I checked local status and that didn’t work. Also tried triggering midi from an Elektron box and it would only work for the channels that were actively working on the Synth - same as playing on the Synth itself. I tried changing the midi channels on the Polyend and the channels that worked/didn’t work would follow the midi channel change.
I’ve also tried flashing back to the 1.0 firmware because I ran run out of things to check and had no luck.
In case someone else gets this problem, I finally was able to get the Synth working again by deleting all of the content from the SD card except firmware, rebooting (which allowed me to init and save new scenes fine), then copying back the other scenes/patches/samples directories to the SD card. I didn’t copy over the Scenes/globalSettings file, and am wondering if it was the bringer of bad vibes.