It works!!!!
I can send the program changes from a controller and not get  sequencer involved.
I will need to do some intermediary remapping of some cc#'s, both to map to Polaris parameters, and also to be able to control all 6 copies at once - i.e.....if I want to lower the cutoff freq, need to do it on all 6 channels.
But proof of concept completed, and very cool indeed.