabled, the output is going to “loopbe1 internal midi synth”. in preferences i have loopbe1 set to output music data and control data, the input section also shows loopbe1 but i have all 3 boxes unchecked. in midi connection manager, the source is general midi synth out to system loopbe internal midi. i know it’s a matter of a setting, but i can not for the life of me find it.
thank you for any help